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Rem Palpitt

danah boyd's PDF talk :"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" #pdf09 - 0 views

  • For decades, we've assumed that inequality in relation to technology has everything to do with "access" and that if we fix the access problem, all will be fine. This is the grand narrative of concepts like the "digital divide." Yet, increasingly, we're seeing people with similar levels of access engage in fundamentally different ways. And we're seeing a social media landscape where participation "choice" leads to a digital reproduction of social divisions. This is most salient in the States which is intentionally the focus of my talk here today.
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    For decades, we've assumed that inequality in relation to technology has everything to do with "access" and that if we fix the access problem, all will be fine. This is the grand narrative of concepts like the "digital divide." Yet, increasingly, we're seeing people with similar levels of access engage in fundamentally different ways. And we're seeing a social media landscape where participation "choice" leads to a digital reproduction of social divisions. This is most salient in the States which is intentionally the focus of my talk here today.
Arnault Coulet

10 principles for a Public Administration 2.0 (via @fondapol) - 0 views

  • A decalogue like a work in progress, to promote the idea and the principles of a new Public Administration more able to act and operate in the era of the Nets. This is the “Manifesto Amministrare 2.0”
  • The Venetian event permitted to collect a lot of ideas and suggestions useful to the writing of the document. First of all, anyway, it was very important to understand that many italian Administrations, and inside them politicians, managers and civil servants, are strongly convinced that the Public Administration need to embrace, at least partially, that “web 2.0 philosophy” who is changing the web and, more important, the life of organizations, enterprises and millions of people
  • The role of politics Politicians must be able to take responsibility of their choices. The organizational dimension Public Administrations must change their organization and their procedures, pursuing a new idea of relationship with citizens and abandoning the self-approach. The Net as a right The access to the Net, specially to broadband, must be easy and cheap everywhere. Beyond the cultural divide Citizens must be helped to develop a new digital culture. The involvement of citizens There’s no Public Administration 2.0 without a strong intervention in favour of participation. The multi-channel approach as opportunity Service are really tailored if there’s attention to the channels more appropriate for the different users’ target. Disintermediation to better act To promote a Public Administration no more “one way” and finally “2.0” is important to foster a bigger disintermediation between institutions and citizens. Re-start form the semantics of public contents The semantics presentation of public information, services and contents must be conceived with the final users and open to folksonomies. Software as enabling factor Software used in public sector must be open and re-usable by other administrations. Foster the development of active communities User groups and social networks must be considered as a fundamental stimulus to design public web services, starting from their desires and indications.
Rem Palpitt

For election insight, Twitter beats cable (via @fondapol) - 0 views

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    For hardcore lovers of politics, Twitter served up the real-time nuts and bolts of campaigns racing to the finish line.
Rem Palpitt

In Social Media Battle, Republicans Catch Up in Time for 2012 - 0 views

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    "We will use social media and the latest technology available to fuel the energy and commitment of folks on the ground, community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, house to house, all around the country," said Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for Mr. Obama's re-election campaign
stan mag

Government 2.0 Camp - Eventbrite - 0 views

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    Governement 2.0 n'est pas qu'unh buzzword, apres le livre blanc des managers de sites gouvernementaux, le succes de Apps for Democracy, voici un nouveau club qui monte en puissance. L'administration aussi est prete au changement dirait-on. A quand un cours a l'ENA ?
Arnault Coulet

Iran: Chinese cyberactivists support Iranians (via @fondapol) - 0 views

  • hey have added their own new hashtag, #CN4Iran, and even built a new site to support the struggle of the Iranian people, titled CN4Iran.org. Global Voices interviewed one of the cyber activists behind this initiative.
  • Our site was created in Dec 28, 2009, hosted by Dreamhost.com (US). Our objective is to support the Iranian people for liberty and democracy, learn from them and spread the experiences to Chinese people.
  • Our target is the Chinese cyber citizen, firstly the Chinese users on twitter.com, and then other Chinese Internet users who read our information. Also, we infrequently have some worldwide readers, and we tell them the reaction in China (by translating some Chinese news into English)
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  • Do you see any similarity between Chinese and Iranian censorship? What about cyber activism? We know that many web sites have been blocked by Iran Regime, which is similar to China. I guess they also have a censor system for keyword filtering, like the Great Firewall (GFW) in China. Such situation is quite common in countries like Iran and China.
Rem Palpitt

Al Gore, the Internet and the Future of American Politics - 0 views

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    Asked if government should fund journalism, as recommended by a recent study commissioned by the Columbia University Journalism School, Gore, a former newspaperman and a frequent critic of the press, said: "I don't think so, I don't think so...I think those who propose government-funding for the support of newspapers are overlooking the essential number of the relationship between the press and the government. And you think about Richard Nixon or George W. Bush. Dick Cheney. The first time some news organization that receives government support decides to be antagonistic toward the government. Whatever source of leverage the person in charge of the government has is a potential danger to the integrity of that news organization."
stan mag

Colombia: networks of dissent and power | openDemocracy - 0 views

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    "The Facebook-sparked protest and 4 February demonstrations in Colombia make an interesting test-case of the burgeoning power of unorthodox media outlets and their potential to rally great numbers of people in a short period of time. The initial spontaneity and synergy are a paradigm example of how technology can spawn transnational political forms; in this the phenomenon both belongs to the past decade of net-based activism and highlights the potential of social networks to make this type of organising even more inventive and sophisticated in the future. At the same time, this particular protest (and this form of mobilisation) exclude the many who do not belong to the technological and transnational elites which they favour. Moreover, by avoiding the classic approaches of civil-society work - including the formation of alliances with NGOs, political parties, human-rights groups, and trade unions - the march organisers disregard traditional forms and institutions of democratic action. In doing so, they privilege a fragmented and highly individualised perspective of reality over one that embodies shared, public action for social improvement. "
stan mag

Julien Frisch: The European Citizens' Initiative and our re:publica 10 workshop - 0 views

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    we eurobloggers on the panel were very sure that the ECI as proposed by the Commission so far is undoable for ordinary citizens, it is way too restrictive and it doesn't take into account the great possibilities that modern communication offers.
JP Clement

2010 La nouvelle critique urbaine - 2 views

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    #Christian Lefèvre et Emmanuel Négrier La nouvelle critique urbaine [Texte intégral] #Alain Faure, Olivier Glassey et Jean-Philippe Leresche Démocratie participative et démocratie différentielle [Texte intégral] #Philip Booth Community, cooperation and metropolitan democracy [Texte intégral] #Daniel Kübler et Mariona Tomàs Jeux d'échelles et démocratie métropolitaine [Texte intégral] Leçons montréalaises #Alain G. Gagnon et Paul May Empowerment et diversité culturelle : quelques prolégomènes [Texte intégral] #Max Rousseau Gouverner la gentrification [Texte intégral] Différentiel de loyer et coalitions de croissance dans la ville en déclin #Gilles Pinson La gouvernance des villes françaises [Texte intégral] Du schéma centre-périphérie aux régimes urbains #Ernesto d'Albergo Governance, participation and in-between [Texte intégral] Inclusion in policy making and policies for inclusion in four Western European metropolises
Rem Palpitt

Democracy 2.0 Awaits an Upgrade (NYTimes, via @fondapol) - 0 views

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    President Obama declared during the campaign that "we are the ones we've been waiting for." That messianic phrase held the promise of a new style of politics in this time of tweets and pokes. But it was vague, a paradigm slipped casually into our drinks. To date, the taste has proven bittersweet.
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