We are witnessing a perfect storm due to our failure to address increasingly complex social problems, creating an opportunity to re-imagine governance. Leveraging advances in technology and sciences enables us to ride the waves of change toward more collaborative and smarter governance.

Innovations are creating paradigm shifts in the way we govern as we strive towards making governance more effective and legitimate. Governance is becoming more collaborative, more decentralized, more open and more diverse. Decision making is more evidence based than ever.

The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people’s lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science. This map illustrates how they view the current state of governance and how they see it transforming.