The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is a vital search, exactly on point. 21st Century public administration must be about design. The machine search results are disappointing. Here are a few thoughts and some links from the human in the loop. 1. Public Administration is not Public Management. The administrator should be a civil servant in the fullest sense of …
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Future Internet Reference Architecture Group: Towards architectural design principles and a reference architecture for the Future Internet Call for Position Papers on Internet Design Principles. Deadline for papers: 29/04/2011 workshop: 23/05/2011 The main objective of this activity is to define a common set of architectural design principles and a reference architecture of the Future Internet …
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This struck me as “speaking poetry to power.” Idle Chatter: The Power of Ruins Nuclear power plants are an uncanny presence in the built environment. By Morgan Meis, The Smart Set “Will it make a beautiful ruin?” That was the question Basil Spence asked about the nuclear power station he was designing in Trawsfynydd, Wales. …
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Corruption works better, or Graphic: Corruption. Graphic: Corruption Slide 1 Nine Zones of Concern Graphic: Corruption Slide 2 Empire as Terrorism Graphic: Corruption Slide 3 Holistic Analysis There is also the category in the directory: JOURNAL: Corruption (280) REVIEWS: Corruption (125) See Also (Review: Corruption):
Who will say go? Here’s a little-spoken truth learned via crowdsourcing: Most people don’t believe they are capable of initiative. Initiating a project, a blog, a wikipedia article, a family journey. Initiating something even when you’re not putatitively in charge. At the same time, almost all people believe they are capable of editing, giving feedback …
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As Milo points out to build survivable networks we “should look to an Internet era architecture where you have multiple independent networks of different capabilities that inter-operate with each other because they are IP networks. “ That is the exact premise and design of the Greenstar network – which is the worlds first Internet network where …
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The world is assembled along the lines of certain logics. Human organisations are also outcomes of such logics. Some organisations are assembled following the logic of the “cathedral”. Other organisations are assembled following the logic of the “bazaar”. Cathedrals are organised as military-inspired command hierarchies. Superior humans give orders, which must be executed by subordinate …
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