Crowdfunding Urbanism – Breaking New Ground in Civic Participation
Originally posted on Places.:
by Valentin Schipfer To be honest, I have never parted with Euros for any crowdfunding project until today. I suppose ideas on http://www.kickstarter.com , http://www.indiegogo.com or…
Do cities have the institutional capacity to address climate change?
Originally posted on UGEC Viewpoints:
Patricia Romero Lankao National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA Daniel M. Gnatz Environmental Writer, USA Urban areas are both climate change hotspots and the seedbeds…
Political Settlements and the Politics of Inclusion
At least in the short to medium term, more inclusive political settlements at the elite level are crucial to avoid the recurrence of violent conflict, and to lay the foundations … Continue reading
Empty promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production
This research discovers that G20 country governments’ support to fossil fuel production marries bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for climate change. In effect, governments are propping up the production … Continue reading
Non-agricultural informal work can yield higher returns than formal work
Priorities for Boosting Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence for Mozambique Should policy-makers, including foreign donors, focus employment strategies in sub-Saharan Africa on strengthening access to formal wage employment or on … Continue reading
Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization
This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ Google is to surveillance capitalism what General Motors was … Continue reading
Principles for Knowledge Management for Development – lessons from innovation
Originally posted on KM on a dollar a day:
This week UNICEF is partnering with the Government of Finland to organize a big innovation shindig – the rather grand sounding…
Is capitalism “mutating” into an infotech utopia?
Ann Pettifor reviews Paul Mason’s recent book PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future “Mason is optimistic about technology’s ability to eliminate pricing, to free up knowledge and to empower society … Continue reading
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