$5 Million Prize For Reimagining Global Governance

Just an announcement. And uh huh, I know. NO WAY does global governance interest ATS' core libertarians.

But money is money.

THE GLOBAL CHALLENGES PRIZE 2017

A New Shape: Remodelling Global Cooperation

Calling big thinkers, from all disciplines, everywhere. The world needs your brainpower and your best ideas as never before. Compete for US$5 million in prizes. Help to reshape our world.

Submit your proposal before September 30, 2017

How it works
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Global Challenges Prize 2017: A New Shape. This competition is a quest to find new models of global cooperation capable of handling global risks. It will award US$5 million in prizes for the best ideas that re-envision global governance for the 21st century.

Be part of the effort to safeguard our world for future generations. Be part of the global conversation. Help to change the shape of things to come.

Swedish Billionaire Will Award $5 Million For Reimagining Global Governance

The Global Challenges Foundation, founded by the Swedish billionaire László Szombatfalvy, has launched an international competition in order to find a better system for world governance. As Szombatfalvy writes in a letter published on the Foundation's website:

The greatest threats we face today transcend national boundaries; they therefore need to be addressed jointly by all countries based on an increased realization of our mutual dependence. [...] Our current international system – including but not limited to the United Nations - was set up in another era following the Second World War. It is no longer fit for purpose to deal with 21st century risks that can affect people anywhere in the world. We urgently need fresh new thinking in order to address the scale and gravity of today’s global challenges, which have outgrown the present system’s ability to handle them.

...The Global Challenges Prize 2017: A New Shape is calling on individuals, groups of individuals, universities, companies or associations from anywhere in the world to submit proposals outlining an alternative world governance model – either by revising the present UN system, or by proposing completely new forms of governance. The new model should be able to effectively address some of the most pressing global problems (like climate change, population growth, extreme poverty) ...

Get rid of religion! Did i win?

a reply to: Perfectenemy

No, but thank you for playing.

I'll send him some Gene Roddenberry books and a couple of complete series' of star trek.

Make the check out to cash please.

So there really is a problem in Sweden !!

a reply to: soficrow

Rigged.

a reply to: soficrow

I'll just take my participation trophy and go cry in a corner. I'll never win anything. Stupid contest.

a reply to: Perfectenemy

lol.

I do think we have some members who could definitely give this the old college try.

I envision a world filled with democracies all around the world independently govern themselves to curtail to their constituents. And within these governing bodies (we'll call them countries)they have smaller bodies called localities to make more refined decisions for the people.


I won't hold my breath.

Get rid of all the people. That will take care of man-made climate change, overpopulation, poverty, and every other problem facing humans.

No need to pay me the $5 million. If everyone is dead, what good is it?

a reply to: VictorVonDoom

Defeat global mass scale Hyper-Tribalism via Socio-Agnosticism and whatever other means, and people will then have their heads of of their collectively hyper-deluded and rabbidly bigoted arses, and then the rest will mostly just 'naturally' sort itself out where it isn't hardly possible otherwise. The ruthless greedy bastards everyone will finally be able to unite against to keep them in check, and emerging technologies will then start handling the rest.

In the face of AGI (Strong AI) we need to overcome Hyper-Tribalism anyhow, otherwise when it see's who we are ala Groupthink as a species given what we've become in social media, it's going to want to 'wipe us out' anyways. The threat we ARE to ourselves, each other, the world, and It as long as we're like this.

a reply to: soficrow

All nations are to have "dance-off's" instead of wars.

The supreme global ruler will be the one to best do the Electric Boogaloo.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: soficrow

All nations are to have "dance-off's" instead of wars.

The supreme global ruler will be the one to best do the Electric Boogaloo.

HAHAHA. Oh please, do submit that!

...But how will you fix the other bits?

We're kind of already there. I mean the UN Security Council and the big corporations rule the world. And by the UN Security Council, I mean the individual players like the US< UK, France, Russia, China...etc. That's who controls and influences the world.

But If there was a world government it would be more like the USA with more increased states rights. A senate 2 reps from each country, a house of representatives by population, a supreme court and a president.

The SHAPE we have is closed, bigoted minds on the mass scale ala Hyper-Tribalism.

I might just email this thing....

Maybe there is no "global solution" that can be implemented by any one entity. Maybe the solution is each of us doing what is needed as independent sovereign units, rather than assume some globalist nanny state is the only solution.

a reply to: ChaoticOrder

That's exactly the point.

You can't force people to cooperate without creating social strife and warfare.

Ideas like Neo-Communism ala Zeitgeist Movement (not that they dont have good ideas amongst their bad ones) are doomed to fail because all it takes is one person to say "I dont agree" and then you have to force them ala totalitarianism.

The Zeitgeist Movement is *Pure Communism*
Zeitgeist Movement = most hardcore NWO propaganda ever.

We already have the ideas, and the means, and the emerging tech to handle the rest en route.

The problem is everybody so closed minded, so busy arguing with the other Hyper-Tribalists, the soft and hard forms of bigotry that inherently comes with these forms of social order, to ever unite against the power elite types who have the squeeze on us all. Bread & Circuses for the apathetic (squeeze is on them too). So everyone too busy arguing, self-deluded, distracted, and economically pinched to get anywhere as one.

Centralization isn't the way (look at a map of the Internet or a brain for proof), and this "Hyper-Tribalism" I've been talking about is centralization for the mind.



Even SLIME MOLD (largest single celled organism) knows this for freaks sake!



Instead we have as our social order model:

Criteria

Introduction

Today, mankind lives not only in national societies, but also in a global community. This means that the behavior and decisions of the inhabitants of nation states also impact the vital interests of inhabitants of other countries. Global warming may be the most obvious example: Greenhouse gas emissions in any particular country will have an impact on global climate change.

The world community is facing a number of major global challenges which have to be jointly managed by all countries through increased co-operation and an increased understanding of our interconnectedness. Other than climate change, the major problems and risks are other large-scale environmental damage and politically motivated violence (war, civil war, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction). Other major problems faced are extreme poverty and rapid population growth.

Rapid population growth – the global population has quadrupled over the last 100 years (which is one of the main reasons for the problem we face today), and is expected to increase by another 50 percent by the year 2100 – exacerbates all these problems. Despite this, and despite the knowledge that there are not nearly enough resources on the planet for the entire population of Earth to enjoy the current Western standard of living, the issue is not on the political agenda.

In order to manage these challenges, we need effective ways of making collectively binding, long-term decisions that take into account the interests of all those affected, including future generations. The system currently in place to manage these issues – including the UN and the organizations connected with the UN – are, in their present form, not up to the task. Today, these challenges are responded to using yesterday’s tools – multilateral negotiations which are susceptible to short-term national interests. As a consequence, the necessary action is either not taken or is taken too late, while the problems and risks continue to grow.

The Global Challenges Foundation wants to challenge participants from all over the world to formulate alternatives to the present state of affairs – either by complementing, strengthening and revising the present UN system, or by proposing completely new forms of governance. The proposals should be drafted with the aim of identifying and, as far as possible, preventing or minimizing challenges of the kind mentioned above.

The Task

The participant must design a governance model able to effectively address the most pressing threats and risks to humanity. In other words, the task is not to come up with direct solutions to specific problems. Rather, it is to design a general model for decision-making, with the aim of generating such solutions and the ability to do so, and possessing the resources to effectively implement them.

The governance model must also be such that it can be implemented within the foreseeable future. This requires that it be acceptable to major states and the wider international community. A significant measure of civic acceptance is also required. This requirement eliminates models that rely on time-consuming and controversial changes in the political system of individual states, e.g. models that postulate that all states should be democracies.

Furthermore, the governance model must involve a minimum of limitations to the sovereignty of nation-states, meaning that it should involve only such limitations as are necessary to ensure that national decisions do not seriously harm the vital interests of inhabitants of other countries, or of humanity as a whole. In other words, decisions within the governance model must not deal with the internal affairs of individual states.

The entries must consist of the following three parts:

1. Abstract (no more than 1000 words)

The abstract must summarize the design of the model, including the institutions, regulations, decision-making paths and control mechanisms it involves, as well as how key individuals and other decision-making bodies are to be appointed.

2. Description of the Model (no more than 5500 words)

The document must be divided into subsections with clear and descriptive headings. The Participant must clearly define the functions of the various components, their areas of responsibility and the extent of their decision-making mandate. Also, describe how the model is meant to manage both current and emerging challenges and risks.

3. Argumentation demonstrating how the model meets the assessment criteria (no more than 2750 words)

For each of the criteria listed below, the participant must provide convincing arguments as to how the proposed model meets the criterion.

Assessment criteria

Entries will be assessed based on how well they can be expected to manage global challenges and meet the criteria listed below:

1. Core Values.

Decisions within the governance model must be guided by the good of all humankind and by respect for the equal value of all human beings.

2. Decision-Making Capacity.

Decision-making within the governance model must generally be possible without crippling delays that prevent the challenges from being adequately addressed (e.g. due to parties exercising powers of veto).

3. Effectiveness.

The governance model must be capable of handling the global challenges and risks and include means to ensure implementation of decisions.

4. Resources and Financing.

The governance model must have sufficient human and material resources at its disposal, and these resources must be financed in an equitable manner.

5. Trust and Insight.

The trust enjoyed by a successful governance model and its institutions relies on transparency and considerable insight into power structures and decision-making.

6. Flexibility.

In order to be able to fulfil its objectives effectively, a successful governance model must contain mechanisms that allow for revisions and improvements to be made to its structure and components.

7. Protection against the Abuse of Power.

A control system must be in place to take action if the organization should overstep its mandate, e.g. by unduly interfering with the internal affairs of nation-states or favouring the special interests of individuals, groups, organizations, states or groups of states.

8. Accountability.

It is a fundamental requirement of a successful governance model that it performs the tasks it has been charged with, and the governance model must include the power to hold the decision-makers accountable for their actions.
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By this own criteria (not having to overthrow governments), "Goverance" isn't the right way to be looking at this problem. It's purely social.

The video should read: How we can make a government that the average man who will not get mad at when we impose our will upon them.