The foundation has posted its Transparency in Government Act of 2008 on the Web at publicmarkup.org and has invited the public to tweak, add to or criticize any aspect of the proposed bill. The goal, said Ellen Miller, executive director of the foundation, is to change the backroom, secretive way that legislation is typically passed [...]
Read more →I have said this before: Technology is about people. Why does this catch-phrase seem so important to me? Because, simply, it stabs so many holes in the fabric of that which we have come to accept as truth. The assumptions made constantly and persistently in our social, political, and economic environments have been left untouched [...]
Read more →Food is become increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is already unaffordable for many people. The world’s 200 wealthiest people have as much money as about 40 percent of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go to bed hungry every night. This calamity is “one of the worst violations of human [...]
Read more →http://www.metafilter.com/70827/To-Nudge-or-Not-to-Nudge makes sense – set sensible defaults on things, but let people change them if they care. sounds like software.
Read more →Here is an interesting thought from the presentation by Adrian Bowyer of the RepRap project at the recent Go Open 2008 that I attended in Norway. “People can make patented things for themselves” Patentregulation prevents commercial agents without a license to sell people products covered by patents. In the future people will have in their [...]
Read more →Some of the mobile phone’s biggest boosters are those who believe that pumping international aid money into poor countries is less effective than encouraging economic growth through commerce, also called “inclusive capitalism.” A cellphone in the hands of an Indian fisherman who uses it to grow his business — which presumably gives him more resources [...]
Read more →Even for me I was on a tear. http://newfluwiki2.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2356#92400 The SPRS paper is definitely designed to stake out an unusual position – fundamental optimism about dealing with a high CFR flu outbreak. As such it runs directly contrary to a lot of established wisdom. To really get into the details of why I think it [...]
Read more →I think that Ron Paul was much needed chlorine in the pool – but a little goes a long way. Obama looks like an electable post-cold war president, somebody who can actually move America forwards. I’m not sure that America has a lot of strong options going forward – the mess that they’ve made of [...]
Read more →http://newfluwiki2.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2356#92150 Good doctor, I’m simply Mr. Gupta. http://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES_PACKET/TIDES_BOARDS_V2_low_resolution.pdf This is a roughly 40 page document I did for the http://STAR-TIDES.net project – a sort of distributed thinktank on infrastructure issues as they pertain to emergencies and sustainable development, mostly operated by National Defense University. It gives a pretty good overview of some important models for [...]
Read more →http://newfluwiki2.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2356 You know, I’ve been keeping my head down over here for a while, but I think it is time to come out of the woodwork. As you know, I wrote a piece called Severe Panflu Response Strategies (SPRS), which examines a scenario with a CFR of 50% and a CAR of 50% – the [...]
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