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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:
Johann Höchtl

Growth Review - HM Treasury - 0 views

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  • Skills, infrastructure, logistics, medium sized businesses, the rural economy and open data will be at the centre of the second phase of the Growth Review, which was launched on the 9th June and will report at the time of the Autumn Statement.
Johann Höchtl

Facebook's friendship trap | Eleanor Mills - Times Online - 0 views

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  • Last week my vague feelings of unease about social networking were fanned by a fascinating study by the Mental Health Foundation, which blamed high levels of loneliness among young people on their use of virtual, rather than real, communication. Dubbed the “Eleanor Rigby generation”, those aged 18-34 (84% of whom use the internet regularly) are the most likely to be lonely, according to the report. And 31% admitted that they spent too much time online rather than face to face.
  • The psychologist Dr Aric Sigman says that social networking sites undermine social skills and the ability to read body language.
Daniel Medimorec

REPORT: Die Zukunft ist offen - 0 views

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opendata open government participation

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  • Daniel Medimorec on 17 Jun 10
     
    Die Regierungschefs in den USA und in Großbritannien sorgen für Tempo bei der Umgestaltung der öffentlichen Verwaltung hin zu mehr Offenheit und Transparenz. Nur in der deutschen Politik ist der Glaube an Herrschaftswissen offenbar noch groß.
Johann Höchtl

Obama's small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals | Top of the Ticket | Los A... - 0 views

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  • In fact, Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.
  • The myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama's finances
  • It comes down to which definition of "small donor" you accept
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  • But not as impressive as the $210 million he'd raised by then from bundlers and large donors
Parycek

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

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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
Parycek

E-Government Transparency Index - - 0 views

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Parycek

Wie ändert sich das Web 2.0 Nutzerverhalten? - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Zahlen Daten Fakten | creazwo blog
Parycek

Next Generation Connectivity - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Harvard University: independent expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout the world and that this project- to help and inform the FCC's efforts in developing the National Broadband Plan. 
Parycek

Study links gov website transparency to citizen trust - 0 views

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transparency egov study report pdf

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    A new study on government agency websites found a correlation between website transparency and citizen trust in a given agency.
  • Johann Höchtl on 19 Nov 10
Parycek

Usability of Websites for Teenagers - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    When using websites, teenagers have a lower success rate than adults and they're also easily bored. To work for teens, websites must be simple -- but not childish -- and supply plenty of interactive features.(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Parycek

The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future - 0 views

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shared by Parycek on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • While their overall assessment anticipates that humans’ use of the internet will prompt institutional change, many elaborated with written explanations that expressed significant concerns over organization’s resistance to change. They cited fears that bureaucracies of all stripes – especially government agencies – can resist outside encouragement to evolve. Some wrote that the level of change will affect different kinds of institutions at different times. The consensus among them was that businesses will transform themselves much more quickly than public and non-profit agencies.
  • Many selected the “change” option, but said they were not sure drastic change will occur in organizations by the 2020 time frame. They said the most significant impact of the internet on institutions will occur after that. Some noted this change will cause tension and disruption.
  • Parycek on 03 Apr 10
     
    Most surveyed believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.
Parycek

Customers in Control at Dell's IdeaStorm | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com - 1 views

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  • It's not your traditional ROI model. Back to the culture, it supports the fact that you don't need a hard number at the end of the day. It's the right thing to do, we want to listen to our customers, so let's do it.
  • ... you get the whole funnel of ideas and it's a challenge as to how to disperse them. Everybody has full-time jobs. We make further strides every day in getting reporting and getting everything set up so people can get engaged, on the site and just with the information. To me, that's the hard part. And it goes back to making sure we're listening, making sure we're closing the feedback loop.
  • Their collaborative agreement on what's most important floats to the top for everyone to see. So you can easily see which are the most popular ideas and which ideas are new, should people want to jump on in and vote on those.
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  • Probably the biggest thing, we have more and more Dell employees joining in. I'm being contacted by a lot of areas within Dell. There's a big focus on innovation now. So everyone in product groups talking about innovation and collaboration is talking about IdeaStorm.
  • Parycek on 19 Apr 10
     
    It's not your traditional ROI model. Back to the culture, it supports the fact that you don't need a hard number at the end of the day. It's the right thing to do, we want to listen to our customers, so let's do it.
Parycek

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

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opengov opendata uk strategy

shared by Parycek on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • 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.
Judith Schossboeck

EU Kids Online - Second Edition - 1 views

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  • Judith Schossboeck on 12 Apr 10
     
    Risks and Opportunities of the Digital Natives - European Perspective. S. 38: Rules and Regulations in the EU, parental mediation
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