Report Identifies Six Megatrends Reshaping Governments and Societies Around the World
Government Technology, June 12, 2008. "IBM today released research revealing that governments and the communities they serve around the globe are being reshaped by six simultaneous and inescapable forces, which present both opportunities and threats that will require individualized strategies to effectively manage..."
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Last updated: 17 June 2008
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Government 2020 and the perpetual collaboration mandate: Six worldwide drivers demand customized strategies
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In developing tailored strategies to address six global trends, governments will need to enact a new kind of intensified, multilayered, multidirectional communication and cooperation that we call perpetual collaboration. IBM Institute for Business Value study, 9 June 2008. "Summary - The future of societies around the world is being shaped by six drivers outside the realm of government control. Powerful changes related to demographics, globalization, environmental concerns, societal relationships, social stability and technology will affect virtually every government, demanding individualized responses suited to each nation, region or locality. These nearly universal drivers will require "perpetual collaboration" that starts with intensified, multi-directional communications, and shared operational and technical standards. Beyond those core essentials, effective strategies also hinge on government commitments to facilitate efforts involving multiple agencies (within and across borders), and improve partnering with transnational organizations..."