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Estonia Highlights The Progress Made With Government-As-A-Platform

The Horizons Tracker

technologies, that were at the time growing apace via platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, could transform governments and better enable them to address the many challenges facing the world. billion per year can be saved through smarter use of digital technologies. The paper highlighted the potential for web 2.0

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The Path to Transparency

Coaching Tip

WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation

Harvard Business Review

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. In November 2001, U.S.

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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). Insight Center.

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Top 27 Steampunk Watches: Men’s & Women’s Best Skeleton Watches

Miles Anthony Smith

Steampunk is a really clever hybrid of old-fashioned designs and sci-fi inspired futuristic technology. It's the centerpiece of numerous video games, like the 2001 hit " Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura ," from Troika Games. Travel to another dimension with this gorgeous piece! What Are Steampunk and Skeleton Watches?

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.” Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S. He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities.

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How the U.S. Airline Industry Found Its Edge

Harvard Business Review

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. The breakthrough came when the airlines collectively realized that they should think of themselves not as pure transportation providers but as providers of travel solutions. But since deregulation in 1978, airlines in the U.S. airlines filed for bankruptcy.