IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - June 2020 - 22

Digital
Disruptors
Unprecedented
Transparency
Intelligent
Systems
Mass
Collaboration
Mixed
Reality

Guiding Questions
For How to Use These Levers
to Drive Positive Systematic
Changes

Levers of Systems Change
Disrupting Rules, Power,
and Mindsets
Economic
* Platforms
* Transparent Supply Chains
* Precision Services
Governance
* Informational Governance
* Collaborative Governance
* Governance of Flows
* Anticipatory Governance
Cognitive
* Microtargeting and Nudging
* Collective Storytelling
* Augmented Engagement

* What are the transformative
impacts?
* What are the risks?
* What does it take to steer?
* What does it take to scale?

Research,
Innovation and
Action Agenda

* Questions we need to
answer.
* Experiments we need to do.
* Actions we need to take.

D^2s Agenda: Research, Innovation, and Action
Examples of questions that need to be answered, experiments that need to be done, and actions that need to be taken to
disrupt, steer and scale:
Economic Systems

Cognitive Systems

Governance Systems

Research
* How can trust and accountability be
fostered where decisions are based
on collective and artificial intelligence?

* How can we help embed democratically
determined public values (e.g. keeping
temperature rise <2°C) into digital
platforms?
* Will increased transparency of social
and environmental externalities of supply
chains lead to transformative shifts in
business practices and consumption
norms?
* What are the social and environmental
outcomes of existing digital nudges?
Is digital nudging a lever for shifting
production and consumption behaviors
at a global scale?

* What social and political conditions
enable informational and anticipatory
governance systems that lead to
inclusive sustainability outcomes?
How can we leverage the digital age
to scale these and overcome
constraints such as algorithmic bias
and unequal quality and coverage
of data?

* Under what technical, institutional,
and political conditions does
Measurement, Reporting and
* How can vulnerable populations leverage Verification (MRV) lead to inclusive
precision services to customize climate
sustainability outcomes? How can
mitigation and adaption solutions?
these be enabled and scaled in the
digital age?
Innovation
Develop analytic and legal systems and
institutions that credibly use new data
streams and crowdsourcing to quantify
and expose the cost of environmental and
social externalities.

Develop a new tool box for climate
governance that leverages digital
disruptors to better tap into the capacity
of people across networks of states,
businesses, governments and civil
society.

* Why do some narratives become
embedded in societal discourse while
others do not? How do they shape
societal change? How has the emergence
and reach of new narratives changed in
the digital age and how does this
vary with social and cultural context?
* How can we minimize and mitigate the
risks of using digital technologies to
manipulate cognitive biases while using
these mechanisms ethically to foster a
new shared narrative on net-zero carbon
emissions and global equity?
* How are changes in individual and
collective mindsets connected? How
have these links shifted in the digital age?
Do they provide an opportunity to steer
and scale inclusive collective action on
climate change?

Build a network of targeted engagement
strategies that leverage mixed reality
tools and intelligent systems to co-create
new meta-narratives across populations
and geographies.

Cross-Cutting Actions (For Enabling Conditions)
* Establish a social contract for the digital age.
* Promote inclusion as a touchstone of the digital age.
* Expand open access to high-public-value data.
* Establish foundational standards for the digital sector.

* Expand public-private partnerships to build our digital future.
* Reduce environmental impacts of the digital age.
* Foster cross-sectoral collaboration and innovation.
* Invest in targeted communication, engagement, and education.

FIGURE 3. Overview of the D^2S Agenda. This diagram outlines the analysis process for developing the D^2S Agenda (top) and a

summary of some of the priority research, innovation, and actions identified (bottom).

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