2020
- Small business and creating technology ignored by Summit- By Russell Yardley
Having just had my knee operated on last week I spent a good deal of my weekend looking in at the summit on ABC2. It was clearly a wonderful exchange of ideas amongst a well informed and diverse group of people.
The medical book (as in facebook) idea to share medical information with those who you choose was a clever twist on a proven idea that could solve the problem of the universal medical record that is consuming millions of dollars around the world.
- Prof. Kerry Cox' Brief for the 2020 Summit- By Prof Kerry O. Cox
Education and training in their many forms, appropriately contextualised, will be the great enablers to facilitate the generation of more inclusive, more prosperous, and more sustainable communities throughout the world.
- A national information policy?- By Dr Nicholas Gruen, Australia 2020 Summit Delegate
150 years after Adam Smith first expounded the miraculous way the market's ‘invisible hand' transforms private self interest into social prosperity, some economists argued that we could achieve the same result with sufficiently sophisticated government planning.
Enter the Austrian émigré Friedrich Hayek . . . who showed that markets achieve their efficiency by utilising information which is distributed throughout the economy and so often unavailable to government.
- Ten Common ‘Mistakes' to Avoid, and ‘Needs' to Meet, when Seeking to Create a Better World- By Prof Stuart B. Hill
Some thoughts on Kevin Rudd's '1,000 Great Minds' initiative (Australia 2020 Summit) and what might need to happen to improve its chances of success
Because of the holistic nature of the approach being advocated, all of these areas overlap and are highly interactive and interrelated.
- Getting the usual ‘experts' together, to then plan for a better future. This always leads to tinkering with existing (flawed) plans, and excludes those most affected by such plans.
- 2020 Ideas Forum- "A bunch" of official delegates to Australia 2020 are also GetUp members. They're currently discussing what they're going to say, and GetUp have invited everyone else to contribute ideas via a new forum.
