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Brad Fitzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network. In his post, Fitzpatrick defines "social graph" as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related". He went on to outline the problems with it, as well as a broad set of goals going forward. One problem is that currently you need to have different logins for different social networks. Another issue is portability and ownership of an individual's information, explicitly and implicitly revealed while using social networks. As was recently asserted in the Social...
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Social enterprise and social impact bonds are evolving concepts to describe new ways applying market models and solutions to social problems along with new ways of financing these projects. Contracting for outcomes, while well-understood in business-based contracts is still fairly new in the application to social programs. These are distinct but related approaches that are being touted as a way for government contract for public services and reduce expenditures on social programs.
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) fördert die Entwicklungen der Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis durch die Beobachtung und Vermittlung von Grundlagen, Arbeitsmethoden und technischen Hilfsmitteln.
The hard reality is that we cannot expect Australian banks to stop funding mining altogether. The question we need to be asking is – can banks make a profit by investing some of that coal money towards reef-friendly businesses?
While energy around social impact bonds continues to build in places like Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., Enterprising Non-profits Canada team manager David LePage is calling for clarity and more expansive thinking.
The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. The ESS was established in 2001, and was led by its founder and coordinator Roger Jowell until his death in December 2011.
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On March 8, 1931, media theorist, author, and cultural critic Neil Postman was born. He is best known for his works criticizing the increase of the role of technology in every human's life not seeing the dangerous side effects.
Die Forschungsgruppe für Kommunikations- und Kollaborationsmanagement setzt sich mit Fragestellungen auseinander, die für die Wissenschaft, die Unternehmen und die Gesellschaft aus der massiven Verbreitung von Social Media resultieren.
Mr Maude denied the bond scheme was a way of shifting the cost of public sector projects on to private investors and philanthropists – but acknowledged the model is a useful way of delaying payment. “When the results are delivered that triggers a payment . . . and this payment will come from the public sector,” Mr Maude said. “It’s a way of funding the work in advance”.
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The third tranche of the pilot social impact bond project working with offenders at Peterborough Prison will be replaced with an “alternative funding arrangement”, the Ministry of Justice has decided.
Board of Education member Henry Bienen took an unusual step at last month’s meeting: He voted against a plan that came down from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office.
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A New York City program aimed at cutting recidivism rates among Rikers Island adolescent prison inmates failed to meet its desired goal. As a result, the city paid nothing for it.
The federal government's plan to help the private sector fund the public sector with 'social impact bonds' appeals to some cash-strapped social service agencies but worries others.
A new study by the Parkland Institute details the devastation to
Alberta's social services sector following decades of experimentation by
the provincial Tories. The main goal of many of these initiatives was to
cut government spending on social welfare and offload provision to
anyone willing to take them on – for-profit and not-for-profit
organizations alike.
Design for Change equips children with the tools to be aware of the
world around them, believe that they play a role in shaping that world,
and take action toward a more desirable, sustainable future.
85 Prozent der Deutschen sind einer US-Studie zufolge im Internet aktiv. Die Begeisterung für soziale Medien ist hierzulande trotzdem deutlich geringer als in vielen anderen Ländern.
I want to talk about what I now think is one of the core challenges for designing large-scale social software. Let me offer a definition of social software, because it's a term that's still fairly amorphous. My definition is fairly simple: It's software t
I'm not the only woman who has tried to make herself disappear. Anorexia nervosa, the disorder of pathological self-starvation, is on the rise, with an 80% increase in hospital admissions among teenage girls over the last decade. Pressure groups and parents complain that there is still a chronic shortage of specialist care, with many GPs apparently reluctant to refer patients for treatment in the early stages of the disease. And this approach leaves children and their families to struggle on alone - usually until it is too late for simple intervention.
J. Frideres. Themes in canadian sociology Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Ont. u.a., (c2011)Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.