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From: Intelligence Squared <[email protected]> To: j [email protected]> Subject: Jack Straw joins Anne-Marie Slaughter on our hyper-networked world Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:57:00 +0000 2Inteingence urwaru to a menu view In DISAVbef ;;',Anne-Marie Slaughter on our hyper-networked world Monday 3rd April, 7pm, Emmanuel Centre Speakers Anne-Marie Slaughter is one of the world's top foreign policy ; 1 ..; Anne-Marie Slaughter thinkers, admired by influential global leaders such as Joe Biden, Leading American political scientist, who was Condoleeza Rice and Eric Schmidt. A former senior adviser to the first woman to serve as Director of Policy Hillary Clinton in the State Department, she hit the headlines in Planning at the U.S. State Department. She is 2012 when she published an article in The Atlantic called Why President and CEO of the New America Women Still Can't Have It All'. The piece went viral and sparked Foundation and is former Dean of Princeton's off a massive debate about the future of work-life balance. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her latest book is The But long before this, Slaughter was hailed in political circles for Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of her understanding of the emerging world of networks. She was Connection in a Networked World. Previous among the first to see how networks are overturning traditional publications include A New World Order and hierarchies, upending international diplomacy and transforming Unfinished Business: Women Men Work patterns of global power and politics. Now once again, with the Family, named one of the best books of 2015 launch of her new book The Chessboard and the Web, she has by the Washington Post. the Economist, and moved ahead of conventional thinking and is coming to the NPR. Intelligence Squared stage to share her insights. Geoff Mulgan The power of networks, shell explain, has grown so quickly with Chief executive of the National Endowment for the advance of digital technology that we have barely begun to Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta), fully understand it and see how it can transform our world. Take senior visiting scholar at Harvard, founder of government, which has traditionally been a vertical and closed the think tank Demos, and a former head of system (apart from periodic elections). Why not embrace a 'wiki' Tony Blair's Policy and Strategy Units. His model of power, using digital networks to make government most recent book is The Locust and the Bee. decision-making truly open and participatory? In other words, He has a longstanding interest in what he calls government with the people rather than govemment for the 'connexity', the understanding that the growing people. Or take the tech world, which has become dominated by a connectedness of the world is the most handful of giants with closed business models. Counterintuitively, important social and economic fact of our Slaughter will argue, these companies would benefit if they were times. to loosen up and open their platforms to other parties, thereby benefiting from the robustness of the whole network, rather than Jack Straw concentrating power in a single hub. Or look at how ordinary Cabinet minister in the governments of Tony citizens are using peer-driven networks, such as Occupy or Black Blair and Gordon Brown, where he served as Lives Matter, to effect change in society, or using data to help the Home Secretary. Foreign Secretary. Leader of authorities with crisis communications in disaster zones. the Commons, and Justice Secretary. Labour MP for Blackburn from 1979.2015. He is a At a time when so many of us feel that our voices aren't being EFTA00715744 heard where it matters, could progress lie in Slaughters Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy at University prescription for a more open, participatory world where College London. governments and citizens, armed with 21st century technology, Chair come together to forge a new social and political contract? Come to the event on April 3rd, when Slaughter will be joined by Jonathan Freedland former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and connectivity expert Guardian columnist, broadcaster and author. Geoff Mulgan. Steering the conversation will be the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland. Praise for The Chessboard and the Web 'When it comes to thinking about. and explaining. America's role in the world at a time of incredible challenge and change. Anne- Marie Slaughter is one of this country's most valuable players. She brings the discipline of a leading academic together with keen political insight. I greatly value her advice.' - Joe Eiden, Former Vice-President of the United States A profound and insightful view of geopolitics from one of the greatest living foreign policy thinkers. This book should be required reading for any student or practitioner of international relations. It will only become more relevant and prescient over time.' - Eric Schmidt. Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc. 'Must reading for policymakers and citizens alike. Anne-Marie Slaughter has taken on the enormous task of rethinking grand strategy in an interconnected world where government is but one of the key players. There is little doubt that an Open Order world would be more prosperous and safer. The Chessboard and the Web launches an important conversation on how to get there.' - Condoleezza Rice. Former US Secretary of State race000u n i l Winer ns. 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