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12 years at Gartner Andrea Di Maio VP Distinguished Analyst 25 years IT industry Andrea Di Maio is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, where he focuses on the public sector, with particular reference to e-government strategies, Web 2.0, the business value of IT, open-source software...

This article is about people who promote and criticize social networking, as it can represent government organizations but can also criticized in the areas of national security and foreign relations.

This link deals with the government/economic issues that coincide with globalization (taxes).

This article is called how the internet will affect politics and government, thats exactly what I need for this project.

This is a newsletter focusing on the role of social networking in the Egyptian Revolution. This has ties to Government and social networking through the ant-Government protesters that caused riots, which were made possible by social networking communications

TED talk examining changes that may be brought about in government as a result of open-sourcing on the Interenet.

An incredible resource from the Smithsonian for educators

An online presence for the smithsonian.

Government organizations like the smithsonian are reaching out to educators and others with an online presence. This cool site has lesson plans and lots of great information for arts, science and technology, history and culture, and language arts.

I can't tell if this event will be online too, but if you're in London - it is a good one. Love the description and appreciate Terry Freedman pointing me to it: "many authoritarian governments are now also beginning to exploit cyberspace for their own purposes; some of them appear to be succeeding in subverting the internet's democratising potential. We may have overestimated the internet's ability to bring change and underestimated the role that political, social and cultural forces play in determining how new technologies are being adopted. Could the internet actually inhibit rather than empower civil society? Join Evgeny Morozov as he outlines the dramatically different ways in which the internet's potential can be utilised by citizens and regimes."

Understand that some countries are using the INternet to suppress conversation, not allow it.

Government and Politics Definition

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" Equal-Opportunity Globalization Historically, companies in the United States, Europe and Japan have led globalization, because those countries pushed products and services into developing countries. As the business of offshore sourcing grows, globalization is beginning to become widely accepted elsewhere. With "nearshore" and offshore sourcing, the global equation has changed. Enterprises in developing countries and emerging markets are now reaching into developed economies, offering a talented workforce at a fraction of the price. Developed and developing economies are exploiting each other's markets, economies and labor forces. It is natural to expect that those disadvantaged by globalization - irrespective of market - will protest and make known their issues. Likewise, local politicians and political parties may try to protect jobs and obtain votes through legislation such as the bills currently being debated in four U.S. states aimed at blocking the outsourcing of government work to offshore enterprises. Moreover, unlike previous instances of globalization - in textiles, products and manufacturing - the latest round is occurring almost instantaneously over a vast and sophisticated communication network. This has enabled business, projects, tasks and jobs to be transferred to virtual workforces across the globe quickly and transparently - a trend that is occurring so rapidly as to disorient entire professions, societies and organizations. Changing Nature of Technical Work Another factor making outsourcing attractive is the changing nature of technical work. By 2006, service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be at least partially adopted in more than 60 percent of new, large and systematically oriented application development projects (0.7 probability). The proliferation of Web services and SOA is causing software to be developed in smaller units that are easier to map to business processes. These smaller units are also ideal for an offshore envi

Net neutrality is an important issue being addressed by the US government right now to prevent companies from sort of creating their own version of the Internet. These rules are supposed to keep things "open." I'm also sending these to my digiteen students (you can follow digiteen at http://www.twitter.com/digiteen) and Flat Classroom students (http://www.twitter.com/flatclassroom) for work on their project.

Very important overview of "net neutrality" being debated and discussed here in the USA. This would be an important topic to include under government and business for the Flat Classroom Project.

Facebook is helping U.S. citizens get back to work and find new jobs. "Facebook is partnering with the Department of Labor and other government agencies to help unemployed Americans get back to work, the company announced today in Washington, D.C"

This article is about how Google stresses that it does everything in its power to keep user data private when it's legally able to do so. This information has been a secret for a while. If a request passes this stage, Google then considers whether the request is overly broad in scope. If Google decides the request is indeed too broad, it either denies the request or looks to narrow it. Google's standards for handing over user data are stronger than those required by American law

This article is about how the Defense Department has been purchasing thousands of mobile devices and only a fraction of them are encrypted for classified communication. The government now wants commercial mobile device producers to manufacture more that can be encrypted with more features. 

Useful image and info for project

Watch Gov 2.0 Summit presentations and other interviews " Government as a Platform Gov 2.0 Summit brings together innovators from Government and the private sector to highlight technology and ideas that can be applied to the nation's great challenges.