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Dispensing with jargon

Posted in Policy, tagged , , , , on 9 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve got a piece up for work on the nature of information sharing challenges, not dissimilar from some of the themes I’ve discussed here in the past.  So, in the name of shameless self-promotion, here’s an outtake: The language of better communication has come to take on an almost dogmatic character.  Particularly within official circles [...]

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Regarding an information strategy

Posted in Policy, tagged , , , , , on 20 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’m wary that anything I may write herein will trivialize the catastrophe that frames these considerations.  That, certainly, is not my intention. As a detached observer of the scenes currently unfolding in Haiti, it is hard not to wonder how on earth the responders at hand will ever manage to return some semblance of normalcy [...]

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Building bridges through technology?

Posted in Policy, tagged , , , on 12 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Hint: it’s not always about the technology.  Now, let’s see if I can explain what I think that means. Here’s a brief run-down of what’s been going on lately. An information sharing project that I’ve been working on continues to tinker along its merry way with very little apparent sense of direction or awareness of [...]

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Smoke and mirrors

Posted in Policy, tagged , , , on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m in the DC area this week in support of an information sharing project that was conceived with the intention of taking some fundamental first steps towards overcoming social, organizational, and technological challenges that regularly and continuously plague humanitarian emergencies, disaster responses, and essentially any situation that forces too many interests into too little space [...]

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Good intentions…

Posted in Policy, tagged , , , , , , on 21 March 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been mulling over some items that caught my attention this past week that highlight some divergent angles being taken to address essentially similar problems: Web communications, decentralized authority, and agile organization.  Though it would be too much to assume anything about the motives behind these various initiatives, what came to mind is that cliché [...]

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Considering openness

Posted in Policy, tagged , , , on 23 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It comes as no surprise, considering the rising awareness of open source technology generally, that the new President has requested a review of the possibilities made available to the government by pursuing open source solutions.  The immediate benefits obviously come from decreased acquisitions costs, freedom from proprietary licensing restrictions and vendor lock-in, and a unique [...]

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