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A Profoundly Moral IssueIs paying out Big Bonuses the “Christian” thing to do? If you happened to be present in the Anglican Church on London’s Trafalgar Square a few nights ago, you might believe it to be so. Barclay’s Catholic CEO, John Varley, addressed a captive church audience, “If we fail to pay or are ...
Terence Washington
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Charles Leadbeater on Innovation - VideoCharles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and ...
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Funding Education: Crisis Watch BlogBob Harris, EI's Senior Consultant to the General Secretary, shares information and commentary on the impact of the financial crisis on education funding, and how education can be part of the solution.
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Innovation in Education: Enabling Genuine 21st Century Learning - November 2009 Conference, LondonExplore the means for enabling and education system that will help young people to meet the learning challenges of the 21st century.
Giorgio Bertini
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The Edgeless University: why higher education must embrace technologyTechnology is at the heart of this story of institutional change. Universities are now just one source among many for ideas, knowledge and innovation. That seems to threaten their core position and role, but in this new world of learning and research, there are also great opportunities. The ...
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The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital AgeNo institution of higher education in the country today has tested in a comprehensive way new methods of learning based on peer-to-peer distributed systems of collaborative work characteristic of the new Internet age. We have mentioned earlier a couple of experimental examples emerging at the ...
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Whose crisis?We’ve heard a lot on the global financial crisis of panic in terms of banks and bankers, policy makers and the media. Some greater attention to poverty and social impacts of the crisis is needed. As the agenda for the G20 in London gets narrowly focused on financial regulation, we need to ask ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Coy village tells Google Street View 'spy' to beat a retreat.Coy village tells Google Street View 'spy' to beat a retreat Any villains inspired to check Google Street View to see whether a personal visit to the Buckinghamshire village of Broughton might be profitable, have been confounded. The residents formed a human hoarding to block the camera's ...
Giorgio Bertini
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OpenGov Event - LondonA practical one-day conference to discuss the challenges and opportunities of social technologies to enable engagement, collaboration, and transparency in government.
Daniele Orner Ginor
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A Pandemic of Economic Violence. Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous consequence of the crash of 2008 has only recently made its appearance: ...
Giorgio Bertini
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