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Capacity Development eBook Series

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  • The Role of USPNet in Capacity Development in the South Pacific Region

    Series series Capacity Development
    The University of the South Pacific (USP), a regional university, has changed its delivery systems for teaching and learning over the years to serve the growing needs for tertiary education of students living on the thousands of small and remote islands in the Pacific Ocean. This case study examines how the university has relied on its communications technology system (USPNet) to enhance its role ... Read more

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  • Data for the Public Good

    by Alex Howard ...
    As we move into an era of unprecedented volumes of data and computing power, the benefits aren't for business alone. Data can help citizens access government, hold it accountable and build new services to help themselves.Simply making data available is not sufficient. The use of data for the public good is being driven by a distributed community of media, nonprofits, academics and civic advocates ... Read more

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  • Yes We Did! An inside look at how social media built the Obama brand

    Series series Voices That Matter
    FOREWORD by Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital The Obama campaign’s mastery of social media for everything from fundraising to volunteer coordination has been widely reported. Until now, there hasn’t been an in-depth analysis of how they did it. In Yes We Did, new media strategist and campaign headquarters volunteer Rahaf Harfoush gives us a behind the-scenes look at the ... Read more

    14,87 €

  • Privacy and Big Data

    The Players, Regulators, and Stakeholders

    Much of what constitutes Big Data is information about us. Through our online activities, we leave an easy-to-follow trail of digital footprints that reveal who we are, what we buy, where we go, and much more. This eye-opening book explores the raging privacy debate over the use of personal data, with one undeniable conclusion: once data's been collected, we have absolutely no control over who ... Read more

    10,38 €

  • Protecting Your Innovation: Forms of Intellectual Property

    Series series 1
    For many knowledge-intensive or technology-based start-up companies, the professional management of intellectual property (IP) is critically important. In fact, IP may be the main asset by which the value of a young company is determined and on which decisions to invest in the company are based – and so IP needs to be considered very early in the planning process. The Commercialising Intellectual ... Read more

    7,30 €

  • Open Government

    Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice

    In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online ... Read more

    13,77 €

  • iLobby.eu

    survival Guide to EU Lobbying, including the Use of Social Media

    What is an efficient EU lobbying strategy? Are there dos and donts you should be aware of, as a businessman or lobbyist? What is the use made of social media by EU institutions and politicians? iLobby.eu sets out how to lobby the EU from the perspective of an actual lobbyist sharing her experience (both good and bad). It also looks at the social media tools that must be taken into consideration ... Read more

    14,95 €

  • Communicator-in-Chief

    How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American president. It was the first presidential campaign in which the Internet, the electorate, and ... Read more

    42,28 €

  • Innovative State

    How New Technologies Can Transform Government

    by Aneesh Chopra ...
    "As the . . . first Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra did groundbreaking work to bring our government into the 21st century." —President Barack ObamaOver the last twenty years, our economy and our society, from how we shop and pay our bills to how we communicate, have been completely revolutionized by technology. As Aneesh Chopra shows in Innovative State, once it became clear how much this ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Our Country Back

    The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama

    by Daniel Kreiss ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade. Drawing on interviews with more than sixty political staffers, fieldwork during the 2008 primaries and general election, and archival research, Daniel Kreiss shows how a group of young, technically-skilled Internet staffers came together on the Howard ... Read more

    28,40 €

  • Social Change Anytime Everywhere

    How to Implement Online Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and Engage your Community

    Strategies for advocacy, fundraising, and engaging the communitySocial Change Anytime Everywhere was written for nonprofit staff who say themselves or are asked by others, “Email communications, social media, and mobile are important, but how will they help our nonprofit and the issues we work on? Most importantly, how the heck do we integrate and utilize these tools successfully?” The book will ... Read more

    27,99 €

  • Building the Gigabit City

    Superfast broadband significantly boosts local economies, transforms education, improves healthcare delivery and increases local government efficiency. Building the Gigabit City helps you ask the right questions so you can do the same for your constituents.Pulling valuable lessons from many of the 340 communities with successful broadband networks, this multimedia guide overflows with practical ... Read more

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