Welcome to the Kractal Project blog

Introduction:

The Kractal Project is a research activity, examining the future operation of our public services as we enter the so-called Digital Age of human development.

Many jurisdictions around the world are facing a public services crisis whereby the costs of maintaining public service delivery, including maintenance costs of public infrastructure and burgeoning demand for services, is outstripping the ability of the jurisdiction to fund such activity, leading to rising public debt and growing fiscal imbalance.

This research activity is talking a step back to look at how this overall macro issue could be tackled into the future, through use of 21st Century internet/social media technology, big data and human collaborative techniques.

The research project contends that a fundamentally re-designed approach to managing the ‘common good’ within a society can improve productivity to such an extent that improved public services can be achieved at much lower costs, leading to sustainability across each thematic domain.

To achieve this, our research is centred on a knowledge-sharing and collaboration framework called the Kractal Framework for Digital Society. This framework re-imagines the concept of the ‘common good’ as a public digital infrastructure, enabling the orchestration of multiple independent agents (citizens or organisations of any type) to self-organise into domain-oriented eco-systems.

The Kractal Framework is a conceptual model together with an implementation methodology and an illustrative software prototype platform.

This blog is designed to assist in highlighting and discussing a better understanding of the overall problem facing jurisdictions around the world, together with ideas and visions of future success in public service sustainability and how the Kractal Framework may assist a shared positive future.

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Thanks for your interest.

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The Kractal Team