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Tom Atlee: President 3.0
Obama opened the door to Governance 3.0. Citizen deliberative councils offer a very powerful way for all of us to walk through it together.
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Ed Mazria: Building Stimulus on Capitol Hill | Grist
The simplicity of the 2030 Challenge Stimulus Plan and its potential for wide-ranging, positive, and immediate impact have garnered a lot of attention on the Hill.
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Lawrence Lessig: The Only Solution
In one poll, 69% of Americans supported citizens' funding of the nation's elections.
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Samuel Palmisano: Let's Spend on Broadband and the Power Grid | WSJ
Not all stimulus is created equal.
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Blaser, Weinberger, Trippi: Digital Government through Social Networks
We propose that the way to create a citizen-based social network is to map the network to the actual shape of governance.
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John Kitzhaber: The Health Care Crisis
At the website of The Archimedes Movement, an open letter to President Obama.
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The Case for Big Government | NYRB
Madrick argues that we need to rediscover Americans' capacities for transformational change and the way "big government" can help achieve that end.
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Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government | mySociety
This is a list of the top 5 major things any government of any developed nation should be doing in relation to the Internet.
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Edelman 2009 Trust Barometer
Nearly two in three informed publics—62% of 25-to-64-year-olds surveyed in 20 countries—say they trust corporations less now than they did a year ago.
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Contraction & Convergence
C&C offers an intellectual framework for reaching international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Beth Noveck: Wiki-Government | Democracy
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, "All professions are conspiracies against the laity," and nowhere is this more the case than in a democracy.
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Earth System Governance
The Earth System Governance Project advances a science plan that is organized, first, around five analytical problems: architecture, agents, adaptiveness, accountability, and access/allocation.
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Jeffrey Sachs on Global Cooperation
Suppose we knew the technical answers. How do we get to the global change that's necessary?
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Susanne Moser: Barriers and Limitations to Adaptation Posed by Governance | IHDP
The study raises difficult, if not “taboo” questions about the multiple and sometimes conflicting roles of government, the effectiveness of governance, contradictions in coastal law, and constitutional obstacles, that must be addressed if coastal regions want to effectively meet the challenges of adapting to climate change.
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James Traub on the the Role of the UN
It is hard to recall now how astonishingly ambitious the UN was at the moment when it was created.
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The Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy
Democracy is increasingly global, but it may also be increasingly local.
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Tim O’Reilly on Government 2.0
We turned to “vending machine government”, a model where we put in taxes and take out services. Can we undo this, and build government that enables interaction?
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Ben Shneiderman: Civic Collaboration | Science
Technology-mediated civic participation, electronically enhanced collaboration, and download-verifiable open government are rebalancing the power structure in federal, state, and local governments.
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