Tanzania takes politics online

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Online games play with politics

Online games play with politics 12/26/2004 01:03 AM
Games with a political and social agenda have provided a novel take on world events.

Year in review: Online politics gone
wild

Year in review: Online politics gone
wild 12/24/2004 12:22 PM
In 2004, the Internet finally made a massive impact on U.S. politics. It wasn't just the presidential candidates, though. Animators and bloggers also left their mark.

Sweden, Tanzania Plan HIV Vaccine

Sweden, Tanzania Plan HIV Vaccine 09/17/2004 02:18 PM
Wired News Sep 17 2004 6:21PM GMT

Mob Accused of Killing Tanzania Witches
(AP)

Mob Accused of Killing Tanzania Witches
(AP) 08/05/2004 10:42 AM
AP - A mob armed with machetes, stones and knives killed seven people accused of practicing witchcraft in southern Tanzania, a regional police chief said Thursday.

Tanzania marks 40th birthday

Tanzania marks 40th birthday 04/26/2004 04:47 AM
Tanzanians celebrate the 40th anniversary of the union of the mainland and the Zanzibar islands.

On fires, string quartets and the new
politics of online communities...

On fires, string quartets and the new
politics of online communities... 01/24/2004 02:54 PM

In the Guardian article Four's a crowd, cellist David Waterman talks about how to keep a string quartet together over many years without the interpersonal relationships forcing the group apart. I love articles like this - articles that don't seem to have an overt relationship to how we build social software but nonetheless remind us of core lessons about the nature of groups. Lesson one: the thing that keeps groups together can be a mutual passion, but a mutual activity will bring them together even more strongly. Lesson two: that intensively creative groups seem to be necessarily relatively small. And that's because - lesson three - there will always be tensions and forces within groups that will try to push them apart from one another. And here's where social software comes in to the fore - because lesson four is that those tensions can almost always be ameliorated or even totally removed by the careful implementation of mechanisms that institute some form of process, some kind of system - or even some kind of politics. That's how we can operate in a macro-social way, because we have instituted a system / structure within which we all operate.

If we're looking for more evidence about the importance of structures and systems then perhaps we should look at what happens when some of those structures break down. A recent Wired article provides the perfect example. Imagine an office during a fire - it's the kind of environment where the normal civil strategies of co-operation between individuals can disintegrate. And the consequence is that everyone suffers - like an enormous ultra-paranoid version of the Prisoner's dilemma. And when that break occurs, when there is no hope that the individuals concerned will take the hopeful collaborative approach, how do we stop them destroying themselves? In the article, they try to mitigate the effects of this collapse of collaboration by abstracting the problems out from a rule space into a physical one. They remake the building so that these sudden collapses in the social rulespace change the context from one in which bad behaviour results in death to one in which it doesn't.

All of this stuff has an enormous impact on the way we should be building our online social spaces - from helping us determine how such spaces should support and compensate for human social failings (on the one extreme), all the way through to finding ways of abstracting inter-human rules for exchange and behaviour, power and reputation into organic and evolving rule-sets and meta-rule-sets that can be encoded into software and built into the very structure of our online environments. A lot of the work we put into the first version of Barbelith is based specifically around these simple concepts - creating a space with an evolving, abstracted political structure that translates inter-human process into code, with the aspiration of generating an oligarchic political economy rather than a despotic one (metafilter) that requires strong consistent leadership or a capitalist one (slashdot) that can be gamed or unbalanced. The aspiration was to - in the process - find a different model in which an online community might be able to act decisively with fast intra-group policy-making and enacting structures. The eventual aspiration - a model that goes beyond oligarchic rule into democratic or even fully anarchic / distributed rule - a model that can create communities that can operate with the absolute minimum of external or top-down management and in which the 'citizens' are able to self-determine and self-enforce the rough structures of their own rule-making.

I was hoping to be able to get some of this together for a participant session at ETCon, but I don't think that's looking practical any more, so I think finally maybe it's just best if I start pumping it out into the open and hope someone finds it as interesting as I do...

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Willamette Week Online | News | POLITICS
| SHUT UP and VOTE!

Willamette Week Online | News | POLITICS
| SHUT UP and VOTE! 09/24/2004 03:06 AM
the honorable thing would be for Gore to kill Bush .. Kerry has the Klingon vote all sewn up .. "Oregon Star Trek Geek Vote" .. disdain dishonor

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Important if True: Online and Offline
Meet Up to Change Politics

Important if True: Online and Offline
Meet Up to Change Politics 01/07/2004 03:13 PM
Ed Cone explains exactly why Howard Dean's "open style" of politics is a big deal--and a big story--whether he or not he wins. This will scramble the mind of the press if the press retains its master narrative: winning.

Citizens online Can computers make
children interested in politics?

Citizens online Can computers make
children interested in politics? 09/07/2004 08:48 AM
BBC Sep 7 2004 12:40PM GMT

Game of politics How activists are using
online games to spread their message

Game of politics How activists are using
online games to spread their message 08/31/2004 06:31 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Aug 31, 08:36 am GMT

First Swahili office suite released in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Wikinews

First Swahili office suite released in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Wikinews 03/14/2005 06:09 PM
First Swahili office suite released in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Wikinews The suite contains more than 99% of the strings in Swahili. The ones that are left in English (less than 100 strings out of 18,000) will be worked out in the next release.

Motorola Israel completes $2.4m digital
communications system for Tanzania
police

Motorola Israel completes $2.4m digital
communications system for Tanzania
police 12/19/2004 03:12 PM
Israel Business Arena Dec 16 2004 3:22PM GMT

Best Software Takes Its ACT! Online

Best Software Takes Its ACT! Online 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
Best Software is jumping on a growing trend in the small business space, online CRM, with the introduction of ACT! for Web, a contact management and sales force automation application that replicates the popular Windows-based program. Geared toward the small business CRM marketplace, its main lure is its very low price point.

Think.com takes kids online

Think.com takes kids online 12/04/2003 01:17 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Dec 4 2003 0:11AM ET

ENOC takes online MBA

ENOC takes online MBA 04/11/2005 08:35 AM
Ameinfo.com - Mon Apr 11, 11:59 am GMT

India takes to online gaming

India takes to online gaming 12/29/2003 08:37 AM
BBC Dec 29 2003 7:47AM ET

New NRA online broadcast takes aim at
campaign law

New NRA online broadcast takes aim at
campaign law 04/18/2004 03:10 AM
Washington Times Apr 18 2004 6:37AM GMT

Former LSH chief takes online role

Former LSH chief takes online role 07/16/2004 04:58 AM
Property-week.co.uk - Fri Jul 16, 06:48 am GMT

Do-it-yourself book publishing takes off
online

Do-it-yourself book publishing takes off
online 09/22/2004 02:44 AM
USA Today Sep 22 2004 6:52AM GMT

Microsoft takes aim at Apple's online
music

Microsoft takes aim at Apple's online
music 09/01/2004 06:34 AM
Mcall.com - Wed Sep 1, 09:59 am GMT

Sify takes bankers ’ exam online

Sify takes bankers ’ exam online 02/15/2004 07:49 PM
Two, when the exams are on, the PC in the Iway, runs only the exam module, meaning, you cannot hop to www.google.com to get some help! ...

MI5 takes charge of online terror tips

MI5 takes charge of online terror tips 11/19/2003 09:24 AM
Secret agency steps out of the shadows

Poynter Online - Investigative
Reporting: What It Takes

Poynter Online - Investigative
Reporting: What It Takes 03/27/2005 10:28 AM

Online service takes parts from design
to manufacture

Online service takes parts from design
to manufacture 06/04/2004 05:36 AM
Pma-magazine.com - Fri Jun 4, 08:09 am GMT

Blockbuster Takes On Netflix With Online
Movie Rentals

Blockbuster Takes On Netflix With Online
Movie Rentals 08/12/2004 05:44 AM
Article.wn.com - Thu Aug 12, 09:48 am GMT

Online privacy takes a hit after appeals
court ruling

Online privacy takes a hit after appeals
court ruling 07/01/2004 12:31 AM
Narrow interpretation of the Wiretap Act could allow ISPs and law enforcement wide latitude in obtaining personal communications sent through the Internet.

Online bookmaker takes punt on stock
exchange

Online bookmaker takes punt on stock
exchange 06/02/2004 04:38 PM
ZDNet UK Jun 2 2004 8:14PM GMT

Online in the Countryside. New report
takes a hard look at success & barriers

Online in the Countryside. New report
takes a hard look at success & barriers 12/18/2003 03:21 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 18 2003 3:11AM ET

Online game takes winners to UEFA EURO
2004

Online game takes winners to UEFA EURO
2004 06/22/2004 10:11 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 23 2004 2:51AM GMT

'Let's Get Digital' - NY Public Radio
Takes a Musical Look at Online Issues

'Let's Get Digital' - NY Public Radio
Takes a Musical Look at Online Issues 06/05/2005 11:40 PM

For those in the New York area tonight, tune in to WFUV (90.7), which is broadcast from Fordham University, at 9:30pm (Eastern Time) for an an hour-long program examining how the race to get online affects not only musicians, but music fans and the music business in general.

The program will feature interviews with Creative Commons own former Executive Director - Glenn Otis Brown - as well as The New Yorker Pop Music Critic Sasha Frere-Jones, CDBaby.com Founder Derek Sivers, Berklee School of Music Vice President David Kusek among others.

Those of us not in the New York area can, of course, still catch the show online on the WFUV website.

Zander takes reins as Motorola takes
rivals' challenge

Zander takes reins as Motorola takes
rivals' challenge 01/04/2004 02:21 PM
CNET Jan 4 2004 1:07PM ET

""President Bush, after a National
Security Council meeting, takes Don
Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically
and takes him into a little cubbyhole
room and closes the door and says, 'What
have you got in terms of plans for
Iraq?' What is the status of..."

""President Bush, after a National
Security Council meeting, takes Don
Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically
and takes him into a little cubbyhole
room and closes the door and says, 'What
have you got in terms of plans for
Iraq?' What is the status of..." 04/18/2004 03:02 PM

politics

politics 02/01/2005 09:58 PM
Bill Clinton to become Secretary-General of the United Nations?

IT loves politics

IT loves politics 07/23/2004 09:35 PM

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The major players of various tech related companies are just as political as the rest of us from what Tech Republic is reporting. Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard has donated $2000 to the Bush campaign while Walter Hewlett, son of company founder Bill Hewlett, also made a similar donation only to the Kerry campaign instead. Both candidates have worked hard to appeal toward the tech community with a variety of campaign promises….

"politics.technorati.com"

"politics.technorati.com" 07/22/2004 09:19 AM

The politics of terrorism

The politics of terrorism 06/04/2004 08:56 AM
How the GOP used 9/11 to scare Americans into war: An excerpt from "Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge."

"politics.feedster.com"

"politics.feedster.com" 07/24/2004 03:02 PM

Seussian politics

Seussian politics 03/20/2003 01:04 PM
Bush and Chirac debate Iraq
"I will bomb him in his car; I will bomb him from afar.
I will bomb him in his house; I do not like him, he’s a louse.
I’m going to bomb him here and there.
I’m going to bomb him everywhere."

Politics by other means

Politics by other means 02/10/2004 06:47 AM
The Internet may have made Howard Dean, but Dean didn't make the Net -- and his campaign's woes don't faze digital democracy's true believers.
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