Author Archives: Ben Tremblay

Civics 21NOV2013 2

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1. INCOMA (What kind of society do we want to live in?)
2. Incoma Project
3. Robert Gnaizda – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. Greenlining Institute – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5. The Greenlining Institute | Racial Justice Policy and Advocacy
6. Mission & History | Public Advocates Inc.
7. Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice – YouTube
8. The project | Figaro Project
9. CIPE Overseas Report
10. Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice
11. The CDD Mission — Center for Democratic Deliberation
12. Democracy Watch
13. Limited Government, Economic Freedom, Growth Economy
14. Can international civil society organizations be nimble? | Wait… What?
15. Riding the wave of disruption? | Wait… What?
16. What Nonprofits Should Know About Next Generation Fundraisers | Daniel Melbye
17. How To Start An Online Business: Sponsored by Media Temple
18. Product Resources | Citrix Online
19. A Vision for a Democratic Future – Occupy.Net wiki
20. The hard road from reform to implementation
21. How Close Is Your Government to Its People? | Local Democracy Community of Practice
22. Sharing fast and slow: The psychological connection between how we think and how we spread news on social media » Nieman Journalism Lab
23. Politics news, opinion, analysis, photos and video – PolicyMic
24. 2013 American Values Survey: In Search of Libertarians in America
25. Pascal Lamy and Ian Goldin propose mechanisms for improving global governance and cooperation. – Project Syndicate
26. The Russell Tribunal on Palestine – The Movie – YouTube
27. Council on Foreign Relations – YouTube
28. An Anatomy of Truth: Conversations on Truth-telling – YouTube

Civics 21NOV2013 1

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1. A global view of open government | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional
2. Public Leaders Network | The Guardian
3. 'We need to bring people together on transparency' – video | Public Leaders Network | theguardian.com
4. Civil Society – Global Partnership for Social Accountability
5. We Heart Developers | Bang The Table
6. What's Under the Hood of Google's New Civic Information Offering – Sunlight Foundation Blog
7. Une collaboration internationale pour la promotion du Gouvernement ouvert | E-Gouv Québec
8. City of Edmonton – 2013 Citizen Survey – Civic Services and Budget
9. • Q&A With James O’Shea: Lessons From the Chicago News Cooperative
10. Unseating the Giant: Amazon, Inkling, and the rise of a new product model
11. The Future of News from 3 Silicon Valley Executives | The Dish Daily
12. Mashable’s Jim Roberts on Storytelling, Social Media, Buzzfeed and News Cycles | InkHouse

MetaGovernment – Owen Ambur 27JULY2013

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1. Main Page – Metagovernment – Government of, by, and for all the people
2. Ambur.net – StrategicPlan democratic-national-platform
3. Owen Ambur – Personal Web Page
4. Strategy Markup Language (StratML)
5. &atural and social structures of human autonomy and their technical mediation
6. XML Registry Business Case
7. Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web
8. Federal Information and Records Managers Council – Leadership

Community and Ed Tech 25MAY2013

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1. Should Local Government Be Run Like Silicon Valley?
2. The Perfect Storm of Open Access – Slaw
3. Exploring a paper seeing a longstanding scientific consensus on hum…
4. Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents
5. Engaging Students Before They Drop Out | Teach Amazing!
6. Simpol.org –  Videos & Audios
7. Everyday-Democracy.org
8. Delib – a digital democracy company
9. Open Data Solutions for Government Innovation | Socrata Inc.
10. What Lies Beneath: The Foundations of Motivation in the Age of Social Media – YouTube
11. Community engagement and mobilisation: critique of a public dialogue day | ESRC | The Economic and Social Research Council
12. Of circles, communities and serendipitous discovery.
13. Development projects – Arts & Humanities Research Council
14. Bristol University | News from the University | University of Bristol Law School
15. ProConIt
16. US/Iraq – ProconIt
17. Should the US have attacked Iraq? – US – Iraq War – ProCon.org
18. Developing the toolkit… – Global Sensemaking
19. Cohere >>> make the connection
20. Personalization & Adaptivity
21. Project “Cockpit” – “Cockpit is a server manager that makes it easy to administer your GNU/Linux servers via a web browser.”
22. Sadly, the other Cockpit Project (cockpit-project.eu) seems to have disappeared; it was a system to facilitate citizen engagement with government services. Alas!
    I had bookmarked “cockpit-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17:methodological-approach&catid=5:tech-info” and was following that with great interest
23. Thoughts on liberal-conservative dialogue | Campaign for Stronger Democracy
24. Reason.com

Discourse Sites 17MAY2013

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1. CSD:Public Discussion: Integrating Refugee und Asylum-Seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States: the Case of Bulgaria
2. FLAGSHIP | Background
3. CSD:FLAGSHIP Project Launched
4. Citizens Advisory Forum for Living with Environmental Change (LWEC)
5. Previous activity – Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences – Newcastle University
6. British Science Association | British Science Association
7. LWEC | Living With Environmental Change
8. Climate Change Challenge
9. About us | Forum for the Future
10. HP Environmental Programs and Initiatives | Environment | HP® Official Site
11. Global Citizenship: Data and goals: Environment highlights | HP® Official Site
12. Mission // CSR Perspective
13. About OPM | OPMOPM
14. Dialogue by Design | Specialists in public engagement and online consultation | Current projects
15. Decide » Discover Discuss Decide – Anglian WaterDiscover Discuss Decide – Anglian Water
16. Mitochondria public consultation 2012 – HFEA
17. Medical Frontiers: debating mitochondria replacement
18. House of Lords’ conclusions reflect a wider concern about the future of consultations | OPMOPM
19. Adaptive Planning
20. (4) Participatory Budgeting
21. Commentopia – Best Comments from Top News Sites and Blogs
22. Accenture – Canada | Management Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing
23. Accenture Newsroom: Accenture Convenes Policy and Business Leaders to Debate the Challenge of Scaling Sustainability at Sustainability 24
24. Free Online PDF Editor | PDFzen
25. The Landing: All site blogs
26. TEKRI blogs | Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Insitute
27. Jon Dron – “Knewton is cool, but it is very dangerous”
28. Adaptive Learning White Paper | Knewton
29. The Landing: Bookmarks
30. Search The Site
31. Colin Wilson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
32. Military Gaming
33. Exploring a paper seeing a longstanding scientific consensus on hum…
34. WordPress e-Newsletter Plugin – WPMU DEV
35. Skeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature
36. Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
37. the consensus project
38. notes to self after chat w/Micke Briercliffe

Local Govt Network 8May2013

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1. Involve – Google+
2. Simon Burall – Google+
3. Publications | Involve
4. Local government network | Guardian Professional | Local Government Network | The Guardian
5. We must forge new partnerships to take government to where the people are | Local Government Network | Guardian Professional
6. Debate of the day | Comment is free | The Guardian
7. Our Network

Future Journalism 7May2013

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1. ProConIt
2. VUE Weekly :: Proconit
3. Future Journalism Project
4. About the Future Journalism Project
5. FJP People – Future Journalism Project
6. The FJP — How We Follow Breaking News A lot is happening in…
7. Outbrain Content Discovery – A Future Journalism Project Partner
8. The FJP — The News Machine Remember Operator, the game…
9. COLORS #86 Launches at the International Journalism Festival | Blog | COLORS Magazine
10. An Absurdist News Ticker That's All Media, No Message | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
11. ScribeMedia.org – The Business, Technology and Culture of Digital Media
12. Chikodi Chima
13. &avigating media
14. On (Un)organized Consumption | Writing Through the Fog
15. Fighting Information Overload With The Impending Doom Engine — Life Hacks — Medium
16. Joshua Nguyen

Social Tech 22 April 2013

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1. Yoomoot – organized collaboration
2. Revolution Ventures | Revolution
3. A different way of doing things | Red Pepper
4. Participatory Irrigation Management in Thailand | NS World
5. Home Page | The Institute for Humane Studies
6. End Times | Right Wing Watch
7. Coding In Paradise
8. Belinda Barnet | :: musings on digital media ::
9. About Us | LearnLiberty
10. What you can do for your country
11. Law.Gov: America's Operating System, Open Source.
12. No Labels: Stop Fighting. Start Fixing.
13. Misnikov bratislava habermas conf nov 2012
14. Scholars' Lab
15. All Our Ideas – Bringing survey research into the digital age
16. Public Dialogue Consortium (PDC)
17. Welcome to Participate
18. Factlink — Because the web needs what you know
19. Public Decisions
20. Raymond G. Siemens
21. Omeka
22. Rootstrikers Blog
23. Rootstrikers Wiki
24. Corruption Is My Issue
25. Rootstrikers presentations channel
26. New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving in the 21st Century – Google Search
27. eBulletins | NS World

Social Tech 16 and 20 April 2013

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• Inkling Features – Interactive textbooks for iPad.
• Contest: Innovations in connecting the unconnected | Wait… What?
• Social Media and Regime Change in Egypt and Syria | DemocracySpot
• HTML5 Can Solve BYOD App Mess, Sencha Bets – Development –
• Zilino
• Advocates of open data push Chicago government to deploy futuristic tools and engage civic-minded residents, hackers | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
• What e-learning can teach us about journalism | Poynter.
• Source – Journalism Code, Context & Community – A project by Knight-Mozilla OpenNews
• Factlink — Because the web needs what you know
• Canvas by Instructure
• Social Learning Blog | TOPYX
• The Story of Instructure
• Building a YouTube LTI app
• Murmur
• Factlink — Because the web needs what you know
• LogiCON 2013: Home page
• Rootstrikers
• Corruption Is My Issue | A Project of Rootstrikers
• New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving in the 21st Century – Google Search
• No Labels: Stop Fighting. Start Fixing.
• Policy is more than a product of process; policy is process itself | Institute for 21st Century Agoras
• The Talking Point | Institute for 21st Century Agoras
• In a modern globalised society, democracy may need to be balanced against the need for expertise | EUROPP
• A different way of doing things | Red Pepper
• Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development
• Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption | GOPAC
• Present Shock – P2P Foundation
• OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics — See Who's Giving & Who's Getting
• The Inter-American Development Bank assesses the flaws of participatory budgeting in Peru’s water sector | dandc.eu
• VIDEO: There's No "Reasonable" Solution for Climate Change, Says Leader of Climate-Change Subcommittee | Mother Jones
• UNDERLYING CAUSES AND REMEDIES: A KEY FOCUS | THE CLUB OF ROME (www.clubofrome.org)
• The Talking Point || Information Age Publishing
• Writing research Critically. Developing the power to make a difference (it's all about creating countervailing discourses, practices and forms of organisation to bring about change ) | John Schostak – Academia.edu
• Economics
• Social and Political Philosophy: Readings From Plato to Gandhi – John Somerville, Ronald Santoni – Google Books

Tech 20 April 2013

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• Visual Networking Index (VNI) – Cisco Systems
• Industry Leaders Collaborate on OpenDaylight Project, Donate Key Technologies to Accelerate Software-Defined Networking | OpenDaylight
• Why OpenDaylight? | OpenDaylight
• Transforming Lives Through Technology – Prepare Your Story
• P2 Theme — WordPress Themes for Blogs at WordPress.com
• How P2 Changed Automattic — Matt Mullenweg
• Session-based remote computing: The path of least resistance to mobile app transformation | ZDNet
• Building tablet and smartphone apps for the enterprise
• Here's why HTML-based apps don't work | ZDNet
• Apache Cordova
• Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap. | Bootsnipp.com
• Application Development, Business Applications, Software Integration | Progress Software
• The real reason for the PC sales plunge: The era of "good enough" computing | ZDNet
• How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!) | @andrewchen