Diogo Vasconcelos

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Dec

Open Government

Yesterday, the Obama team has modified the copyright notice on change.gov to embrace the intellectual property licensing of Creative Communs, allowing bloggers and others to freely use it. A group of internet visionaries, lead by Lawrence Lessig, launched today a letter making the case for a looser online copyright regime. The group includes authors like Tim O'Reilly and Clay Shirky (author, "Here comes everybody"), the leaders or officials of Mozilla, Wikipedia, Moveon.org, Sunlight Foundation, BoingBoing. "To further support President Obama's commitment to change, and to help make it tangible, we offer three “open transition principles” to guide the transition in its use of the Internet to produce the very best in open government." The "Principles for an Open Transition" are three: 1. No Legal Barrier to Sharing (law (copyright law) should not block sharing); Content made publicly available in the course of this transition — such as President-elect Obama’s videos, or policy statements posted on the change.gov website — should be freely licensed so that citizens can share, excerpt, remix or otherwise redistribute this content without unnecessary complexity imposed by the law (...) 2. No Technological Barrier to Sharing (code (limitations on downloads, for example) should not block sharing; A merely legal freedom to share and ...

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Dec

“Why I Love Twitter” (Tim O’Reilly)

If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I'm following. These are all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I spray via email like a firehose at editors, conference planners, and researchers within O'Reilly. A lot of my job is, as we say, "redistributing the future" - following interesting people, and passing on what I learn to others. And twitter is an awesome tool for doing just that. Like a lot of people, I tried out Twitter early on, but didn't stick to it. Most of the early twitter conversation was personal, and I didn't have time for it. I came back when I noticed that about 5000 people were following my non-existent updates, waiting for me to say something. With that many listeners, I thought I'd better oblige. (There are now close to 16,000.) I soon realized that Twitter has grown up to become a critical business tool, ideal for following the latest news, ...

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Dec

Fast growing global phenomenon

Twitter is the new fast growing web 2.0 global phenomenon. It became a top 1,000 site that reaches over 1.9 million U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more educated, slightly more female than male, young adult audience. On his blog, Brian Solis, a Siicon Valley PR guru writes : “The social fibers that weave together this unique micromedia network is strengthened by the expertise, respect, trust, admiration, and commonalities. These fabrics bind the people who breathe life and personality into the global community as well as fueling the disparate micro communities that ultimately extend across the Long Tail.” “Almost every single day, a passionate developer, b2b or b2c application company, or tech enthusiast will develop a new tool, service, or solution to make Twitter a more personalized, professional, streamlined, effective, and/or fun experience.” Brian presents a comprehensive guide of more than 50 Twitter tools aready available. Here is my selection of tools and applications that might be useful for public sector: Twitt(url)y is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. http://twitturly.com/ Favrd is a service that channels the most "favorited" tweets on Twitter. You can search by ...

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twitter

Dec

Build your own timeline

When of the great things I like in some magazines if their hability to craft beautiful and interesting timeline tables. The tables of historical events and theirs correlations allow everyone to have a visual and immediate understanding of current affairs and history. I just came across two fascinating start-ups that launched web 2.0 timeline tools. Using either http://www.xtimeline.com or http://www.allofme.com you have many ways to creatively use the timeline. You can start to create the Personal Timeline of your life from any digital assets you have, such as pictures, videos, blogs, documents, or any Internet page. You can them compare it with feature timelines (like the covers of Wired or Life magazines, of the history of the US, etc). The possibilities are endless, since these websites allow you to not only start any timeline you want but also to feed your content in existing timelines. Timeline tools can be very interesting on public sector as well. It can become a great public service, a resource for accountability and for debate over current issues. Imagine the ability to describe the history of a public initiative; of to track the way government addressed complex issues like any war, education reforms, climate change, ageing ...

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collaboration

Nov

Líderes 2.0

Transparência, participação, poder descentralizado. O paragigma da colaboração, da criação colectiva, da “wikipedia” e do “open source”, aplicados a politica. Não é de democracia directa que estamos a falar, é de melhor democracia representativa. A Web alia três dimensões de participação, de intensidade crescente: partilha, colaboração e accção colectiva. A lógica de rede e da rede permite menos barreiras à entrada e a emergência de uma nova liderança política. São boas notícias para a democracia. Há menos barreiras à entrada, há mais liberdade. Acredito cada vez mais no fim do paradigma do lider político como um “rambo” obcecado com o comando e controlo, que usa o “spin” e todo o poder (real e projectado) para impor o seu rumo. Esse tipo de liderança impressiona pela sua eficácia e será sempre do agrado de alguns. Não tem sucesso nas empresas e tem sucesso limitado na política. É um modelo do passado, que cria dependências, tolhe a iniciativa, inibe a sociedade civil “não controlada”, na qual cria um lastro de cresente desconforto. O nosso tempo pede líderes diferentes, que prefiram a “orquestração” ao “comando e controlo”. Que se vejam mais como sensores do que como magafones. Que prefiram a verdade ao “spin”. Líderes assim são capazes ...

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leadership, web 2.0

Nov

O candidado “wiki”

Em 2004, Howard Dean, hoje líder do Partido Democrata, não chegou a ganhar as primárias a John Kerry, mas fez história ao mobilizar milhões de dólares e milhares de voluntários através do seu site. Nesse mesmo ano de 2004, Barack Obama era eleito Senador pelo Estado do Illinois. Escassos quatro anos volvidos, um candidato outrora desconhecido não só arrasou o poderoso establishment da invencivel Hilary Clinton como irá (estamos a horas de o confirmar) prestar juramento como 44º Presidente EUA, no próximo dia 20 de Janeiro de 2009. Já quase foi dito sobre as razões do espectacular sucesso de Barack Obama. A sua capacidade oratória, o seu carisma e capacidade de sedução, a genialidade da sua campanha, o apoio entusiástico da juventude, a vontade de mudança e a conjuntura económica. Tudo isso é verdade. Mas tenho para mim que um dos mais espectatulares sucessos de Obama está na forma como revolucionou a utilização da internet numa campanha politica. O que Dean tinha inaugurado, Obama levou a um patamar nunca visto. Nada será igual nas campanhas. Primeiro: o impacto da internet no financiamento da campanha. Enquanto as campanhas do passado dependeram sobretudo do apoio de pequenos circulos de "wealthy and well-connected patrons", Obama ...

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collaboration, web 2.0

Jun

The bees and the trees: Geoff Mulgan’s ten thesis on social innovation

The opening panel I chaired at the Social Innovation International Congress had an excellent trio of speakers: Geoff Mulgan, Peter Armstrong and Richard Wilson. Geoff needs no presentation, since he is the world's thought leader on social innovation. He was the founder of Demos, was former Director of Tony Blair’s policy unit and is now Director of Young Foundation, an inspiring London-based institution. Peter is the co-founder of Oneworld, a cutting edge in harnessing media technology to benefit people who need it most (see previous post). Richard is a co-founder of Involve, a new organization focused on the practical issues of making public participation work and has written and spoken widely on public participation and democracy at home and abroad. All three panelists did very well and their presentations were followed by a vibrant discussion. On his keynote speech, Geoff made the case for social innovation. There is a growing convergence of governments, business and civic society around the need for acting together. Here are the ten thesis on Social Innovation, presented by Geoff: 1. The world has a deficit of social innovation. Existing models are inadequate to cope with ageing population, climate change, equality, diversity, drugs, well being, ...

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social innovation

Jun

Social innovation to promote active ageing

Last week, I had the opportunity to moderate the opening session of the “Next Rev – The Social Innovation International Congress”, in Lisbon. Organized by the Portuguese NGO Tese and by Young Foundation, with Cisco support, the two days of the excellent congress gathered nearly 300 participants, including an impressive international group of social innovators. Professor Anibal Cavaco Silva, the President of the Portuguese Republic, participated in the conference, which focused on the application of social innovation in three thematic areas: education and employment, health and quality of life, and communities and participation. The goals of the Conference were: to show what Social Innovation is, where and how it happens, to inspire the existing and potential changemakers and to accelerate Social Innovation in Portugal and in the World.The venue was the auditorium of the Gulbenkian Foundation, an excellent auditorium with a window overlooking the Foundation beautiful gardens. The Portuguese President Cavaco Silva, opened the event. On a bold speech, the Head of State explained why social exclusion is an area to which he have given special attention since the beginning of his mandate as President of the Republic. “I put forward for a civic commitment for social inclusion, ...

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Diogo Vasconcelos

Blogging.

Open Government

“Why I Love Twitter” (Tim O’Reilly)

Fast growing global phenomenon

Build your own timeline

Líderes 2.0

O candidado “wiki”

The bees and the trees: Geoff Mulgan’s ten thesis on social innovation

Social innovation to promote active ageing

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