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Has Obama kept a single campaign promise? | Thinkahol's Blog - 0 views

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    Obama hasn't closed Guantanamo and people are still being tortured at Bagram[2], the U.S. is bombing at least six Muslim countries that we know of (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan)[3], and the healthcare bill fiasco in which he had secretly traded away the public option from the beginning[4] very clearly show that he definitely hasn't changed the way Washington works. If anything he's made every conceivable pernicious undemocratic influence stronger.
thinkahol *

Tariq Ali / Karl Polanyi: World Transformation - YouTube - 0 views

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    from the Great Transformation of 1954 to the Arab Spring and the three economic falsehoods that can destroy our civilization.
thinkahol *

W?SB! - David Suzuki Interviewed at Occupy Montreal - YouTube - 0 views

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    Why? Simply Because scores an impromptu interview with known social activist David Suzuki on the first day of the Occupy Montreal movement. This protest was a satellite protest to Occupy Wall Street. Follow the movement at #occupywallstreet -  Thanks to Jobbook for the great help on the interview! http://www.whysimplybecause.com
thinkahol *

Astra Taylor on the Unschooled Life - YouTube - 0 views

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    Raised by independent-thinking bohemian parents, Taylor was unschooled until age 13. Join the filmmaker as she shares her personal experiences of growing up home-schooled without a curriculum or schedule, and how it has shaped her educational philosophy and development as an artist.
thinkahol *

Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.
thinkahol *

American Soldiers speak out against the wars and accuse the government or crimes - YouTube - 0 views

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    Listen to and SUPPORT those American Veterans that are now AWAKE and MAD AS HELL!! Original maker of this video is http://www.youtube.com/user/StopTheRobbery2 http://www.ivaw.org/about/why-we-are-against-wars http://www.ivaw.org/ I don't think everyone should just comment. I think everyone should re post this video over and over until 1 Billion on the internet have watched this video. End the war by re posting this video. God bless the World and its people with peace and humanity.
Parycek

http://api.ning.com/files/1-cWLp9Glp8jSiPZkazNuQWbZq9RA*UHnEfdmvHTH7cb2mwQ4LXQtMWih0S76... - 0 views

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    Harnessing the Power of Big Data
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
Parycek

European PSI Scoreboard | European Public Sector Information Platform - 0 views

  • The scoreboard The PSI Scoreboard is a tool to measure the status of Open Data and PSI re-use throughout the EU.
thinkahol *

Information is Worthless | UnCollege - 1 views

  • There is so much raw information in the world today, spending middle and high school memorizing random snippets of it seems incredibly useless for most students.
Johann Höchtl

EU Calendar - The European Commission proposes an open data strategy - 0 views

  • The European Commission will adopt an Open Data Strategy - a set of measures aimed at increasing government transparency and creating a €32 billion a year market for public data.
Johann Höchtl

NCDD Resource Center » Core Principles for Public Engagement - 0 views

  • The Public Engagement Principles (PEP) Project was launched in mid-February 2009 to create clarity in our field about what we consider to be the fundamental components of quality public engagement, and to support President Obama’s January 21, 2009 memorandum on open government.
Daniel Medimorec

European Union starts project about economic effects of open government data - 0 views

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    Start eines EU Projekta zu Open Government.
Johann Höchtl

An Open Data Litmus Test: Is There a Download Button | Off the Map - Official Blog of F... - 0 views

  • 1) Is there a download button?
  • 2) Data should always be linked to the derivative works created with it.
  • 3) Downloading should never be more than two clicks away (ideally one).
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  • 4) When you get to the data it should be available in multiple formats and be easy to use (i.e. data dictionaries).
  • 5) The data should be searchable and portable.
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    Konkretere Prinzipien offener Daten: Wann kann man davon sprechen, dass eine Web Seite offene Daten anbietet?
Johann Höchtl

Technologies of cooperation - 0 views

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    Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, USA Aus dem Jahr 2005, geht aber stark auf die soziologischen Grundlagen der (virtuellen) Zusammenarbeit ein
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