The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dreams of ‘Open’ Everything Quentin Hardy New York Times, 28 November 2012 Software is not merely about automating every aspect of our lives anymore. Some of its makers want to change the way we all interact, spreading their supposed egalitarian excellence. Whether this is liberation into a new and better mode of being (and yes, …
The Military’s New Challenge: Knowing What They Know by Chris Young Harvard Business Review | 2:00 PM September 20, 2012 For soldiers in the field, immediate access to — and accurate interpretation of — real-time imagery and intelligence gathered by drones, satellites, or ground-based sensors can be a matter of life and death. Capitalizing on …
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Theory-based impact evaluation: principles and practice June 2009 Calls for rigorous impact evaluation has been accompanied by the quest for what works and why. Howard White identifies six principles for the successful application of the approach — mapping out the causal chain (programme theory), understanding the context, anticipating heterogeneity, rigorous evaluation of impact using a …
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Open Innovation 2012 . European Commission, Directorate-General for the Information Society and Media, 2012; pp 136. The Open Innovation 2012 follows the Service Innovation Yearbook 2009–10 and the Service Innovation Yearbook 2010–11. All these yearbooks have three complementary parts: the first on policy development, the second on trends and weak signals in service innovation, and …
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The Data Journalism Handbook is Out 6 months ago at Mozilla Festival 2011, the Data Journalism Handbook was born. Thanks for your interest in the book – I have great pleasure in announcing that the Handbook is now live! The Handbook features contributions from over 70 leading practitioners of data journalism from every corner of …
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For God So Loved the 1 Percent… By KEVIN M. KRUSE New York Times, 17 January 2012 EXTRACT: Realizing that they needed to rely on others, these businessmen took a new tack: using generous financing to enlist sympathetic clergymen as their champions. After all, according to one tycoon, polls showed that, “of all the groups …
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Primitive simplicity of politics against social complexity Bojan Radej – Slovenian Evaluation Society – Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU January 12, 2012 Recognizing that the society has become complex suggests that the truth about social issues, public interest or common good is not a single truth, but rather that there are a variety of well-founded and equally …
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