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Economic and Social Return on Investment in Open Archiving Federally Funded Research Ou... - 0 views

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    ...to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) on returns to public investment in R&D. The aim is to define and scope the data collection requirements and further model developments necessary for a robust estimate of the likely impacts of the proposed FRPAA archiving mandate. 
Johann Höchtl

Julien Assange - A Myth? No, he startet out as a very respectable Hacker! - 0 views

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GRITtv » Blog Archive » Chris Hedges: The World As it Is - 0 views

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    "You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out. Chris joins Laura in studio for a conversation about the death of Bin Laden and the continuing concern over terrorism, the end of empathy in the U.S., and what avenues are left for progressives to fight back.  "The elites are not going to help us," he warns, "We're going to have to help ourselves."
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GRITtv » Blog Archive » Michelle Alexander: End The Drug War: Face the New Ji... - 0 views

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    The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs.  The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well here's why:  it's not extraneous - it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.     Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics -- and the stories --  of 21st Century Jim Crow in her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full interview in two parts.     "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here  "In major urban areas, the majority of African American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status."     It's not just about people having a hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar?  Like the Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate.     White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment.  Contrary to the conventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems
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Former Reddit co-owner arrested for excessive JSTOR downloads - 0 views

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    Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old wunderkind who co-authored the RSS specification at age 14 and sold his stake in Reddit to Condé Nast (which also owns Ars Technica) before his 20th birthday, was arrested Tuesday on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, "unlawfully obtaining information from," and "recklessly damaging" a "protected computer." He is accused of downloading 4.8 million documents from the academic archive JSTOR, in violation of its terms of use, and of evading MIT's efforts to stop him from doing so.
Parycek

Miriam Meckel » Blog Archiv » Gefangen in der Echokammer - 0 views

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    Das Beispiel Obama zeigt: das Internet ist ein überzeugendes Wahlkampfinstrument, für die reale Politik aber birgt das Probleme...
Johann Höchtl

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Rethinking Open Data: Lessons... - 0 views

  • You can build it but they won’t come. All successful open source projects build communities of supportive engaged developers who identify with the project and keep it productive and useful.
  • Ongoing maintenance and distribution of the data hasn’t been budgeted for almost all the data sets we have today. This attitude has to change, and new projects give us the chance to get it right, but most existing datasets are unfunded for maintenance and release.
  • there are at least five different types of Open Data groupie: low-polling governments who want to see a PR win from opening their data, transparency advocates who want a more efficient and honest government, citizen advocates who want services and information to make their lives better, open advocates who believe that governments act for the people therefore government data should be available for free to the people, and wonks who are hoping that releasing datasets of public toilets will deliver the same economic benefits to the country as did opening the TIGER geo/census dataset.
Johann Höchtl

Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland » Blog Archive » ISPRAT-Whitepaper zu Ope... - 0 views

  • Ein interdisziplinäres Autorenteam skizziert in dem Papier Voraussetzungen des Open Government.
  • Die Charakteristika der öffentlichen Verwaltung, wie z.B. Regelgebundenheit, Zuständigkeitsprinzip und Nachprüfbarkeit der Handlungen, führen dabei zu eigenen Herausforderungen bei der Realisierung der Potentiale sozialer Medien und damit verbundener kulturspezifischer Ansätze.
  • Im Schwerpunkt Open Data werden zusätzlich die wirtschaftlichen Aspekte der Datenbereitstellung diskutiert
Johann Höchtl

While Facebook & Twitter Sit on Sidelines, MySpace Jumps Into Bulk User Data Sales - 0 views

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    Myspace verkauft Benutzerdaten
Parycek

Social Networking Now More Popular on Mobile than Desktop - 0 views

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    A recent study from Ruder Finn revealed that Americans are spending nearly three hours per day on their mobile phones. And what are they doing there? Educating themselves, conducting business, managing finances, instant messaging, emailing? All of the above, as it turns out, and then some. But perhaps the most interesting finding from the new data is the fact that more people are using the mobile web to socialize (91%) compared to the 79% of desktop users who do the same. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-shows-intent-behind-mobile-internet-use-84016487.html
Parycek

Study links gov website transparency to citizen trust - 0 views

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    A new study on government agency websites found a correlation between website transparency and citizen trust in a given agency.
Parycek

SauerSPACE » Blog Archive » Social Ikarus - 0 views

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    Kritischer Analyse über die persönlichen Grenzen von social media von Karsten Sauer. 
Johann Höchtl

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Great News for Open Governmen... - 0 views

  • By the Autumn an online e-”domesday” book giving “an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies
  • A new “institute” for web science headed by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt and with an initial £30m in funding
Johann Höchtl

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » UK Government announces lots ... - 0 views

  • In this way people will no longer be passive recipients of services but, through dialogue and engagement, active participants - shaping, controlling and determining what is best for them.
Parycek

Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland » Blog Archive » 15 Antworten auf 15 Frag... - 0 views

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    Zum 3. Netzdialog des Bundesinnenministers am 11.05.2010 mit dem Thema "staatliche Angebote im Internet" wurden 15 TeilnehmerInnen eingeladen, darunter 3, die die Community vertreten: Constanze Kurz (Chaos Computer Club), Markus Beckedahl (Open Data Network) und Anke Domscheit (Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland). Die übrigen Teilnehmer kommen aus der Verwaltung, Wissenschaft oder vertreten die Industrie (ITK Verband bitkom, Verband der Versicherungswirtschaft).
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