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Government should look to Open Source for more than software according to Demos, an influential Think Tank, in their recent report Wide Open.

The report suggests a radical and highly biological/evolutionary approach to how citizens could participate in policy making by learning from the Open Source Software (OSS) movement.

The authors suggest that we generalise, learn from and use OSS techniques well beyond the software realm which include:

• Experimentation & Evolutionary approach to New Ideas


• Treating Citizens as responsible Adults


• Less emphasis on neutralising Trouble Makers


• Use of the Web as Open Public Spaces


• Open Team Working

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Beyond Multinationals: a new corporate structure emerges

December 29, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

The rise of the MetaNational: In a new book, From Global to MetaNational, Strategy experts and Insead Professors, Yvez Doz, José Santos and Peter Williamsonargue that the future form of successful global enterprise has now changed from the multinational to the metanational.

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