Have to admit, I’ve had not the best weekend - I guess the world is not in the best shape, either, judging from Jeff Jarvis’s post on ‘A fundamental reboot’ which is a rare glimpse in the goings on of the Global Elite - that regularly meets at Davos, Daubi, and various places to discuss the future of the world and how they can “modulate” it (perhaps, controlling it’s direction).
It’s the kind of meeting we rarely get invited to, and I’m glad Jeff Jarvis does get invited - so we can know what the Global Elite are thinking, and now openly admitting, at least, among themselves.
Here’s the view, by the way, from Jeff Jarvis’s hotel room in Dubai. Ha, ha, ha … looks like another world …. too bad they don’t do their “economic planning” in the real world… go to some “exotic” retreat to do it.
According to Jeff Jarvis, some of the members admitted (at the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils meeting in Dubai) they messed up, big time on the state of the World Economy and it’s growth was “unsustainable”. Jarvis disagrees, but then again, he’s in Daubi, and part of the group, so, in a way, you’d not expect him to fault the group that is hosting him:
” …Now some may say — as someone from OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) did here — that WEF, or its members, have been more a part of the problem than the solution. I don’t know about that. At least we can say that WEF has not been equipped to act quickly enough to forestall those crisis in food and credit. So it seems that this meeting is an attempt to respond to that, to set agendas more than spot them.”
It was also said, the WEF knows they’re all “in it” together and they are beginning to talk about Global Government but calling it Global Governance :
“…The need for global governance (not global government, they were careful to point out).”
“…The governance group argued that world trade works because of global governance but finance is broken because it does not. They said that this will require some relinquishment of sovereignty.”
All I can say, is ha, ha, ha … the are beginning to talk World Government - and look, given how the world financial system is collapsing - it may end up being neccessary - even though these are the same groups that, essentially, brought it about - and they’re kinda of … admitting it.
“… The outlook for the global economy is the worst that many of us have seen in our lives,” she said. “There is no country, there is no industry that will be completely immune…. The current crisis is rooted in global macroeconomic imbalances. We are in this together.” This, she said, was “a problem of risk management. No one did a good job.” There was excessive risk taking and leverage. In that, she included not only the industry and governments but media and households. “It has undermined the perceived advantage of open capital markets and at the extreme has even questioned the value of capitalism today.”
Well … now the Global Elite are saying it’s all our faults (… in media and households) though, I would think, the greatest fault ought to be on the leaders of the various countries - that set behavior, by their example - which is why American’s voted Democratic this time.
“…Mobility. The governance group said that problems cross borders without passports but we expect solutions to move with passports. The economic development group urged a “global system of global migration” but admitted that with unemployment soaring, it’s not the time to push this; they suggested instead working it out quietly (that’s not very transparent).”
Ok, they are thinking about how to slowly control who goes and works, where - but I was struck by a few of the solutions being proposed:
“…Transparency of information is not enough. There needs to be more synthesis and analysis in the aggregate.” (And, no, I don’t know what that means.)
“…..Freedom of speech. Too little was said about that except whispers about taking on the topic in a nation that does not value and protect speech. At least someone from the entertainment group — yes, frivolous entertainment — said that freedom of speech is essential so people will be able to tell their stories and understand each other better. Amen. I wish that had come as a strong statement from the internet and media groups as well. Show biz shamed us.
But going back to “…Transparency of information is not enough. There needs to be more synthesis and analysis in the aggregate.” really speaks to Analytics, and possibly, Web Analytics, depending on how sites are tagged.
I wrote about Change.Gov on Friday, it’s being tagged and tracked by Google Analytics, according to dylanlewis.
And I thought “….“man,would I love to do segmentation analysis on Change.gov ongoing. A dream job!” But what if we expanded that - and started to really create views of the data that come from various countries - and institutional sites - with the idea of finding wisdom out of it.
I guess, that’s my birthday wish - and a good one - it’s not about control - it about insight.
The Global Elite blew it - they know it - but the problem is - much of what they want to put in place to fix the World Economy, is actually going to be painful - you’ve got to wonder if the World Government can be good if they don’t actually look at data - if they don’t see what’s going on - and they they create the mess we’re in.
So, again, my birthday wish - that I get a chance to do something in this area - to learning how to take all this data we’re collecting, and use it for wisdom and better and fairer governance.
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