Reboot

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Panthea and I are proud to launch Reboot to the world. We have both spent several years working with and within large institutions during a period of profound societal change.

Our mission is to take those lessons learned and help other organizations navigate the social ruptures we see occurring around us.

We founded Reboot because we believe in the following:

Communication is the fundamental organizing principle of human society.

We live in an era where human modalities of communication and information sharing are changing more dramatically than any other period in our collective history. These changes are creating radical shifts in the nature of human organization.

Many of our current institutions in governance, education, international development, media, and beyond are based on analog principles of hierarchy, created in an now extinct world of information and communication scarcity. As these scarcities continue to dissolve amid the flood of digital data, the systems and processes of these institutions must adapt.

Stakeholders, constituents, clients, customers, and users will continue to demand more agency in their interactions with institutions as the cost and barriers to engagement continue to decline. This demand will require new ways of empowering communities, taking feedback, telling stories and so on.

Those institutions that do not adapt will become irrelevant or, even worse, barriers to progress. Either way, people will leave them behind or tear them down.

Thus, the leading institutions of the future must empower users to take a stake in their transactions and missions. By collaborating with users, institutions and people will work towards shared objectives. This is Collaborative Culture, and it will make things better for everyone.

This future will come for some, but not all. Those without adequate access to good information and communication will fall farther and farther behind. It is all of our responsibility to bridge that divide in everything that we do.