Impossible and inevitable: the twisting road to global governance
The current crisis has shown up just how weak many global institutions have become – with most of the work of containing COVID-19 done by...
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Geoff Mulgan
- 5 min
SOCIAL IMAGINATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
This is a blog I wrote for the Campaign for Social Science, as part of a series about responses to Coronavirus. Crises – whether wars or...
Geoff Mulgan
- 10 min
If you're running Zoom/Teams/Hangout meetings please spend 5 minutes reading this first ...
This blog is about better meetings: it sets out some of what is known about how meetings can make the most of collective intelligence. ...
Geoff Mulgan
- 4 min
The Game Changer Beyond AI
This is a piece just published by Project Syndicate 'One might not know it, judging by all the doom and gloom in the press, but there are...
Geoff Mulgan
- 2 min
Can government think? A lecture on understanding government as a brain
I was due to give a keynote this month at the annual conference of the Bennett Institute in Cambridge University. The conference was...
Geoff Mulgan
- 8 min
Could Covid-19 accelerate new social contracts around data?
Data has become a crucial battleground in the war against Coronavirus, as many countries have used sophisticated methods for gathering...
Geoff Mulgan
- 4 min
The imaginary crisis - and how we might quicken social and public imagination
I've been working recently on the topic of social imagination: what is it, why is it so difficult now, and how can it be encouraged. ...
Geoff Mulgan
- 7 min
How should government manage big risks – pandemics to financial shocks?
The COVID-19 crisis has been an extreme stress test for governments around the world, with widely varying performance so far. I’ve...
Geoff Mulgan
- 1 min
How not to waste a crisis - possibilities for government after COVID-19
Wars are always dramatic accelerators of change. So are crises of any kind. Coronavirus could turn out to be just be a one-off blip, with...
Geoff Mulgan
- 3 min
A world dominated by platform companies lacks good platforms for the SDGs: so what can be done?
The many people working around the world to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) badly need finance and political support....
Geoff Mulgan
- 6 min
Bluff, bluster, brilliance and brains
Over the last few months there has been a frenzy of interest in the plans of Dominic Cummings, and his boss Boris Johnson, to reshape the...
Geoff Mulgan
- 1 min
Preparing for turbulence in the world of jobs and skills
This piece for Medium describes work I am involved in - with UNDP and the government's A2i - to help Bangladesh create an adaptive labour...
Geoff Mulgan
- 1 min
Governing global digital networks
This report sets out options for global digital governance - from cybersecurity to AI and infrastructures. My report was prepared for...
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