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The Austerity Death Trap - 0 views

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The Austerity Death Trap

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  • thinkahol * on 24 Oct 11
     
    Call it the austerity death trap. Under these circumstances, the harder a country works to cut its debt, the worse the ratio becomes - because the economy shrinks even faster. Greece is already in the trap. Spain and Italy are perilously close. Even Britain, France, and Germany are tip-toeing up to it. And now us. Deficit hawks have to understand: The first step must be to revive growth and jobs. That way, revenues increase and the debt/GDP ratio drops. Only then - when the economy is back on track - do you start cutting.
Johann Höchtl

eGovernment - a driving force for innovation and efficiency in Public Administration - 0 views

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ICT participation EIPA front-office back-office web2.0

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  • Johann Höchtl on 01 Jul 10
     
    Paper von Archmann et.al.
Johann Höchtl

The Government 2.0 Forecast For 2010: 7 Predictions | SocialComputingJournal.com - 0 views

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dion Hinchcliffe­ forecast 2010 gov20 gov2.0

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  • Social computing will continue to grow in government, but won't hit critical mass in 2010.
  • Don't forget that there was some clamping down on social media in government during 2009 including the Marines restricting access to services such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter. Progress in 2010 will be better in state and to a lesser extent local government. The federal government will also struggle with a consistent policy and approach for internal and external social computing, which probably won't emerge next year.
  • Open data goes back to the drawing board. I've been bullish on open data and APIs for years and the government got religion in 2009 with data.gov. But the usage is down as government workers and businesses realize that the data is often far out-of-date and not in forms that can be used operationally.
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  • Cloud computing will go big. While many agencies will just use the technologies internally for now in order to have public options later, there is tremendous interest in the cloud
  • Government portals (rightly) continue to incorporate social media, but deep engagement will be elusive for now. I've seen many overhauls of government portals this year, including Utah.gov and the Department of Defense, prominently incorporate social media right on their home pages. To be clear, these are major advances for the government to make on the internal/external boundary and I encourage them.
Johann Höchtl

Web design issues; What a semantic can represent - 0 views

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lee tim berners semantic web design issues URI identification

shared by Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Replace identifiers with URIs. Remove any requirement for global consistency. Put in a significant effort into getting critical mass. Sit back.
  • Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11
     
    2011 so gültig wie 1998: Ein Fahrplan von TBL zum Semantic Web
Johann Höchtl

Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill - Datamation.com - 0 views

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patent USPTO US reform industry

shared by Johann Höchtl on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved landmark legislation to overhaul the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a reform effort more than half a decade in the making that aims to improve the quality of patents and curb frivolous litigation.
  • Excluded from the bill was a controversial amendment, backed by many tech companies, that would have eased the process for initiating an in-house administrative review process at the Patent Office for challenges to patents that have been granted, a measure billed as a less costly alternative to private litigation.
  • The Senate bill would transition the Patent Office to a so-called first-to-file system, bringing the U.S. system in line with the patent regimes of much of the rest of the world. The shift would confer patent rights on the first inventor or company to file an application, rather than the current first-to-invent system
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