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Lawyers in Public Policy
I spent all day yesterday in the Residenz in Salzburg, listening to amazingly smart Austrian, Swiss, and German government officials talking about how public administration is transforming. The event was organized by the Austrian Society for Public Administration. If you … Continue reading
Open Statecraft: Strategic Thinking for a Many-to-Many Society
We live in a world where information and communication technologies have confronted us with new logics of collective action that allow new forms of organization that need new forms of strategic thinking. With the digitization of value creation and the … 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
Sketching a Planetary Public Policy Approach
As I am wrapping up my time at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, it is time to write down some of the lessons I learned here at Erfurt University, where Martin Luther developed some of the frameworks for … Continue reading
Culture, Politics, and our Networked Lifeworlds
By: Philipp Mueller and Violetta Pleshakova In 2010, it has become a truism that culture, lifeworlds, and our political economies are transforming. It is obvious that the Web is impacting society, bringing in new lifestyles, attitudes, values, work patterns and … Continue reading
The Hyper-Reflective Web: Revisiting My last 20 Tweets
As we are realizing that network society is contingent on technology, but not on specific technologies (such as email, friendster, myspace, facebook, twitter), we are learning to work and play across and beyond specific social media. For me, the integration … Continue reading
The Politics of Open Sourcing Governance
Carl Malamud is a public domain advocate heading public.resource.org. His approach is the publication of public domain information from local, state, and federal government agencies. Over the years the publication of governmental data has become a surprisingly lucrative business for … Continue reading
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
The Politics of the RFC
Requests for Comments are the condition of possibility for Internet Politics and today is their 40th Birthday. So do read Stephen Crockers Editorial in the NYTimes. When the R.F.C.’s were born, there wasn’t a World Wide Web. Even by the … Continue reading
