Government as a Brain: How Can Governments Better Understand, Think, Create, and Remember, and Avoid the Traps of Collective Stupidity Both in Emergencies and Normal Times

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Government as a Brain: How Can Governments Better Understand, Think, Create, and Remember, and Avoid the Traps of Collective Stupidity Both in Emergencies and Normal Times

Mulgan, G; (2022) Government as a Brain: How Can Governments Better Understand, Think, Create, and Remember, and Avoid the Traps of Collective Stupidity Both in Emergencies and Normal Times. Digital Government: Research and Practice , 3 (2) , Article 8. 10.1145/3528381. Green open access

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Abstract

Governments are evolving new ways to think, combining observation, memory, analysis, models, and creativity. This article describes how they think, how the COVID crisis has accelerated innovation in new ways of thinking, the use of metaphors to understand these processes, the role of democracy and civil society, and the new skills needed.

Type:	Article
Title:	Government as a Brain: How Can Governments Better Understand, Think, Create, and Remember, and Avoid the Traps of Collective Stupidity Both in Emergencies and Normal Times
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1145/3528381
Publisher version:	https://doi.org/10.1145/3528381
Language:	English
Additional information:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License.
Keywords:	Collective intelligence, public policy
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164018