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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Those who have secular knowledge on how to preserve it, to maintain its life while reproducing theirs, or the government? The government cannot negotiate on matters of the Amazons behind our back” Massimo de Angelis report on the Yasuni’s struggle against petroleum extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, based and inspired by their “Mother Earth” related deity Pochamama, clearly discusses the same links we discuss in our section on neotraditional economics, and why these linkages between pre-industrial and post-industrial thinking and practices are important, see here for details.
 
Friday, March 19, 2010
given that the governance decision making process varies so widely? I am a big fan of the Cynefin framework which amongst other things aims to differentiate between "complicated" environments and "complex" ones. The proposed problem resolutions that might arise between the two are quite different, with the complicated regime supporting our natural tendencies to break thing down to analyse things in smaller chunks before combining them back up into a hopefully good solution.
 
Friday, March 19, 2010
asked people around, and the reasons given to me for this contradiction are various, ranging from the fact that he is a very whimsical man, passing through the effect of the oil lobby, and arriving to the fact that the plan was never his in the first place, but of economist Alberto Acosta, who originally proposed the plan and since then he left the government. (Acosta Excerpt from a longer piece by Massimo de Angelis , on the occasion of a trip in Ecuador, and the opposition of the Yasuni people against oil drilling, in which he also gives details about the spiritual underpinnings of their struggle : “I am in Ecuador at the moment, where I arrived with my family 6 days ago for a three months trip in Latin America.
 

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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.
In the absence of social media compliance and regulatory standards, social networking technologies face increased scrutiny in both the government and commercial sectors. While many government leaders and corporate executives recognize the ability for social media to enable organizations to ?tap Confronted with a Memorandum for Transparency and Open Government and over 200,000 websites designed to spoof tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ? in communities across the country?
The Obama administration is close to unveiling a new Open Government Directive to push agencies to become more transparent, accountable, and collaborative. The directive builds upon the memorandum on transparency and open government released by the administration in January, and was announced by US CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0 This is a huge opportunity that will help make it even easier for third parties to Summit . Since the announcement, there has been a lot of discussion focused on the expected component of the directive that pushes federal agencies to make data
In this video taken at the Mayor of San Francisco’s press conference, @ev (Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter) is talking about how businesses use Twitter… and government departments Technorati Tags: Australia , for business , for government , Online Communities , social networks , statistics , Twitter ...Tags: Tags: Some of his examples and points: Events - Earthquakes creates viral spike in activity
This new paper examines the potential for a social network platform that empowers citizens to manage government . It is authored by Britt Blaser, David Weinberger, and Joe Trippi, for submission to the Digital Governance Society of North America 2009 conference. Well-understood social networking services could provide a barackobama.com for the constituents of any politician and to the stakeholders of any government agency or service. Via Matt Cooperrider : What the paper doesn’t tell you is that this platform is almost built (the code name is OrgWare ).
Just as social software is not about replacing human intelligence with software, but augmenting it, government 2.0 is not a matter of substituting government with bottom-up initiatives, but augmenting its innovativeness and its impact by letting third parties build on top of government data and services. David Osimo, who participates in the Open Declaration blog , reviews the contrasting interpretations of the Government 2.0 meme and concludes that it should be about Augmented Government , not replacing government. David Osimo: “Here
David Ronfeldt has posted not just his own table comparing four forms of governance, but a host of other tables from other scholars who have attempted similar typologies, making this entry a very useful resource . Peer to peer is the relational dynamic at work in distributed networks, leading to self-aggregation around the production of common value, and the 3 new social processes of peer production, peer governance, and peer property. I’m posting David’s table and comments below, but please go to the original page for the complete text with all tables. There is
Question: How does governance without government come possible? In your work (2005, 2008) you firstly define what governance and government imply (”government is enforcement by coercion backed up by force or the threat of force” whereas “governance involves voluntary compliance by the governed because of shared norms and values”), and then articulate that the reason why governance becomes possible without government is because in the information age, governance is based on accurate information and transparency.
peer governance , has taken off in any real sense, though many studies do tackle the governance of open source communities, but without naming it as peer governance. So I find this publication significant, as a founding moment for the dedicated study of peer governance, even though the author does not use the concept. Tags: P2P Books P2P Governance P2P Hierarchy Theor Book: Cyberchiefs. Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes .
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,