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App My State is a competition to build mobile and web applications that will benefit Victorians. Premier John Brumby launched the competition on 26 February 2010, it will run for eight weeks.
If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place
accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It’s not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.’
There are far too many sessions on journalism and policy, and far too little on doing science . . .
“killer app” that integrates social media into the mainstream of science.
Tools for doing science are much harder to envision and build. But these sorts of tools are much more likely to see uptake and use by the community, simply because scientists are more interested in doing science than they are in talking about science.
ScienceBlogs has around 80 regular bloggers. The Nature Network has around 40 blogs that have been updated in the last month (this figure seems to have dropped by 20% since I last checked). David Bradley lists 600-plus “science type” users of Twitter.
Science Online 2010, the annual meeting for cutting edge users of Web 2.0 technologies in science, was held last month. It filled the science blogosphere with coverage and allowed far-flung colleagues to meet in person.
35 Prozent der deutschen Bevölkerung gehören zur Gruppe der „Digitalen Außenseiter" , 30 Prozent zu den „Gelegenheitsnutzern" Lediglich 26 Prozent sind in der digitalen Alltagswelt angekommen
Be a force for good. That's Twitter's new foundational principle — and it's interesting because it takes Google's foundational principle and does it one better.
Twitter's been focused on openness, and his response was that it's a "survival strategy." New ideas, new concepts, new applications — all flow to open organizations. That's a great way to express the point that for next-gen organizations, openness is now table stakes: fail at it, and you're not even in the game.
That's what 21st century organizations look like: networks, not pyramids.
Doors versus windows
That's pretty radical. Wall St, Detroit, Big Food, Big Software and HMOs are just a few for whom win/wins have mattered little, if at all. It's a simple, powerful way to frame next-gen strategy in a nutshell.
, Ev said: better connections, better information — better choices
Just as the fundamental challenge of the 21st century is making authentically, meaningfully better stuff, for the 21st century media it's communicating in better ways — not simply bombarding the reader-"consumer" with more, bigger, louder ads.
Erasing information asymmetries is where the future of advertising lies. But you can't get there unless you can build a 21st century business first.
Real Leaders Tweet, a new report from The Digital Policy Council, examines how Web 2.0 and social media strategies are helping heads of state create Government 2.0 where politics has a 'human' face and political views are communicated in ways that are transparent, open, and inclusive.