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1538 Articles match "Government"
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
It is vital that the government of India does not use this emergency of drought to act as a marketer of GM seeds and Roundup. This editorial by Vandana Shiva first appeared in Resurgence:
“Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine.
Intensification of drought, floods and cyclones is one of the predictable impacts of climate change and climate instability.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
G4C acts as a voice for the transformative power of games, bringing together organizations and individuals from the nonprofit sector, government, journalism, academia, industry and the arts, to grow the sector and provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and resources.
Here are three resources which have recently crossed my path that involve using fun and games for social change. Some Some of these work with groups and some work across social spaces - demographics, communities or organizations. What
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
We are witnessing a move towards de-institutionalization, from an education that works for the institution towards institutions that work for education, or from a democracy that works for parties and governments or parties and governments that work for democracy.
m not expressing here a personal wish — though I find most of these questions really appealing and even compelling — but an underground roar that is increasingly becoming mainstream, not only in education with the edupunk “movement”, but also in other fields like e-Government and e-Democracy.
We’re republishing an important contribution from Ismael Peña-López :
“In October 2009 I had the chance to be one of the participants that took part into the Open EdTech Summit 2009: Exploring Learning Solutions Together.
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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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Monday, September 21, 2009
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?
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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
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Monday, March 30, 2009
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
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
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 ).
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
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
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
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 .
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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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