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IT Concerns in 2015: Digital Transformation Leads the List

The article titled Boardroom Priorities in 2015: Can IT Deliver on ZDNet discusses a recent survey of 200 CXOs on boardroom concerns for 2015 from Constellation Research. Digital transformation was at the top of many lists, and the article posits that there is a fear among many companies that a “Digital Darwinism” will take down corporations that have not invested in digital strategies. The article states,

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2015/01/182015/01/18

Robert Steele: #ElectoralReform – Surging Globally, Coming to USA At Some Point

Access

Electoral Reform (Twitter hashtag #ElectoralReform) is how one restores integrity to the electoral process (not just elections, but how citizens exercise voice and voice at all times) and hence to governance, the economy, and society. Although the US has six small parties (the Libertarian is the largest, Green the most vocal, and Reform the most open to larger concepts), they have been isolated from one another. Their leaders refuse to focus on Electoral Reform. Until that changes, they will remain marginalized and irrelevant to the future of the USA.

Multi-party system will put electoral reform back on the table

Proportional representation will soon make a comeback, and one major reason for this is the rise of the smaller parties.

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2015/01/16

Jean Lievens: Open Source Cars

Design, Manufacturing

Tabby and Wikispeed: open-source cars

Small businesses are counting on Open Source in order to speed up change in the slow and massive automotive industrial sector. Sharing…for greater innovation!

EXTRACT

So for €2,050 (£1,600), you can buy an operational car chassis on which you can build your own car. OSVehicle sees itself as a springboard for innovation, “a starting point for the creation of a new range of vehicles.”

Full article with photos and videos.

2015/01/162015/01/15

Jim Rough: To Facilitate a National Conversation

Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Sources (Info/Intel)

Since 1993 we’ve been experimenting with a strategy for convening this kind of large-‐system conversation and we are excited at how well our approach is working, and the prospect for how it can work at the national and global levels. Our approach is different than the one described in the Project paper, however. And it’s different from “Deliberative Democracy” approaches in general because it aims for a creative conversation, rather than one that is deliberative. This requires a different set of facilitation skills and understandings about group process.

PDF (7 Pages): To Facilitate a National Conversation

2015/01/152015/01/15

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Hits 80%

Software

Love Open Source? Good News and News

I read “Top 10 FOSS Legal Developments of 2014.” A legal eagle generated the listicle. Despite my skepticism for birds of this feather, the list has some good news and—well, to put it positively—news for the open source movement.

The good news is that folks from courts to government agencies are paying attention to free and open source software. The “news” news is that use of open source “by commercial companies expands.” The write up states:

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2015/01/132015/09/12

OPEN POWER Electoral Reform Home Page

Access, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics

Want an Honest Government Of, By, and For We the 99%?

Here’s How.

I cannot stress this enough: whatever your issue, however righteous and important it might be, it will never get a fair hearing as things now stand.

The ONLY way any issue might receive a fair hearing is if we FIRST achieve Electoral Reform and restore integrity to our government.

Open Power Electoral Reform @ Phi Beta Iota (see latest posts)

NEW:

Open Power Electoral Reform 12 Point Act

Open Power Electoral Reform — CounterPunch Series

Robert Steele: Open Power Electoral Reform — Open Letter to Tom Steyer with Proposed Action Plan for Re-Asserting Public Sovereignty

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2015/01/132015/01/12

Tom Atlee: Open Space

Access, Governance, Innovation

What do we, as members of the dialogue and deliberation community of practice, have to be and do to enable our most positive transformational impact in the face of emerging global crises which fundamentally challenge our business-as-usual habits and systems?

We are now “opening space” for virtual Open Space sessions on the question of how we in the “D&D” community can better contribute to needed societal transformations.

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