Governance Agenda Organizing Structural Reforms and Initiatives for the Socio-Ecological

Transition Blanca Miedes Ugarte

Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain

C3IT

Coordinator axis Governance in GDRI INTI13th Annual International Conference of Territorial Intelligence

Progress and Prospects of Territorial Intelligence  

Paris, CNAM, 2014, December 11-12

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G. [governance]

Axis G. [governance] Governance agenda organizing structural reforms and initiatives for the socio-ecological transition.

Axis Governance

• The work of the axis “Governance” in the framework of GDRI -INTI has been mainly raised by contributions from the teams of the University of Salerno (Italy) and the University of Huelva (Spain), as well as by participants’ inputs in different seminars, thematic workshops and plenary sessions in the framework international conferences that have been held since January 2011, especially the meeting in Huelva 21st and 22nd November 2013 "Social Innovation and new ways of governance for the socio-ecological transition".

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Teams Axis Governance

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Activities

Initial topics for discussion (activities) in this Axis are:

•Structural reforms that help maintain and develop the welfare society to improve the any- and everybody well being. <GR reforms> •Organizational employment and innovation reforms promoting cooperation, copetition and participation . <GC coopetition> •Governance initiatives in coordination and concertation, cooperation and participation promoting territorial sustainable development <GI initiatives>

Preparation to the FP7 proposal: Project LinkCity. It passed the thresholds but it didn't get any funding.

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General Overview of work done

1.A synthesis on socioeconomic, political and ecological megatrends and a critical discussion of the agendas that are being proposed by different institutions and social groups (Europe).

1.A discussion about the emergence of new lateral and multilevel ways of governance in deliberating and implementing different alternative agendas as well as the role of States, regions, communities and individuals in this new framework.

1.The role, advantages and risks of new technologies in these new governance processes. The “smart” trend.

1.A discussion about how to reconcile the old and new ways of governance.

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1. Agendas- Revision of the agendas for socio-ecological transition that are being

discussed or established by international institutions, think-tanks, thinking-networks and ONG’S (for example, the European 2020 Strategy, the reports on socio-ecological transitions of several FP7 research projects, the reports of the New Economics Foundation, the proposal of the New Green Deal, among others).

- All these agendas have in common the aim of fostering big structural changes, among others:- efficient energy use and productive reorientations, - redefinition of local-global relationships, - income distribution and time policies

- They deal as well with individual behavioral changes:- Towards more sustainable stiles of life, - the reconstruction of collective links and people empowerment through

knowledge production and sharing. - All these transformations on the basis of new, participative, horizontal

decision making processes and citizens political empowerment.

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1. Agendas (cont.)

Current situation is that there are irreconcilable differences regarding the aims of these agendas,

-while western liberal governmental agendas look for keeping the system under control in order to facilitate the continuity of capital accumulation and fostering economic growth as main drivers for life quality, (ecological matters a driver for growth).

-more non-liberal governments, alternative research think tanks and civil organization agendas seek a transition to a more radical and permanent transformation of the model of development (“degrowth”).

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2. The emergence of new lateral multilevel ways of governance and the role of

different actors.

In the meanwhile people make their own agenda: rising of collaborative economy.

With a more political approach a wide arrange of social movements and organized groups (such as “indignados”, occupy everywhere, transition towns, “degrowhth” networks and communities…) are becoming more active alternative political actors.

On the other hand, a threefold system of tensions (global-local, public-private and State-citizenship) is affecting the ability of the existing systems of territorial governance to deal with their specific social-ecological tensions.

The complex management of this tensions on the ground often brings about a cooptation of the term “participation”

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The effects of technology are directly linked to their use; They can promote democracy but help dictatorships in the same way. They can enhance individuals’ enlighten but surveillance as well. The mass media can enhance social innovation but social hysteria as well… They can mobilize a lot of people but they can exclude most disfavored at the same time.

One of the most important challenges of governance systems in the future is how to use new technologies to enhance territorial intelligence.

3. Role, advantages, risks of new technologies in governance processes.

Fuente Fisher-Kowalasky et al. (2012), p. 301.Tics, scenarii: 2025

TI: “Smart cities/regions Territorial Intelligence”

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Who has to be intelligent,the city or the people?

“Smart”: Narrowly focused on the "efficiency" (energy, mobility…) and on specific devices…

It is assumed that the feedback of "big data" will guide us in an unconscious decision-making process.

But is it not precisely an aware/shared responsibility what we need?

TI: “Smart cities/Regions Territorial Intelligence”

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Fuente: http://www.qtorb.com

Recover the meaning of “link” and working together: •Spaces for interaction.•Tools. •Training.

Principles

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Open decision making

Sustainable Life stiles

Participation

Collaboration- competition

Resources access

Wellbeing and empowerment of all and everyone

Privacy

Cooperation

Co-building Learning Solidarity Coordination

Rationality Transparency Forecast Precaution

AccessibilityTo avoid negative effects of ICT, to bring back the intelligence to people

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-Active citizens need more active governance. Wee need to overcome the social engineering approach towards more reflexive, deliberative, and participative decision making and instrumental planning processes.

-How do we reconcile the old and new modes of governance? how do we

encourage the capacity building for the creation or regeneration of the links between territorial public structures and communitarian, citizen’s movements?

-The conclusion is a research agenda for producing new knowledge and new participatory tools for supporting all these processes and for contributing to build up actors and governments capabilities to deal with main governance challenges.

4. How to reconcile the old and new ways of governance.

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1. Scenarii facing the crisis and the restructuration of regional and local administrations.

2. New modes of self-management, lateral governance: citizens' initiatives, « commons », collaborative economy, p2p…

3. Role, advantages, risks of new technologies in governance processes.

4. Building capacity for new modes of governance: Linking local public agents and emerging initiatives.

New research agenda

1. Scenarios facing the crisis and the restructuration of regional and local administrations.

•Analyse récentes réformes (axe juridique). •Rationalité économique ou recentrage dans un contexte de délégitimation?

2. New modes of self-management, lateral governance: citizens' initiatives, « commons », collaborative economy, p2p…

•Visibilisation des nouvelles initiatives dans des domaines communs, non marché, non publics.

•Analyse des nouveaux modèles d'autogestion et des règles de fonctionnement (E. Ostrom)

2. New modes of self-management, lateral governance: citizens' initiatives, « commons », collaborative economy, p2p…

• Taking into account different scenarios on employment and market and non-market activities, which kind of social innovation is emerging in market and non market economic activities?

• How to identify more promising practices, how to scale them, how to inscribe them in institutional frameworks?

• How to conceptualize an axiology about participation and commons as drivers of social, economic, cultural life instead/complementing the current single driver competition?

• How to create and recreate social and communitarian proactive links?

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3. Role, advantages, risks of new technologies in governance processes.

• Analysing different scenarios• Ethical principles (privacy, inclusiveness…)

4. Building capacity for new modes of governance: Linking local public agents and emerging initiatives.

• Comment concilier les anciens et les nouveaux modes de gouvernance?

• Construction de capacités pour la création régénération de liens

– Dans les structures publiques dans le territoire.

The traditional rules of good governance (openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness and coherence) are necessary conditions but not sufficient ones.

• There is an important demand of a lot of participatory tools to manage all these kind of tensions .

– Dans les mouvements d'autogestion.

• There is an important demand of a lot of new interactive tools to produce shared knowledge for common actions.

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