Open Source Government
The emerging world is a multi-polar world drawing influence from the United States, the European Union, Russia, and burgeoning economies like Brazil, China, and India. These intermingling spheres of influence will cause tensions but there will be an increase of perspectives from different places. This is why collaboration and communication is crucial in this new world. Once the powerful nations of this planet realize that our common interests trump our national interests, and that being a citizen of the world is just as important and meaningful as ones allegiance to his or her nation we can usher in an era where we can look beyond petty struggles and really and truly begin to find solutions to the worlds problems.
As a new paradigm for global leadership and regulation begins to form there will be an air of protectionism from many nations who put their trust into the capitalism behind globalization. While this is an understandable and inherently conservative attitude, we must not miss the opportunity to expand global collaboration in order to harness cross cultural, philosophical, and educational partnerships. One of the great strengths of the United States is the global collective of minds that exists within its borders.
We are no longer a world of isolated nations, but integrated nation states whose common interests outweigh the perceived differences between them. When engaging in grand collaborative enterprises at the global scale there will need to be a framework to hold all of the elements together. This can include government defense departments, universities, hospitals, manufacturing firms, and the list continues.What is interesting about this framework is that it will require some level of global oversight. Now immediately, warning bells chime at the idea of global government, but the question is, how do we avoid it? Short of a catastrophic turn of events that would plunge us into world war three, we will keep moving forward as a world more integrated than ever before.
One way to avoid over-arching global government is to embrace the ideas of open-source government. A system much like open-source software where users, or in this case citizens and politicians, can collaboratively add into the mix things like transparency, monetary policy, etc. Individual governments can then exchange with one another effectively discussing the pros and cons of one idea versus another effectively forging collaborative bonds between multiple sovereign states with the goal of equal exchange rather than capital gain.
Open-source government, in a sense, at the government level, is a form of government communism. This is not to be confused with social communism and Marxian ideologies, but rather the collection of global government minds in an open forum for discussion - a community. On the world stage this would be a global assembly of governments with no over-arching power structure, just a simple forum. Each government will be treated as an equal in these discussions, there will be no legislation drawn, no policies signed, only the flow of ideas and philosophies in a purely global discussion.
This forum of course would differentiate itself from the flaccid United Nations by not engaging in military operations but rather to produce a purely academic, intellectual, and practical outcomes that effect the fundamentals of society. Talking among one another in an academic pretext will quickly reveal how similar all the peoples of the world are at a fundamental level and that our petty differences are not large enough to warrant war and strife. Greed will always factor itself into the picture, but within the proper framework the negative affects of greed can be absorbed into the larger social structure and this is best accomplished with in-depth discussion.
Many of the world leaders fail to see how small the world has become. The United States especially likes to treat dissenting nations as arbiters of evil, while the actions of the United States can be seen in the same light. When in reality a dissenting nation is less like a far flung territory and more like neighboring community. Maintaining favorable terms with ones neighbors is sometimes difficult, but it is also essential - and essential for the well being of humanity.
As a new paradigm for global leadership and regulation begins to form there will be an air of protectionism from many nations who put their trust into the capitalism behind globalization. While this is an understandable and inherently conservative attitude, we must not miss the opportunity to expand global collaboration in order to harness cross cultural, philosophical, and educational partnerships. One of the great strengths of the United States is the global collective of minds that exists within its borders.
We are no longer a world of isolated nations, but integrated nation states whose common interests outweigh the perceived differences between them. When engaging in grand collaborative enterprises at the global scale there will need to be a framework to hold all of the elements together. This can include government defense departments, universities, hospitals, manufacturing firms, and the list continues.What is interesting about this framework is that it will require some level of global oversight. Now immediately, warning bells chime at the idea of global government, but the question is, how do we avoid it? Short of a catastrophic turn of events that would plunge us into world war three, we will keep moving forward as a world more integrated than ever before.
One way to avoid over-arching global government is to embrace the ideas of open-source government. A system much like open-source software where users, or in this case citizens and politicians, can collaboratively add into the mix things like transparency, monetary policy, etc. Individual governments can then exchange with one another effectively discussing the pros and cons of one idea versus another effectively forging collaborative bonds between multiple sovereign states with the goal of equal exchange rather than capital gain.
Open-source government, in a sense, at the government level, is a form of government communism. This is not to be confused with social communism and Marxian ideologies, but rather the collection of global government minds in an open forum for discussion - a community. On the world stage this would be a global assembly of governments with no over-arching power structure, just a simple forum. Each government will be treated as an equal in these discussions, there will be no legislation drawn, no policies signed, only the flow of ideas and philosophies in a purely global discussion.
This forum of course would differentiate itself from the flaccid United Nations by not engaging in military operations but rather to produce a purely academic, intellectual, and practical outcomes that effect the fundamentals of society. Talking among one another in an academic pretext will quickly reveal how similar all the peoples of the world are at a fundamental level and that our petty differences are not large enough to warrant war and strife. Greed will always factor itself into the picture, but within the proper framework the negative affects of greed can be absorbed into the larger social structure and this is best accomplished with in-depth discussion.
Many of the world leaders fail to see how small the world has become. The United States especially likes to treat dissenting nations as arbiters of evil, while the actions of the United States can be seen in the same light. When in reality a dissenting nation is less like a far flung territory and more like neighboring community. Maintaining favorable terms with ones neighbors is sometimes difficult, but it is also essential - and essential for the well being of humanity.