SoG Conclusion
The Science of Governance (SoG) is our answer to the growing problems of information asymmetry and technological complexity caused by the accelerating Digital Transformation. These problems plague social justice and destabilize political structures. Due to its abstract nature, SoG is a neutral theoretical foundation to help innovate and improve global governance while employing Tech for Trust (TfT) to solve the world’s problems and serving as a concrete global “clock.” The success of SoG depends on the following aspects: assessing governmental practice via time-stamped data, using an open-format, domain-independent, and scale-free methodology, providing a trustworthy and inclusive data infrastructure, as well as ensuring and utilizing secure data protection protocols to protect privacy. Key to SoG is the wide distribution of the Personal Knowledge Container (PKC).
PKC is a tool that gives agency to every agent to create and store knowledge and values with little entanglement. Through adopting the Correct by Design (CbD) notion using Hoare Logic, PKC can facilitate secure knowledge storing through treating all data as NFTs and through the execution of Smart Contracts, which are transparent by their technical nature. PKC is designed to make high-powered data security instruments free to independent agencies; it can be independently configured to filter data and security breaches, reducing potential safety hazards. It can utilize publicized knowledge through Smart Contracts or NFT exchanges. It will provide feedback and operational experience to improve Smart Contracts, cataloging data assets, implement software, and instill CbD knowledge content through hyperlinked Logic Models.
SoG needs to be applied through creating a SoG-based curriculum and dissemination, applying SoG through social governance and educational governance, and must be created as a governance policy initiative during the 2022 G20 meeting. To operationalize the SoG, a G20 Professorship Program has been created, and this document is its first public offering. Education bodies should also develop strategies and programs in disseminating knowledge of SoG. Training courses and data-intensive solutions on the subject are given to leaders of government agencies to improve their operational and governance efficiency. Policies like an Age-Appropriate Design Code should also rely on SoG’s PKC to ensure its successful implementation. SoG shall also work with regulatory bodies, global technology standard institutions and data instrument (semiconductor) manufacturers to organize ethically aware and interest-neutral standards. SoG also needs to assemble early technology contributors to build Proof of Concept prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of SoG solutions. Finally, SoG should be articulated through widespread websites and videos around the world.
As shown in Sanskrit on page 3, the notion of time is embedded in changes or differences. The differences can be captured as chained or partially ordered Hoare Triples. These triplets capture the rules and sometimes the actual content of changes, so that they form an immutable historical thread that can be used to make decisions across space and time. One could say that data is a scale-free medium to encode knowledge, therefore knowledge is just a special kind of data: a casually related set of data. It is such a universal pattern that breaking symmetries using causal relations (Hoare Triples) gives the sound and complete foundation to reason and assign correctness to governing actions. When science evolves, innovations in instrumentation break the paradigm of existing scientific theories. As Albert Einstein said, “technology [...] has confronted mankind with problems of profound gravity. The very survival of mankind depends on a satisfactory solution of these problems.” It is time for us to share freely available data processing technologies to reduce technology-induced information asymmetry, so that SoG and self-administered data can serve as containers of knowledge to liberate willful souls around the universe.