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This is a blog for people who want to vastly improve ways to address critical challenges of the 21st century such as climate change, poverty, sustainable agriculture, corruption, water, security, the financial system, forests, and marine resources. These are global challenges that require big changes in us as individuals, our organizations and our societies. We are developing organizing innovations to address these challenges, and this blog aims to spur further development and dissemination of those innovations.

Virtual Collaboration Tools for Networks, Participation, Transparency

Posted by Steve Waddell in Communications on January 31, 2012

A survey of a half dozen global networks revealed that their use of virtual collaboration tools is amazingly rudimentary. A couple of colleagues and I discovered that when identifying tools for GOLDEN to use. We wanted virtual platforms to…

UN Global Compact: a Global Action Network Case Study

Posted by Steve Waddell in Net Dev on January 25, 2012

UN Global Compact Executive Head Georg Kell became frustrated with the lack of understanding about how the Compact differs from government agencies. It leads to wrong-thinking about how it should be “run” and what it can and cannot do. He…

Virtual Tools for Participation

Posted by Steve Waddell in Communications on January 18, 2012

“Public participation…is (a) realm in which other countries are advancing beyond the United States, turning us from a leader to a follower in democratic innovation.” Thus begins an information-ladden short response to the White House’s request for “thoughts” about…

Sustainability Networks for Stability, Durability, Resilience and Robustness

Posted by Steve Waddell in Net Dev on January 12, 2012

Lack of sustainability is, to a significant degree, the product of governance – our decision-making processes and structures favor non-sustainable outcomes. What does “sustainability governance” look like? The book Dynamic Sustainabilities (DS) has expanded my thinking about this. …

Connecting Physical and Social Science to Address Complexity

Posted by Steve Waddell in Change, Net Dev on January 4, 2012

While working with Ashoka to scale transformational change, I recently met a most remarkable man with a most remarkable insight. Allan Savory is associated with environmental land management; his most remarkable insight is to integrate a physical science observation…