For a variety of reasons they're dangerous, but we feel that OOl, this Ocean Observatory Initiative, which the National Science Foundation has begun to fund, has the potential to really transform things.

No. 3 Agility and adaptability.

Because there is this asymmetry, which creates, basically, failing governance.

They help the developing world establish telecommunication networks and expand high speed broadband connections.

And she started, in the face of a lot of controversy, the Women's Health Initiative.

It's the savings accounts versus the debit accounts with no deposits.

Also, I would be working with the Alliance of Civilizations at the United Nations.

Well, if you don't ask yourself this question, you might as well be a computer.

like sustainable development targets, natural resource governance targets, access to opportunity, to knowledge, equity, fighting corruption.

We, as European citizens have now launched an official petition called European Citizen Initiative to make the European authorities examine our manifesto

With green technology and with investments to alleviate poverty, and global governance, the world can become like this.

And this is the phenomenon which I call failing governance, because when I then came to Germany and started this little NGO here in Berlin, at the Villa Borsig, we were told, You cannot stop our German exporters from bribing, because we will lose our contracts.

And this leads me to the third, and in my view, the most significant shift in development open governance.

If governments succeed in giving the ITU more power to make decisions about the Internet, we get an old school, top down, government centric organisation replacing the open bottom up governance that made the Internet so world changing.

I've repeatedly seen that what makes corruption on a global, massive scale possible, well it isn't just greed or the misuse of power or that nebulous phrase weak governance.

I think we need a polycentric model of development, where a large number of initiatives in different parts of the country, in different parts of the world, would solve the needs of locality in a very efficient and adaptive manner.

I believe that what we managed to achieve in fighting corruption, one can also achieve in other areas of failing governance.

But if each one of us takes initiative in our own home, in our own school and in our own workplace, we can make a huge difference in air quality.

The richness and fullness of the dialogue in our democracy has not laid the basis for the kind of bold initiative that is really needed.

When Mozilla approached me to get involved with this initiative for creating work surrounding the launch of Firefox 4

We're going to voyage to some of these special places that we've been discovering in the past few years to show why we really need to care.

But we need to fix these problems in a way that preserves the openness, pragmatism and bottom up governance, that made the Internet so great.

Now our team at RMI helps smart companies to get unstuck and speed this journey via six sectoral initiatives, with some more hatching.