Given sufficient wealth and technical infrastructure, could new networked governments and institutions be constructed and sustained on the fly, by smart and capable people (like Egypt's Wael Ghonim) who find themselves guiding / riding the wave of revolution?
In this "networked world", governments had to make their case in the "courts of public opinion" as well as around negotiating tables or risk losing credibility and authority.
Roberts (2010), based on the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, states that governing disaster response requires a networked form of government that links the federal, state, and local levels of the government and private organizations (including non-government organizations (NGOs)).
It is a core infrastructure for economic development in developed and rapidly developing nations alike, and is enabling networked individuals to hold governments and other institutions accountable in ways that are as powerful as the press in earlier eras.
The opportunity – as in Greece – is to become something close to a "natural party of government" for the networked generation that has lost out during the post-2008 crisis.
We describe the emergence of innovative institutions, horizontally and vertically networked from central to village government scales, articulating forestry with planning, finance, land, agriculture and water sectors.
Networked robots may allow the government to access homes and other spaces that have been historically protected, and humans may be more likely to disclose information and grant access to an anthropomorphic robot than to other technologies (Calo 2010b).
The fantasy that seems to dominate the pro-Brexit lobby (aside from the idea that Brexit will allow them to immediately lynch every asylum seeker they can get their hands on) is that without the skeletal hand of Europe on our shoulders, Britain will flourish into some kind of networked Arthurian idyll of sensible government and self-rule.
Kim Mun Sang, director of the Center for Intelligent Robotics, which groups about 500 scientists in a project by government and industry, said networked robots needed a "killer app" before they could become fully integrated into the wired society.
That requires networked technology plus a human network of cooperative efforts by scientists, governments, nonprofit groups, businesses and ordinary people.
