The IDHUS Institute

57 Posts
Institutions as Cognitive Ecosystems
30
Apr

Institutions as Cognitive Ecosystems

Institutions are often described as individual organisations with clearly defined structures, responsibilities and legal authority. Governments, ministries, universities, courts, regulatory agencies and public bodies are typically analysed as separate entities,…
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Resilient Institutions Learn Continuously
13
Apr

Resilient Institutions Learn Continuously

For many years, institutional resilience has been understood primarily as the capacity of organisations to withstand disruption and recover after crises. Governments have invested heavily in strengthening infrastructure, improving emergency…
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Feedback Loops and Institutional Learning
31
Mar

Feedback Loops and Institutional Learning

Every intelligent system learns by comparing its expectations with reality. Human beings improve through experience because they continuously observe the consequences of their actions, revise their understanding and adjust their…
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Computational Governance Explained
16
Mar

Computational Governance Explained

As governments and public institutions face increasingly complex social, economic and technological challenges, traditional approaches to governance are reaching the limits of what human decision-makers can reasonably process on their…
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WP-D-L02-001 — Planetary Governance Network Model
09
Mar

WP-D-L02-001 — Planetary Governance Network Model

Contemporary governance increasingly confronts problems whose causal structures, consequences and informational requirements extend beyond the territorial and functional boundaries through which political authority and administrative capacity remain predominantly organised. Climate…
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