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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘context’
Dispensing with jargon
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, communication, context, Haiti, information sharing on 9 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Consolidation
Posted in Policy, tagged context, decentralization, emergence, organization on 30 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A tendency that I continue to find somewhat puzzling — and hopefully it’s only an error in perception, but I seriously doubt it — is the evidently sincere notion held in certain places that undirected community interactions and willing cooperation across levels of organization can somehow be bundled and consolidated into singular activities, platforms, programs, [...]
This post is not about “football”
Posted in Policy, tagged context, football, organization, philosophy, rugby on 17 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, my intention with this post is to talk about something towards which I have a pretty inflexible disposition, in order to make a different point altogether. First, though, in order to brace myself for the passionate responses this might elicit, it seems appropriate to come clean about all the bias I know to be [...]
Open social architectures? (Pt. 2)
Posted in Policy, tagged context, Nash, non-cooperation, normative, open, Pareto, positive, semantics on 21 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An “open” system, in the sense of the previous entry, is distinguished not by anarchy as much as by an emergent rule-set among distinct participants. That is to say, in the absence of either predefined requirements or overarching control, it is participation — in accordance with the open standards of the community, negotiated in context [...]
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