Changing Maps
Governing in a World of Rapid Change
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 1995
271 pages
978-0-7735-8420-4 (ISBN)
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How can we organize and govern ourselves successfully in a world of rapid change and increasing interconnection? This book reports the findings of a round table of senior Canadian government officials and private sector executives, exploring fundamental changes in the economy, in culture and values and in the social contract that characterize the emergence of a global information society.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface: Governing in a World of Rapid Change
- Part I: Report of the Roundtable
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- The Information Society
- An Infrastructure for Learning
- Findings of the Project during Phase I
- Continuing the Search: The Second Phase of the Project
- Constructing Shared Maps: The Scenario Approach
- Beginning the Process
- The Shape of the Report
- 2. RE-MAPPING THE TERRITORY: THREE PERSPECTIVES
- The Economy: A New Techno-economic Paradigm
- Culture and Values: The Postmodern Challenge
- The Social Contract: Rebuilding Social Infrastructure
- Conclusions
- 3. CONSTRUCTING SCENARIOS
- The Scenario Workshop
- Starship Scenario
- Titanic Scenario
- HMS Bounty Scenario
- Windjammer Scenario
- Conclusions
- 4. CHANGING COURSE: TOWARD SOCIAL COHESION
- Some Essential Requirements for Creating a Learning Society
- Developing the Learning Capacity of Individuals
- Learning Organizations and a Learning Society
- Building on Diversity
- Building Consensus: The Art of Coming to Public Judgement
- The Public-judgement Model
- The Importance of "Working Through
- Navigating Some Obstacles to Public Judgement
- Conclusions
- 5. CONTINUING THE PROCESS: BUILDING A LEARNING SOCIETY
- Summary: Reviewing the Course We Have Followed So Far
- Building a Learning Society: Re-balancing Economic and Social Concerns
- Continuing the Process: A Preliminary Agenda
- Renewing the Social Contract
- Focusing on Values
- Building an Infrastructure for Public Learning
- Information Technology: New Tools for a Learning Society
- On the Importance of the Process
- Next Steps
- Part II: Selected Papers Presented to the Roundtable
- 6. Scenario Thinking About the Future
- 7. The Information Economy: ICT and the Future of the World Economy
- 8. Postmondernism, Pluralism, and the Crisis of Legitimacy
- 9. Communitarianism
- 10. The Learning Society in the Information Age
- 11. A Critique of the "Information Society" Concept
- Glossary of Acronyms
