SchwartzReport: Public vs. Corporate Priorities

American voters, I believe, voted based on fear, peer group pressure, racism, and fantasy. Here is a comparison of the voters’ agenda, and the agenda of the Republican leadership for whom they just voted. NBC/WSJ Poll Reveals American’s Priorities; Guess How they Match With GOP Lawmakers’ Priorities The new NBC/WSJ poll conducted November 14-17 provides …

Jean Lievens: Jeremy Helmans on New Political Power for the Crowd — Sooner Than You Think…

We can see the power of distributed, crowd-sourced business models every day — witness Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb. But veteran online activist Jeremy Heimans asks: When does that kind of “new power” start to work in politics? His surprising answer: Sooner than you think. It’s a bold argument about the future of politics and power; watch …

Jean Lievens: Open Content (Open Data) Creates More Content (Data) …

Wikipedia’s open content production platform creates significant spillover benefits that encourage users to contribute further. Many organisations are developing open platforms to create, store and share knowledge. Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler analyse editing data by Wikipedia users to show how content creation by individuals generates significant ‘spillover’ benefits, encouraging others to contribute to the …

UN Paper: Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support) Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/EIN-UN-SDG Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support) Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything BACKGROUND RESEARCH PAPER Submitted to the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda DOC (23 Pages): Beyond Data Monitoring 3.4 See Also: 2014 Robert Steele Applied Collective Intelligence 2014 …

Event: 23 OCT 14 London Tower Hamlets Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Network

Tower Hamlets Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Network (Tower Hamlets SEEN) UnLtd Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs Thursday, October 23, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (BST) London, United Kingdom Tower Hamlets SEEN aims to build a local ecosystem of support for young social entrepreneurs to set up their own social ventures. It will be based on peer …

Jean Lievens: PayPal Integrates BitCoin — This Is HUGE!

Why Paypal integrating with Bitcoin is a big deal: reader opinion By Malavika Nair Alabama.com, 2 October 2014 Paypal, the online payment processing giant, recently announced it would start letting its merchants accept Bitcoin by taking first steps toward integrating with three of the largest existing Bitcoin payment processing companies: Bitpay, Coinbase and GoCoin. This seemingly …