Redefining Public/Private Partnerships
summary
Argues the textbook public‑good definition is misleading and that Web‑platforms are emergent public goods that governments can scaffold. Estimates a twitter hashtag can be worth billions once invented; cites Australia’s income‑contingent student loans built on the tax system; describes ABC Open regional hubs and the National Library digitisation where volunteers correct 20 million lines of OCR text; shows a Kaggle competition that lifts HIV viral‑load prediction from ~70% to 77.5% with a $500 prize; notes FixMyStreet routes ~20% of local maintenance calls.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Public goods and Adam Smith
- 3:37Public goods in Web 2
- 6:25Rethinking public-private partnerships
- 7:09Public-private infrastructure examples
- 10:16Data competitions for public value
- 12:04State identity systems
- 13:06Fix My Street analogy
- 14:31Government 2.0 collaboration
- 15:15Summary
