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Johann Höchtl

Wiki:Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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gov2.0 datasf open government

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  • Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 
  • Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation
  • Potential loss of privacy Invalid data
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  • 1) what data should the government share and 2) how does data influence the public sphere
  • The optimists decry the modern instantiations of bureaucracy and policy in which democratic governments operate as the source of democratic ills and support the normative idea of an informed and engaged public.  Pessimists counter that the normative model of democracy most accepted in the literature is a novel construction that is not grounded in the natural behavior of citizens.
  • The innocence of Americans is either explained as a rational choice under the principle of rational ignorance (Downs, 1957) or explained as something inherent in the lack of mental sophistication in humans.
  • Government 2.0 attempts to correct the problems of information diffusion by assuming that people are simply unable or unwilling to find information in the offline world.  If the barriers to information acquisition are lowered then, the theory goes, people will be more likely to find, synthesize and use information in decision-making processes.
  • Feedback loops: Who will be active in these loops? How will the public respond? 
  • People usually think about explicit citizen participation, but some of the most pwrful Web 2.0 tools aren't about that: it's about ppl who are participating w/o knowing they are participating. Google is actually one of the great engines of harnessing participation, anyone who clicks on a link is participating, a link is a vote, meaning hidden in something they're doing already. Wikipedia isn't the only place where people are contributing.
  • The amount of data being shared/collected about people is growing exponentially, old notions of privacy need to be replaed by ideas of visibility and control: give more control over who gets to see it. We are better off with more visibility and control than stopping people from collecting data. The data is incredibly useful, applicaitons depend on data, people willingly giving up that privacy about where they are all the time.
  • many programs go wrong, generically, (what worries me) government is still very much an insider's game, we have not yet really built a system that allows real participation
  • Another gov 2.0 observation: it's very hard for a government agency to start over, it's not like private sector, where companies with bad ideas go out of business. Government agencies don't go out of business. (consumers benefit from newspapers going out of business) We don't have creative destruction in gov't, the basic machinery of it just gets bigger and more entrenched. Need to figure out how to start over: what not to do
  • The toughest part about Web 2.0, Gov 2.0, etc, might be the role of management. It used to be about defining the outcome and monitoring the progress towards that outcome. In Web 2.0 you don't know what that outcome is, it's a huge leap of faith, and takes a tremendous amount of adjusting to that approach. Do we need a different set of metrics? Yes. Media is intersecting with technology, technology is a new channel for media, even Hollywood is changing: oh my goodness, we have to create entirely new financial models!
  • "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed." It's a cultural issue here, people are stuck in the past and we need a new wave of innovators or we should just expect slow results.
Johann Höchtl

Gordon Brown proposes personalised MyGov web services | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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mygov personalisation UK brown norway

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  • A MyGov dashboard that allows every citizen to personalise the explosive growth of government services on the web was proposed today by Gordon Brown.
  • Brown said MyGov, which will eventually replace DirectGov, will end the current frustration of web users needing to identify themselves separately for different public services. He also said the dashboard will allow the citizen to manage their pensions, tax credits and child benefits, as well as pay council tax, fix doctors or hospital appointments, apply for schools of their choice and communicate with children's teachers.
  • Johann Höchtl on 23 Apr 10
     
    In Großbritannien versucht man ein ähnliches Portal wie MyPage in Norwegen umzusetzen
thinkahol *

America's Tahrir Moment | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters - 0 views

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America's Tahrir Moment | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

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  • thinkahol * on 08 Sep 11
     
    On September 17, 20,000 people will swarm into lower Manhattan and occupy Wall Street. Last week Anonymous endorsed #OCCUPYWALLSTREET with a video that attracted over 60,000 views before being deleted by YouTube. The Department of Homeland Security has warned the nation's bankers to be prepared. Corporate owned media is taking notice. Today, Paul Farrell, columnist for the Dow Jones owned MarketWatch.com posted this rousing portrait of what may now unfold:
Johann Höchtl

Agile will fail GovIT, says corporate lawyer - Public Sector IT - 0 views

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agile method programming public sector

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  • The Agile methodology is meant to deliver IT projects flexibly, in iterations.
  • But the lack of clearly defined project roles and requirements is a problem for Agile.
  • There are four clear reasons why Agile won't work in government ICT. The most obvious is that government customers want to know up-front how much a system will cost
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  • Departmental budgets are managed very tightly, and they must be approved
  • Agile is fourthly not suited to public sector management structures.
thinkahol *

Why Big Media Is Going Nuclear Against The DMCA | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Why Big Media Is Going Nuclear Against The DMCA | TechCrunch

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  • thinkahol * on 09 Nov 11
     
    When Congress updated copyright laws and passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, it ushered an era of investment, innovation and job creation.  In the decade since, companies like Google, YouTube and Twitter have emerged thanks to the Act, but in the process, they have disrupted the business models and revenue streams of traditional media companies (TMCs).  Today, the TMCs are trying to fast-track a couple of bills in the House and Congress to reverse all of that. Through their lobbyists in Washington, D.C., media companies are trying to rewrite the DMCA through two new bills.  The content industry's lobbyists have forged ahead without any input from the technology industry, the one in the Senate is called Protect IP and the one in the House is called E-Parasites.  The E-Parasite law would kill the safe harbors of the DMCA and allow traditional media companies to attack emerging technology companies by cutting off their ability to transact and collect revenue, sort of what happened to Wikileaks, if you will.  This would scare VCs from investing in such tech firms, which in turn would destroy job creation. The technology industry is understandably alarmed by its implications, which include automatic blacklists for any site issued a takedown notice by copyright holders that would extend to payment providers and even search engines.   What is going on and how exactly did we get here?
Parycek

Joseph Weizenbaum: Welche Rolle spielt Wissenschaft? - 1 views

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science future technology

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  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 12
     
    >> Da betritt ein Außenseiter, gekleidet wie ein Gentleman in St. Louis, die Szene. Er hat ein Spielbrett dabei und will der Pokerrunde das Dame-Spielen beibringen. Die Runde hört zu, während der die Regeln erklärt - und fragt schließlich: Wo sind die Karten? Für diese Runde müsse ein Spiel Karten haben, und ohne Karten sei Dame eben kein Spiel. Anders ausgedrückt: Die Naturwissenschaften erkennen nur ihre eigenen Wahrheiten an. Andere Argumente werden abgetan als unwissenschaftlich, und Unwissenschaftliches zähle nicht. Sehr gut, trifft aber nicht nur für die Wissenschaft und deren Methoden zu.
  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 12
     
    >> Da betritt ein Außenseiter, gekleidet wie ein Gentleman in St. Louis, die Szene. Er hat ein Spielbrett dabei und will der Pokerrunde das Dame-Spielen beibringen. Die Runde hört zu, während der die Regeln erklärt - und fragt schließlich: Wo sind die Karten? Für diese Runde müsse ein Spiel Karten haben, und ohne Karten sei Dame eben kein Spiel. Anders ausgedrückt: Die Naturwissenschaften erkennen nur ihre eigenen Wahrheiten an. Andere Argumente werden abgetan als unwissenschaftlich, und Unwissenschaftliches zähle nicht. Sehr gut, trifft aber nicht nur für die Wissenschaft und deren Methoden zu.
Johann Höchtl

Growth Review - HM Treasury - 0 views

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open data growth economy economics benefit

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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

Open Data Business Models | Jeni's Musings - 0 views

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open data business case tennison

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  • I find business cases for data publishers much more compelling than examples of how open data can be used. For a start, I don’t think it’s possible to predict how open data will be used or what that will mean in terms of economic or societal impact: the wide world into which it’s released is just too complex to know.
  • One argument I’ve heard made about government open data is that releasing it can help organisations avoid the costs of Freedom of Information requests.
  • The reverse of cost avoidance is finding sponsors for open data publication.
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  • The freemium model has been used with some success for web-based services; it might also work for open data.
thinkahol *

Misregulation Aiding Plunder of Fish, Other Resources - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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plunder misregulation fish resources

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  • thinkahol * on 04 Jun 10
     
    WASHINGTON, Jun 2, 2010 (IPS) - The resources society derives from nature have been horribly mismanaged and this will lead to the children of the world's poorest people remaining in poverty, according to Paul Collier. The easiest of these resources to regulate is fish, but we have not even managed to get that right, he said.
thinkahol *

LRB · David Runciman · How messy it all is - 0 views

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the spirit level messy

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  • thinkahol * on 08 Aug 10
     
    Sometimes inequality is bad for almost everyone, and sometimes only for certain people; sometimes it is worst for the people at the bottom, and sometimes it is just as bad for the people at the top. Different societies are equal or unequal for different reasons, sometimes by necessity, sometimes by choice. More equality is a good thing and it's an idea that's worth defending. It would be nice if there were more politicians willing to stand up and defend it, however they saw fit.
Parycek

Crowdsourcing landscape - Discussion « Getting Results from Crowdsourcing - 0 views

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crowdsourcing case project landscape

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  • Parycek on 18 Jul 10
     
    The Crowdsourcing Landscape is intended to be a starting point for conversation. This is Beta version 1.0 of the landscape. Based on your comments and feedback we will improve it and create the next versions.
thinkahol *

The great management consultancy scam - and how it could be coming for your job : Johan... - 0 views

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management consultant

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  • thinkahol * on 07 Sep 10
     
    "In the long fake boom of the Nineties and Noughties, we were sold a thousand scams. End government regulation of the financial system! Turn banks into casinos! Pay CEOs 500 times more than their staff! Bow, bow, bow before our mansion-dwelling overlords and the Total Efficiency they will bring! Yet from under the rubble left by these delusions, one of the greatest scams has skipped out unscathed, and it is now successfully selling itself as a solution to the fading of the boom-light. It is probably in your workplace now, or coming soon. Its name? Management consultancy."
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

Coffee Party | Wake Up and Stand Up - 0 views

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open government bottom-up Gegenbewegung teaparty coffeeparty

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  • Johann Höchtl on 19 Mar 10
     
    Im Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HP49n5X90&feature=player_embedded fällt der Ausspruch: They build and we will come. Nach der Aussage stimmt es, die Seite hat zZ massiven zulauf. Links-lastig
Parycek

TrueTwit Sign Up - 0 views

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twitter tool twittertools

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Stop wasting time with SPAMMERS on twitter.We will validate your followers so you don't have to.
Parycek

TED2010: Ten fascinating people you've never heard of - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Jane McGonigal is one of the most interesting inventors you've never heard of.The bubbly game designer -- whose optimism seems to flow out of her wild blond hair -- is trying to get the world to play a lot more online video games, and not just for the sake of fun.The cooperative skills and hopefulness that people learn while pecking away at online games like World of Warcraft will help our society address real-world problems like climate change and nuclear arms proliferation, she says. To get people to use less oil and mentor entrepreneurs in Africa, she also is developing games that merge the digital and real worlds.
Parycek

Brainstorming an open declaration on public services 2.0 - 0 views

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opengov participation crowdsourcing case

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    In November 2009, the EU Ministerial declaration on e-government will be published. We aim to build a bottom-up open declaration alongside it. We are currently in brainstorming mode. We collect and discuss the key recommendations to be made to governments on how to best use the Internet in public services. Post your recommendation here. Deadline 15th July!
Parycek

Blogging & Twitter Guidance - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    These social media toolkits are meant to be short, digestable documents that will help guide you as you undertake your own social media efforts. As always, please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Parycek

9 Professional Social Media Monitoring - 1 views

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socialmedia monitoring tools

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  • Parycek on 28 Mar 10
     
    & Online Reputation Management. People now are communicating via blogs, forums, discussion boards, wikis, Q&A, and video sites.  With the unless number of social content sharing sites out there, it can be hard to manage what people are saying about you and your brand.  That is why there are a number of social media monitoring tools out there that will allow you to hear what people are saying, help you interact with these people, and analyze trends.
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