Mission/SoG Committee

Background

Greetings from Indonesia. In the preparation of G20 Summit to be held in November 2022 in Bali, the origin of the Tri Hita Karana based societal governing principle/compass of the indigenous people. Bali is also the home of the Tri Hita Karana Center for Future Knowledge (TFK), a brain trust dedicated to gather world-wide talents and disseminate wisdoms to sustain societal harmony. As our world is being digitally transformed dramatically, TFK is challenged to come up with effective and sustainable strategies that we fit under an umbrella term:the Science of Governance(SoG), where operationally-oriented and data-driven strategies could be systematically deployed to cope with imminent societal threats. In other words, SoG should shed intellectual insights on governance processes and sovereignty policies, and provide a protocol for the discourse of governance principles in the era of Big Data.

This commitee will help identify areas of expertise, and candidate members of expert panels for each of the domain expertise. The non-exclusive list of expertise domains includes the logical/physical meaning/representations of data and their roles in organizational governance, Internet of Things industry protocols, and the massive distribution of data presentation mechanisms(emerging User Interface/User Experience technologies).

Objective

The objective of this Governance Committee is to define a theme of data governance to address cross-domain concerns, therefore enabling effective data exchange in application scenarios that require interdisciplinary collaboration. The theme of governance is to be formulated as a protocol for interactions and relate these protocols to known decision-processes(human or machine executable algorithms), government regulations on data industries in general, existing industry practices/standards. We hope that the Governance Committee members will present their own thinkings on how a high-level data governance protocols can be formulated, identify established communities/institutions of data governance practices, and proposal solution strategies to form a meta data governance protocol. In other words, the protocol created by this Governance Committee on SoG will be a meta contract that invites a broad area of domain experts to submit their proposed conditions for fair and just cross-domain engagements. The evolution of this meta contract will be recorded digitally, timestamped, encrypted for protection of content security, and edited for publication until the consensus for contract publication is reached. The Byzantine Fault Tolerance of 2/3 majority wins the argument will be the initial rule of consensus criteria.

Activities

This Governance Committee will meet regularly on a monthly basis, either online or in person. As the initiating country for this SoG Governance Committee, in-person meetings will be mostly located in Indonesia. The traveling costs and lodging will be provided by the Indonesian government. If you agree, we could start the first activity in July 2022 so that we will have 4 months before the G20 Summit. We plan to have this Governance Committee conduct its work continuously for 12 months starting in July 2022 and review its function and organization in June 2023.