ICT & Society
Links centered on the intersection of ICT (information & communication technologies) and society (culture, public policy, law, etc...). Dec 14
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At the 2012 International Studies Assocation Convention in San Diego, California, Citizen Lab Director Ronald Deibert is organizing a panel on Comparative Cyber Security Strategies: Theory and Practice.
The Citizen Lab
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Today we’re pleased to announce that CIPPIC has joined together with Athabasca University and BCcampus to re-establish a CC affiliate team in Canada. All three organizations will take part in the official relaunch at the Creative Commons Salon Ottawa: Open Data on Friday, March 30. This is not a new affiliate so much as a re-ignition of the existing Canadian community. Since 2004, a number of volunteers, interns and affiliate leads have supported and promoted CC and the use of open licenses generally in a Canadian context. Our new team, representing three organizations spread across the geographic and cultural expanse of Canada, will help support and lead the CC activities of this community.
Knowledge for Development Program The Knowledge for Development (K4D) Program helps build the capacity of client countries to access and use knowledge to strengthen their competitiveness in the global economy and increase their social well-being. It works with client countries to design and develop realistic and achievable strategies to further their transition to the knowledge economy. Excellent and very rich site. Do not miss the knowledge economy assessments by country and the section on publications.
knowledge economy
While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The recent successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems, and the goal of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities. Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?' The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing the way people work together. -->Thomas W. Malone, Climate CoLab, Collective intelligence to address climate change - finalists chosen in world-wide contest , MIT Sloan Experts Blog, Nov 1, 2011
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
We may focus on the stories of individual genius, but it will be harnessing the intelligence of the collective that enables humanity to solve its future problems. Do you know your IQ, that little number that’s supposed to measure how smart you are? Forget it.
Forget IQ, Collective Intelligence is the New Measure of Smart (video) | Singularity Hub
The Collective Intelligence Genome - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review
A user’s guide to the building blocks of collective intelligence: By recombining CI “genes” according to the work required, managers can design the powerful system they need. Google. Wikipedia. Threadless.
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian , sociologist , philosopher of technology , and influential literary critic . Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes .
Lewis Mumford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Technics and Civilization , written by Lewis Mumford in the 1930s (published in 1934), gives the history of technology and its interplay in shaping and being shaped by civilizations . According to Mumford, modern technology has its roots in the Middle Ages rather than in the Industrial Revolution . It is the moral, economic, and political choices we make, not the machines we use, that have produced a capitalist industrialized machine-oriented economy, whose imperfect fruits serve the majority so imperfectly.
Technics and Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berkman Center
DPLA West Conference + Webcast DPLA West—taking place on April 27, 2012 in San Francisco—is the second major public event bringing together librarians, technologists, creators, students, government leaders, and others interested in building a Digital Public Library of America. This event will be webcast live.civil liberties
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Economy: The New Paradigm
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