[liberationtech] Fwd: ACM DGOV Special Issue on New Trends in Building Digital Government in China Call for Papers

[Doug Schuler]

I'm more or less in agreement with you Richard. That's why I'm sending this
out...

But, of course, replacing government with slogans, guns, and bitcoin, is
not the answer either.

Thanks to everybody who passed the call on!

— Doug




On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 7:45 AM Richard Brooks <rrb at g.clemson.edu> wrote:

> I think the proposed answer is the end of free will and abandoning
> all semblance of human rights.
>
> And I agree that digital technologies, and the tech industry,
> have become the surest path to reaching this end goal of a
> lack of conflict by achieving the total loss of self.
>
> On 8/17/21 7:18 AM, Karl Semich wrote:
> > The inevitable development of digital governance is an opportunity for
> > people to code into stone that there is _always_ a solution to be found
> > that satisfies _every_ impacted party.
> >
> > This means communication, mediation, creativity, persistence ... It
> > could be augmented by software and we wouldn't have to burn through our
> > community diplomats any more.
> >
> > We could end war and discontent by actually acting on every diverse part.
> >
> > If anybody could represent this belief in the discourse, it would be
> > really wonderful.
> >
>
>
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