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

Geoff Mulgan

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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

15 Sep 2022

Geoff Mulgan

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Digital Government: Research and Practice

Knowledge management Government Government accountability Public service Public sector innovation

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Government as a brain

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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.

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DOI:

10.1145/3528381

Copyright:

The author 2022

License type:

CC BY

Access Rights Type:

open

Volume:

3

Issue:

2

Post date:

20 Feb 2024

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