iVotronic Demonstration. 503 Saskia Sassen, The global city: strategic site/new frontier. Robinson - discussing Sassen. City marketing - see Sec 3 (pp. 29-49) How Internet Search Engines Work" When most people talk about Internet search engines, they really mean World Wide Web search engines. Before the Web became the most visible part of the Internet, there were already search engines in place to help people find information on the Net. Programs with names like "gopher" and "Archie" kept indexes of files stored on servers connected to the Internet, and dramatically reduced the amount of time required to find programs and documents. In the late 1980s, getting serious value from the Internet meant knowing how to use gopher, Archie, Veronica and the rest.
Today, most Internet users limit their searches to the Web, so we'll limit this article to search engines that focus on the contents of Web pages. Before a search engine can tell you where a file or document is, it must be found. How does any spider start its travels over the Web? Google began as an academic search engine. Keeping everything running quickly meant building a system to feed necessary information to the spiders. Global cities of the future: An interactive map. Over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. Which of them will contribute the largest number of children or elderly to the world’s population?
Which will rank among the top 25 cities by per capita GDP? How will regional patterns of growth differ? Explore these questions by browsing through this revised and updated interactive global map below, which contains city-specific highlights from the McKinsey Global Institute’s database of more than 2,600 metropolitan areas around the world. You’ll see why growth strategies focused at the country level may fall short in the future: with new hot spots emerging and household wealth surging in little-known urban centers, companies may have to adopt a much finer-grained approach to tap into the growth that lies ahead.
Interactive. Cities @ Crossroads: Digital Technology and Local Democracy (Law - Download) Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliyah, IsraelMarch 9, 2011 Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 4, 2011 Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 11-11 Abstract: The transformative potential of digital technology for democratic governance is hardly questioned, but has not yet been tackled by legal scholarship. The Article starts filling this gap by exploring the role and functions of digital technology in local governance. The Article situates the relations between cities and citizens along two complementary axes - consumerism, in which citizens are regarded as consumers of services provided by the city; and participation, in which citizens play an active role in local decision-making and agenda-setting.
The Article then argues that while American cities reasonably satisfy consumerist, service-provision requirements, they fail to benefit from the participatory potential of digital technology. Number of Pages in PDF File: 73 Accepted Paper Series Suggested Citation. TEDxGreenville 2012 - Juan Gilbert - One Machine, One Vote for Everyone. Vote: The Machinery of Democracy. EVM in India. Q1. What is an Electronic Voting machine? In what way its functioning is different from the conventional system of voting? Ans. An Electronic Voting Machine consists of two Units – a Control Unit and a Balloting Unit – joined by a five-meter cable. Q2. Ans. Q3. Ans. Q4. Ans. Q5. Ans. Q6. Ans. Q7. Ans. Q8. Ans. Q9. Ans. Q10. Ans. Q11. Ans. Q12. Ans. It is possible to use EVMs for simultaneous elections for Parliament and State Legislative Assembly and the existing EVMs have been designed keeping this requirement in view.
Q13. Ans. Q14. Ans. In fact the pace of poll is quickened by the use of EVMs as it is not necessary for the voter to first unfold the ballot paper, mark his preference, fold it again, go to the place where the ballot box is kept and drop it in the box. Q15. Ans. Q16. Ans. Q17. Ans. Q18. As soon as a particular button on the Balloting Unit is pressed, the vote is recorded for that particular candidate and the machine gets locked. Q19. Ans. Q20. Q21. Ans. Q22. Q23. Ans.