A distributed architecture allows for greater universality and local adaptions based on a foundation or generic principles built into the design.
For example; a person has only 1 physical presence in a location on the planet-therefore a single personal cloud would align technology with the real world.
Why does this not happen today? We do a poor job of understanding the difference between transaction events and the master record. For this reason, we fail to manage privacy as the person intends.
In this model we can quickly move to a better delivery model where information is engineered to allow for consistent outcomes and transparency across the various geographical nations. All states would be sub-systems in the nation allowing a national change to publish into all states.
Social media as a channel offers the individuals in civil society to choose the media channel and offers the person to like what they choose and control the communication in the public realm.
With social media as a channel, we leverage the analytics offered by these platforms rather than replicate the information within many organizations we acquire a generic set of measures with bi-directional feedback.