Introduction
The Kractal Project is a non-partisan, informal and experimental conceptual systems design and prototyping activity, examining the productivity and future operation of the socio-economic system as we progress more deeply into the digital age of human civilisation.
This project is led by Christopher Sampson, a systems designer with various governance, thought-leadership and innovation roles in industry, government, academia and civil society.
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As the world progresses more deeply into the digital age, each field of human endeavour is becoming both more global (in that domain-specific knowledge can be shared instantly and globally…and products/services can be traded globally) and more local (in that domain knowledge and products/services can be more effectively contextualised and implemented for local community conditions).
Facilitating this local contextualisation and organising for optimal socio-environmental balance at both local and global scales is currently beyond the collective ability of humans and our existing systems.
Understanding this dilemma in specific domain/community instances will help us to plan, design and experiment with new knowledge-sharing, collaborative systems and socio-economic instrumentation needed in human society.
The aim of the Kractal project is to establish a systemic, adaptive mechanism for gradual, ‘complex adaptive change’ to a higher functioning, radically more productive and sustainable socio-economic system which continuously optimises toward socio-environmental balance at each scale, across all fields of human endeavour, enabling a collective and measurable pathway to peaceful, prosperous and sustainable futures for all communities.
The Kractal project is taking a step back to look at how this overall macro issue could be managed, through improved harnessing of modern digital technologies and advances in our understanding of systems thinking, complexity and human behaviour across all aspects of society.
A key part of this project is the re-imagination of the public service and private industry apparatus from an existing, industrial-age-designed, siloed approach, to a new collaborative and systemic ‘ecosystem of ecosystems’ model facilitated through a public digital platform, enabling the orchestration and knowledge-sharing needed to drive mass-personalisation of services and efficiently ‘join up’ socio-economic activity in an environment of growing complexity and constant change.
The project is structured into three main themes:
- Understanding the problem – where are we now? – the slow-burning platform of industrial-age socio-economics and government
- Future Vision – where do we want to get to? – how advances in technology and our understanding of complexity might power a brighter future
- The Kractal Framework – how might we get there? – a proposed approach to digital age socio-economic transformation
This blog provides an overview of the project.
I hope to stimulate discussion and collaboration across social sciences, information sciences and other fields to create a collective pathway to sustainable, peaceful and prosperous future for all communities.
I will be adding more content to this blog over time and establishing an interactive discussion forum. For more information please contact me here.
Thanks for your interest.
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