Can populations self-organize a crisis response? This is a field report on the first two efforts in a continuing series of exercises termed Exercise 24 or X24. These exercises attempted to demonstrate that self-organizing groups can form and respond to a crisis using low-cost social media and other emerging web technologies. P lotnick and White (2010) describe social media as generally being at...

Relevance. One of the key long-term strategic goals Russia's economic development is to increase share digital and green economy in gross product country its regions. The recession caused by pandemic has brought forefront challenges digitalization country's oil gas sector, which was among hardest hit sectors, thus required significant effort on part regional governments. Research objective. Thi...

Part I brings together material suggesting that the current financial “crisis” may well have been engineered to strengthen the hand of a relatively small group of people who use international financial institutions to manage the planet more generally. It is concluded that, behind the financial crisis lies a public management crisis. Part II discusses the interlinked crises in our habitat. It se...