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Humankind is on the transition to a supra-system of humanity, according to which social relationships – that organise the common good – are re-organised such that global challenges are kept below the threshold of a self-inflicted breakdown. In order to succeed, three conditions are imperative: (1) Global governance needs a global conscience that orients towards the protection of the common good. (2) Such global governance needs a global dialogue on the state of the common good and the ways to proceed. (3) Such a global dialogue needs global citizens able to reflect upon the current state of the common good and the ways to proceed to desired states. Each of these imperatives is about a space of possibilities. Each space nests the following one such that they altogether form the scaffolding along which institutions can emerge that realise the imperatives when proper nuclei are introduced in those spaces. Such nuclei would already support each other. However, the clue is to further their integration by Information and Communication Technologies. An information platform shall be launched that could cover any task on any of the three levels, entangled with the articulation of cooperative action from the local to the global, based on the cyber-subsidiarity model. This model is devised to ensure the percolation of meaningful information throughout the different organisational levels.
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Hofkirchner, W. et al. (2019). ICTs Connecting Global Citizens, Global Dialogue and Global Governance. A Call for Needful Designs. In: Florez, H., Leon, M., Diaz-Nafria, J., Belli, S. (eds) Applied Informatics. ICAI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32475-9_33
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