Yoda: Matt McAlister on Need for $1B Journalism Fund

Google and Facebook as the dark force… Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund Matt McAlister of Publish.org The Guardian EXTRACT Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.

Hypothes.is: Coalition of 40+ Scholarly Publishers

On Tuesday, we announced a major new initiative to bring this vision to reality, supported by a coalition of over 40 of the world’s essential scholarly organizations, such as JSTOR, PLOS, arXiv, HathiTrust, Wiley and HighWire Press, who are linking arms to establish a new paradigm of open collaborative annotation across the world’s knowledge. Read full first …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck directs The Governance Lab and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. GovLab designs and tests technology, policy and strategies for fostering more open and collaborative approaches to strengthen the ability of people and institutions to work together to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflict and govern themselves more effectively and legitimately.

The Future: Recent “Core” Work by Robert Steele UPDATED

استخدام جوجل ترجمة للقراءة باللغة العربية 使用谷歌翻译在中国阅读 Использование Google Translate для чтения на русском языке Google Türkçe Oku Çevir kullanın SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Future Big Ideas: Applied Collective Intelligence, Information Peacekeeping, Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — creating a prosperous world at peace by achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at  10% – 25% of existing …

Jean Lievens: EU Digital Democracy

CO-DECIDING WITH CITIZENS: TOWARDS DIGITAL DEMOCRACY AT EU LEVEL Elisa Bruno, EU Policies and Outreach Manager, ECAS A new Deliberative-Collaborative eDemocracy model is emerging worldwide. This model can ensure high quality policy-making by involving citizens directly in the policy process through the use of Web 2.0 facilities to enhance and manage large-scale information in a …