[p2p-research] Thought this was P2P-ish :)

[Michel Bauwens]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jennifer Sertl <jsertl at rochester.rr.com>wrote:

> Big Idea from Dubai: A Global Risk Management Commons
>
> *Don Tapscott is Chairman of nGenera Insight and a member of the Global
> Agenda Council on Informed Societies<http://www3.weforum.org/tools/gac/issuebrowser2010/index.html#/3484>
> *
>
> By Don Tapscott (@dtapscott <http://twitter.com/dtapscott>)
>
> [image: Don Tapscott]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/sets/72157625354776390/>One
> of the most important sessions at the Global Agenda Council Summit in Dubai
> addressed the issue of Managing Global Risks.  We are moving into an age
> where profound threats are emerging to the global economy, society and even
> the very existence of humanity.
>
> Consider something as mundane as the supply chain.  Vast networks provide
> the world with food, clothing, fuel and other necessities.  One expert
> explained some scenarios where a breakdown in the supply chain could lead to
> huge social unrest and even a disintegration of civilized society.  Failure
> of the financial system, weapons of mass destruction, new communicable
> diseases, collapse of environmental systems, water security and 20 other
> topics make the world a volatile place subject to significant, and possibly
> catastrophic risks.
>
> Many innovative ideas emerged to address this problem. For example one was
> to use the web to create a Global Risk Management Commons. Risk management
> in various sectors has tended to be proprietary, closed, short term and
> locked into organizational stovepipes. Why not apply the principles of
> transparency, sharing intellectual property, interdependence and
> collaboration to make a significant proportion of “risk management” a public
> good.
>
> This “Linux of global risk management,” would be part database, and part
> collaborative platform.  The database should be a living, evolving source of
> information, knowledge, scenarios, models, best practices and linkages to
> various risk categories.  The platform would enable communities of practice
> for human dialogue, simulation, contingency planning, crisis response and
> overall collaboration.
>
> For me it underlined that this is a time of great change, and new
> approaches to solving global problems.  This idea and dozens like it did not
> come from the UN, The G20 or other formal institutions of global
> cooperation.  It came from a new kind of multi-stakeholder network.
>
> Now the challenge is to execute.
>
> *Don Tapscott’s new book (with Anthony D Williams) is Macrowikinomics:
> Rebooting Business and the World***
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