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The revolution will be tweeted - science-in-society - 06 February 2012 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    Economic meltdown, pro-democracy revolts, protest camps - it's kicking off everywhere. But was all this catalysed by new social media and technologies as many claimed? Paul Mason, a BBC correspondent who witnessed much of the unrest at first-hand, tells Liz Else that it's a lot subtler than that
thinkahol *

October2011.org | "Stop the Machine! * Create a New World!" - 0 views

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    October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. Read more.
thinkahol *

Occupy Wall Street National Convention - 0 views

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    It's in the works. A massive Occupy Wall Street gathering with delegates from all over the country. And if these plans are carried out, Occupy Wall Street will be a major force to be reckoned with on Election Day 2012.
Johann Höchtl

Big Data Reaches The Hill: A Guide To Making It More Actionable - 0 views

  • What Congress should do to help big data Allow access to confidential data such as the Census data centers Allow sharing between statistical agencies Have a chief data dfficer that promotes a federal data science community of data scientists and statisticians
  • Hadoop projects are costing 50 times more than expected DHS failed fast with a big data in the cloud project, but quickly and at less cost
  • The federal government should foster real innovation with government data
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    Big Data Projekte der Verwaltung in den USA waren bisher noch nicht so erfolgreich. Eine kurze Analyse
Johann Höchtl

Queensland gov cleans up ICT "mess" | Articles | FutureGov - Transforming Government | ... - 0 views

  • This audit uncovered, for example, that there were 128 case management systems, 190 financial management systems and 109 document and record management systems.
  • The estimated cost of operating these systems alone is estimated at more than US$80 million (AUD$80 million) annually.
  • Concerns remain that about 10 per cent of the state government network is in poor technical condition
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    Um Open Government nutzbringend zu verwenden, muss zuerst das Informationsmanagement und die IKT-Landschaft stimmen
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
thinkahol *

CISPA Action List. We need to hit up Congress today. CISPA goes to vote next Monday 4/2... - 0 views

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    Reddit Activist Network
Johann Höchtl

Julie Cohen - The Book - 0 views

  • This printable version is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license
  • Configuring the Networked Self was published by Yale University Press in 2012.
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