Teamwork through SOLE
As part of an experiment launched by Professor Sugata MitraPeer in 1999, peer pressure has shown itself to be a positive force for learning. The notion of competitive communication — in this case,...
View ArticleStakeholder Engagement with Open Innovation
Open Innovation, which fosters greater communication and transparency in organizations, celebrated its official launch on July 28, 2010. The OC platform is based on the central idea that regardless of...
View ArticleThe New Delhi Traffic Police Benefit from Facebook Collaboration
Software that is accessible by a large number of people often produces unexpected benefits due to its inherently collaborative nature. In New Delhi, overburdened traffic police have gained an...
View ArticleThe World Bank Open Data Portal
In the era of Google Instant, internet real estate has become increasingly valuable, partially because it is so ephemeral. A single key stroke can instantly dispatch a page of results. In order to...
View ArticleShow Me the Money: Financial Transparency
Open data has spread to the Rockies. Colorado, infamous for its mountainous peaks and occasionally controversial politics, has become a purveyor of open data, with a group of local citizens known as...
View ArticleA Brief History of Failed IPOs
What is the future of market trading on internet companies? The recent public stock offering by internet radio giant Pandora has been largely disappointing to investors, even though the company is...
View ArticleOur Top 4 Data Journalism Sites
Why read about it when you can see the big picture? That’s part of the theory behind data journalism, which is a compact way of providing complex information in a bite-size (or maybe 1MB size)...
View ArticleOne of These Operating Systems Must Go
It’s been a weird week for smart phones. Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion has been in the news for its inadvertent role in helping rioters in the UK coordinate their looting sprees. Apple’s...
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Integrating Social Media into Government Websites
Facebook logo Up until recently, the idea of encouraging employees to spend time on Facebook or other social media sites was ludicrous. Most managers viewed it as an enormous waste of time. The...
View ArticleAn Inside Look at Alfresco Software
Alfresco Software is an open-source platform that incorporates the flexibility and innovation of open source programming with the utility of enterprise class management, or ECM. The system can be...
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