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
SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views
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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.”
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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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Government proposes open data 'principles' - 0 views
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The UK government has compiled a list of 'principles' regarding its open data initiative, and is calling on the public to provide comments and feedback.
Wiki:Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - 0 views
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Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks
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Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation
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Potential loss of privacy Invalid data
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Gordon Brown proposes personalised MyGov web services | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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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.
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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.
Die persönliche Arbeits- und Lernumgebung - eine Alternative zum LMS? - 1 views
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Eine weitere interessante Umgebung ist http://www.edu20.org/
The Future Book - 2 views
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We live in a completely different world from the one in which books were the most important way of sharing knowledge and experience among people and the only way of passing it forward to next generations. We now write blogs instead of diaries; send SMS messages and Tweets instead of postcards; and use a Blackberry instead of a postman to bring us e-mail letters. Does Challenge:Future (C:F) need a book? The answer is Yes and No. Yes, because in a world where the only constant is change, a printed book is a frozen memory of a moment in time. It holds our thoughts, plans, ideas, and fears from a time that has passed and helps us remember how things once were. A book is something we will dust off one day, browse and rememberthe "good old days."
NASCIO Enterprise Architecture Committee - 1 views
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