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Are jobs obsolete? - CNN.com - 0 views

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Are jobs obsolete? - CNN.com

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  • thinkahol * on 09 Sep 11
     
    According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, there is enough food produced to provide everyone in the world with 2,720 kilocalories per person per day. And that's even after America disposes of thousands of tons of crop and dairy just to keep market prices high. Meanwhile, American banks overloaded with foreclosed properties are demolishing vacant dwellings to get the empty houses off their books. Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff -- it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.
thinkahol *

World | David Graeber: The Shock of Victory - 0 views

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World | David Graeber: The Shock of Victory

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  • thinkahol * on 21 Oct 11
     
    The biggest problem facing direct action movements is that we don't know how to handle victory. This might seem an odd thing to say because of a lot of us haven't been feeling particularly victorious of late. Most anarchists today feel the global justice movement was kind of a blip: inspiring, certainly, while it lasted, but not a movement that succeeded either in putting down lasting organizational roots or transforming the contours of power in the world. The anti-war movement was even more frustrating, since anarchists and anarchist tactics were largely marginalized. The war will end, of course, but that's just because wars always do. No one is feeling they contributed much to it.
Parycek

Open Government Data: Rückenwind durch Apps - 0 views

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opengov opendata psi eu

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  • Als Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors gelten alle Arten von Daten, die von öffentlichen Einrichtungen generiert werden, wie beispielsweise Karten und Informationen zum Wetter, zum Recht, zur Verkehrslage sowie zu Finanzen und zur Wirtschaft. Diese sollen offen gelegt werden, wie es die Unterstützer von "Open Government Data"-Initiativen rund um den Erdball (Hier finden Sie einige Videos zu dem Thema) bereits länger fordern. Diese Daten könnten dann beispielsweise für Smartphone-Apps wiederverwendet werden, so die EU-Kommission in einer Aussendung. Scheinbar könnte der App-Boom dem Konzept Open Government Data Auftrieb verleihen.Mit der kostenlosen oder gebührenpflichtigen Wiederverwendung öffentlicher Daten wird einer Studie von 2006 zufolge ein Umsatz von schätzungsweise mindestens 27 Mrd. Euro pro Jahr in der EU erzielt. Beiträge, die zu dieser Konsultation bei der EU-Kommission eingehen, fließen in die Überprüfung der PSI-Richtlinie mit ein und sind Teil der Digitalen Agenda für Europa, die einen Beitrag zu den Zielen der EU – höhere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, mehr Innovation und Arbeitsplätze – leisten soll. Die Konsultation läuft bis zum 30. November 2010.
  • rden Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors besser und stärker genutzt, eröffnet sich ein enormes Potenzial für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Arbeitsplätze, und die Verbraucher haben eine größere Auswahl und bekommen mehr für ihr Geld. Der Markt für mobile Apps, die sich zum Teil auf PSI-generierte Daten stützen, könnte bis 2013 auf 15 Mrd. Euro anwachsen.
  • Die Überarbeitung der zugrunde liegenden PSI-Richtlnie ist der Kommission zufolge "eine der wichtigsten Maßnahmen der Digitalen Agenda für Europa. Regierungen könnten beispielsweise die Märkte für Inhalte fördern, indem sie Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors unter "transparenten, effektiven und nichtdiskriminierenden Bedingungen" bereitstellen.
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  • Auch verweist sie auf praktische Probleme, wie das fehlende Bewusstsein dafür, welche Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors vorhanden sind und welches wirtschaftliche Potenzial in den Daten der öffentlichen Stellen steckt.
  • Die Kommission kam zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Richtlinie von 2003 in ihrer jetzigen Form ihre Wirkung noch nicht voll entfaltet hat, und hat beschlossen, spätestens 2012 eine weitere Überprüfung vorzunehmen, wenn mehr Daten über die Auswirkungen, Folgen und Anwendung der EU-Regeln für Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors vorliege
  • Parycek on 20 Oct 10
     
    Die Europäische Kommission führt derzeit eine Konsultation zur Wiederverwendung von Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors durch.
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.
Parycek

Crowd-sourcing is not empowering enough - 0 views

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deliberation Crowd-sourcing edem

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      Parycek on 20 Mar 10
       
      It invites individuals to foist and endorse (or not) ideas with no pressure to consider the full public consequences of them, including whether they can be sustained across ideological or partisan lines, or how practical they are, or how insulting of public officers. There is the published intention to attract a full range of public perspectives, but instead it tends to attract enclaves of people with committed strategies (eg. embarrass public officials) or perspectives (eg. technology is the answer). While national initiatives attract noise, in more local applications of such ideation, participation is often too thin to be meaningful. This all comes down the question of representativeness. If a governing body is going to legitimately use these ideas, and be compelled to do so, then there has to be good evidence that the contributors do actually form a descriptive representation of the public being governed. I think if you have a technical problem that requires particular expertise, then such ideation processes can find the needle in the haystack. Those of us who subscribe to technical forums know how well that works. I think some people feel that public policy ideation works the same way, but it doesn't because in a contested political environment, what "should be done" is claimed on normative rather than technical grounds. Another metaphor for the ranking in ideation is consumer selection, which many in political science would model as rational choice, privileging private over public interests. Should that be the motor for the selection of public policy? I write all this knowing full well that I risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I just think we can do better. Some ideation processes should invite people randomly, to ensure full demographic spread on relevant dimensions (eg. age, education, political leaning). Let's have multi-stage processes, where contributors do more than just introduce and rank ideas--to their credit, thi
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    I fear that ultimately crowd-sourcing is damaging the enterprise of dialogue and deliberation (D&D).
Parycek

Obama's open government initiative failing in a big way - 2 views

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opengov opendata

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  • open government initiative sounds good in theory, the statute is still too vague:
  • problem is a loophole in the Open Government Directive itself. By asking agencies to only inventory their “high-value” data it gave them an instant out for just about anything.
Johann Höchtl

Landmark Agreements Clear Path for Government New Media - 0 views

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SNS social web sites code conduct USA

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  • For the past six months, a coalition of agencies led by GSA has been working with new media providers to develop terms of service that can be agreed to by federal agencies. The new agreements resolve any legal concerns found in many standard terms and conditions that pose problems for federal agencies, such as liability limits, endorsements, freedom of information, and governing law
  • "We need to get official information out to sites where people are already visiting and encourage them to interact with their government," says GSA Acting Administrator Paul Prouty. “Millions of Americans visit new media sites every day. The new agreements make it easier for the government to provide official information to citizens via their method of choice.”
Johann Höchtl

Defining Gov 2.0 and Open Government | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms - 1 views

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opengov gov2.0 platform Shirky

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  • The future of open government is allowing seamless conversations to occur between thousands of employees and people … You can’t divorce open government from technology. Technology enables the conversation and supports the conversation. We’re finding that if we don’t stand in the way of that conversation, incredible things can happen.
  • will open government be able to tap into the “civic surplus” to solve big problems. That’s Clay Shirky‘s “cognitive surplus,” applied to citizens and government. For open government to succeed, conveners need to get citizens to participate
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.
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