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The RePEc plagiarism page Rethinking Society for the 21st CenturyEdited by International Panel on Social Progress (ipsp),in Cambridge Books from Cambridge University PressAbstract:This is the second of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as democracy and the rule of law, violence and wars, international organizations and global governance, and media and communications.Date: 2018

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This generational gap is hard to overcome because three critical challenges stymie those seeking to make policy today. A plethora of jurisdictions and approaches has led to regulatory fragmentation among cities, regions, and countries that dramatically reduces the utility of action while creating burden for would-be competitors of digital platforms. The data required to fully understand the extent of social problems is controlled by the very firms suspected of creating them, leaving policymakers with a lack of data to inform their actions. And the reliance of countries and their citizens on the services of the same technology firms that they would like to influence has led to fewer degrees of freedom.

Second, even though working with others is hard, effective technology policy requires close collaboration across jurisdictions. Countries need to be systematically gathering and sharing the evidence of effectiveness or failure of diverse technology policy approaches across jurisdictions. To overcome the challenge of a lack of evidence, countries may need to support new processes around sharing insights into the algorithms and datasets of structurally important digital firms. Investing heavily in open, international technology standards focused on current issues will pay capitals back many times over.

Finally, managing the impact of technologies produced with agile development processes requires a shift toward agile governance. We believe that a wider representation of stakeholder interests, combined with a congenial dance between exploration and evidence-based decisions, can lead to more proactive and entrepreneurial governance fit for the 21st Century.

All of this represents an opportunity, rather than a burden. The opportunity is to reform governance in a way that enables us to embed fairness, inclusion, and accountability within the technological systems that increasingly shape our economies and societies. Investing and succeeding in this area could mean that the coming decade of policy governance integrates diverse values in interoperable systems, with regulators and citizens working alongside one another as reciprocal partners, rather than antagonists.

Nicholas Davis is a professor of practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the former head of society and innovation at the World Economic Forum.

Landry Sign is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program and the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and professor and managing director at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a distinguished fellow at Stanford University.

Mark Esposito is a clinical professor at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a policy fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

There are numerous reasons for the decline of Christianity in Europe. Two world wars have scarred the minds of many Europeans: People wondered where God was. Other factors are at work. One of the most interesting observations I have heard came from a Lutheran bishop in Sweden. At a dinner in Lund, I asked her how things were in her diocese. She said people attended bingo nights during the week in far greater numbers than worship services on Sunday. I asked why. She suggested that the socialism of the Swedish government was a significant reason. The government had taken over the role that used to belong to the church. Instead of the church bringing meals to the ill or cleaning their house or providing a ride to the doctor, the government provided all of these services. The church had lost its role in society. Whatever the causes for the decline of Christianity in Europe, the reality of its decline is undeniable.

2) Theology. If we believe experience is a vehicle of theology, we will need to learn to respect the different experiences that shape theologies across the world. These will have a direct impact on our theological reflection. In China there are natural tensions between the official church and the underground or house churches, although these appear to be improving. In Africa, Christians struggle with the relationship between their spirituality and indigenous religions.11 The spirituality of African Christians is often a blend of native and Christian expressions.

These developments appear to me to be roughly analogous to the state of Christianity in the first three centuries C.E. At one time, there was a model of thinking of the early church as a single monolithic tradition. The tradition began with Jesus Christ, was developed by the apostles, and came to full expression in the work of the bishops who succeeded the apostles. Some offshoots from this tradition were heterodox, but they were exposed by the apostles and then by the heresiologists. This model of Christian origins is largely the construction of early Christian heresiologists like Irenaeus.

Twentieth-century scholarship overturned this model. Today it is recognized that Christianity emerged in different forms in various locales.12 The experience of Christianity in 1st-century Jerusalem was quite different than the Christianity in Corinth. Initially there was no such thing as orthodoxy in the sense of a uniform and well-defined movement. Orthodoxy emerged from the coalescence of various forms or patterns of Christianity. This does not mean that there was no continuity with the earliest forms of Christianity, but that orthodoxy was a clear development. It was not enforceable until the rise of bishops and the adoption of Christianity by Constantine.

In other words, rather than thinking of enforced uniformity, we need to think of diversity within a larger unity. If this is unnerving, we should remember that it was the diversity of the early centuries that helped to give Christianity its vibrancy and allowed it to take root in multiple circumstances throughout the Roman world. I think we need to allow for the same freedom today.

Meanwhile, there are too many places in our world where religion is used as a pretext for violence. This should concern all people of faith. It threatens to increase the percentage of unaffiliated dramatically. It is a threat to the credibility of all faiths.

We live in a world that the author of Acts never imagined but did allow for when taking the story to the ends of the earth. I will say to you what I say to the students at Yale Divinity School. Christianity is changing in our globalized world; I do not know what it will look like in 50 years, but I know that you will write its history with your lives. Write it well.

Gregory E. Sterling is The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. The author of several books, he concentrates his research in Hellenistic Judaism, the writings of Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, and Luke-Acts. His next book, for Eerdmans, is called Defining the Present through the Past.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies.

Throughout this talk, I want you to think of both democracy and capitalism as information systems. Socio-technical information systems. Protocols for making group decisions. Ones where different players have different incentives. These systems are vulnerable to hacking and need to be secured against those hacks.

So this is a question: What does representation look like in a world without either filtering or geographical dispersal? Or, how do we avoid polluting 21st century democracy with prejudice, misinformation and bias. Things that impair both the problem solving and feedback mechanisms.

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