GW’s Future

REAL ESTATE

RELEVANCE

RANKINGS

Robert David STEELE

University Seminar

Thursday 15 March 2012

One Outsider’s Opinion

THE FUTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY3 Big Challenges 3 Big Ideas

REAL ESTATE: Capture South-Central Campus and Inspire Potomac Plaza Build

RELEVANCE: Create World Brain Institute, Global Game, Host Open Source Agency

RANKINGS: BE the National University and Hub of a Smart Nation, BE the hub of the World Brain and Global Game

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Two New Buildings for GWU Center for Cultural & Religious n addition to plaza connecting GW to the river, JFK Center, and South-Central Campus 1) Cultural & Religious Studies (Saudi lead)2) Center for Multi-Disciplinary Studies (guards against losing Open Source Agency hosting)

GAME PLAN 2012-2015

SecState asks for Open Source Agency on South Central Campus

Saudis and JFK Center raise funds for two new buildings and Potomac Plaza ($600M estimate)+

GW as hub for design team including all stakeholders

PhD in Comprehensive Architecture

GW PROVOST: 4 Sets of Questions

• Globalization• Governance & Policy• Innovation with Interdisciplinary Collaboration• Citizenship & Leadership

Robert David Steele: 4 Sets of Answers

• Open Everything• Eight Tribes, Integrate Everything• Strategic Analytic Model Harmonizes Global / Local Sharing• BE the National University/OSA-MDSC

Globalization• Capitalizing on research all over the world

– Recognize the total fragmentation of knowledge– Do the homework – Elsevier citation analytics

• Preparing students for a global society– Heritage College: ethics, analytics, religious studies– Horizons College: 8 tribes, whole systems solutions

• Disseminating GW research all over the world– Create World Brain Institute, Global Game– Create prototype Center for Public Intelligence

• Restructuring GW as an institution?– Secretary of State to demand Open Source Agency– GW, JFK, Saudis raise funds for Potomac Plaza

Governance & Policy• Translating policy relevance into research

– Policy is out of touch with any model or true costs– BE the national university with the model & facts

• Building a policy-relevant educational experience– Teach the students how to create public intelligence– Teach the students how everything is connected

• Advancing new models of hybrid governance– BE the hub for eight tribes, World Brain, Global Game– Create the open source everything tools & network

• Strengthening GW’s position on policy deliberation– BE the lead university for the Open Source Agency– BE the lead university for the Multinational Decision-

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Interdisciplinary Innovation• Sponsored interdisciplinary collaboration

– Do the homework – pay for Elsevier citation analytics– Adopt the model—work on ten high level threats

• Preparing students for an interdisciplinary world– Deeply impress on students the model, true costs– Use online options to connect all courses

• Promoting an interdisciplinary culture– Centralizing hiring at university level, end school silos– Centralize grant applications, harmonize applications

• Enabling interdisciplinary collaboration at GW– Clean-sheet evaluation of all existing buildings and how

used– Leverage the Potomac Plaza building as the prestige

location for University Professors who lead TEAMS

Citizenship & Leadership• Expanding research on citizenship & leadership

– The truth at any cost lowers all other costs– Integrate sciences, religions, & philosophies

• Fostering citizenship & leadership skills– Learn to question authority by discerning the truth– Future-proof the university – walk the walk

• How can GW be a better citizen of DC and USA?– Future-proof the District of Columbia– Be the National University and hub for Smart Nation

• What institutional changes are needed?– Learn how to do Open Space conferences and do many– Commit to Open Everything, adopt these ideas as a whole

REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES

• Fragmentation of knowledge• Missing information• Information pathologies• Excessive reliance on “dumb” IT• Absence of information sharing standards• Absence of shared open analytic tool-kit• Absence of “eight tribes” networking

REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS• Change the GW mind-set to focus on eight tribes,

bottom-up integrated knowledge, and BE the national university as well as the HUB of the World Brain and Global Game

• Focus all teaching and research on relevance to the ten high-level threats to humanity – use shared information to harmonize policies, tribes, and outcomes

• Off the first PhD on future-oriented hybrid governance that leverages diversity in all forms

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PhD in Comprehensive ArchitectureAccounting, Statistics, & True Cost Forensics + Administration & Organizational Design + Anthropology & Sociology + Co-Creation & Co-Intelligence Methods & Tools + Collective Intelligence & Cognitive + Science + Commercial Intelligence Sources & Methods + Cultural Intelligence Sources & Methods + Decision Support Sources & Methods + EarthGame & Serious Games for Change + Earth Sciences & Economics + Emerging Markets & Bottom-Up Capitalism + Foreign Studies (Brazil, China, India, etcetera) + Geospatial Design, Science, & Technologies + Global Gift Intelligence Sources & Methods + Health Intelligence Sources & Methods + Human Cognition & Psychology + Information Operations + Innovation & Applied Technologies + Peace Intelligence Sources & Methods + Theory of Change, Paradigms, & Revolution

7 Steps to a Brilliant Future1. Invite me to brief the Provost & others2. Schedule meeting with Secretary of State to get the Open Source

Agency ($125M first year, toward $2B per year)3. Schedule meeting with the Saudi Embassy and JFK Center to get

the Potomac Plaza fund-raising campaign going+4. Create multiple Open Space conferences among all stakeholders

including real estate neighbors and eight tribes5. Establish a separate fifth working group on information technology

and training6. Establish a sixth internal cell to support Provost in studying the

over-all real estate design of the university, and how to make the most of three new buildings with related parking

7. Adopt as a general mind-set the goal of creating graduates that are deeply steeped in ethics and openness, who understand holistic analytics, true cost economics, and the eight tribes+

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Robert David

STEELE Vivas