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Three Reasons for Radical Transparency and a Rough Guide to Implementation
Radical transparency is the hottest new management approach in business and government. It has become possible because of open data standards, search, discovery, filtering, and visualization. However, why would you want go “naked†or radically transparent? 1. Transparency increases legitimacy. … Continue reading
The Emergent Grammar of Twitter
danah boyd has just posted an academic article (under review) on retweeting at her blog: We wanted to explore retweeting as a conversational practice. In doing so, we highlight just how bloody messy retweeting is. Often, folks who are deeply … Continue reading
Quick Book Review: WikiGovernment
I just started reading it, but I have already been using the core argument of Beth Noveck’s WikiGovernment: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings 2009) several times in conversations, so let me put … Continue reading
World 2.0: Twitter Governance [Conditions of Possibility]
What makes technologically mediated social interactions different? What are the conditions of possibility of networked governance? The Technology Principle: Network Society is mediated through technology. Corollaries: The Path Dependency Principle: Path dependency makes it costly for us to exercise choice … Continue reading
World 2.0: Twitter Governance [the simple model]
The Greek verb κυβεÏνάω [kubernáo] which means to steer was used for the first time in a metaphorical sense by Plato. As we are moving into network society, we need to ask, what are the conditions of possibility of steering? … Continue reading
Learning from My Students: “…Blogging is so 2005”
In this time and age, where information is shared through new social media and the frameworks to describe collective action change by the minute, it is smart to listen to the first generation of digital natives. On my trip to … Continue reading
World 2.0: Political Theory in Network Society
Political theory asks the question how do we create the good life? How good are historical and contemporary forms of governance and what can we do in order to improve governance for our contemporary and future societies? How do we … Continue reading
The World 2.0 Series: The Grammar of our Networked Lives
Yesterday, I had a discussion with Alex Schellong about how we are rushing towards introducing web technologies and social media into business and government without reflecting on what it actually will mean to our lives and societies. Therefore, it might … Continue reading
The Plot is Thickening: Phase II of the Open Government Initiative
Beth Novack, the author of WikiGovernment (Brookings 2009), is the new deputy CTO for Open Government of the Obama Administration. She is leading the Open Government Initiative. After a brainstorm phase, we are moving into the discussion phase today. Read … Continue reading
A Macro-Historical Perspective on Engineering Governance
In Western thought we locate the birth of rationalism with early Greek thinking, when mythical explanations of social artifacts do not suffice anymore. Rationalism can take two perspectives: (a) observatory or retrospective rationalism that seeks to describe and explain why … Continue reading →
19. June 2009 by Philipp
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