Category: Data Governance

Creativity and social science critical to reform government gridlock

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences
core77.com

Today’s glob­al finan­cial and social crises demand inno­va­tion not only in pub­lic ser­vices, but with­in the whole bureau­crat­ic, admin­is­tra­tive sys­tem of pub­lic gov­er­nance. In order to respond effec­tive­ly to a chang­ing con­text of…

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The reason societies become less productive with industrialization

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense)
Alan Henry, lifehacker.com

The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably spend more…

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Green peace compels Mango, Esprit to clean up their supply chains

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Mango, Esprit Pledge to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals From Supply Chains by 2020, Thanks to Greenpeace Campaign
ecouterre.com

Green­peace’s “Detox” cam­paign is hav­ing a ban­ner month. Not only did the envi­ron­men­tal non­prof­it con­vince Zara, the world’s No. 1 appar­el retail­er, to com­mit to elim­i­nat­ing haz­ardous chem­i­cals from its sup­ply chain by 2020, but…

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Paul Krugman analyzes GOP fiscal cliff proposal on health

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Paul Krugman: GOP Plan Only ‘Sounds Serious Because It Hurts Vulnerable People’
Bonnie Kavoussi, huffingtonpost.com

In an inter­view with PBS’ Gwen Ifill on Tues­day, Nobel Prize-winning econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man tore into the GOP’s fis­cal cliff pro­pos­al and launched a spir­it­ed defense of Pres­i­dent Barack Obama.

Krug­man explained that Oba­macare has d…

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GOP and UN disability treaty position

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Jon Stewart: Have Republicans Hit ‘Rock Bottom’ With Failed United Nations Disability Treaty?
Carol Hartsell, huffingtonpost.com

For the sec­ond day in a row, Jon Stew­art ham­mered at Repub­li­cans over irra­tional par­ti­san­ship. On Tues­day, he took down Boehn­er and com­pa­ny’s inde­cent fis­cal cliff pro­pos­al, and on Wednes­day “The Daily Show” host took sen­ate…

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Broadband index ranks states in Internet access

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

2012 Broadband Index: States Making Progress On Boosting Broadband
Blair Christie, huffingtonpost.com

Imag­ine a future where every class­room in Amer­i­ca has a high-speed con­nec­tion to the inter­net, where stu­dents have the entire cat­a­log of books and videos at their fin­ger­tips. A future where access to the high­est qual­i­ty health care…

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Papa John’s Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management
Papa John's Pizza
Papa John’s Pizza (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Joe Van Brussel, huffingtonpost.com

Turns out nobody wants a side of politics with their pizza. Public opinion of Papa John’s dropped precipitously after CEO John Schnatter’s public comments about Obamacare, according to a new study from YouGov BrandIndex, which researches brand…

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Papa John’s Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study

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Obama campaign sparks new political tech startups

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

The Obama start-ups
economist.com

Innovation and electioneering

Techniques from the president’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of young firms

AT THE inau­gu­ra­tion ball held for staff of Barack Obama’s cam­paign team in Jan­u­ary 2009, the new pres­i­dent “told us al…

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Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption
Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com

(Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi…

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Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Systems Science
Wimpy (restaurant)
Wimpy (restaurant) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com

In the halt­ing, mea­sured lan­guage we’ve come to expect from his impromp­tu pub­lic remarks, Pres­i­dent Obama posed a core dilem­ma of cli­mate change yes­ter­day at his first post-election press con­fer­ence. Explain­ing the pos­si­ble…

Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change

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Drug company employees vote for Obama while PACs vote Republican

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama
Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com

Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg

Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli Lilly & Co. favored Repub­li­can polit­i­cal can­di­dates in the Novem­ber elec­tion even as work­ers at the…

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Obamacare sparks new jobs for tech workers

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Security & Privacy

Tech Workers See Opportunity as Health-Care Law Kicks In
By Jeff Green & Shannon Pettypiece -, bloomberg.com

John Tri­c­as said he heard oppor­tu­ni­ty knock­ing and learned net­work­ing soft­ware two decades ago, when it was the “next big thing.” Now he sens­es a sim­i­lar open­ing as the health-care over­haul law takes effect.

In Sep­tem­ber, the…

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