Canada 150. ImpactReport2010 2015. Policy in the data age: Data enablement for the common good. Like companies in the private sector, governments from national to local can smooth the process of digital transformation—and improve services to their “customers,” the public—by adhering to certain core principles. Here’s a road map. By virtue of their sheer size, visibility, and economic clout, national, state or provincial, and local governments are central to any societal transformation effort, in particular a digital transformation. Governments at all levels, which account for 30 to 50 percent of most countries’ GDP, exert profound influence not only by executing their own digital transformations but also by catalyzing digital transformations in other societal sectors (Exhibit 1).
The tremendous impact that digital services have had on governments and society has been the subject of extensive research that has documented the rapid, extensive adoption of public-sector digital services around the globe. The data revolution enables governments to radically improve quality of service. Tanzanian Tribe of Straight Women Who Marry Each Other - Kurya Tribe. Such autonomy has also enabled her to spare her four daughters from early marriage. The family's two oldest daughters didn't marry until age 18. "We made sure they finished school first," Isombe says. Their younger daughters, ages 17 and 14, still live at home. "They are studying hard," Isombe says.
"One hopes to become a teacher, and the other a nurse. Our priority is their education. " Despite their unusual circumstances, the three women try to have a regular family life with their children. In addition to growing crops and raising livestock, Isombe and Mukosa collect mud from nearby marshes to make bricks, which they sell at the market, and both look after elderly Nyagochera. "Perhaps not surprisingly, the fact that young women like Mukosa seem to prefer same-sex marriages can be unsettling to local men. " Perhaps not surprisingly, the fact that young women like Mukosa seem to prefer same-sex marriages can be unsettling to local men. Charlie Shoemaker. Mechanical Turk: Research in the Crowdsourcing Age. How scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical Turk, a ‘gig economy’ platform, for tasks computers can’t handle Digital age platforms are providing researchers the ability to outsource portions of their work – not just to increasingly intelligent machines, but also to a relatively low-cost online labor force comprised of humans.
These so-called “online outsourcing” services help employers connect with a global pool of free-agent workers who are willing to complete a variety of specialized or repetitive tasks. Because it provides access to large numbers of workers at relatively low cost, online outsourcing holds a particular appeal for academics and nonprofit research organizations – many of whom have limited resources compared with corporate America. For instance, Pew Research Center has experimented with using these services to perform tasks such as classifying documents and collecting website URLs. The marketplace of Mechanical Turk has a language all of its own. The U.S. The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016. Sometimes the world is not yet ready for a new technology to enter the fray.
Virtual reality, for example, sat on the sidelines for many years. The industry went into hibernation around the time of the Dot Com Bust, and it has only recently re-emerged with promise. It is only today that big companies like Microsoft, Google, Samsung, HTC, and Facebook have the infrastructure, peripheral technologies, and capital in place to properly commercialize the technology. Now, instead of using primitive 300 x 200 pixel LCD displays that were prohibitively expensive in the 90s, we are looking at a world where display will be in beautiful 4k quality. Meanwhile, accelerometers and gyroscopes can measure head movement, and modern computing power can reduce lag and latency.
Like virtual reality, there are 10 other emerging technologies that are finally ready for prime time. Nanosensors and the Internet of Nanothings is one of the most exciting areas of science today. Original graphic by: Futurism. Futurists' Blogs. S New Plan on Open Government 2016-2018 | Open Government. The Future According to Women | MISC. After months of dedication and contributions from countless people, we are proud to present the special feature from our summer issue: The Future According to Women. For this feature, we spoke to over 40 women from various industries – and the conversations were absolutely amazing! They overlapped in ways that we weren’t expecting, so we have grouped them into 5 themes that act as chapters.
Each chapter ends with a section called “Our Thinking,” which offers a view into the future and a way to make sense of it all. We hope you enjoy this feature as much as we enjoyed putting it together. You can read the full version here and follow the conversation on social media with #femalefutures. Firstround. Bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant has spent years researching and interviewing originals.
There’s the seasoned chief executive who cusses freely and challenges candidates to apply for jobs by tweeting at her. Or the author who tackles weighty topics like artificial intelligence and virtual reality with stick figure illustrations. And the former spy who founded an airline and is betting on Utah as the next big tech hub. In Originals, Grant shows how to identify, foster and nurture nonconformists — here he expounds on how to recognize and recruit them in a startup setting. As a former magician and Junior Olympic springboard diver, Grant is in the company of the curious, versatile brethren he’s profiled.
But for those seeking conventional curriculum vitae, he’s got that in spades, too. Grant is perennially recognized as Wharton’s top-rated professor and has been named one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers. The Case to Hire Originals at Startups. What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour. By some measures, air travel has become more onerous since 1970. There were no security screening lines (those were introduced after a series of hijackings in the late 1960s and early ’70s). Seats were larger and came with free meals and drinks. Arguably, though, the bundle offered by circa-1970 airlines for coach class seats is still available: You can still get a bigger seat and free drinks at a higher price, but now it’s called first class.
Once you factor in the time it takes to arrive early and get through security, flying from New York to Chicago takes about the same time, and costs about the same in inflation-adjusted dollars, as it did in 1936; modern planes are faster, but then one could show up at the airport 10 minutes before the scheduled flight time and hop on the plane. Compared with 1970, Americans today eat a good bit less beef, pork and eggs, and about twice as much chicken. Continue reading the main story. Google's Vision of the Future: Convenience With a Cost. EPSC Newsletter. ESPAS Strategic Dialogue on Future Challenges to European Security We have launched a new ESPAS initiative to explore future challenges to European security.
The inaugural event focused on ‘Uses and Abuses of the Internet: Fighting Radicalisation and Terrorism’. Concern about cyber warfare targeting critical infrastructure and ‘cyber Jihad’ has intensified. Baroness Joanna Shields, UK Minister for Internet Safety and Security spoke about a one-of-a-kind campaign to fight radicalisation via the Internet that she is spearheading. Our second event was on ‘Islamic State: The Threat in Europe’. We also hosted Patrick Ky, Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to discuss the manifold security challenges in the field of aviation, with a special focus on cyber security. Security clearances in the age of social media. Of the roughly 323 million citizens of the United States, more than four million hold federal security clearances. An even smaller number of these individuals hold the highest clearances.
They are simultaneously the most trusted—and some of the most scrutinized—individuals in the world. Until now, that scrutiny generally stopped where the real and virtual worlds coalesce: social media. Yesterday, America's top intelligence official, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, signed Security Executive Agent Directive Five, empowering federal background investigators to incorporate publicly-available social-media information into their routine vetting process for clearances. It may surprise many readers to know the government only now is codifying its approach to the virtual lives of the people it entrusts with real secrets. The Directive permits collection of publicly-available social-media information of the individual under investigation.
William R. Frontpage - MindLab. The innovation challenge: Modernizing the public service. Written by Date published Share Story In a room filled with current and former federal public servants, many of whom have occupied the highest ranks of the federal government, and all of whom could rattle off a list of war stories that illustrate the need to modernize the public service, it was an audience comment from a Trudeau Scholar that underscored why public sector innovation — the topic that kicked off the last day of the 2015 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation conference — is worthy of our attention. An alumna of the youth-in-care system herself and now a PhD student in social work at McGill University, Melanie Doucet raised the tragic case of the New Brunswick teen Ashley Smith, who eventually committed suicide in a federal prison in 2007 after spending five years within an uncoordinated and underresourced system of provincial and federal youth, mental health and corrections programs.
Do you have something to say about the article you just read? Transgender Men See Sexism From Both Sides. “Cultural sexism in the world is very real when you’ve lived on both sides of the coin” By Charlotte Alter Three guys are sitting at a Harlem bartop eating fries, drinking whiskey and talking about love. One of them, Bryce Richardson, is about to propose to his girlfriend. “I’m putting it together in my head, I’m like: ‘He’s gonna be one of my groomsmen, he’s gonna be one of my groomsmen,’” he points to his two friends and grins. The other men light up when they hear the news and start talking about rings, how much they cost, will it be princess cut or pear shaped? Pictures are Googled, phones are passed around.
“That was one of my dreams, to get married, to be somebody’s husband, to be somebody’s father,” says one of the friends, Redd Barrett. I ask the groom-to-be how he knew his girlfriend was the one. All three men are trans. Over the last three years, transgender awareness has exploded. One day in court, Ward and his opposing counsel were making a big request to a judge. Fail, Adapt, Innovate: Institutions for a Changing Society. Written by Date published Share Story There are two overarching issues emerging from the 2015 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Conference. Both raise values questions about what we consider important, and about the kind of communities and political spaces within which we choose to live. The first issue is how our largely hierarchical institutions can adapt to address the major challenges we face, challenges that are both enduring and systemic. They are enduring in that they will not be solved within the mandate of any one government.
Indy Johar, from the Young Foundation in the United Kingdom, reflected on this issue in his opening keynote address, “The Challenge of Massive Change: From Silos to Systems.” In the opening plenary panel about social innovation, “Local Innovations, Global Footprints,” the panellists echoed some of these themes. Amanda Clarke’s article addresses an important element of this: how to encourage a more innovative culture in government bureaucracies. GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History | The Enlightened Economist. Coyle, D.: The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover) The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted.
At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy is run. How can we achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for our children, our societies, and our planet?
How can we realize what Coyle calls "the Economics of Enough"? Running the economy for tomorrow as well as today will require a wide range of policy changes. Creating a sustainable economy--having enough to be happy without cheating the future--won't be easy. Reviews: "In The Economics of Enough, Ms. More reviews Table of Contents: Overview 1 Italian. Attachments. Open Futures Library | Engage with a Library of scenarios. Distributed ledger technology: Blackett review. This report sets out the findings of a review exploring how distributed ledger technology can revolutionise services, both in government and the private sector. It covers the: technology governance and regulation security and privacy disruptive potential applications in government global perspectives It recommends 8 actions for government to maximise the opportunities and reduce the risks of this new technology.
We have made a short video to accompany the report. Accessible Media Player by Nomensa The timeline slider below uses WAI ARIA. The Systems Thinker – The Systems Thinker - 2013 01 23 tic administration usagers na317. Global Future Trends. Welcome To The Post-Work Economy. If the goal of the economy is to provide decent-paying work for everyone, that economy clearly isn't doing a good job at the moment. Real wages for most Americans haven't increased in 40 years. Real unemployment—which includes the "under-employed"—is above 10%. Many jobs are now part-time, flexi-time, or "gigs" with no benefits and few protections. And, we spend a lot of money to subsidize so-called "bullshit jobs": more than 50% of fast food workers receive some form of public assistance, for instance. And, even for people who are employed, work often isn't that fun. For all the talk of the meaning and purpose of our jobs, most people see them merely as a means to an end.
Only 29% of employees in North America say they're engaged (worldwide, the number is 13%). Of course, there are many conventional ways we could deal with this, including improving education and training (so more people can work up the wage-scale and beyond the ability of robots) and raising minimum wages. How Hyperconnected Cities Are Taking Over the World, According to Parag Khanna.
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