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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe New Normal in Funding University Science | Issues in Science and Technology - 1 views
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Government funding for academic research will remain limited, and competition for grants will remain high. Broad adjustments will be needed
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he sequester simply makes acute a chronic condition that has been getting worse for years.
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the federal budget sequester
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About - Safecast - 0 views
Globe at Night - 0 views
Citizen Weather Observer Program - 0 views
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"The Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) is a public-private partnership with three goals: 1) to collect weather data contributed by citizens; 2) to make these data available for weather services and homeland security; and 3) to provide feedback to the data contributors so they have the tools to check and improve their data quality. In fact, the web address, wxqa.com, stands for weather quality assurance. "
About Public Lab | Publiclaboratory.org - 0 views
GitHub Has Big Dreams for Open-Source Software, and More - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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GitHub has no managers among its 140 employees, for example. “Everyone has management interests,” he said. “People can work on things that are interesting to them. Companies should exist to optimize happiness, not money. Profits follow.” He does, however, retain his own title and decides things like salaries.
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Another member of GitHub has posted a talk that stresses how companies flourish when people want to work on certain things, not because they are told to.
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Asana bases work on a series of to-do lists that people assign one another. Inside Asana there are no formal titles, though like GitHub there are bosses at the top who make final decisions.
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Michel Bauwens's Public Library | Diigo - 0 views
Comparative study technology incubators in Quebec and abroad - 6. Evaluation questions - Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions - 0 views
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evaluation of Inno-centre and trends in incubation.
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Evaluation of Inno-centre 6.4.1 How does Inno-centre's business model compare with the business models of comparable incubators in Canada and outside Canada?
Votorola - 1 views
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Votorola is social software in support of non-party primary elections and public rule making. We develop the tools to enable a radically free democracy based on unrestricted voting, drafting and discussion. Our alpha prototypes cover everything from voter registration in electoral districts to consensus making, and we lead the field in design, theory and inventions.
A Return to Being Human - Tibbs - 3 views
What is an ontology and why we need it - 1 views
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an ontology designer makes these decisions based on the structural properties of a class.
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an ontology is a formal explicit description of concepts in a domain of discourse (classes (sometimes called concepts)), properties of each concept describing various features and attributes of the concept (slots (sometimes called roles or properties)), and restrictions on slots (facets (sometimes called role restrictions)). An ontology together with a set of individual instances of classes constitutes a knowledge base. In reality, there is a fine line where the ontology ends and the knowledge base begins.
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Classes describe concepts in the domain
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Innovation Canada: A Call to Action - Review of Federal Support to Research and Development - 1 views
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Canada has a solid foundation on which to build success as a leader in the knowledge economy of tomorrow
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innovation in Canada lags behind other highly developed countries
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innovation is the ultimate source of the long-term competitiveness of businesses and the quality of life of Canadians
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The Implications of Crypto Assets Part 3: Distributed Autonomous Corporations - 0 views
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Namecoins are mined in the same manner as bitcoins
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The idea of distributed autonomous corporations already exists, so now we just have to wait for the programmers and entrepreneurs to create the applications that build on the original thought.
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little to no profit incentive for the developers and supporters of the projects. You can only go so far with donations
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On the Commons - 0 views
POWER-CURVE SOCIETY: The Future of Innovation, Opportunity and Social Equity in the Emerging Networked Economy | The Aspen Institute - 1 views
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how technological innovation is restructuring productivity and the social and economic impact resulting from these changes
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concern about the technological displacement of jobs, stagnant middle class income, and wealth disparities in an emerging "winner-take-all" economy
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personal data ecosystems that could potentially unlock a revolutionary wave of individual economic empowerment
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