Bridgebuilders

Chapter 8 Redefine Accountability

We Need a New System to Replace Traditional Top-Down Authority

CHAPTER GUIDE

•   Accountability in Blended Government

•   The Multiple Challenges of Blended Government

•   A New System of Accountability

•   Saving the World from Y2K

•   The New Steps to Accountability

•   Ten Ways Bridgebuilders Can Create a New System of Accountability

When California isn’t fending off atmospheric rivers, it’s fighting enormous wildfires. Six of California’s seven largest wildfires on record erupted between 2020 and 2021.¹ Weather extremes have made the state ever more vulnerable to catastrophic events—and they’ve created ever bigger collaboration challenges for the state’s emergency responders.

When a wildfire burns in ...