Logistic Equation: Time Series Plots
Logistic Equation Generator
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Diigo Update 09/20/2017
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Thursday, September 7, 2017
Diigo Update 09/08/2017
Urban Street Design Guide - National Association of City Transportation Officials
StreetPlan.net is a free web-based drag & drop tool for creating Complete Streets in just minutes. StreetPlan analyzes your design as you make it, giving you Red / Yellow / Green Best Practice guidance from “Designing Walkable Thoroughfares,” a joint publication of the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Congress for New Urbanism (ITE and CNU). You can also start from templates designed by NACTO.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Monday, July 10, 2017
Diigo Update 07/11/2017
TurboVote helps you vote – nothing more. We’re committed to protecting your data, so it’s only ever used to provide you with voting information and services. To that end, we encrypt your connection to our site, so your sign-up information stays just between us. We take precautionary measures to restrict access to only those partners and services we need to make TurboVote run. And we deliberately don’t collect or store ID numbers. We also don’t sell your information, or share any more than is strictly necessary to power the TurboVote services you know and love. And we’re happy to answer any questions you have about our data and security practices.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Friday, July 7, 2017
Diigo Update 07/08/2017
CALmatters is a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Thursday, July 6, 2017
New Wiki Page - Advocacy By and For Community
One outcome of the The Active Citizen in a Digital Age course, now being featured in the main blog, is a new NCP wiki page, Advocacy By and For Community which includes many of the websites featured in the course, some of which have been previously presented on these pages. The course deals primarily with advocacy of desired outcomes within the three sectors of democracy, political, market place and civil society.
◦ Bottom line, we want to do two big things better: Demystify congressional advocacy. We get hundreds of questions every day about what Congress is doing, how to organize locally (see the toolkit!), and how to advocate in different situations.
◦ The Resistance Manual is an open-source platform to harness the collective power of the people to resist the impact of a Trump presidency and to continue to make progress in our communities.
◦ Together We Will: Provide resources and guidance to empower everyday people to organize and act locally; whether new to community organization, returning to a new era of civil rights defense, or seasoned veteran of political and social activism, we will curate and produce resources to serve their needs.
In addition to the technological infrastructure raised by the course, there are also websites providing an underlying infrastructure to these efforts.
◦ The Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society created digitalIMPACT.io to support civil society organizations in using digital data ethically, safely, and effectively.
◦ The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.
These last two websites speak to the larger, connected issues of Transparency and Open Data in Governance.
Under New Community Paradigms, these efforts are seen as being taken up by the community to impact larger, more powerful and at the same time more distant form of institutional government requiring different sets of tools as featured in Governance and Community Democracy.
Two new tools are:
• Digital Democracy | Search Legislative Committee Hearings
◦ A first-of-its-kind platform, Digital Democracy creates a searchable archive of all statements made in state legislative hearings.
◦ A first-of-its-kind platform, Digital Democracy creates a searchable archive of all statements made in state legislative hearings.
• IssueVoter | Government By the People Act of 2015
◦ Voter Participation By keeping voters informed throughout the year on issues that matter most to them, more people will see how legislation affects those issues, and recognize the importance of voting and engaging with their representative year-round.
◦ Voter Participation By keeping voters informed throughout the year on issues that matter most to them, more people will see how legislation affects those issues, and recognize the importance of voting and engaging with their representative year-round.
Communities help decide upon these issues through direct democratic deliberation or what has been termed People’s Governance In California (putting an emphasis on the home state). The wiki page includes both supporting organizations and guiding principles.
All of this is intended to lead to new Policy Creation taking a more nonpartisan approach (though not necessarily noncontroversial)
• PUBLICAGENDA.ORG - Public Agenda Home Page (improved)
◦ Public Agenda is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps diverse leaders and citizens navigate divisive, complex issues and work together to find solutions.
◦ Public Agenda is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps diverse leaders and citizens navigate divisive, complex issues and work together to find solutions.
• Common Good
◦ Common Good is a nonpartisan reform coalition that offers Americans a new way to look at law and government.
◦ Common Good is a nonpartisan reform coalition that offers Americans a new way to look at law and government.
On the Kumu Wiki Map, Advocacy By and For Community is seen as a bridge to these other bridges tying together community change efforts.
Diigo Update 07/07/2017
Systems thinking, according to HU, has two important dimensions. One is the establishment of a new paradigm that understands global issues as inherently complex, multi-dimensional, conflictive and open to outside influence and intervention. A problem like slavery, for example, may seem intractable because of the economic interests it serves; in fact, the institutional and organizational linkages—the supply chains—that comprise slavery’s power structure are vulnerable. The first step in system thinking is to map those linkages to better understand how they fit together and pinpoint their likely weak points. The next step is to devise a strategy that combines public advocacy, coalition building, insider lobbying, and investigative journalism to target those linkages, forcing those implicated in slavery, wittingly or unwittingly, to reform, and weakening the larger circuit of power over time.
- - By Brian G. Dowling
A potential danger in a systems approach is that there is a risk of overjargonizing and getting lost in complex terminology, maps and paralysis by analysis. One of the key themes that emerged from the discussion is that many people are starting to experiment with systems thinking but that it can be daunting or confusing to explain, operationalize or find common agreement. Does system thinking imply a rigorous and dynamic mapping of key actors, power relationships and other factors in a community (Yes)? But then how does systems thinking differ from a solid context analysis (still needs more explanation)? A potential danger in a systems approach is that there is a risk of overjargonizing and getting lost in complex terminology, maps and paralysis by analysis. One of the key themes that emerged from the discussion is that many people are starting to experiment with systems thinking but that it can be daunting or confusing to explain, operationalize or find common agreement. Does system thinking imply a rigorous and dynamic mapping of key actors, power relationships and other factors in a community (Yes)? But then how does systems thinking differ from a solid context analysis (still needs more explanation)?
- - By Brian G. Dowling
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Monday, July 3, 2017
Diigo Update 07/04/2017
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- - By Brian G. Dowling
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