Global Solutions

Introduction

Global solutions for global problems. The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has been giving the message that our current financial crisis is a result of global problems, global interactions. His message is clear, to get out if this situation in a sustainable and reliable way we must ask our financial organisations to work as one, to provide transparency across countries and organisations, including their regulators. It’s an ambitious and controversial goal, as organisations and countries will have many unique features which they’d prefer to remain unchanged, or kept as a feature of their own systems.

How do you unite these many cultures and competing organisations, and ask them to work together? How can you ensure a fair system is put in place for both rich and poor, socialist and capitalist? Part of Mr Brown’s sustainable solution is to ensure that “the financial systems are relevant to normal people in their normal lives”. To make this work, a system needs to be put in place that encompasses all these dynamics and is further able to extend and grow to encompass new ones. There are many challenges to overcome with this goal, but with a strong community and free, valuable debate, could make their way through them.

I like to think that this is something the scientific community can contribute to, and an aspiration that they can learn from and gain renewed energy from.

Working Together

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