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Die Open-Data-Feuerwehr « Kollegen, Feuerwehr, Leeuwen, Bart, Bildschirm, Inf... - 1 views

blog.zeit.de/...open-data-feuerwehr opendata Feuerwehr Niederlande
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  • Nutzen von Open Data für Rettungskräfte und das Informationssystem “RESC.info
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OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every leve... - 1 views

thechangelog.com/...-individuals-and-organizations hack hacking opengov opendata opencongress ruby python sunlight
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  • As a joint project of two 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation, OpenGovernment will empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level.
  • You can support the open-source work on OpenGovernment by becoming a Booster of the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation (a tax-exempt recurring donation of $1/day), giving a one-time charitable gift, or by forking the code on GitHub and start hacking.
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Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers - 1 views

mashable.com/...brand-open-api-developers API brand opendata value R&D
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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.
  • It’s easy to envision how brands whose core business revolves around technology or data could make use of an API
  • By providing access to that value through an API, they would allow the delivery of that value to spread exponentially.
  • Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11
     
    Begründungen, warum offene API's einen Mehrwert bringen. Auch anwendbar für Open Data
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OpenData + R + Google = Easy Maps - 1 views

www.r-bloggers.com/opendata-r-google-easy-maps statistics R google visualisation chart
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  • The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task.
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Wirst du das Twittern - 1 views

www.heise.de/...t-Du-das-twittern-1170227.html twitter social media facebook medien
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  • Judith Schossboeck on 17 Jan 11
     
    Studie, wie verbreiten sich Nachrichten im netz
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How Can the Richest 1 Percent Be Winning This Brutal Class War Against 99% of Us? | Eco... - 1 views

www.alternet.org/..._class_war_against_99%25_of_us How Can the Richest 1 Percent Be Winning This Brutal Class War Against 99% of Us? | Economy AlterNet
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  • thinkahol * on 26 Jan 11
     
    How has a tiny fraction of the population arranged for their narrowest economic interests to dominate those of the vast majority?
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Defining Gov 2.0 and Open Government | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms - 1 views

gov20.govfresh.com/-0-and-open-government-in-2011 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
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Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power - 1 views

sociology.ucsc.edu/...wealth.html Who Rules America: Wealth Income and Power
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  • thinkahol * on 23 Feb 11
     
    This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we use these two distributions as power indicators. Some of the information may come as a surprise to many people. In fact, I know it will be a surprise and then some, because of a recent study (Norton & Ariely, 2010) showing that most Americans (high income or low income, female or male, young or old, Republican or Democrat) have no idea just how concentrated the wealth distribution actually is. More on that a bit later.
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Revolutionary Philosophy is Revolution. | Thinkahol's Blog - 1 views

thinkahol.wordpress.com/...onary-philosophy-is-revolution Revolutionary Philosophy is Revolution. | Thinkahol's Blog
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  • thinkahol * on 25 Feb 11
     
    Assuming philosophy should be relevant to the way we choose to live our lives, three questions guide this paper. What are some moral foundations for revolution? Do you realize what is happening? Are you willing to do anything about it?
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YouTube - One Trillion Dollars Visualized from Mint.com - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch YouTube - One Trillion Dollars Visualized from Mint.com
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  • thinkahol * on 14 Mar 11
     
    http://www.mint.com | It's official, trillion is the new billion. No longer is government spending talked about in terms of a mere ten digits. With the recent flurry of government spending, we are going to need another three zeros to make sense of it all. One trillion dollars is a number that few people can comprehend, let alone your standard nine digit calculator. So what does one trillion dollars look like?
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NASA Nebula | NASA and Nebula Team Demonstrate Effectiveness of Open Government at Open... - 1 views

nebula.nasa.gov/...-and-nebula-open-source-summit cloud computing cloud NASA open source
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  • NASA attempted something new and revolutionary on March 29 & 30, 2011. The Agency hosted the first ever NASA Open Source Summit.
  • The diverse community was offered multiple methods to engage in sessions about challenges within NASA’s existing Open Source framework
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Freie Netze. Freies Wissen. - Blog - 1 views

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    E-Book
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Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | Video on TED.com - 1 views

www.ted.com/...ryn_schulz_on_being_wrong.html Kathryn Schulz: being wrong | Video on TED.com
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  • thinkahol * on 17 Jul 11
     
    Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.
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E-Government Core Vocabulary - 1 views

www.semic.eu/...egov-core-vocabularies.pdf egov core vocabulary
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  • Johann Höchtl on 05 Nov 11
     
    SEMIC.eu: Fahrplan zu einem europäischen E-Government Vokabular
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Joseph Weizenbaum: Welche Rolle spielt Wissenschaft? - 1 views

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  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 12
     
    >> Da betritt ein Außenseiter, gekleidet wie ein Gentleman in St. Louis, die Szene. Er hat ein Spielbrett dabei und will der Pokerrunde das Dame-Spielen beibringen. Die Runde hört zu, während der die Regeln erklärt - und fragt schließlich: Wo sind die Karten? Für diese Runde müsse ein Spiel Karten haben, und ohne Karten sei Dame eben kein Spiel. Anders ausgedrückt: Die Naturwissenschaften erkennen nur ihre eigenen Wahrheiten an. Andere Argumente werden abgetan als unwissenschaftlich, und Unwissenschaftliches zähle nicht. Sehr gut, trifft aber nicht nur für die Wissenschaft und deren Methoden zu.
  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 12
     
    >> Da betritt ein Außenseiter, gekleidet wie ein Gentleman in St. Louis, die Szene. Er hat ein Spielbrett dabei und will der Pokerrunde das Dame-Spielen beibringen. Die Runde hört zu, während der die Regeln erklärt - und fragt schließlich: Wo sind die Karten? Für diese Runde müsse ein Spiel Karten haben, und ohne Karten sei Dame eben kein Spiel. Anders ausgedrückt: Die Naturwissenschaften erkennen nur ihre eigenen Wahrheiten an. Andere Argumente werden abgetan als unwissenschaftlich, und Unwissenschaftliches zähle nicht. Sehr gut, trifft aber nicht nur für die Wissenschaft und deren Methoden zu.
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OPen Government Studie - 1 views

www.e-demokratie.org/...ung-von-politik-und-verwaltung opengov opendata study
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  • Parycek on 21 Mar 12
     
    96 Prozent der Bürger fordern eine weitere Öffnung von Politik und Verwaltung » E-Demokratie.org Studie durchgeführt durch die Initiative Open Government Partnership
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The Swarm's Activation Ladder - 1 views

falkvinge.net/...the-swarms-activation-ladder crowdsourcing swarm ladder
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  • Parycek on 30 Jul 12
     
    Falkvinge on Infopolicy
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Crowd-sourcing is not empowering enough - 0 views

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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).
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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 
  • 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.
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An Emblem for Open Government - 0 views

blog.sunlightfoundation.com/...an-emblem-for-open-government opengov transparency logo realtime
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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Making Government Transparent and Accountable Logo for oprm gov and real time government
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