PCA8 - How to create an atmosphere for better networkingThom Singer
As a follow up to my session at Product Camp 8 (Austin), here is a copy of my 8-page essay on creating a better atmosphere for networking at business events
The document summarizes competitive advantages of MySQL compared to commercial and open source databases. It highlights that commercial databases have much higher total cost of ownership, are more complex, and have licensing restrictions. Express databases are found to have technical restrictions that prevent scaling. While other open source databases lack commercial backing and support. The document provides recommendations and questions to consider when evaluating MySQL against other database options.
Metadata in a Crowd: Shared Knowledge ProductionKevin Rundblad
The document discusses human computation and how crowdsourcing can be used to generate metadata. It describes different models of human computation, including socially motivated tasks like tagging photos on Flickr, economically motivated tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk, and tacit tasks like reCAPTCHAs. The document also discusses how human computation draws on human abilities at visual and language tasks to solve problems in parallel in a way similar to bittorrent networks. It argues that successful systems motivate participation through incentives, games, or the ability to contribute to a collective knowledge base.
How to create a Facebook presence for your business and execute compelling Facebook marketing and relationship building strategies to fuel your growth.
PCA8 - How to create an atmosphere for better networkingThom Singer
As a follow up to my session at Product Camp 8 (Austin), here is a copy of my 8-page essay on creating a better atmosphere for networking at business events
The document summarizes competitive advantages of MySQL compared to commercial and open source databases. It highlights that commercial databases have much higher total cost of ownership, are more complex, and have licensing restrictions. Express databases are found to have technical restrictions that prevent scaling. While other open source databases lack commercial backing and support. The document provides recommendations and questions to consider when evaluating MySQL against other database options.
Metadata in a Crowd: Shared Knowledge ProductionKevin Rundblad
The document discusses human computation and how crowdsourcing can be used to generate metadata. It describes different models of human computation, including socially motivated tasks like tagging photos on Flickr, economically motivated tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk, and tacit tasks like reCAPTCHAs. The document also discusses how human computation draws on human abilities at visual and language tasks to solve problems in parallel in a way similar to bittorrent networks. It argues that successful systems motivate participation through incentives, games, or the ability to contribute to a collective knowledge base.
How to create a Facebook presence for your business and execute compelling Facebook marketing and relationship building strategies to fuel your growth.
Naar aanleiding van een heisessie van de Gemeente Dordrecht, wordt in deze presentatie duidelijk, dat de Gemeente Dordrecht geen beleid heeft m.b.t. mandeligheid, maar dit wel in Plan Tij heeft toegepast.
Keten management; tussen succes en falen 2013Jo Horn
Ketensamenwerking is noodzaak. In deze presentatie worden de belangrijkste aspecten bij ketensamenwerking aangereikt. Het ketenconcept is abstract van karakter
Daardoor is het breed toepasbaar
Het ketenconcept maakt ingewikkelde processen overzichtelijk en begrijpelijk
Het ketenconcept richt de aandacht op het belang van functionele relaties
Het gevaar is echter dat het concept juist omdat het zo abstract is en zo breed toepasbaar nietszeggend wordt
Kennis over ketens in het publieke domein is een schaars goed
De Nederlandse gemeenten ontkomen er de komende jaren niet aan om samen te werken.
Het kabinet zal gemeenten daartoe linksom of rechtsom dwingen
Het is daarom goed dat de gemeenten zelf het initiatief nemen
Een zorgvuldig proces is essentieel over (1) de wens om samen te werken, (2) het besluit om samen te gaan werken, (3) de uitwerking leidend tot de beslissing over de samenwerkings-vorm en de realisatie ervan.
Uit de praktijk blijkt dat een zorgvuldige voorbereiding zichzelf terugverdient in een snelle(re) realisatie
Deze presentatie behandelt de rol van communicatie bij het opstellen van omgevingsvisie en omgevingsplannen in de nieuwe situatie van de Omgevingswet. Daarbij wordt ingegaan op de niveaus van participatie in de verschillende fasen van planvorming. Toegelicht met een case: visieontwikkeling Zuidas.
Ppt prowse neo patrimonial developmentalism in malawi - 27-04-12 so [compatib...jdhondt
This document provides an overview of the political economy of Malawi from 1964 to 2011 under three different ruling parties. [1] Under Kamuzu Banda and the Malawi Congress Party from 1964-1994, there was successful development and growth when rents were allocated productively, but this declined over time. [2] Under Bakili Muluzi and the United Democratic Front from 1994-2004, there was limited development despite aid due to lack of strategy and rents being exported. [3] Under Bingu Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party from 2005-2011, food security was achieved but fiscal discipline eroded and attempts to control tobacco rents failed.
Ppt hickey sh antwerp seminar april 2012 presentationjdhondt
The document discusses new thinking on the politics of development beyond mainstream approaches. It summarizes insights from a seminar presentation on Uganda's political economy given by Sam Hickey from the Effective States and Inclusive Development Centre. Some key points:
1) Mainstream approaches focus too much on material incentives and fail to consider the role of ideas and discourse.
2) Uganda has seen shifts toward a more programmatic and less clientelistic political settlement, though patronage persists.
3) Achieving structural economic transformation will require aligning political, policy, and social coalitions behind a new development strategy focused on ideas of modernization and equality, not just incentives.
Naar aanleiding van een heisessie van de Gemeente Dordrecht, wordt in deze presentatie duidelijk, dat de Gemeente Dordrecht geen beleid heeft m.b.t. mandeligheid, maar dit wel in Plan Tij heeft toegepast.
Keten management; tussen succes en falen 2013Jo Horn
Ketensamenwerking is noodzaak. In deze presentatie worden de belangrijkste aspecten bij ketensamenwerking aangereikt. Het ketenconcept is abstract van karakter
Daardoor is het breed toepasbaar
Het ketenconcept maakt ingewikkelde processen overzichtelijk en begrijpelijk
Het ketenconcept richt de aandacht op het belang van functionele relaties
Het gevaar is echter dat het concept juist omdat het zo abstract is en zo breed toepasbaar nietszeggend wordt
Kennis over ketens in het publieke domein is een schaars goed
De Nederlandse gemeenten ontkomen er de komende jaren niet aan om samen te werken.
Het kabinet zal gemeenten daartoe linksom of rechtsom dwingen
Het is daarom goed dat de gemeenten zelf het initiatief nemen
Een zorgvuldig proces is essentieel over (1) de wens om samen te werken, (2) het besluit om samen te gaan werken, (3) de uitwerking leidend tot de beslissing over de samenwerkings-vorm en de realisatie ervan.
Uit de praktijk blijkt dat een zorgvuldige voorbereiding zichzelf terugverdient in een snelle(re) realisatie
Deze presentatie behandelt de rol van communicatie bij het opstellen van omgevingsvisie en omgevingsplannen in de nieuwe situatie van de Omgevingswet. Daarbij wordt ingegaan op de niveaus van participatie in de verschillende fasen van planvorming. Toegelicht met een case: visieontwikkeling Zuidas.
Ppt prowse neo patrimonial developmentalism in malawi - 27-04-12 so [compatib...jdhondt
This document provides an overview of the political economy of Malawi from 1964 to 2011 under three different ruling parties. [1] Under Kamuzu Banda and the Malawi Congress Party from 1964-1994, there was successful development and growth when rents were allocated productively, but this declined over time. [2] Under Bakili Muluzi and the United Democratic Front from 1994-2004, there was limited development despite aid due to lack of strategy and rents being exported. [3] Under Bingu Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party from 2005-2011, food security was achieved but fiscal discipline eroded and attempts to control tobacco rents failed.
Ppt hickey sh antwerp seminar april 2012 presentationjdhondt
The document discusses new thinking on the politics of development beyond mainstream approaches. It summarizes insights from a seminar presentation on Uganda's political economy given by Sam Hickey from the Effective States and Inclusive Development Centre. Some key points:
1) Mainstream approaches focus too much on material incentives and fail to consider the role of ideas and discourse.
2) Uganda has seen shifts toward a more programmatic and less clientelistic political settlement, though patronage persists.
3) Achieving structural economic transformation will require aligning political, policy, and social coalitions behind a new development strategy focused on ideas of modernization and equality, not just incentives.
The document discusses different perspectives on the relationship between state, economy, and society. It argues that governance is not necessarily a precondition for development, as institutions are malleable and reflect socio-economic interests. Development can be a byproduct of these interests pressing for good governance. Alternative views discussed include leadership-driven development, limited access orders focused on peace dividends, and "clientelist" political settlements where distribution of resources maintains power. The document concludes that patrimonialism can be compatible with development, and formal institutions evolve gradually in the interests of the economy within local political contexts.
This paper examines Uganda's shift from a poverty agenda to a new focus on economic growth and structural transformation as outlined in its National Development Plan (NDP). It finds that several factors influenced this change, including declining reliance on traditional donors, the return of multi-party politics, and the discovery of large oil reserves. The NDP process differed significantly from previous Poverty Eradication Action Plans in both content and reduced involvement of donors and civil society. While the NDP aims to move beyond past paradigms, questions remain around its distributional impacts and whether Uganda has the governance capabilities to implement such an ambitious agenda and ensure oil wealth benefits the population. The paper argues the NDP signals a new politics of development in
Ppt nilgun gokgur rwanda’s party statals- april 27 2012jdhondt
The document discusses Rwanda's party-statals and their potential impact on development. It defines party-statals as entities owned by Rwanda's ruling party, government, and military, with unclear ownership structures and lack of transparency. It analyzes three major investment holdings - Crystal Ventures, Horizon Group, and Rwanda Investment Group - and their subsidiaries operating across various economic sectors. While Rwanda has experienced strong economic growth, concerns are raised about the party-statals' efficiency, cross-ownership with state firms, and impact on stakeholders such as domestic competitors and unemployed citizens. The document calls for reforms to increase transparency and separate analysis of state-owned and party-owned entities.
The document discusses economic transformation in Africa compared to Southeast Asia. It makes three key points:
1) While Southeast Asia has seen rapid economic growth and development, Africa's economic growth has not translated to the same level of transformation and poverty reduction.
2) Economic growth in Africa needs to be accompanied by productivity increases, structural economic changes, and skill development - not just more of the same growth.
3) Conventional views of "good governance" and democracy as prerequisites for development are incomplete, as developmental states in Asia transformed without conforming to these models. Rent allocation and political settlements may be more important factors.
This document discusses the relationship between neo-patrimonialism and development in Africa. It questions the orthodox view that neo-patrimonialism necessarily hinders development. It provides examples from Asia, such as Indonesia under Suharto, that achieved rapid growth despite high levels of rent-seeking and corruption. It argues that the organization of clientelism and rent management may be more important for development than the existence of neo-patrimonialism alone. The document proposes exploring different types of patrimonial regimes and their relationship to economic performance in Africa.
1. Many countries that developed did so behind substantial trade protections and subsidies, contradicting the notion that free trade alone leads to growth. Britain and the US both used protectionism to develop industries before opening markets.
2. Trade theory does not guarantee benefits for poor countries and the poor within them. Gains from trade depend on complementary policies and distributional impacts are uncertain. Liberalization has not clearly reduced world poverty.
3. NAFTA negatively impacted small farmers in Chiapas, Mexico who rely on maize. It increased risks, costs, and dependence on cash/imports while undermining traditions and food security. A gender analysis found greater burdens and insecurity for women.
The document summarizes a presentation given at the University of Antwerp on fieldwork conducted in the Rwandan hills. The presentation covered: 1) an overview of Rwanda, 2) fieldwork conducted, 3) local governance structures, 4) Gacaca courts used to address the past, and 5) a specific hill called Ntabona located among 1000 others.