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Johann Höchtl

Wikileaks publishes documents on plan to curb free software in the European Union - 0 views

  • Wikileaks (website) publishes documents that show a plan to curb the free software in the European Union.
  • This file shows that Jonathan Zuck, president of Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) –an organization with close ties to Microsoft–, and founder of Americans for Technology Leadership, had influenced the change of working documents of the European Union.
  • This publication shows how pressure groups influence or attempt to influence the decisions made by the European institutions, but in this case is particularly striking one of these groups trying to influence against free software (ACT) has close ties Microsoft,
thinkahol *

Obama bans war criminals, except our own - The Star Democrat: Opinion - 0 views

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    By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators (jurist.org, Aug. 4). He ignored, as he often does, the deeply documented factual evidence of war crimes committed by the Bush-Cheney administration along with grim proof that the Obama administration also violates our anti-torture laws and the U.N. Convention Against Torture we signed. Take, for example, right now under Obama, "The CIA Secret Sites in Somalia" (the nation.com, July 12).
Johann Höchtl

UK open government data: the results of the official audit | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • UK open government data: the results of the official audit
  • not yet systematically assessed the costs and benefits of the Government's specific transparency initiatives
  • Government departments reckon on spending from £53,000 to £500,000 each year on just providing and publishing open data
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  • data.gov.uk was originally run by the Central Office of Information and received funding of £1.2m in 2010-11 from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. In 2011-12, the project was brought inside the Cabinet Office, and what the report calls "further engagement activity with stakeholders" increased the annual running costs to £2m
Parycek

Crowdsourced ideas make participating in government cool again - 0 views

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thinkahol *

Things That Make Me Angry | Thinkahol's Blog - 0 views

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    Wall Street Isn't Winning - It's Cheating The two-tiered justice system: an illustration 9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon  The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality The Quiet Coup "the finance industry has effectively captured our government" What OWS is about + data behind the movement Data privacy is now extinct in the U.S. "The problem that confronts us is that every living system in the biosphere is in decline and the rate of decline is accelerating. There isn't one peer-reviewed scientific article that's been published in the last 20 years that contradicts that statement. Living systems are coral reefs. They're our climatic stability, forest cover, the oceans themselves, aquifers, water, the conditions of the soil, biodiversity. They go on and on as they get more specific. But the fact is, there isn't one living system that is stable or is improving. And those living systems provide the basis for all life." The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery? How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich: The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent
Johann Höchtl

Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API @ API Evangelist - 0 views

  • The Whitehouse CIO has released a strategy, entitled "Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People", providing federal agencies with a 12-month plan that focuses on
Johann Höchtl

U.S. Teen Mobile Report: Calling Yesterday, Texting Today, Using Apps Tomorrow | Nielse... - 0 views

  • If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it’s probably because on average they’re sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month.
  • No one texts more than teens (age 13-17), especially teen females, who send and receive an average of 4,050 texts per month. Teen males also outpace other male age groups, sending and receiving an average of 2,539 texts.
  • Texting is currently the centerpiece of mobile teen behavior. 43 percent claim it is their primary reason for getting a cellphone, which explains why QWERTY input is the first thing they look for choosing their devices.
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  • Texting is Easier and Faster than Voice Calls
  • Teens are not only using more data, but they are also downloading a wider range of applications. Software downloads among teen subscribers who use apps enjoyed a solid 12 percent increase in activity versus last year, from 26 to 38 percent.
Parycek

Wikileaks und offene Daten - zwei Seiten einer Medaille? - 0 views

  • Der Ansatz dieses „Open Government“ überträgt die Ideen des auf Offenheit, Beteiligung und Rekombination ausgelegten Web 2.0 in die Umgebung regierungsgebundener Dienstleistungen. Und auch hier geht es um eine Verschiebung von Machtstrukturen,
  • „Aus einer Perspektive der Regierungsinstitutionen zielen Fragen zur gemeinsamen Entwicklung von Services und Regulierungsfragen auf (1) die Machtverschiebung in Richtung der Nutzer sowie (2) das Verhältnis zwischen Nutzern und externen Organisationen, die als Vermittler für andere auftreten.“
  • Triebfeder für Projekte mit offenen Daten ist die Idee der Co-Creation neuer Inhalte im Rahmen flexibler, datengestützter Kooperationen zwischen Bürgern und öffentlichen Akteuren
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  • Hoffnung auf individuelle Weiterentwicklungen und Re-Kombinationen der öffentlich verfügbaren Daten durch Dritte.
  • Enthüllungs-Website“ und „Verwaltungs-Plattform“ auf ganz ähnlichen Funktionsprinzipien
  • Somit entsteht in beiden Fällen die Grundkonstellation für eine innovative, online-basierte Politik- bzw. Gesellschaftsberatung.
  • Regierungsplattformen eher als ein (ergebnis-)offener Prozess der Gesellschaftsberatung zu charakterisieren sind
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    Vergleich Wikileaks & Open Data von Bieber 
Johann Höchtl

Lesestoff zu OpenData « Government, Open, Rahmen, Werk, Thematik, Google « Op... - 1 views

  • 30-seitiges Gutachten zu  Open Government Data – frei verfügbaren Daten des öffentlichen Sektors
  • Frage, welche Datensätze von Bund, Ländern, Kommunen und Städten überhaupt von Interesse sind. Auch geht es um den Kulturwandel in den Verwaltungen, der mit einer Öffnung einhergehen muss
Judith Schossboeck

So will die Generation Y arbeiten - 1 views

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    60 Prozent der deutschen Befragten fühlen sich erst wohl, wenn ihr Arbeitsplatz 12 bis 16 Quadratmeter misst. Der internationale Durchschnitt liegt bei acht bis zwölf Quadratmetern pro Arbeitsplatz. :-)
Johann Höchtl

Novellierung Bundesstatistikgesetz - 0 views

  • Das novellierte Gesetzt ermöglicht tatsaechlich - ein wesentlicher Fortschritt - den Zutritt der Wissenschaft zu Datenbestaenden, in denen Daten aus unterschiedlichen Erhebungen zusammengeführt wurden. Auf Inititative von Vizekanzlers Josef Pröll (Antwort-Brief als PDF-Datei zum herunterladen) wurde eine Arbeitsgruppe eingerichtet, in der in Zusammenarbeit von BKA, BMWF und Statistik Austria ein gangbarer Weg gefunden werden soll, den Anliegen der Wissenschaft nach Zugang zu den "Mikrodaten" zu ermöglichen.
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    Für UNIS gibt es seit 2009 einfacheren Zugang zu Statistikdaten!
Johann Höchtl

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » UK Government announces lots ... - 0 views

  • In this way people will no longer be passive recipients of services but, through dialogue and engagement, active participants - shaping, controlling and determining what is best for them.
Johann Höchtl

Die Open-Data-Feuerwehr « Kollegen, Feuerwehr, Leeuwen, Bart, Bildschirm, Inf... - 1 views

  • Nutzen von Open Data für Rettungskräfte und das Informationssystem “RESC.info
thinkahol *

A Philosophical Orientation Toward Solving Our Collective Problems As a Species | Think... - 0 views

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    To know what the most important virtue of our age is we need to have at least a basic understanding of our age. Our era is becoming increasingly characterized by uncertainty. Fortunately or unfortunately, more than a cursory elucidation of our situation is beyond the scope of this essay. There are geopolitical, economic, technological and environmental trends worth mentioning. When the more philosophical portion of this  discourse arrives I will argue that the virtue of wisdom underlies the meaningfulness and efficacy of all other virtues, and this in broad strokes is primarily due to (1) the aforementioned instability in our surroundings ; (2) the relationship between the deontological and virtue; and (3) the nature of agency itself.  Whether uncertainty itself can provide an ethical foundation for us to elaborate on will be a separate question, and finally I speculate on where wisdom leads us in the context of a philosophy that is politically active and not doomed to irrelevance to and by the larger population.
thinkahol *

What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010 - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 1 views

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    Throughout this year I've devoted substantial attention to WikiLeaks, particularly in the last four weeks as calls for its destruction intensified.  To understand why I've done so, and to see what motivates the increasing devotion of the U.S. Government and those influenced by it to destroying that organization, it's well worth reviewing exactly what WikiLeaks exposed to the world just in the last year:  the breadth of the corruption, deceit, brutality and criminality on the part of the world's most powerful factions.
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