Africans helping Africa
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011I picked up this link from a conversation that was going on in the GrowVC community. So thank you David.In one part of Ethiopia, communities are putting the world's governments and many aid agencies to shame.You can read the full ... Ratings:
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A free ride to nowhere?
Thursday, August 25th, 2011I opened my analogue copy of The Observer at the weekend, and as is my habit I found myself in the culture section and looking a book reviews. My eye caught Evgeny Morozov's review of Robert Levine's book Free Ride, ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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True democracies in open space
Saturday, February 19th, 2011True democracies need open public spaces, that are shared, where people can meet as equals, writes John Keane in The Life and Death of Democracy. It is no surprise then that we see the square recently as the symbol of ... Ratings: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Asymmetry looks like this
Thursday, January 13th, 2011[caption id="attachment_5997" align="aligncenter" width="433" caption="From simple to complex to complicated"][/caption]We know that, where we once thought our future to be certain, the only certainty we now face is uncertainty. The question is then how to deal with uncertainty?Now is the ... Ratings:
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Wikileaks and the battle for middle earth begins
Saturday, December 4th, 2010In an erudite and compelling post John Naughton (What the attacks on Wikileaks tells us) brings from the shadows and into the foreground, some of the key issues that the current deluge of material from wikileaks has unveiled.Naughton makes 4 ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Britain’s £3 trillion horror story
Friday, November 12th, 2010I watched this C4 programme Britain's trillion pound horror story, last night and I have to say I found it very thought provoking. what's it all about? @ C4 they writeFilm maker Martin Durkin explains the full extent of the ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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The problem with Murdoch’s media
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Henry Porter discusses some of the key criteria as to why Vince Cable has such an important contribution to make in controlling total media and therefore political power currently wielded by Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. This follows on ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Enable and empower communities don’t build apps
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Most government agencies are missing out on a core ingredient with their contests. Sunlight had a not-so-secret sauce in its contest strategy that ought to be sharedFor us at Sunlight, the not-so-big secret was that it was never about the ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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The life and death of democracy in the networked society
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010John Keane, has produced something of a landmark text - its scope defies imagination. Taking us through the myriad journeys democracy has undertaken to exist in its present form - Keane also recognises how networked communication puts us within in ... Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Networked government – could reboot Britain
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010CFA is the latest wave in the growing government 2.0 movement, joining the ranks of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Data.gov site and innovation contests like Apps for Democracy and Apps for America, where citizens can create shared applications using public-sector ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Listen to Alan at SXSW
