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Described to me a a junior TED – but for video.
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"Most agencies regularly review ongoing programs, but too often, because of measurement or data constraints, design problems, or lack of resources within the agency, these reviews are not robust enough to provide meaningful information about a program’s outcomes and measurable progress towards the agency’s objective. Many agencies simply don’t have the capacity to carry out a rigorous, strategic research agenda. The result is that policy priorities are established without evidence to back them up. Programs are continued year after year almost by rote, without a hard, objective look as to their effectiveness. We want to break that cycle. We want to provide an honest, up-front analysis of government programs and services. This independent evaluation needs to be built into the DNA of the government’s priority-setting and funding determinations."
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"We haven’t simply created a block grant and told states they can do whatever they want, nor have we dictated a particular program design and told everyone to follow it. Instead, we’ve said that we’re flexible about the details of the program; we only insist that most of the money go toward the programs backed by the best available evidence, and the rest to programs that are promising and willing to test their mettle."
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By Global Partners and Associates – former Article XIX ED (and WITNESS Board Member) Andrew Puddephatt's outfit. Nicely done, step-by-step explanation of how the communication environment that impacts on human rights is changing, and why it is incumbent upon human rights organisations to adapt.
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Jamais Cascio's open source planning.
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Posts about women in computing and technology…
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Go ahead, take part…
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I feel like Terry Eagleton looking at the new Brian Bond book – yes, sure, but isn't that kind of obvious? Certainly explains England/Tottenham problems with getting decent left-wingers. "According to Casasanto right is associated with good because most people are right-handed. 'We can manipulate objects with our dominant hand more fluently than with our non-dominant hand. Over a lifetime of lopsided motor experience, we come to associate good things with the side of space we interact with more skillfully and bad things with the side we interact with more clumsily', Casasanto says. This association in the minds of the right-handed majority gets enshrined in expressions like 'my right hand man' and 'two left feet'."
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Does this mean that industrial designers rule our world? Crown Jonathan Ive NOW. "A few psychologists have begun to ponder applications. Ackerman, for example, is looking at the impact of perceptions of hardness on our sense of difficulty. The study is ongoing, but he says he is finding that something as simple as sitting on a hard chair makes people think of a task as harder. If those results hold up, he suggests, it might make sense for future treaty negotiators to take a closer look at everything from the desks to the upholstery of the places where they meet."
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What will information workers need to develop as skills over the next few years?
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Jane McGonigal on engagement: "how, exactly, do you turn attention into engagement? How do you convert a member of the crowd into a member of your team? To answer these questions, innovative organizations will have to grapple with the new challenge of harnessing "participation bandwidth." To do so, they may start to take their cues not from the world of business, but rather from the world of play."
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"The Institute for the Future’s Abundant Computing Map is an introduction to the technologies and applications that will shape a world of digital abundance. Because the landscape will be shaped not just by new technological innovations but also by innovative uses of existing technologies, a comprehensive list of every future application would be simply impossible to create. What we present instead is a guide that will serve as an outline of key directions of the evolution."
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So Patrick Bateman and friends were right… The gsm of their business cards makes ALL the difference. "…the subjects who took the questionnaire on the heavier clipboards tended to ascribe more metaphorical weight to the questions they were asked–they not only judged the foreign currencies to be more valuable, they gave more careful, considered answers to the questions they were asked."
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Sameer Padania 
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