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Renewing Governance: Governing by Learning in the Information Age
by Steven Rosell
The emergence of a global information society is accelerating the pace of change and overwhelming methods of organizing and governing that were developed for a world of clearer boundaries and more limited flows of information. As a result, we find ourselves in the midst of a fundamental transformation. Signs of that transformation include the radical restructuring of corporate and public bureaucracies; shifting boundaries between different sectors of society, and levels of government; a growing interest in direct participation in decision-making; and, new challenges to the legitimacy of many traditional institutions.
To succeed in this rapidly changing, increasingly interconnected world, the public and private sectors alike are recognizing an urgent need to develop learning-based governance and decision-making systems in which many more people can participate and that are capable of operating more effectively across shifting boundaries. In no small measure, the ability of a society to prosper in the modern world will depend on its ability to develop such systems.
Renewing Governance: Governing by Learning in the Information Age presents the conclusions of a roundtable of senior Canadian government officials and private sector executives who worked with researchers and leading international authorities in many fields to make sense of the implications for governance of the information revolution, and to develop more effective approaches to governing in this new context. In addition, it describes the ongoing process of strategic dialogue and learning by which the roundtable arrived at those conclusion – a prototype of the sort of learning process we require to improve the art of governing in this rapidly changing world.
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