Active Democracy: Using Social Media and Online Data to Better Serve Constituents

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The Focus groups and Polling maybe dead. Maybe even voting is next? After all what is the point? Collectively our voice can now be quantified and heard with the help of sentiment and analytic analysis. Good goverments are utilizing this to find what constituents and civil society wants.  Added to  direct advocacy via social media and online forums, the possibility for organic mobilization is apparent and in front of our face.

Currently I work on political strategy for the EPP Group at the European Parliament. What I am implementing makes it so no matter what you say online – we are listening to you. In essence this is active democracy. If you talk about GMOs or Data protection I hear it, quantify it and then we get a political strategy to address it. A feedback loop of sorts.

On the EU level this is important because of the autonomy with constituents the EU has. The EPP Group is trying to address this with technology in the most efficient and effective manner available today.

Time to go see a live show at Mr.Wongs in down town Brussels (Bours). Check out the picture of what I dub “Communication Logistics”.

– CT

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Do to fundamental market shifts; organizations now find themselves operating within increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). As a result, there are fewer markets with unknown opportunities and places to hide during market turbulence. Business, both big and small, will need to shift their thinking on what work, strategy, and creativity are. The majority of processes deployed at organizations are superficial and lead to a marginal compared, if any, competitive advantage, or built on assumptions that are no longer relevant or accurate. At Walmart, I work on machine intelligence to optimize corporate strategy and business processes for the VUCA age. By analyzing market trends and strategic frameworks with machine intelligence and algorithms, I've come to the conclusion that competitive advantage lay in the embrace of complexity, faster information to action times, and the unorthodox, as well as being agnostic to how an entity makes money or reacts to markets - especially for asset-rich businesses. This site is meant to house some of my research and thinking in the above areas. The views and comments expressed here are my own and do not represent companies I have worked for or with.

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