People working in the field of social media bear a particular responsibility for imagining, interrogating and forming this new world that is just beginning, for what use is our insatiable appetite for connectivity, our constant embrace of new tools, our … Read More
Yearly Archives: 2010
Is the Internet our new Parliament Buildings? (Part One)
The future is going to happen no matter what we do, writes Douglas Copeland in his latest book Player One: What is to Become of Us, reminding us of the obvious. And that future, regardless of what we think will … Read More
Literary Review of Canada profiles Donna Thomson’s new book
The current issue of the Literary Review of Canada carries a thoughtful overview and commentary on The Four Walls of My Freedom by Donna Thomson. Thanks to Alastair Cheng, LRC's Managing Editor, who passed along this electronic version of the … Read More
What Makes a Hand a Hand? – Tips for Solution Based Advocacy (44)
The fingers? Yes. Obviously, but… What about the spaces in between? The hand is a system comprised of fingers and the spaces in between. The fingers don't exist without the spaces in between. Without the spaces in between the fingers … Read More
I’ll Get My Data to Talk to Your Data! – Tips for Solution Based Advocacy (43)
According to David Eaves, one of the world's expert on open data and open government there are more than 300 different data sets in the federal government alone! How are they able to 'talk' to each other let alone to … Read More
A British Columbia Jewel at the G-20 Seoul Summit – Tips for Solution Based Advocacy (42)
Here's a positive footnote to the recently completed G-20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea. The G-20 leaders committed more than half a billion dollars to support social finance. That's serious money for sustainable and socially responsible businesses. While critics and … Read More
So the Minister is full of sh##? – Tips for Solution Based advocacy (41)
I didn't even see it coming. A big, slow, deliberate set-up. How could I miss it? My adrenalin was gushing. Our campaign to get the Minister to close down a children's facility providing sub standard care was picking up momentum. … Read More
Who invented the committee? – Tips for Solution Based Advocacy (40 )
A foolish question perhaps. How about Task Force? Advisory Body? Expert Panel? Regardless these forms have been around for a long time. Now a new vehicle or container is emerging simultaneously in many parts of the world. It's generic description … Read More
The Courage of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi – a Profile of Solution Based Advocacy (39)
"Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines … Read More
Peace in Our Time – Peace in Our Classrooms
The well being of our grandchildren is directly linked to the well being of our enemy's grandchildren. John Paul Lederach, author The Moral Imagination – TheArt and Soul of Building Peace Empathy makes our world go around. It helps people … Read More