Government as a Brain: How Can Governments Better Understand, Think, Create, and Remember, and Avoid the Traps of Collective Stupidity Both in Emergencies and Normal Times

Governments are evolving new ways to think, combining observation, memory, analysis, models, and creativity. This article describes how they think, how the COVID crisis has accelerated innovation in new ways of thinking, the use of metaphors to understand these processes, the role of democracy and c...

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Published in:Digital government (New York, N.Y. Online) N.Y. Online), 2022-09, Vol.3 (2), p.1-10
Main Author: Mulgan, Geoff
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Governments are evolving new ways to think, combining observation, memory, analysis, models, and creativity. This article describes how they think, how the COVID crisis has accelerated innovation in new ways of thinking, the use of metaphors to understand these processes, the role of democracy and civil society, and the new skills needed.
ISSN:2691-199X
2639-0175
DOI:10.1145/3528381