Howard Rheingold

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Adora Svitak: A 12 Year Old on Digital Literacy I interviewed Adora Svitak after being introduced by her mother and watching her TED presentation . I’m writing a book about 21st century literacies and thought that a 12 year old would give a good perspective. Which she does.

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Google, Mozilla & Sunlight Foundation Sponsors The Great American Hakathon to Foster Government Transparency (ReadWriteWeb, November 4, 2009) "Government agencies should consider the following with regard to making information about operations and decision-making available to the public: Can the public use it? For individuals to be able to use information, it will need to travel beyond the systems and institutions that generated it. The more useful information is, the more transparent and accountable government becomes. Can the public find it?

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Marc Halpern, Vice President of Gartner Manufacturing Industry Advisory Service, recently suggested that crowdsourcing could fix manufacturing by leaning on crowds for some aspects of product design and development. Beyond improving the exchange of ideas, crowdsourcing can also be useful for keeping companies “in touch with the tenor of the market,” says Halpern. Software Advice Analyst Derek Singleton caught up with Halpern to learn how crowdsourcing might work in the manufacturing industry, and what needs to happen before it can gain widespread acceptance. [Read Derek Singletons full article here]

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Howard hit on one major takeaway that I had from our week in the UK. “Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don’t know how,” he said. He’s convinced that what’s most important is not access to the Internet — we have more than a billion people on the Internet now and there are 4 billion phones out there — but access to knowledge and literacies for the digital age. “The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift” and discern.