Grand Challenges and Explorations - 1 views
http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2011/04/Grand-Challenges-Explorations-One-Great-Idea-Two-Pages This is a grant for innovation in health from the Gates Foundation
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Social media nella PA: non servono i divieti, ma policy scritte (e comunicate) bene - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 23 Jul 11Ernesto Belisario 23 luglio 2011 "Proprio con riferimento all'ambito pubblico, ho notato che aumenta sempre più la distanza culturale tra l'Italia, dove molti Enti - addirittura - bloccano ai propri dipendenti l'accesso a questi siti, e gli altri Paesi in cui si moltiplicano le esperienze di Amministrazioni che scelgono i social media per dialogare con i propri cittadini-utenti. In questi casi, gli Enti dedicano grande attenzione all'adozione di documenti (le cosiddette "Policy") in cui spiegare le ragioni per cui l'Amministrazione si serve degli strumenti social e in che modo un dipendente pubblico deve usarli."
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Claude Almansi on 23 Jul 11See also the embedded Social Media Policy video for staff of the Department of Justice (Victoria, Australia) by VictoriaGovDOJTV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iQLkt5CG8I
Boring Yet Important Structural Ed Tech Initiative - 0 views
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by Kevin Carey on September 26, 2011 "Under the category of "policy stuff that doesn't involve grand controversy and/or vast sums of new spending, yet might actually make the world a better place," the other day I attended a White House event announcing the launch of Digital Promise, a "new national center founded to spur breakthrough technologies that can help transform the way teachers teach and students learn." The rationale for the initiative is contained in a Council of Economic Advisers memo ..."
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Council of Economic Advisers memo: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/unleashing_the_potential_of_educational_technology.pdf
Misunderstanding Race and the Digital Divide - 2 views
Misunderstanding Race and the Digital Divide by Joseph Miller Guest Contributor on December 16, 2011 "One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those w...
I can Grow Youth Garden Award - 2 views
Burpee Home Gardens® is now accepting applications for the 2012 "I Can Grow" Youth Garden Award through Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. http://www.burpeehomegardens.com/ICanGrow/_YouthGardenAward.aspx ...
The Years Worst Tech Trends.. - 1 views
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/the_year_s_worst_tech_trend_complexity_.html 011 Was a Terrible Year for Tech All our devices got more complicated. And they won't get si...
U.S. Senators Show Strong Support for Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Initiative - 1 views
Recognizing the vital role that High Performance Computing (HPC) plays in national competitiveness, on November 8th 24 U.S. Senators signed off on a letter to the White House asking the Administrat...
Unique languages, universal patterns - 1 views
MIT linguist reveals how modern English resembles Old Japanese, and other surprising convergences between far-flung tongues. Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office February 22, 2012 Shigeru Miyagawa, ...
The Storytelling Project Model: A Theoretical Framework for Critical Examination of Rac... - 2 views
The Storytelling Project Model: A Theoretical Framework for Critical Examination of Racism Through the Arts http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15787 by Lee Anne Bell & Rosemarie...
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