[p2p-research] radical efficiency paradigm for public services, and a counter-intuitive example ..

[Ryan Lanham]

I've been favoring these.  I like the idea.  SImply building tool-intensive
maker-centres would probably have more impact though...but neither is
exclusive of the other.

Ryan

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> from john thackara:
>
> RADICAL EFFICIENCY ZONES
> A new report from Nesta in the UK proposes 'Radical Efficiency Zones' as
> one way
> to enable improved public services at far less cost. 'Radical  efficiency
> is
> about enabling the right people with the right motivation and the right
> tools to
> set their imagination free', states the report; 'success depends on central
> government's ability to let go of the reins of innovation and liberate
> local
> innovators'. Nesta's language here – a curious mixture of liberation
> theology,
> and dressage – flatters central government too much. The main problem with
> public services in the UK is that they address the wrong questions. Take
> health,
> for example: in Cuba, total health expenditure costs per person are five
> per
> cent of the cost per US citizen – and yet health outcomes (life expectancy,
> and
> so on) are pretty much the same. That's real radical efficiency. UK central
> government, in contrast, has been cognitively captured by  special interest
> groups (such as doctors) and medical services industries (think Big Pharma)
> who
> have most to lose if health policy were to shift its focus from mopping-up,
> to
> prevention.  The Nesta report contains interesting ideas – but radical, it
> ain't.
>
> http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/reports/assets/features/radical_efficiency
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