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in title, tags, annotations or urlJournal of Information Technology & Politics - 0 views
Crowd-sourcing is not empowering enough - 0 views
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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
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Twitter Search is Upgraded - 0 views
Gordon Brown and Tim Berners Lee: Back to the Future? - 0 views
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First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband
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Second to personalise –
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Third to economise – in the Pre-Budget Report we set out our determination to find £11 billion of savings by driving up operational efficiency,
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Open Data is Civic Capital: Best Practices for "Open Government Data" - 1 views
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This document is a best practices guide for governments embracing the notion of "open data". It discusses why open government data is beneficial to society, i.e. how it is civic capital, and what kinds of technological considerations must be made when making government data open.
Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers - 1 views
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With APIs, you let other developers do your R&D for you. The benefit? You get development at scale with minimal investment. You effectively outsource risk because failures don’t cost you anything.
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It’s easy to envision how brands whose core business revolves around technology or data could make use of an API
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By providing access to that value through an API, they would allow the delivery of that value to spread exponentially.
What do people do on Facebook? - 0 views
The Government Once Built Silicon Valley | TechCrunch - 0 views
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In the period starting with the close of WWII to the late 70s, the U.S. government created ideal economic conditions for technology innovation and commercialization to thrive in Silicon Valley.
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