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The killing of Awlaki's 16-year-old son - Salon.com - 0 views

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The killing of Awlaki's 16-year-old son - Salon.com

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  • thinkahol * on 24 Oct 11
     
    Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen - far from any battlefield and with no due process - it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager's life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people. News reports, based on government sources, originally claimed that Awlaki's son was 21 years old and an Al Qaeda fighter (needless to say, as Terrorist often means: "anyone killed by the U.S."), but a birth certificate published by The Washington Post proved that he was born only 16 years ago in Denver. As The New Yorker's Amy Davidson wrote: "Looking at his birth certificate, one wonders what those assertions say either about the the quality of the government's evidence - or the honesty of its claims - and about our own capacity for self-deception." The boy's grandfather said that he and his cousin were at a barbecue and preparing to eat when the U.S. attacked them by air and ended their lives. There are two points worth making about this:
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Letter from Cairo - Infoshop News - 0 views

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Letter from Cairo - Infoshop News

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  • thinkahol * on 27 Oct 11
     
    To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it's our turn to pass on some advice.
thinkahol *

Glenn Greenwald On "America's Lawless Elite" | On Point with Tom Ashbrook - 0 views

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Glenn Greenwald On "America's Lawless Elite" | Point with Tom Ashbrook

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  • thinkahol * on 28 Oct 11
     
    Glenn Greenwald studied law and spent ten years as a litigator in federal and state courts across the country. Now he's a big two-fisted progressive blogger and columnist for Salon.com. And he's out with a blistering critique of what has happened to American law. We've stopped applying it to everyone, says Greenwald. We've carved out an exemption for Americans in the halls of power. We've created what Greenwald calls a "lawless elite" that is running roughshod over our economy and national policy. Over American law. This hour On Point: Glenn Greenwald, and liberty and justice for some.
Johann Höchtl

Open Standards Consultation - 0 views

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standards opendata UK consultation

shared by Johann Höchtl on 29 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Our approach will enable the Government to work collectively together but effective open standards for software and systems are required to ensure interoperability between software systems, applications and data.
Johann Höchtl

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

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public engagement participation opengov

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  • 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

5th edition of the WBC-INCO.NET 2010 Spring Journal - 0 views

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WBC Research Policies

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  • Daniel Medimorec on 24 Jun 10
     
    WBC-INCO.NET 2010 Spring Journal, published on the occassion of the 8th Meeting of the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan countries. You may also download the journal from our website.
Parycek

SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views

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socialmedia socialnetworking socialnetworks activism facebook Gladwell

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  • The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns
  • There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life.
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  • “Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,”
  • But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires
  • social media are not about this kind of hierarchical organization. Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies. Unlike hierarchies, with their rules and procedures, networks aren’t controlled by a single central authority. Decisions are made through consensus, and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.
  • There are many things, though, that networks don’t do well. Car companies sensibly use a network to organize their hundreds of suppliers, but not to design their cars.
  • The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
  • it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability
  • Parycek on 13 Dec 10
     
    Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell
Johann Höchtl

EUROPA - Press Releases - Viviane Reding Member of the European Commission responsible ... - 0 views

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EU privacy policy Reding socialmedia facebook RFID data

shared by Johann Höchtl on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • It is my firm belief that we cannot expect citizens to trust Europe if we are not serious in defending the right to privacy
  • The first is our work with social networking sites.
  • The second example is RFID
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  • My third example is behavioural advertising
  • Businesses must use their power of innovation to improve the protection of privacy and personal data from the very beginning of the development cycle. Privacy by Design
  • Johann Höchtl on 10 Nov 10
     
    Information Society and Media Privacy: the challenges ahead for the European Union
Johann Höchtl

Why Open Source is the New Software Policy in San Francisco - 0 views

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egov san francisco mashup open data open government

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  • We face many challenges today, none more urgent than the economic crisis, but with it comes an opportunity to seek new ways of governing. In San Francisco, like other cities, we are using this opportunity to engage our greatest resource, the public, to build a government that works better for all of us.
Johann Höchtl

Our Data | Giving an European overview of public government data, existing mash-ups and... - 2 views

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opendata bottom-up opengov

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  • Giving an European overview of public government data, existing mash-ups and policy initiatives
Johann Höchtl

The Official Netflix Blog: Netflix Prize Update - 0 views

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participation netflix privacy

shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • In the past few months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked us how a Netflix Prize sequel might affect Netflix members' privacy, and a lawsuit was filed by KamberLaw LLC pertaining to the sequel.
  • In light of all this, we have decided to not pursue the Netflix Prize sequel that we announced on August 6, 2009.We will continue to explore ways to collaborate with the research community and improve our recommendations system so we can constantly improve the movie recommendations we make for you. So stay tuned.
  • Johann Höchtl on 13 Mar 10
     
    Netflix Prize sequel discontinued
Johann Höchtl

Free Our Books and research papers - 1 views

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books free research open access

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  • We, the citizens, through the state, pay for the production of academic books and research papers twice, first through salaries and research grants, and second through the purchase of books and journal subscriptions. This is how the the most fundamental principles of academia, to study and to share its findings, are obstructed, and its operation is made far more expensive and cumbersome.
Parycek

You Can Learn From "Dell Hell." Dell Did | CustomerThink - 0 views

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dell case

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  • Learning from Dell
  • Customers are in control. Work with them and learn from them. Real conversations are two-way. Think before you talk—but always be yourself. Address any form of dissatisfaction head on. Be aware that any conversation can become global at any time. Size doesn't matter—relevance does. Just as one journalist can trigger a newscycle, one blogger can do the same. Don't be afraid to apologize. Develop direct links to customer community (IdeaStorm for Dell), listen for how we can improve. One customer is part of many communities. Teamwork, transparency and frequent consistent communication are key in this new world. No shortcuts are possible. Implementing business change requires much effort across departments.
  • Engage our people to make it work
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  • Tools are important but people drive processes. Feedback digital media tools for email and chat, inside and outside of Dell, are becoming as vital as call data and traditional online support. Working globally means anti
Parycek

Gordon Brown and Tim Berners Lee: Back to the Future? - 0 views

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opengov opendata uk strategy

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  • First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband
  • Second to personalise –
  • Third to economise – in the Pre-Budget Report we set out our determination to find £11 billion of savings by driving up operational efficiency,
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  • d I want to go much further in harnessing the power of technology to refashion the structures and workings of government
  • s can open the door to a reinvention of the core policy-making processes and towards a renewal of politics itself
  • to replace the first generation of e-government with a much more interactive second generation form of digital engagement which we are calling Mygov
  • s open, personalised platform will allow us to deliver universal services that are also tailored to the needs of each individual
  • to move from top-down, monolithic websites broadcasting public service information in the hope that the people who need help will find it – to government on demand.
  • survey freely available to the public, without restrictions on re-use. Further details on the package and government’s response to the consultation will be published by the end of March.
  • in the autumn the Government will publish online an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies – a “domesday book” for the 21st century.
Johann Höchtl

112th Congress live in Congress API - Sunlight Labs: Blog - 0 views

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sunlight labs API congress US

shared by Johann Höchtl on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • 112th Congress live in Congress API
  • all members of the 112th Congress are now available in our Congress API
  • All members are now added along with their ids on other sites
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  • The email field has been blank for all but about a dozen members for some time
  • it seems that the email addresses get flooded with non-constituent communication
thinkahol *

Hey President Obama ... | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters - 0 views

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Hey President Obama ... | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

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  • thinkahol * on 17 Sep 11
     
    If thousands of us hang in there day after day, week after week, we may be able to create a spectacular revolutionary experience that fires up the public imagination and eventually maneuvers Obama into doing something that he has so far not had the guts to do: agree to a bold, decisive stroke against the financial corruption of America. Now that would get the American people behind us and cheering us on from coast to coast. If we can achieve that, the sky will be the limit … further demands will follow and a new America will be born.
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