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✨Get your black-ties, the celebrations are about to begin!✨

#EOSAwards25 are a week away, and we are delighted to celebrate the champions of #OpenSource bringing it to the forefront of #policymaking skill development, and #business adoption across Europe.

With an extensive journalistic career and background in EU policy in the technology sector, Jennifer Baker will take the stage as our #host of the evening!

👉Interested in the event? Learn more here : lnkd.in/drUupGEi

Recently our team at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań started a partnership with the Poznań City Hall and other local stakeholders to foster democratic innovations in local policymaking.

In November, we ran street and online polls among the citizens living in the Łacina District to help determine the future of one of the public spaces in their area. The process is ongoing, so stay tuned for more!

Wait, governments can do simple things at very low-cost that can help millions of people, bring them joy, and maybe even transform society?!?! Whoaaa, who would have thought?

theguardian.com/world/2023/jun

If this doesn't count as "innovation", and "disruption", I think nothing should.

As mentioned in the article, Delhi and Tamilnadu govts have already implemented this, but only locally so. Doing it statewide is quite something! Imagine the freedom that women can have traveling within almost all of the United Kingdom (Karnataka is a tad bit smaller) for free!

For every "liberal", "free-market" "rules-based order" vapid criticism and dismissal of nationalism, populism, or social welfare, there is always something profound happening in the Third World where that means transformation (it used to mean the same in US and Europe lest they forget that without the New Deal and the Marshal Plan, they would be nowhere near where they are).

The GuardianTicket to freedom: free bus rides for women spark joy for millions in KarnatakaBy Amrit Dhillon

Inspired by a question from my dear friend @dorotaq about further reading recommendations after Steve Coll's Directorate S I started thinking about books that similarly describe the complexity of operations from strategy to execution level. So few ideas on what to add to your reading list :-) :

Steve Coll's Ghost Wars - pretty straightforward recommendation, as this is essentially a Volume I of Directorate S that describes CIA activities in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion until just before the 9/11 attacks. Similarly interesting in terms of thinking about translating national policy to specific tactical measures - with the most striking example being engaging in an indirect conflict with the Soviet Union through supplying support to Mujahideen. books.google.pl/books?id=ToYxF

Mark Lowenthal's Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy - an in-depth look at the role of intelligence apparatus in national decision-making and how it fits in the overall governance of a democratic country. In this context, I particularly recommend parts on covert actions, policy making, oversight, and transnational issues. books.google.pl/books?id=u7DKz

Mark Mazzetti's The Way Of The Knife - another great book on CIA paramilitary activities and the transformation towards lethal operations that happened after 9/11. Again, an important read to understand how high-level decisions can translate to organizational and institutional changes. books.google.pl/books?id=ak09_

PS Just a reminder that I maintain a reading list encompassing books on various aspects of intelligence on my website at counterintelligence.pl/en/czyt

Please do let me know about your recommendations on what to add to that list.

Google BooksGhost WarsFrom the managing editor of the Washington Post, a news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan's ISI, and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan factions with cash and weapons, secretly trained guerrilla forces, funded propaganda, and manipulated politics. In the midst of these struggles bin Laden conceived and then built his global organization. Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, from its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, Ghost Warsok is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. It chronicles the roles of midlevel CIA officers, their Afghan allies, and top spy masters such as Bill Casey, Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al Faisal, and George Tenet. And it describes heated debates within the American government and the often poisonous, mistrustful relations between the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies. Ghost Warsanswers the questions so many have asked since the horrors of September 11: To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail?

#Introduction
Nice to be here.

I am interested in many things, including #CollectiveIntelligence #Complexity #SystemsThinking #CriticalThinking #DecisionMaking #PolicyMaking

Now busily retired; trustee at my local Mind; ex-engineer (electronics and related); ex-manager (all sorts); ex-consultant/facilitator

AKA @ComplexitySol on you know where.

This blog post summarises a lot of what I know:
thersa.org/comment/2020/08/tec

The RSATechnology-enabled deliberative democracyPeter Miles FRSA on the benefits of technology-enabled structured dialogue methodology
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@Rjdlandscapes sigh x2 … why is this so hard to understande/accept by many humans?? … coincidentally those in charge of big #Bussiness and #policymaking. We, as a collective of ppl, can pressure those in #power to change by choosing wiser solutions, being critical and outspoken abt mistakes such as #carbonoffsets. We must not let #consumism and #marketing rule over our lives. Let’s change our #mindset and search for a #sustainable way to be #happy. #stopCO2 #climatechange

#Introduction

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) provides a bridge between the world of economic #research and those of monetary and fiscal #policymaking by fostering high-quality, policy-relevant economic research.

Drawing together the expertise of more than its 1,700 Research Fellows and Affiliates, CEPR initiates, funds and coordinates research activities and communicates the results to policymakers around the world.

More: cepr.org/

cepr.orgHome | CEPR

For #academics and anyone new to #policymaking looking to make an impact, this paper from 2019 is essential reading- The Dos and Don’ts of Influencing Policy.

nature.com/articles/s41599-019

NatureThe dos and don’ts of influencing policy: a systematic review of advice to academics - Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsMany academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. We searched systematically for, and synthesised, the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures. We condense this advice into eight main recommendations: (1) Do high quality research; (2) make your research relevant and readable; (3) understand policy processes; (4) be accessible to policymakers: engage routinely, flexible, and humbly; (5) decide if you want to be an issue advocate or honest broker; (6) build relationships (and ground rules) with policymakers; (7) be ‘entrepreneurial’ or find someone who is; and (8) reflect continuously: should you engage, do you want to, and is it working? This advice seems like common sense. However, it masks major inconsistencies, regarding different beliefs about the nature of the problem to be solved when using this advice. Furthermore, if not accompanied by critical analysis and insights from the peer-reviewed literature, it could provide misleading guidance for people new to this field.