Community Resilience
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Even the most casual review of current affairs reveals an increasingly unresponsive and chaotic system of governance throughout the first world. The over-reach of globalization has extended state bodies beyond their capacities leaving domestic conditions to suffer. The future of American cities may be plunged into ongoing crises trying to maintain basic services & support.
This Twine will attempt to collect resources on community resiliency & strategies for DIY local self-reliance.
This Twine will attempt to collect resources on community resiliency & strategies for DIY local self-reliance.
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Network Action ResearchCurrent literature stresses the significance of networks and network theory in both social as well as technical domains. Not only is the role of networked technologies (such as mobile phones and the internet) in everyday life being scrutinized, but network theory is re-shaping an understanding ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Investigating Knowledge Building Dialogues in Networked Communities of PracticeWe have analyzed data from two online courses, designed to promote collaborative online learning, and in the contexts of two different cultures. Ongoing assessment (self, group, instructor) that actively engages students within the course (as opposed to instructor assessment at the end) is a ...
Giorgio Bertini
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The role of Dialogue Conferences in the Development of Learning RegionsSomething very special happens when people from a region come into living contact with each other, face-to-face. In responding not only to each other’s uniqueness, but also to the unique features of their shared surroundings, they create between them, first-time events that are a rich mixture of ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Learning across Levels - Challenges of Collaboration in a Small-Firm NetworkAccording to a generally held view, the rise of networks adds a new interorganizational level to the analysis of learning alongside individual, group, and organizational levels. In this study, it is argued that networks open up an alternative way of considering levels, not as predetermined and ...
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3The economic icebergGiorgio Bertini added 7 months ago
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The City that Ended Hunger :: Belo Horizonte, BrazilHunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.wildcat added 7 months ago
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GovTwit Directory « New ThinkingGovernment Twittering as means for official communicationsQuyen Arana added 10 months ago
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Health Library for DisastersPan American Health and WHO Health Library for disastersQuyen Arana added 10 months ago
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