Jon Lebkowski: Beyond Push-Pull to Interactive Engagement

Phi Beta Iota:  For a half century the US Intelligence Community has “pushed” hard target “intelligence” downstream while refusing to do Global Coverage.  In the late 1980’s it started to hear customer complaints about wanting to “pull” relevant information.  Today the US Intelligence Community is completely isolated from 90% or so of the direct end-users, …

Chuck Spinney: Jeff Madrick on The Age of Greed and Failure of Government to Check Private Sector Greed

Here is a review of my friend Jeff Madrick’s important new book, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present Book review: ‘Age of Greed’ by Jeff Madrick By David Greenberg, Washington Post Outlook, 29 July 2011 David Greenberg is a professor of history and of journalism and media …

Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA) III

References to an Open Source Agency (OSA) General Comment:  as presented to non-governmental groups including Amazon, Gnomedex Bloggers, Hackers on Planet Earth, etcetera, the Open Source Agency (OSA) would be the proponent for everything open beginning with the four central opens necessary for Open Government: Open Source Software, Open Spectrum, Open Data Access, and Open …

Michael Dowd: “God is What Happens When Humanity is Connected”

“God is What Happens When Humanity is Connected” Jim Gilliam: Why the Internet is my religion. Yes! 19 July 2011 Video as presented at Personal Democracy Forum. Phi Beta Iota:  Anyone educated in the 1960’s and 1970’s will remember Pervcival and Paul Goodman’s Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life.  The strategy devised by …

Search: public administration in 21 century

UPDATE: Abstract modified by Tom Atlee New Abstract posted. 4 Comments Received Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century In the Dark of Night: Public Administration in the 21st Century Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century II In the Dark of the Night: Public Administration in the 21st Century II Preliminary reception:  …

Avaaz.org: Taking Down Rupert Murdoch?

Hacking murdered children’s phones, paying off police, destroying evidence of crimes, threatening politicians — UK leaders say Rupert Murdoch’s empire has “entered the criminal underworld”. For decades, Murdoch has ruled with impunity — making and breaking governments with his vast media holdings and scaring opponents into silence, but we’re fighting back, and winning! Murdoch’s reign …