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The Policy Brief is included in the book, also commentary from several G20/T20 sessions. The point of all is achievement of Comprehensive, Integrated Medicine and Health by means of fluidity and what is referred to as dual control.

One phrase is called out from the G20/T20 commentary calling for “some kind of forum” to actuate ideas and policies. This is the promise of fluidity and the 2020 Program message. As in the case of symphonic music, the point is in the application of knowledge in ways that matter--digitally in this case.

We see the “some kind of forum” comment as a dodge and little else. The cycle between publications and conferences leaves knowledge in useless forms on shelves and hard drives. People often go home happy, but seldom fulfilled. If this were music, everyone would be talking about great works--and other kinds of music and performing art--without composing and carrying them out. In policy and process, there is no composition within the cycle. Material is handed off to technologists to create something, but the end product is woefully inadequate. Curiously, technologists deal with this shortcoming by declaring that machines can bridge the gap themselves.

The cycle is not a bad thing, but it is woefully inadequate. It doesn't render useful resources and systems to society and important institutions, including governments. The Bali 2022 G20/T20 plan outlines a program to empower thousands of public and private knowledge leaders and policy specialists to directly create digital process capacity based on their expertise and their areas of responsibility. This would then be matched up high-volume, mostly urban, health data collection observatories and broad-based and interpretative systems.

We need ‘composers’ to then direct all people through important pathways that will ensure the success of personal and public health activities and other areas where science, practice, policy, and finance intersect. Such activities can be carried out using tree design models and digital tools based on a few readily-understood concepts. These can readily be used and mastered by knowledge leaders, policymakers, and consumers of high-value products and services.