John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Over thousands of years we’ve designed systems to insure that our most important societal decisions can be queried and audited for fairness, that they are defensible against some shared logic, that they will benefit society at large. Or, Will Nature Just Shrug Its Shoulders? We call these systems government.

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Archive-It

JULY 30, 2018

Newport Historical Society. Southern Poverty Law Center. The Historic New Orleans Collection. Indiana University South Bend. The Jones Library. Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. McGill University. NetFreedom Pioneers. Plainfield Public Library. University of San Diego. Whitman College.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

wider information access, more equitable digital resources, tools for educational and economic mobility-- they can help to bring about for their communities and for the larger society.? ability to get online even more obvious, adding that other sections of society had similar unmet internet requirements. ?You t convinced that?s

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Positively RIM

JULY 22, 2009

When I see the situation in Sierra Leone, I realize how absolutely foundational RIM is to society. The widespread poverty creates a strong incentive for fraud, so efforts to combat deceit must be similarly aggressive. Good records management stabilizes payrolls, starting with government workers.

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Archives Blogs

AUGUST 17, 2017

As the website for the American Society of Authors and Writers explains: He wanted to write big, sprawling plays the way his idol, Eugene O’Neill, did. He spent years as an entertainer in Catskills resorts, putting on skits and entertaining vacationing guests while also writing plays, none of which were produced.

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Archives Blogs

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

She was at her most assured when she was writing about the poverty and the dust, the casual racism and the surreal violence of her native state. . Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was born in Texas but managed to transcend the label of “Southern writer.” Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” 2 At its core, sustainability means creating systems that are self-sustaining and cause minimal harm to the environment and society. They’re focusing on improving access to education and healthcare, promoting efforts to protect human rights and addressing social issues such as poverty and inequality through social programs.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Dr Patrick Brown Associate professor, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam; editor, Health, Risk and Society Continue reading.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 10, 2008

Later I was able to meet up with Steve to talk and also get his responses to the following questions: @crc2008 @olivermarks question for iWoz: ‘what is your vision for the mobile phone in eradicating poverty? ‘ Steve: didn’t see a great connection, believing the roots out of poverty are step by step development of society.

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ChiefTech

JUNE 1, 2008

This case study from my time as a Publication Manager at the Legal Services Society (LSS) of British Columbia (BC) could inspire the use of comics outside the development process. As a result, many tribes were left in an ongoing state of economical and social upheaval, with rampant unemployment, social problems, and poverty.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

t been evenly distributed yet, the democratising potential of the Internet and technology has not necessarily translated into a more just or equal society. From the Thatcher era on, we became a society obsessed with quantification ? But much as the future is already with us, it just hasn?t The changing nature of our profession.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The summit will bring together representatives from large lab AI companies, world governments and civil society to discuss safety risks arising from frontier AI. How do you prevent existential threats if society becomes dependent on such a system? The key policy issues are: How to address unemployment? How to reskill workers?

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Our goal is to put information and library skills and professional values at the heart of a democratic, equal and prosperous society. The EveryLibrary Institute is a US Based 501c3, non-profit organisation, dedicated to enhancing public and political support for library funding and the visible role of librarians in society.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Poverty prevention, social mobility and social isolation. Our goal is to put information and library skills and professional values at the heart of a democratic, equal and prosperous society. Education, informal learning and skills. Health, wellbeing and social care. Digital skills and getting online. Enterprise and business support.

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