of Ontario and the Government of Canada to sign an agreement regarding the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan before the end of 2021 and based on City Council's recently-affirmed (2021.MM32.12) support for building a system of early learning and child care services that are high-quality, p

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The remainingsections of the paper will argue that a plausible causal connection can be drawnin two directions: first, that virtue leads people to participate in commons-basedpeer projects, and second, that participation may give rise to virtue. Based uponthese observations, we conclude the paper with some prescriptions for publicpolicy and design.

be very available

To give it a proper try, you need to set free at least an entire team

encourage our remote workers to adopt a healthy lifestyle

a list of equipment that’s been picked for ergonomic comfort

you’ll need to get the ergonomic basics right

“Have I done a good day’s work?”

culture of reasonable expectations

occasionally wander out into the real world

human interaction does not have to come from either coworkers or others in your industry.

find a co-working facility and share desks with others in your situation

there’s no such thing as a one-hour meeting. If you’re in a room with five people for an hour, it’s a five-hour meeting.

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.

But here’s the thing: if you’re going to give it a shot, give it a real shot. Try it for at least three months

it’s clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn’t.

When you can’t see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work.

a weekly discussion thread with the subject “What have you been working on?” Everyone chimes in with a few lines about what they’ve done over the past week and what’s intended for the next week. It’s not a precise, rigorous estimation process, and it doesn’t attempt to deal with coordination.

everyone needs to feel that they’re in the loop

a quality waste of time with your coworkers

a single, permanent chat room where everyone hangs out all day to shoot the breeze, post funny pictures, and generally goof around.

record a screencast and narrate the experience

Just let the tape roll and it’ll be more than “good enough.”

It’s about collaborating on the work itself, not about reading facial expressions (although that too has a time and place).

Use a shared screen to collaborate on everything

Much of the magic that people ascribe to sitting together in a room is really just this: being able to see and interact with the same stuff.

in most cases we think it’s more of a challenge than it’s worth

If there’s just no getting around the time-zone issue

need a good four hours of overlap to avoid collaboration delays and feel like a team

collect GST/HST on the supply that made your revenue go over $30,000;

$50,000 or less in any single calendar quarter and in the last four consecutive calendar quarters

After all ofour searching,we knew this wasthe perfectplace, and the perfect partner.

tech companies are not so much unilaterally controlling consumers as confusing them about what is under their control.

data scientists found that measuring people’s expressed preferences was a dead end because these were too variable

easier to change the entire infrastructure in which people’s preferences lived, and then, rather than assume people are capable of forming and expressing their tastes independently, you could treat captured behavioral data as revealed preferences

Flow works by disguising its compulsory mechanism in the details of its content, which is nothing more than bait from the system’s perspective.

both want the particular units of content and are indifferent to them. We are both active agents and passive objects.

Coercion and persuasion, then, can’t be cleanly distinguished.

When platforms today deploy recommendation algorithms, their purpose is to produce flow.

“persuasive technology” that can condition prey “to play the role scripted for it in its design.”

what’s being sold is surrender

that users want to consume flow, not particular items of content

Do not forget that automation will generalize and make employment less necessary. Look at the self-checkouts in supermarkets, automated tolls, but also the software robots that do housekeeping at Wikipedia. I argue that this is a good thing. On one condition: that it enhances the ability of people to develop their social skills, their knowledge, their work in the strict sense of the term, rather than solely their job.

The self-described “creature of the suburbs” helped remake this city, in some ways, for his own maximum personal comfort.

trust-us self-assurance in their own technocratic moral sense

main thing Doctoroff admits the administration didn’t quite get right was figuring out how to keep New York from becoming too expensive for many of the people who already lived in it.

Doctoroff has little use for “nostalgia,” practically an epithet in the book,

Success is when “more customers want to come and stay. And the ultimate measure is population growth.”

“You have to treat citizens and businesses like customers,”

Will Sidewalk Labs share its feasibility studies for the proposal with the public, including methodology and data?

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make data science and machine learning skill development for their staff a part of any ongoing work with Sidewalk Labs

in larger part than is being imagined now

perhaps not in their entirety

This fabricated story [that the government can’t do innovation]

understanding and incentive

Data and technology can be helpful when they support, not lead, the city-building that city governments and planners know best.

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Commons-based peer-production relations regularly exhibit three structuralattributes.

On the other hand, if the structure fails to increase the inhabitant’s ability to dissipate energy, for example by requiring the inhabitant to spend more time on its repair than on obtaining food and resources (free energy), then the structure can be seen as participating in its own destruction (2nd Law).

Yet when you “criticize in private” for behavior that occurred in a team meeting or affects the team, you undermine team members’ accountability to each other. You send the message that team members are accountable only to you, not to the team. You also send the entire team the message that they don’t need to hold each other accountable — you’ll do it for them. In short, you shift accountability from the team to you.

Done regularly whenever she addresses the viewer, though it's justified as the show originally was supposed to be set in a computer game. This then leads into a ten second pause during which she stares directly at you waiting for a "response from the viewer."

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10,000 subscribers to the vTaiwan mailing list and a total of around 1,000 individual participants contributing to the forums

four stages to the vTaiwan process

vTaiwan tackled this by introducing a mechanism in Pol.is that measures the opinion groups before and after. In order for an idea to reach the successful threshold of agreement, it had to gain the support of “all of the majority plus half of the initial minority”. This subsequently made mobilisation by a majority group less of a problem

set of evaluation criteria from the outset

limiting data collection

who participated and why? Did the process inform citizens about important political issues? Did it succeed in improving public trust, or propensity to engage in the future?

Honest discussion around failures

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some criticism, particularly where conversations on Facebook appear chaotic or difficult to follow

Pol.is, opinions have to win over the approval of both groups (a supermajority), which reduces the negative effects of mass mobilisation by one opinion group

disallowing the direct responses

Ensure that sufficient staff and resources are available

maximise the quality of interaction and contributions, based on the task at hand and the target participant group

micro-tasks

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engagements that involve multiple phases, users should be guided through the whole process from a single ‘hub

Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement: A Practical Guide.

fluctuating or insufficient numbers of volunteers

grow the skills of the team

ongoing development of the digital tools

create and manage projects

demands on civil servants were acute

financial and human resources

translating

without the requisite support, there is the risk of failing to deliver on promises and ambitions, as a result alienating citizens who have contributed

support from decision-makers

interactive live-streaming tools

higher investment in mass communications and PR may also be required

work closely with civil society groups to help reach audiences not accustomed to using the internet

local or experiential knowledge

specific knowledge, expertise or information

restructured the budget to reserve a proportion exclusively for the most deprived areas of the city

risks of conflict or capture will be higher when engaging people widely on a topic that is highly contentious

set of questions that are based on beliefs or values which do not have an objectively right answer

being clear about the issue you are seeking to address, who you need to engage, and how you plan to use the outcomes.

with the representative making a final decision on the recommendations

begins with a video from the representative presenting the issue

That City Council request the Minister of Transportation to consider making a regulation under Section 185(1) of the Highway Traffic Act prohibiting pedestrians from texting actively using a handheld wireless communication device or handheld electronic entertainment device while using on any travelled portion of a roadway.

represents an investment of over $5,200 per resident

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OPSEU is expecting its own independent report tracking continuing problems with SAMS, now being undertaken by Prof. Wayne Lewchuk, of the School of Labour Studies and Department of Economics at Hamilton's McMaster University. Lewchuk will be visiting job sites next month, but CBC News got a sneak peek at the results of a survey undertaken in February and March which suggest 95 per cent of caseworkers reported that they felt the software change made the job harder. Approximately one-quarter of caseworkers took part in the survey.