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You Can't Just Hack Your Way to Social Change - Jake Porway - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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"Most companies think that if you can just get hackers, pizza, and data together in a room, magic will happen." A sobering take on hackathons by Harvard Business Review.

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Comune di Sesto Fiorentino - Google e Inu parteciperanno all'elaborazione del nuovo Reg... - 0 views

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urban planning google italy

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Google to help Italian towns to set up participatory urban planning processes. SketchUp + social software to be used.

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Big data and development organizations: What happens when you move from theor... - 0 views

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MoNetworks network science data UNDP worldbank

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After Masters of Networks, UNDP and INRIA work out a network analysis of World Bank contractors.

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Policy makers and network science: Time to bridge the divide « Voices from Eu... - 2 views

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MoNetworks network policy undp

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After Masters of Networks,

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Social Network Analysis for Digital Humanitarian Response | iRevolution - 0 views

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social network network analysis sensors monitoring

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Intuitively, you can monitor a large and sparsely connected population by just looking at small groups of high-degree, high-centrality individuals.

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Twiplomacy | Mutual relations on Twitter - 2 views

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The social network of world leaders on Twitter?!?

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Prototyping in Public Services - Nesta - 0 views

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prototyping public services agile NESTA

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Agile development in public services

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Technology | Global Pulse - 0 views

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Crowdsourced hypothesis formation, evidence collection, and collective decision-making. UN sponsored.

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Guerilla Open Access Manifesto - Pastebin.com - 0 views

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Aaron Swartz's Manifesto. A lot of people care for open access.

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Parliament - 2 views

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Adding some randomness can lead to a more efficient democracy.

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http://mfioretti.com/sites/mfioretti.com/files/mfioretti_ogdcamp_2011.pdf - 2 views

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opendata education schools

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Open data + education: some obvious synergies

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Insight Maker | Free Simulation and Modeling in Your Browser - 4 views

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From David Osimo

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Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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Can distributed version control be used in law making?

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Prime minister's special envoy 'disappointed' with open data use - ComputerworldUK.com - 0 views

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Disappointed: the UK Govt discovers publishing open data does not create overnight a data literate society.

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Peer-to-Peer Urbanism - P2P Foundation - 3 views

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"The demise of the expert"

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Weaving Innovation into the Fabric of Government - 1 views

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An idea: the State of Massachussetts' chief innovation officer

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TechAmerica Foundation : TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission - 0 views

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A Big Data road map for government. Produced by TechAmerica Foundation, a nonprofit arm of what seems to be trade association of the high tech industry. The leadership of the commission is firmly in the hands of large companies: IBM, SAP, Amazon.

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About - Citizinvestor - 1 views

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crowdfunding cities municipalities policy government

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A sort of Kickstarter for (American) municipalities. Dazzling philosophical implications ("dollar democracy!" "Hello, it's one dollar one vote already, this just reduces the threshold to join in the game")

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http://www.cit-part.at/CIT-PART%20Policy%20Brief%20Final.pdf - 0 views

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policy participation

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A case study of the impact of public participation on technology policy: xenotransplantation. In a nutshell: no impact detectable, the field was dominated by civil servants and experts.

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Impact of Citizen Participation on Decision Making in a Knowledge Intensive Policy Field - 1 views

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A Euro project looking at the impact of citizen participation in a knowledge-intensive policy field.

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