Missoula adds free WiFi to buses
Missoula’s Mountain Line (MT) debuted free WiFi service on its buses, one of a series of planned high-tech upgrades for the system. Original post
Vermont approves single payer health care
The Vermont legislature has passed a bill that will move the state to a universal, publicly funded health care system. The measure is strongly supported by the Governor and he is expected to sign it. Last week the House approved the bill 94-49. Under the terms of the bill, every resident will be covered underRead… Read more »
All Australian Parliamentary Speeches Online
All 110 years of transcripts of parliamentary proceedings are now available for the Australian Parliament. The Parliamentary Library claims that Hansard for the Senate and House of Representatives has been converted to XML for easy online access under a Creative Commons licence.While it is good that Hansard is available online, the interface could be improved.Read… Read more »
Assessment beyond the degree factory
Greetings from day two of the Faculty Board Meeting of ACS Education, the part of the Australian Computer Society which provides education to computer professionals. There are about 30 people around a table in the ACS South Australia Branch office.AssessmentWe started with a presentation on the role of assessment in academic integrity. What I foundRead… Read more »
Big Blue Bus could test digital advertising
The California State Assembly passed a bill to allow Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus to test digital advertising on its buses. Original post
Converting the Dissenter; Part Three
As a follow-up to last week’s blog https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blog/list?user=1l6nclusxlq6q, this week’s entry concludes our discussion of the tactics that the Change Management Champion (CMC) can utilize to mitigate change resistors, also known as dissenters. As mentioned in my previous two blogs on this topic, frequently a combination of mitigation approaches may need to be utilized togetherRead… Read more »
Paul McCartney to marry MTA board member
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is engaged to Nancy Shevell, who is a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (NY) board of directors. Original post
What Is Civic Engagement?
My previous post on micro-participation included a definition of civic engagement that I hadn’t referenced before. According to Michael X. Delli Carpini, Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, civic engagement can be defined as: Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. I haveRead… Read more »
EU Council Invites EU Members to Use European Case Law Identifier and Standard Metadata for Court and Tribunal Decisions
The Council of the European Union (EU), on 29 April 2011, issued conclusions inviting EU member states to begin using “the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law.” In particular, the Council invites member states to apply ECLI to “all decisions rendered by all of their courtsRead… Read more »
Alpha conversation
This is how conversations work, or rather how one conversation played out on twitter this morning. Tricky subject, no right answer, constructive discussion.* But perhaps most important of all, those issues are being discussed in public for a government proof of concept which hasn’t yet even been launched. It is that which is more radicalRead… Read more »