Review: Global Public Policy – Governing Without Government?

Wolfgang Reinicke Pioneering Work, Missing Some Pieces,July 7, 2011 This is a pioneering work, easily a decade ahead of other world-class efforts, my favorite being that of (then) World Bank Vice President for Europe, J. F. Rischard, High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. It has been largely over-looked, but should gain …

Mark Zuckerberg: What To Do Once People Are Connected

Mark Zuckerberg Social networking is at “an inflection point,” Zuckerberg said. “When you think about what social networking meant for the last five or seven years, since Facebook has been around, the narrative has mostly been around connecting people,” he said. “Until the last couple of years, most people really had open questions about whether …

Network Learning to Team/Autonomous Learning

Harold Jarche » Network Learning: Working Smarter At its core, network learning is a way to deal with an ever-increasing amount of digital information. It requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. Each worker needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating information for later retrieval. Source: www.jarche.com Network Learning: …

Review: Planning with Complexity – An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy

Judith Innes, David Booher Excellent but Not Perfect, June 25, 2011 The authors claim to be addressing a new theory of collaborative rationality. The Native Americans called this “seventh generation thinking.” It is neither new nor rational alone, but rather holistic. I bought and read this book along with Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity …

Review: Democracy as Problem Solving – Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe

Xavier N. De Souza Briggs 5 for Academics, 4 for Isolation from Corruption, June 25, 2011 I am stunned to not see a review of this book published in 2008. It certainly merits attention and inclusion in any dialog about democracy. The author caught my attention immediately in the preface, observing that US democracy “looks …

From Serbia with Love: The Revolution Business

Phi Beta Iota: This 27:37 film focuses on a Serbian organization that claims to have provided peaceful non-violent training to 36 countries, with five successes including Ukraine, Georgia, Tunesia, Egypt, and the Maldives.  The film strives to suggest that the US Government is funding this organization–more likely is that it is privately funded by a …

From BRIC to BRICS–Sanya Declaration

Full text of Sanya Declaration of the BRICS Leaders Meeting Xinhuanet.com English.news.cn 2011-04-14 21:58:57 SANYA, Hainan, April 14 (Xinhua) — Leaders of five BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, released on Thursday a joint document, Sanya Declaration, at the BRICS Leaders Meeting in south China’s resort city of Sanya. The following is …