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303 Articles match "Education","Governance"
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Friday, March 19, 2010
39;This pioneering project led by the RSA in partnership with Peterborough City Council and Arts Council England East, will experiment with different ‘models of social change’ across a range of spheres including civic behaviour, education, local enterprise, rehabilitation and treatment services.' co.uk' url, it struck me that not only is this an audacious attempt by wonkdom to appropriate, govern and direct citizen empowerment from the top-down; it also implies it can be turned into a project of social entrepreneurship.
I posted some musings last month about the way empowerment has become an industry : its recognition as an issue in policy is welcome but its neutralising assimilation distasteful.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Unlike many academics, Wainwright is not shy about plunging into the rough-and-tumble of politics and government. In 1982, she headed up the ‘popular planning unit’ part of the Economic Policy Department of the Greater London Council, a government body that managed a number of critical London-wide services, from roads, housing and public transportation to fire-fighting, emergency planning and waste disposal.
Its new and attractive democratic model of local government and its Hillary Wainwright is one of the finest people I have met over the last few years, so I’m happy to share this profile, written by my friend David Bollier :
“If you want to learn the nitty-gritty about social transformation in our times — What works and what doesn’t?
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available ? Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. communities (and readers of this blog) have heard about the federal government's Data.gov initiative (and the winner of a certain Apps for America competition using these data sets). and valuable ? for the public.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Hopefully this brief post will act as a marker of progress rather than just a register of the current limitations of the UK education system.
Byron's Safer Children in a Digital World , and the approval of all the reports recommendations by the UK Government, and the establishment of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) at the end of September this year. To regard it as anything except a critical element Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
We won’t educate them, we’ll just y’know, stop it .
mean, we banned sex education and that stopped everything . Banning vs education: What does failing to properly educate our children on social media look like?
I’m still miffed about the Department of Education stopping the work that Al Upton was doing I’ve got a good idea. Let’s ban kids from using social networks.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
as a city, and on the government level after the high profile nomination (by Obama) of open government advocate Vivek Kundera.
Data enthusiasts like Cohen and Gundersen see in this changed information landscape the potential to do something big: leverage the interest of a newly enlightened public with ever-improving technological tools at its disposal to shine a giant spotlight on the inner workings of the government. Eventually we could How well is data-driven democracy doing?
In the Washington Monthly , Charles Homans has an extensive investigation into the early efforts,
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Book: Wiki Government. How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. Here’s the publisher’s description :
“Wiki Government shows how to bring innovation to government. Collaborative democracy-government of the people, by the people, for the people-is an old dream. Beth Noveck. Brookings Institution Press, 2009
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Philipp Schmidt:
“Much free culture research has focused on the incentives that compel individuals to participate in commons-based peer production, the governance of peer production communities, open innovation processes, and the intersection of law with technology and society. An field that deserves more focused attention, and which has the potential to become a key driver for free culture practices is education. From a short essay by J. Philipp Schmidt for the Free Culture Research Workshop at Harvard University, 23 October 2009.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Don Tapscott:
“A modest country across the Atlantic that’s turning into the world leader in rethinking education for the 21st century.
It also scored some of the lowest educational achievement results in western Europe.
To pay for it, Portugal tapped into both government funds and money from mobile operators who were granted 3G licenses. Interesting reportage in the Wikinomics blog , about the recent experiences in Portugal.
(however, however, do read the comments for more sceptical accounts from the field itself)
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
The government has said in the past that multiplayer games are inherently unclassifiable and I doubt that will change.
Second Life has 3 different versions - Teen Second Life which would need a Children’s Rating I presume, normal Second Life (education and wholesome entertainment) would need a General classification and Zindra the Adult Second Life (background check to make sure you are over 18) would need MA or R or similar. This is Burning Books and Websites PIC: BookShopBlog
I’m pretty sure the Inquisitr article (80 comments) is a bit of a beat-up
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
recommended this story on a parallel line of thinking: Yes, The Web Will Bankrupt The Government :
And since we can’t pay taxes in “attention”, this would cause the government to run short of funds.
“In other words: is a high-tax/high-cost economy with tens of millions of people with no prospects of formal paid work sustainable? Can an economy with far less money churning through the government tax system sustain a vast entitlement/welfare Via Charles Hugh Smith :
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
8220; The entire system we currently call “government” is going to be challenged at every level .
Government is slow. Change is fast, government is slow, and the gap between the two fills with lost opportunity. Soon this gap is going to be larger than the positive functions of government, as things like spectrum regulation and inane some college student in a Texas Ag program writes up permaculture for Malawi, and a retired doctor in Hawaii translates it, and two teenagers in suburban Durban make a video and dub it, and a Japanese phone services start up compresses the video so it fits over thin pipes, and a guy in Brazil wires it to the GPS formats used by the local phone companies, and pretty soon there’s your organic green revolution and people stop dying.
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