Debategraph connected recently with Dan Bassill, founder and president of the Tutor/Mentor Institute LLC and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Dan has been working with inner-city youth in Chicago for more than 36 years and also had a 17 year career in corporate advertising with the historic Montgomery Ward Corporation. Drawing on his advertising experience, Dan began [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Public Policy category.
Controlling Persistent Infectious Diseases
The first in a quick series of posts to catch-up on some of our projects in 2011 so far. At the start of March 2011 I was privileged to map a 5-Day workshop on “Modelling and analysis of options for controlling persistent infectious diseases” at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Discovery and Innovation; [...]
Mapping the Amsterdam Declaration
The World Congress on Information Technology 2010, which began in Amsterdam earlier today, brings together over 2,000 leading figures from industry, government, and academia from over 90 countries to address the global challenges of economic, environmental and social development. The speakers include: Paul Otellini(Intel), Stephen Elop (Microsoft), Pierre Hessler (Capgemini) , Michael Fries (Liberty Global), [...]
Dissecting the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement
As part of The Independent’s visual mapping of the election and its aftermath, we have broken down the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement into an interactive visual graph that lets you comment on and rate each of the proposals. By surfacing their shared agenda for the next Parliament explicitly in this way, the Conservatives [...]
CNN, Amanpour and Debategraph
As you may have spotted already, the collaboration between Amanpour and Debategraph launched on CNN last night, with Christiane’s new live global program featuring interviews with the Secretary General of Nato and the Prime Minister of Spain. If you missed lat night’s episode, it’s available via Podcast here. Debategraph’s working with Amanpour’s production team and viewers to [...]
Crowdsourcing Public Services 2.0
In November 2009, the EU Ministerial declaration on eGovernment will be published at the Malmo conference. Building on the Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels early this year, and at the initiative of David Osimo and Paul Johnston, we are teaming up other partners to crowdsource an Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0 to sit [...]
Mapping the Power of Information Taskforce Report
As a follow up to the Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels last month, and in keeping with the collaborative ethos and intention of the event, Richard Stirling, one of the Cabinet Office secretaries to the Power of Information Taskforce, asked me to receate the Taskforce’s landmark report in Debategraph. The initial map (shown in [...]
Public Services 2.0
Thanks to David Osimo‘s pioneering energy and imagination (and the enabling support of FutureGov and Headshift), I was privileged to have the opportunity to outline some of the thinking behind Debategraph at the European Commission’s Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels last month.