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August 3, 2016 — By Vidya Krishnamurthy
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Does support for the infrastructure of nonprofits and philanthropy – the research, publications, events, networks and technology – compete with funders' primary areas of giving?
In an article published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fay Twersky and Lindsay Louie explain why the answer is no. The two work on philanthropy sector grantmaking at the Hewlett Foundation.
They shared their ideas following a joint call-to-action from nearly two dozen infrastructure organizations for funders that give $2.5 million or more a year to dedicate at least one percent of their grantmaking budget to this form of giving.
Twersky and Louie describe the foundation's approach, but said, "We don't think there's a right or wrong way to approach infrastructure funding."
They added, "Invest in the organizations that are most crucial for your foundation and/or your grantees to be effective. Invest in those you think the sector as a whole needs to be strong and healthy. Say no to requests that aren't a fit for your work. Invest in one deeply or many lightly, and evolve your approach over time so that it continues to help you achieve your goals."
Read the full article.
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July 29, 2016 — By Daniel Stid
Last month, the Hewlett Foundation convened our Madison Initiative grantees and some of our philanthropic partners at a retreat center outside Washington D.C. to discuss the work we have in common, explore possibilities for collaboration, and build stronger relationships with one another.
This was the second time we've brought the group together and we came away impressed with everyone's willingness to share their thinking and engage with colleagues that they don't always see eye-to-eye with when it comes to politics. What they do share, of course, is a commitment to — and belief in the possibility of — getting beyond the polarization that's stopping Congress from working the way it is supposed to: deliberating, negotiating, and compromising in ways that more Americans can support.
We also had a more selfish reason for bringing this group together. The Madison Initiative was launched in 2014 as a three-year $50 million effort, and we're planning to bring our proposal for a renewal to our board in November. To prepare for that conversation, we wrote an update on our work to date and our plans for the future and circulated it to participants before the event. We got a great deal of valuable feedback on our thinking during our time together with our partners, and now we'd like to ask the same of you.
The memo we shared with them is now available on our website. Please excuse the formatting (or lack thereof). In the interests of transparency we're sharing the same document with you that we shared with the group.
We welcome your thoughts on where we're going and the lessons we're drawing from the grants we've made so far. You can leave a comment below, or if you'd prefer to respond privately or at greater length, you can email me.
As I said in the introduction to the memo: "We look forward to constructive feedback from critical friends who can point out the blind spots and weak links in our emerging strategy."
Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts with us.
July 6, 2016 — By David Sasaki and Alfonsina Peñaloza
Juliana Brown Afari leads a meeting of the Makola Market Traders Union in Accra, Ghana, which negotiates with local and national governments to improve the markets. The union is a member of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), an organization that helps make informal work visible to policymakers. (Credit: Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images)
Back in December, Global Development and Population Program Director Ruth Levine published our refreshed strategy to "make transparency matter." At its heart is the assumption that we need to do more than just make information about government budgets and public services available -- such information needs to be relevant, actionable and context-specific if civil society organizations and government reformers are able to use it to improve public services like health, education, water and sanitation. "Without citizens acting on this information to hold their leaders accountable," Levine wrote, "the problems of poor quality government services persist."
Over the coming years we'll fund relatively less around the provision of information and relatively more on learning from interventions that use information and participatory mechanisms to address poorly performing public services. The five-year strategy we released in December offers guidance on what we aim to do, though less on how we aim to do it. We're sharing these initial plans with you because in philanthropy, like development itself, implementation is everything.
Our first challenge was to divide the strategy into manageable themes that could be overseen by each of the four program officer. It wasn't easy to categorize the organizations and projects we support as many span across multiple categories. Though imperfect, here's what we settled on:
Money Flows seeks greater transparency around governments' sources of revenue though initiatives like the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the International Aid Transparency Initiative and the Financial Transparency Coalition. It also includes increased transparency, participation and accountability in how governments budget and spend money through the support of organizations and initiatives like the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, the International Budget Partnership, among many others.
Service Delivery Monitoring aims to improve public service delivery by empowering citizens and watchdog groups with information to engage productively with governments. This is done both through citizen-generated sources of data, such as the work of DataShift and the People's Action for Learning Network, and by monitoring government-generated sources of data, such as the I Am Aware platform in Ghana and GESOC's Index on Public Program Performance in Mexico.
Governance Channels seeks to foster new channels and approaches to productive engagement between citizens and governments to improve service delivery. The channels -- media, technology and legal empowerment -- are represented by grantees like Well Told Story, the engine room, and the International Senior Lawyers Project. The two approaches, co-creation and feedback loops, aim to foster spaces for collaboration between civil society and government and increase government responsiveness to the needs and complaints of citizens.
Field Learning supports research organizations like JPAL, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico to better understand when increased transparency, participation and accountability bring about improvements in service delivery. This work also includes support to research networks like Evidence in Governance and Politics and the Governance Data Alliance, which produce research and socialize it to ensure that evidence informs the work of practitioners and policymakers.
The challenges ahead
As a small team based in California, we sure have our work cut out for us. Two challenges are top-of-mind. First, is there a role for us to play in bridging the divide between organizations focused on transparency, participation and accountability and sectoral organizations that focus primarily on improving the delivery of specific services? Second, public service delivery is mostly managed by local governments, yet our strategy is global. How can we support innovative methods of improving service delivery through transparency, participation and accountability that will contribute to learning across sectors and geographies? What are the most effective methods and networks to spread the best ideas?
These are difficult, but not insurmountable challenges. We're encouraged by the experimentation led by Making All Voices Count to better understand the roles of transparency, participation and accountability in the water sector. And we're encouraged by the Open Government Partnership's Subnational Government Pilot Program, which brings together local governments and civil society organizations to address governance and service delivery challenges together.
Finally, we are developing our own learning strategy to test the assumptions and hypotheses of our strategy. In a future post we'll describe the indicators we're tracking and the questions we're addressing as we implement and refine our strategy.
Learn more about our transparency, participation and accountability team members.
June 27, 2016 — By Ruth Levine
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In the wake of Britain's stunning vote to leave the European Union, those of us who work in global development are trying to figure out what a Brexit would mean for the organizations and causes we care about. Even if we think only about the practical implications, and steer clear of hand-wringing about what the British referendum tells us about attitudes toward global citizenship, it is not a pretty picture.
First, the U.K. Department for International Development, already beleaguered by challenges in the pro-"leave" press, will now enter a period of extreme uncertainty at best. The impulse toward nativism, combined with the decline in the Britain's economic prospects, will place DFID's global leadership and relatively high levels of foreign aid spending in tension with taking care of growing problems at home.
For the many organizations in our orbit that receive DFID funding for their research and implementation of development programs, and for national governments that have come to depend on Britain's funding in health, education and other sectors, this is not a good moment.
Second, British political leadership on development issues – including the most recent gains around transparency from Prime Minister David Cameron's anti-corruption summit – is by no means assured for the future. We have come to expect that Britain will be among the most far-sighted, globally-oriented among members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, and will promote a pro-development agenda within the G8, the G20 and many multilateral institutions. Whether Germany, France, the United States or other countries step into that vacuum remains to be seen. Surely, the advocacy strategies that have depended on Britain as a first mover will have to be rethought.
Third, from a very practical perspective the weakening pound is going to immediately affect buying power of the organizations whose work we support. Yes, our dollars will be worth relatively more, but we will not be able to make up for the drop in the value of the pound.
Finally, how many dollars we have to make grants with in 2017 and beyond will be affected by whether or not financial markets regain some balance, and what the impact is on our endowment. There's some time for this to shake out, but the current state of the markets is making us cautious about developing hopes of a growing budget next year.
All in all, for our issues, for Britain and for much of the rest of the world, a Brexit is bad news. How bad is yet to be seen.
June 24, 2016 — By Sarah Jane Staats
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The International Aid Transparency Initiative aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. It's meant to help individuals in developing countries and donor countries see where aid, development and humanitarian money comes from, where it goes, and whether it helps reduce poverty. The IATI Members' Assembly, which includes country governments, multilateral development institutions, civil society organizations, and representatives from the public and private sector, will meet in Copenhagen June 29-30 to approve a new vision and mission for the initiative.
Joseph Asunka, program officer with our Global Development and Population Program, focuses on how government officials and citizens use public information about revenue, taxes, contracts and budgets to improve policy. He will be at the IATI meeting and told me why they're thinking about a new approach and how it could increase opportunities for policymakers and citizens to use the data to improve development policy and practice.
Why is the International Aid Transparency Initiative searching for a new vision and mission?
First, a brief background: IATI was launched at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008. It's a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative, comprising providers of development cooperation, partner countries, and civil society organizations, that seeks to increase transparency of development cooperation. At the Fourth High Level Forum in Busan in 2011, IATI endorsers adopted a common, open standard for publishing aid information. This common standard was reached through consultations with all the key stakeholders: donors, recipient country governments, and civil society organizations.
Since its inception, the initiative has been governed by a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee. As the community grew, this governance arrangement became unwieldy for decision-making and the need for reform became increasingly apparent. A recent evaluation of the initiative confirmed a widespread dissatisfaction with the governance structure among the main stakeholders, which prompted a call for reform. On April 1, 2016 (and this is not a hoax), IATI adopted a two-tier governance structure comprising a new Governing Board and a Members' Assembly, which replaced the Steering Committee.
The evaluation also highlighted a number of questions around the future direction of the initiative, such as: Does IATI strive to become more a global data standard in of itself, i.e. a "container" for data, or does it work to become more a development effectiveness tool? Can both these paths be pursued jointly by IATI? These questions underlie the current efforts to define IATI's vision and mission. The process has started and will conclude at the first Members' Assembly meeting next week where members will deliberate and ratify a new vision statement and a new mission statement.
What kind of aid data exists and who uses it?
There has been quite a lot of progress and helpful innovations on the IATI standard itself and in making the data available and relevant to potential consumers, notably governments and citizens of aid recipient countries. To date, more than 400 organizations, including some of the largest donors, publish information on development cooperation to the standard. For this group of publishers, it is now possible to know how much money they are providing, when and where the money will be spent and what it is expected to achieve. There are also options for publishers to include more nuanced data, including spatial data showing specific areas – regions, districts etc. – that benefit from aid resources.
With respect to aid transparency, the initiative has made considerable progress to date. If the number of publishers continue to grow monotonically – IATI needs to actively pursue this – the initiative would be well-positioned to make a significant contribution to the aid effectiveness agenda. Indeed the original motivation for the standard was to improve aid transparency and it appears that endorsers are increasingly comfortable and have the necessary skills to do so in a timely manner. This is an excellent outcome; but transparency to what end?
This is where the importance of data use comes in and I think it should be a central theme in the new IATI vision and mission statements. To be sure, some aid recipient countries governments have used IATI data in development planning and other purposes, but this has been very limited. And even though there are excellent examples of how the data could be used as a monitoring and accountability tool – a crucial element of the aid effectiveness agenda – very little has been done in this area.
Focusing on data use – building the necessary skills in-country, making the data store more intuitive and flexible, encouraging the production of infographics etc. – would advance the aid effectiveness agenda in many ways:
How can citizens in developing countries use aid data to improve government services?
The potential impact of IATI on government services is twofold: first, because the initiative strives (and also encourages donors) to publish forward-looking data, it helps to enhance the overall quality of government development policy planning. In a recent interview with Frederick Krah at the Liberian ministry of finance and development planning, Krah said IATI data gives a realistic picture of most external resources and informs their development strategy and national budget preparation. Second, since IATI data are public and include detailed information on the amount of money as well as where, what and how the money is to be spent, the initiative offers citizens the opportunity to monitor the use of aid resources and to hold their governments accountable for services. Effective planning of national budgets by governments and citizen oversight/monitoring should lead to improved publics services.
However, I must say that IATI data by itself is not pretty and certainly not immediately digestible by both governments and citizens. Governments need to have the necessary capacity and skills to make use of the data; and for citizens to be able to leverage this data to hold their governments accountable, there is a need for some amount of data processing. A possible way forward would be to encourage a network of infomediaries to make the data digestible for civil society organizations, including journalists, as well as other citizen groups interested in monitoring the use of aid resources.
What can IATI supporters do to make sure people use the data?
I can think of at least three things that could help in this direction. First, the IATI community should continue to work on improving the quality of the data and increasing the coverage though active recruitment and retention of providers of development cooperation. Interest in using the data could grow very rapidly if IATI is able to capture a large proportion of aid data. Second, the community needs to build (or at least facilitate) a network of data intermediary organizations who would analyze and present the information in ways that is easier to digest and who can respond to requests for IATI data in specific formats. I imagine that such a network would benefit the work of journalists and other transparency and accountability civil society organizations in aid recipient countries. Third, the community should strive to build the capacity of developing country governments to use and innovate with IATI data.
Is there anything else you hope IATI members discuss?
I will revisit the issue of data coverage: IATI needs to do more to improve coverage of aid resource flows. With more coverage, governments and citizens of recipient countries would have a much fuller picture of aid resource flows into the national budget, including projected future flows. I hope that the meeting will deliberate on the way forward for attracting new publishers.
For a start, I think an interactive and regularly updated data visualization tool could help with recruitment. I am thinking of a map of world showing where IATI data downloads are occurring. Just knowing the spatial distribution of data downloads, not necessarily whether or how it is used, would be useful in many ways: the community would have an idea on where the data is being accessed and at what frequency, which could be helpful for IATI to follow-up and learn how the data is used and/or target technical support as part of efforts to promote data use. Showcasing the patterns of data downloads and how that informs IATI's strategy for promoting data use might help to attract donors who are yet to publish to the standard. And if there is flexibility to incorporate citizen feedback on whether projects have been completed and/or specific services delivered, that will take the aid effectiveness agenda to the next level.
June 8, 2016 — By Elizabeth Judge
A U.S.-India partnership aims to bring solar energy to millions of people in India. (Credit: UK Department for International Development, CC By 2.0)
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India announced a historic agreement to phase out the powerful greenhouse gases known as F gases and to inaugurate a partnership that will advance solar energy development in India. The agreement between India and the U.S. builds on ambitious pledges made by both nations at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015.
The solar partnership will leverage seed philanthropic investments by a group of U.S. foundations, including the Hewlett Foundation, together with funding from the India government and loans from the U.S. government to attract billions of private investment dollars. This will help catalyze renewable energy growth across India and provide energy access for the first time to millions of people in the country.
Why is this solar partnership unique and innovative, and how would it help reduce poverty in India? Matt Baker, a program officer who leads the Hewlett Foundation's global climate funding strategy, explains.
Why are the U.S. and India partnering this way?
The world's efforts to mitigate climate change have made considerable progress in the past two years. In particular, commitments made by the U.S. and India at the Paris Climate Conference could represent a turning point for both countries.
In order for India to meet its goals, which include generating 100 gigawatts of new solar power by 2022, it needs quickly to create a robust market for renewable energy investments and growth. This squares nicely with its development goals of delivering low-cost energy to the 300 million people in India who currently lack access to electricity. As India is endowed with vast solar energy potential, clean, affordable, abundant solar energy – off-grid, micro-grid, and rooftop solar – is the best way for India to reach its goals.
How does the initiative work?
The Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Jeremy & Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation are putting up the first $30 million to fund two innovative public-private initiatives in India, which will then be matched by the government of India.
The first initiative will award grants to clean energy business projects to help get them finance-ready. Specifically, it will give energy access solar developers the resources they need to make their projects "finance ready." This funding will pay for the business activities – feasibility studies, project finance documentation, land surveys, customer due diligence procedures, and so on – needed to meet the loan requirements of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a U.S. government loan agency that works in developing nations.
The U.S. government set up a similar initiative in Africa via the United States-Africa Clean Energy Finance Initiative (ACEF), which has deployed $20 million in grants to catalyze over $1 billion in clean energy project investments in Africa. We think our funding in India could do even better, leveraging as much as $400 million in investments from OPIC and other investors to generate projects that will deliver solar energy for the first time to communities without any power.
The second project will do something similar, but in the domain of financing projects like those developed under the first one. Philanthropic funding will help catalyze funding for solar energy projects from development finance companies like OPIC, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the German Investment Corporation (DEG), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), and others.
This, in turn, will make it much easier for private capital to flow in. The foundation funding essentially acts as insurance against unexpected setbacks for the solar projects. It helps mitigate risk sufficiently to bolster the confidence of the global investment community. We think this can mobilize up to $1 billion in capital flows to Indian solar projects, in particular those that serve the poor in areas currently without electricity.
The two projects thus work in complementary ways to ripen Indian solar projects for billions of dollars of private sector investments, which of course will have the effect of multiplying the impact these projects can have towards protecting our natural environment.
What will this initiative do for people in India?
Good question! It's too easy, when talking about billions of dollars, government agreements, and lofty finance projects, to lose sight of what this means for everyday people.
More than 300 million people in India – that's a quarter of the Indian population, mostly rural poor – cannot turn on a light. What power they have for their homes and kitchens comes from kerosene, wood, coal, and cow manure. This takes a huge toll on people's health, not to mention on the nation's economy and air quality. Solar energy can deliver power without harming the air or the global climate – and with power, people's quality of life and economic opportunities improve dramatically.
This initiative will get people in Indian states like Utter Pradesh or Bihar, and many others, rooftop solar for their homes and solar installations that can power whole villages. For the first time, a child will be able to read at night, medicine can be stored in local villages, a kid with an idea can more easily start a business, and small business owners and entrepreneurs can save time they need to focus on their work. And meanwhile, the use of solar energy instead of fossil fuels will help mitigate global warming and contribute to protecting lives all around the globe.
Over the last four years at Hewlett, I have had the privilege of working with a number of solar nonprofits doing pioneering work to deliver clean, affordable solar energy to people without power across India – incredible organizations like the Selco Foundation, the Clean Coalition, and the Shakti Foundation. Our partner Harish Hande at the Selco Foundation says their mission is to "eradicate poverty and the darkness" with renewable energy. "The poor are not looking for sympathy; they are looking for a partner," Hande says. My hope is that these projects will give those millions of people in villages across India the partners they are seeking and, in this way, improve millions of lives.
What is philanthropy's role?
Figuring out how philanthropy can attract private investment dollars into clean energy infrastructure could well be the single most important step we as a foundation can take to achieve our goal of protecting humanity by keeping the global temperature rise below two degrees centigrade.
Getting this right is not only great for India's economic growth and the people of India who will gain access to affordable, clean power. It's great for the global economy and for redressing the climate crisis.
I believe this U.S.-India partnership, enabled by our relatively small amount of seed support, shows what can happen when governments and civil sector and private sector organizations team up and work together. And if it works, we may have a model that can be used in other places and other countries. Wouldn't that be amazing?
May 23, 2016 — By Eli Sugarman
A scenerio from Cybersecurity Futures 2020. (Credit: Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity)
Recently, leading thinkers gathered to discuss what cybersecurity could look like in 2020 and beyond. Among them was Steven Weber, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where he serves as faculty director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (founded in 2015 with a grant from the Hewlett Foundation). Weber has led the development of Cybersecurity Futures 2020, a set of scenarios to "serve as a starting point for conversation among academic researchers, industry practitioners, and government policymakers." Following are edited excerpts from an email interview with Weber about his approach to scenario planning.
The five scenarios you developed for what cybersecurity might mean in 2020 — just four years away! — present some fascinating possibilities, from wearable devices that track our emotional state to a "new normal" where everyone just assumes their personal information will be stolen. What do you see as the most important insights arising from the scenarios?
One of the goals of scenario development is to ask and answer the question: What insights about the future are likely to be true in any plausible future? We've extracted ten of these insights from our work, but there are two that really stand out.
The first is that cybersecurity is on the verge of becoming the "master problem" of the Internet era — an existential challenge that is quite like climate change in its significance and global consequences. If you think about the resources — economic, political, or technical — that are being mobilized around climate, then you have a sense of what we believe the world will need to do around cybersecurity in the next few years.
That recognition in and of itself will bring major changes in how human beings and digital machines interact. Cybersecurity is about to enter the arena of vast psychosocial impact in a manner we've not seen up to now. Corporations and governments will be able to predict with precision individual human behaviors and come to know us deeply — not just what we buy or where we go. They will know us better than we know ourselves when our memories are storable, searchable, shareable, and possibly changeable. These are the kinds of things that go to the essence of what it means to be human, how we interact with each other, what freedom and fairness mean, and ultimately how we assess a feeling we call security.
The second is just how much hinges on the ways in which the political economy of data evolves. We think that security issues around data will become more critical than the security of digital devices or communications networks. When data becomes a more easily exchangeable asset, it also becomes something of measurable value that criminals want more so than ever to acquire and sell.
Governments won't be able to avoid the challenge of managing markets for data, both licit and illicit. The interactive dance between data and algorithms — where the scarce resource lies at any moment, where differential insights can be created, and where the most dangerous manipulations can occur — will become a critical variable in the shape of the threat landscape.
We also landed on the view that there is no silver bullet and probably never will be. That's hardly a new argument, but we understand better now why. It's because the ongoing and ever-increasing demand in the digital realm for features, performance, and extensions of capabilities expands to fill the space of what is technically possible, and then goes beyond it.
This observation is a pretty basic statement about human behavior, but it suggests that the digital realm will evolve very much like other security realms have always evolved in human affairs. Which is to say that bad actors co-evolve with good, and that the meanings and identities of good and bad are never settled. Threats don't disappear. They change shape.
In setting up the Cyber Initiative at the Hewlett Foundation, one of our key concerns was how to foster a cybersecurity field that offers robust, multidisciplinary solutions to complex policy challenges. Could you talk about how the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity's own multidisciplinary approach contributed to the development of the scenarios, and how you see them feeding back into your research?
We started by convening a broad group of scholars, practitioners, and policy people to identify and grapple with what we call "critical uncertainties" — the forces of change that are most important and at the same time most uncertain in the system under study. I'm not a fan of multidisciplinary approach for its own sake, but I am absolutely convinced that no single discipline can claim to understand what it is that drives a challenge to become sufficiently crucial that people label it as a security issue. The very concept of cybersecurity still needs work.
If that sounds like an academic abstraction, it shouldn't. Most people in 2016 wouldn't think of a credit card breach as impacting their core security interests; it's more like a tax on your day to day life or an annoyance that somebody else has to deal with (and pay for). This matters because the landscape of potential solutions really changes when a problem becomes a security problem in political discourse, public imagination, and C-suite strategy conversations. And that happens at the intersection of politics, technology, economics, psychology, and a lot more. That's where the demand for multidisciplinary solutions comes from.
There's another way this could play out, of course. Cybersecurity would rise to the top of everyone's agenda very quickly if the Internet were to become first and foremost a military realm. That's possible — we've all heard about "cyber Pearl Harbors" and the like. We hope that it doesn't evolve that way. Ironically the concepts and practices around security would then narrow, and that won't be a good outcome.
Our contribution here is based on the proposition that getting a little bit ahead of emerging challenges, rather than continuing to play catch up, is the best way we can help to prevent outright militarization from becoming the story of the Internet in 2020.
Your kickoff event for the scenarios featured one of the most successful cybersecurity storytellers: Walter Parkes, screenwriter and producer of the movies WarGames and Sneakers. How would you describe the role of narrative in your scenarios and helping the public understand cybersecurity?
I've never accepted the notion that science, theory and narrative are at cross purposes with one another. Quite the opposite: If you want to bring about change in what people believe and what they do as a result, you have to tell compelling stories that embed science and theory in a narrative. In politics, stories do battle with other stories and I think a policy-relevant research agenda needs to acknowledge that reality and own it. This doesn't mean sacrificing theory or academic integrity. The stories that matter are those whose plot can be rigorously defended with logic and evidence.
Walter Parkes taught me the difference between story and plot and I think it's a difference that every researcher who wants to change the world should keep in mind. Plot is what research creates — logic, causality, evidence, and reason. Story is what the human mind wants to consume — the narratives that move human beings to act differently tomorrow than they did today. In Parkes' telling, here's a plot: A woman loses her baby. Here's a story: Baby shoes, for sale, never worn.
We've taken that message to heart in our scenario work. Each of our scenarios expresses a clear logical plot about how the landscape of cybersecurity could change. Each has explicit theoretical causal claims at its core. And, we've embedded little fictions that represent snapshots of data from the future, which are characteristic observable implications of those logical plots. Those newspaper stories and the like aren't predictions -- they are stories that represent the kinds of data points that we'd start to see, if the causal logics of a particular plot are starting to unfold. Policy relevant research needs both of these elements to be effective.
Given the siloed nature of the huge sums spent on cybersecurity each year — government priorities or hardening individual company networks — we believe there's an important role for philanthropy to play in fostering more cooperation among government, industry, civil society, and academia. Where would you advise us and other funders interested in supporting cybersecurity for 2020 and beyond to invest our resources?
It's always easy to tell other people where they should spend their resources, isn't it? But in this case, we've put our own time and money too where our mouths are. I think the key to fostering cooperation is to recognize that the time to play catch-up in the cybersecurity realm is over.
The bad actors are out ahead of the good actors in many if not most parts of the landscape. There isn't enough money in the world to change that, if the good actors stay reactive and are generally responding to what the bad actors do. After all, it's a no-brainer move for the bad actors to do everything they can to impede cooperation among exactly the people and institutions that funders want to bring together. People sometimes talk about a collaborative moonshot approach, but it's important to remember that the moon was not an intelligent adversary that was trying to defeat the attempt to land on its surface.
So my advice is to get out ahead of the game and identify areas for cooperation that will start to emerge just over the horizon. I don't know precisely what the right time frame for that kind of approach is, but my instincts tell me that we're almost too late, for example, to deal with the first generation massive deployment of Internet of Things and that it might be smarter to move on right now to address what happens after that first generation is brought down by attackers.
I also want to endorse strongly the Hewlett Foundation's emphasis on addressing the global dimensions of the cybersecurity challenge. The Internet is still a new enough realm of political-economic-security games that the concept of national interest in those games is up for grabs.
It isn't that long ago that John Perry Barlow proclaimed the end of national state sovereignty on the Internet. 20 years after he wrote, "A Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace," the global policy agenda is crowded with issues like data localization and cross-border jurisdiction that put national borders and national power questions right at the top.
We may need to go back to first principles on some of these questions and seed a global conversation about the basic characteristics of Internet "space" and what it means for national interests. That will frustrate people who see the urgent cybersecurity dilemmas in a global frame, and I understand that frustration. But how else to get sustained, productive cross-border collaborations that improve the security of this new domain? It's a long game that I hope the most ambitious philanthropists will see as their unique place to invest.
May 18, 2016 — By Pat Scheid
Do we really need another report about global education? If the report is Millions Learning: Scaling Up Quality Education in Developing Countries, the answer is yes!
Millions Learning starts with a single proposition: the 100-year gap in educational outcomes between developed and developing countries cannot be closed with a business-as-usual approach. Co-authors Jenny Perlman Robinson and Rebecca Winthrop recommend five actions to expand quality education to millions more children in developing countries. Three of them stand out:
I'm hopeful that donors and governments will heed this advice and find new ways to provide flexible funding so that learning innovators have time to refine, adapt and sort out who is responsible for what to deliver on the promise of improved learning for more children.
Pairing this flexible funding with new investments to produce timely data and information about what it takes to scale up learning innovations could also advance the "science of delivery." And a network of Idea Hubs could offer real-time advice and connections with others tackling similar challenges – a concept that the team at Brookings Center for Universal Education calls "real-time scaling labs."
Reading Millions Learning reminded me of a story from our own grantmaking. In December 2013, I received a call from Mamadou Ly, executive director of the Senegalese NGO Associates in Research and Education for Development. ARED specializes in developing African-language instructional and reading materials that are culturally relevant, low-cost yet high quality and designed to meet community needs. The Hewlett Foundation funded the pilot phase of ARED's instructional approach for teaching reading, math and social studies in grades 1-3 beginning in 2011, and in November 2013 approved a three-year renewal grant to provide ARED time to further test and solidify its approach and plan for expansion.
Ly reported that the minister of education had taken notice of ARED's positive evaluation results and invited them to submit a plan for scaling up their model to 500 schools (a five-fold expansion). This was good news because ARED's goal was to demonstrate that mother-tongue instruction was feasible, and would enable Senegalese children to stay in and succeed in school.
Yet, Ly had questions he wanted to tackle before he presented a plan for scaling up the approach to the minister of education: What other government institutions would need to be involved and what would it take to get them on board? Who would be responsible for training and supporting teachers? What would ARED need to do, and who would pay for the 500-school expansion? How would ARED work with many more communities to ensure the programs were designed for their needs?
At the end of the call, we agreed to help ARED find and fund a scaling-up advisor that could work with them and the ministry of education – someone who had experience navigating the technocratic and political enabling conditions for scaling up that could coach ARED through the process.
ARED is making good progress today, and Dubai Cares has joined us to fund their work. Government officials, National Parent-Teacher Association representatives and others who participated in planning workshops with ARED have become "learning champions." And the minister for education recently endorsed ARED's plan to scale up.
ARED still has some way to go to put mother-tongue instruction and reading materials into the hands of more of Senegal's teachers and students. Success will depend on the ability of ARED and the ministry of education to consolidate their education alliance, mobilize longer-term funding, continuously track and learn from their progress in scaling up, and measure and communicate children's learning outcomes. Perhaps they will be among the first clients of real-time scaling labs!
Which leaves me wondering how many other potential real-time scaling lab clients are out there? And how might their actions improve your work? Share your thoughts with us on Twitter @Hewlett_Found or with me @pscheid6.
May 17, 2016 — By Denis Udall
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While the word assessment in education conjures up images of testing, its Latin root, assidere, means "to sit beside." This raises a provocative question: In this era of high-stakes testing that's used to rank kids and schools, what if we reclaimed the word assessment and put it more authentically in the service of learning?
Going a step further, what if we connected educators who are passionate about deeper learning with a coalition of technical assistance providers and researchers, surround them with resources and tools so that they can develop new forms of assessment as a learning community of grantees?
Recently, I met with the Assessment for Learning Project, a group of leaders who are catalyzing innovative approaches to assessment that encourage observing, collecting and interpreting evidence of deeper learning. They are inspired by the belief that any form of assessment "worth its salt," as one teacher put it, "should also be an occasion for learning."
Each pilot project within this group aims to build a new type of formative assessment that teachers and students can use to get feedback during instruction, so that they can adjust their teaching and learning accordingly. This group is also developing a series of "proof points" that would allow these assessments to scale beyond particular local contexts, geographies or school systems.
What would that look like in practice? Here are a few things being tried by the Assessment for Learning Project leaders.
The Center for Collaborative Education in Boston is working with Rhode Island teachers to design and implement complex, deeper learning tasks that require students to demonstrate mastery of key skills.
In contrast to a fill-in-the-bubble-sheet test, these tasks ask students to engage in real-world work like carrying out an investigation or constructing an argument based on primary sources. The most exciting part of this project is how participating teachers are trained to use the new assessments. Designed to "walk the talk" of competency-based assessment, the project's teachers must first demonstrate competencies in three stacks of "micro-credentials" and they must present those skills to their peers.
Two Rivers School in Washington, D.C., students embark upon two expeditions each year. Their teachers guide them in a project-based learning experience that challenges students to interact with science or social studies curricula in non-traditional and exciting ways.
For example, second-graders learn about the physics of flight by exploring gravity, and then make recommendations to the Smithsonian National Air and Space museum for a child-friendly exhibit. Fifth-graders learn about American history by studying protests, and then draft recommendations for the D.C. public charter school community in response to funding concerns. Two Rivers is developing performance assessments to better understand how and if students are able to transfer the skills and habits they use in these learning expeditions to new tasks.
The California Performance Assessment Collaborative is launching an official state pilot where schools and districts develop, test, and share learning about high-quality graduation performance assessments that can serve as a viable alternative to California's high school exit exam (a now suspended test of basic skills.) Learning within the pilot will occur on three levels:
At Envision Schools, for example, students assemble a portfolio of their best work, which they must defend, dissertation-style, in front of an audience of educators, peers, and community members. Students must present a defense of their work at the end of 10th grade, and, for seniors, passing the college success portfolio defense is a graduation requirement.
The center of gravity of Assessment for Learning Project is its learning agenda, a set of core questions that the grantees hope will galvanize the broader field into rethinking the role of assessment. These are questions such as: "What assessment practices most effectively empower students to own and advance their learning?" and "How can we most effectively build educator capacity to gather, interpret, and use evidence of student learning to enhance instruction?"
Over the next two years, the schools, districts and nonprofits in Assessment for Learning Project will be using these and other guiding questions to catalyze an ongoing conversation – both in their schools and with their fellow grantees - on how we can #rethinkassessment. Throughout the process, they will be supported by assessment experts, in-person meetings, and a digital hub where they can share challenges and get real-time feedback from their peers.
Assessment for Learning Project is led by the Center for Innovation in Education (CIE) at the University of Kentucky in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) at EDUCAUSE and is co-funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
May 16, 2016 — By Helena Choi
This week, I'm at the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen where global leaders, researchers and advocates are pushing for practical ways to boost the health, rights and well-being of women and girls. My colleagues Ruth Levine and Margot Fahnestock are here too, and attendees are talking about everything from gender data to gender norms.
There will be conversations about local advocacy for reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa and I'll be talking about how the Hewlett Foundation is shifting our grantmaking to include a creative advocacy platform.
The Hewlett Foundation has supported family planning and reproductive health for decades, and we recently increased our focus on Francophone West Africa and East Africa, where progress has been slow or stalled.
Today, we are publishing a more detailed approach to support local advocacy that "can capably and positively influence the family planning the reproductive health policies and funding decisions of their own national governments and of international donors."
Dozens of interviews with advocacy organizations, funders, policymakers and influencers—in developed and developing countries—helped identify two primary obstacles to effective local advocacy for family planning and reproductive health:
In response, we will support local policy advocacy priorities (and connect them to global efforts); provide hands-on and sustained technical assistance tailored to each organization; support longer-term advocacy partnerships; encourage mutual accountability among funders, intermediary organizations and local partners; and measure progress, share learning and adapt.
We expect to fund a handful of "Advocacy Partners" that can serve as trusted intermediary organizations to identify and support local organizations to advance family planning and reproductive health funding and policy goals over a five-year time horizon. These longer, five-year grants should allow the Advocacy Partners to pay particular attention to building sustainable advocacy capacity of their sub-grantees, so that these local organizations can define local policy priorities, develop advocacy strategies, secure resources, document and measure progress along the way, and adjust strategies as necessary.
We'll also be supporting a new Advocacy Accelerator, an online and in-person platform for advocates and their supporters to share experiences, evidence and approaches. Rachel Wilson at Catalysts for Change is leading this effort and I'll be joining her to discuss the Advocacy Accelerator at Women Deliver (Wednesday, May 18, 6:30 am – 8:15 am at the Bella Conference Center; a report about the Advocacy Accelerator will also be available at an interactive booth too, at location C3-060).
I hope many of you will join us for the discussions in Copenhagen and will continue to provide input and feedback to our grant-making approach.


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Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oilproduction was in steep decline and natural gas washard to find. The Iraq War threatened the nation salready tenuous relations with the Middle East.China was rapidly industrializing and competing forresources. Major oil companies had just about givenup on new discoveries on U.S. soil, and a new energycrisis seemed likely. But a handful of men believed everything wasabout to change. Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatterswere determined to tap massive deposits of oil andgas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissedas a waste of time. By experimenting withhydraulic fracturing through extremely dense shale a process now known as fracking the wildcattersstarted a revolution. In just a few years, they solvedAmerica s dependence on imported energy, triggereda global environmental controversy and made andlost astonishing fortunes. No one understands these men their ambitions, personalities, methods, and foibles betterthan the award-winning "Wall Street Journal "reporterGregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access enabledhim to get close to the frackers and chronicle theuntold story of how they transformed the nation andthe world. The result is a dramatic narrative trackinga brutal competition among headstrong drillers.It stretches from the barren fields of North Dakotaand the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvaniato cluttered pickup trucks in Texas and tense WallStreet boardrooms. Activists argue that the same methods that arecreating so much new energy are also harming ourwater supply and threatening environmental chaos."The Frackers "tells the story of the angry oppositionunleashed by this revolution and explores just howdangerous fracking really is. The frackers have already transformed the economic, environmental, and geopolitical course ofhistory. Now, like the Rockefellers and the Gettysbefore them, they re using their wealth and power toinfluence politics, education, entertainment, sports, and many other fields. Their story is one of the mostimportant of our time. MEET THE FRACKERS GEORGE MITCHELL, the son of a Greek goatherd, who tried to tap rock that experts deemedworthless but faced an unexpected obstacle in his quest to change history. AUBREY McCLENDON, the charismatic scion of an Oklahoma energy family, who scored billionsleading a historic land grab. He wasn t prepared for the shocking fallout of his discoveries. TOM WARD, who overcame a troubled childhood to become one of the nation s wealthiestmen. He could handle natural-gas fields but had more trouble with a Wall Street power broker. HAROLD HAMM, the son of poor sharecroppers, who believed America had more oil thananyone imagined. Hamm was determined to find the crude before others caught on. CHARIF SOUKI, the dashing Lebanese immigrant who saw his career crumble and his fortunedisintegrate, leaving one last, unlikely chance for success. MARK PAPA, the Enron castoff who panicked when he realized a resurgence of Americannatural gas was at hand, one that his company wasn t prepared for."show more
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Praise for"The Frackers" "Zuckerman s fast-paced, densely interesting "The Frackers" is the first book to tell the stories of the obstinate, ravenous, methodical, sometimes rascally oil executives of the recent boom. By focusing on people instead of trends, it gets to the heart of why the United States is once again the largest supplier of oil and gas in the world." " The New Republic" "The Frackers," [Zuckerman s] second book, is told with care and precision and a deep understanding of finance and corporate politics as well as oil and geology. Bryan Burrough, "The" New York Times Fans of the lively, character-driven nonfiction of writers like Kurt Eichenwald and Ben Mezrich should welcome this book with open arms . . . A lively, exciting, and definitely thought-provoking book "Booklist" A fascinating study of American entrepreneurial culture and the modern robber barons who succeeded in creating an energy revolution. "Kirkus" Lovers of business and capitalism will appreciate "The Frackers," Zuckerman has done valuable and timely reporting on the men and independent companies that created the shale boom. "Associated Press" Colorful compelling account [of] a revolution driven by stubborn entrepreneurs. "Reuters" An interesting and first-rate narrative a dramatic tale The book may be the definitive story of the innovative men behind the most significant energy discovery of our time. "Akron Beacon Journal" "Insightful...At times suspenseful...on-target in telling the tale of a group of wildcatters who risked almost everything and helped launch the United States on the path to energy independence." Natural Gas Intelligence Too little attention has been paid to one of America's biggest economic and scientific revolution of recent decades: the tapping of abundant oil and natural gas reserves within our own borders using a technique called fracking. "Wall Street Journal" reporter Zuckerman sets out to change that with his unique talent of translating complex aspects of finances and geology into prose that reads like a blockbuster thriller. "Publishers Weekly" (starred) Zuckerman details [the frackers s] epic adventure with skill that makes it required reading for anyone looking to understand fundamental forces at work in our world today. "Forbes Best Books of 2013 " "A dynamic narrative... introduces us to the major players behind a boom." "San Antonio Express-News" Greg Zuckerman tells the remarkable story of the larger than life entrepreneurs and deal makers behind this energy-industrial revolution. A great read, whether you are pro-fracking or against it. "Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor at The Economist" If you are looking for the present-day take on a romantic rag-to-riches drama reminiscent of the Gilded Age, engaging tales of brave entrepreneurs whose desire to get really wealthy helped them persevere and prosper come boom or bust, look no further than "The Frackers."" "Pittsburgh Post Gazette" Gregory Zuckerman tells the story of the shale revolution well. He has an eye for detail and a flair for narrative that makes it highly readable... This is a story of innovation as perspiration It is a reminder that innovation is neither easy nor cheap nor inevitable "The Times (UK)" "Greg Zuckerman's "The Frackers" will long be considered 'The Bible' on fracking and the history of drilling in the US and the wildcatting billionaires who were the main players. This incredibly thorough book explains, thrills, and has us on the edge of our seats all the way towards US energy independence." "James Altucher, best-selling author, entrepreneur and blogger" Praise for "The Greatest Trade Ever" Simply terrific. Easily the best of the post-crash financial books. Malcolm Gladwell Mr. Zuckerman is a first-rate reporter who is also able to explain the complexities of real estate finance in layman s terms. At times, "The Greatest Trade Ever "reads like a thriller. The New York Times He s written the definitive account of a strange and wonderful subplot of the financial crisis. Michael Lewis Possibly the greatest book to come out of the financial crisis of 2007 08, and it s certainly up there in the top 3. Bnet.com "show more
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Its put me off. I cant believe that it happend, it just shows you dont really know what your eating, cant trust packaging or ingredients list. Sounds like its affecting lots of companies. I had a big mac today (my little treat to myself because working nightshift tonight and no time to cook) and had to stop half way through cause I started thinking about it lol.
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I personally dont care what meat is in a burger, as long as it tastes good.. I dont see the big fuss over another animals meat we eat all the others.. cow, pig, chicken.. little lambs and bunnies unless youre a vegetarian. Ive tried a few meats tbf and the only one I can say is horrible is kangaroo meat
I cant say I will stop eating burgers. I was eating a burger from a kebab house the other day and I was like wow this tastes so good (because it had been a while) and my oh said yeh theres probably horse meat in it and I was just like "oh well" and munched the rest in minutes
I'm a bit on the carnivorous side xx
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I don't like them anyway, they smell funny to me and you know with anything like that they use all the scrapings
Was reading yesterday that the horsemeat probably came from frozen blocks of "slaughterhouse leftovers" in Poland bought by this irish suppliers Why the hell would you buy something named slaughterhouse leftovers to put in food
I know a lot of people say if you eat any meat then its hypocritical to say you won't eat certain animals but for me there are a few issues,
one that horses aren't raised as food, so are given drugs not intended for people to consume and there are no checks made
Two is that these horses are pets , that are bought at auction and then slaughtered in the most horrific way (honestly if you watch some of the you tube vids you'd never eat horsemeat )some are racehorses that weren't fast enough or kids ponies they outgrew or just older horses no one wants because they can't ride them , they trust humans and to me its like having a pet dog or cat and then when they get older and aren't in such good health or not as fun anymore then killing them and eating them
It's just immoral like the owners who dump greyhounds when they can't race anymore and there's no more money to be made
Three is that if they don't even know what animals are going into the food then obviously they aren't making checks on the safety of the ingredients , and after the whole mad cow fiasco which caused deaths through CJD then they should be more careful
I now can't donate blood or be an organ donor because I had a tranfusion before blood was tested for CJD thats how serious a risk to people it is and yet some firm thinks its fine to buy "meat" that could have anything in it from illegal drugs to serious diseases and feed it to humans
and four is that people have the right to know what they're eating, if you buy a BEEF burger then the only meat in it should be BEEF !
and thats the end of my rant
When the BBQ season comes round if I fancy a burger then I think I'll make my own with the mince we get directly from a local farm
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it wouldnt stop me either, my oh worked at a cheese factory as part of his last job and you wouldnt eat cheese if you saw what they did to it, not that its stopped us because i highly doubt what is on the label of anything is true. i have worked in a fast food chain and they things that go on are unbelievable and also in hospital kitchens but i still eat there as i think all things are like this and youd never eat again if you knew what had happened to it.
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See I don't like sausages either Or fast food
I don't like eating things that aren't actual pieces of meat as any of that stuff thats mushed up and stuck back together has all sorts of stuff in it , we got a chest freezer and started to buy half pigs and lambs direct from a local farmer who gets them slaughtered locally so we know exactly where its come from and how it was raised ,we get chicken and pieces of beef from him as well.
I have to admit seeing it as a whole half animal (no head or feet though) and having to cut it up myself did put me off a bit at first made me actually think of it as an animal not just meat , but it works out loads cheaper than the supermarket meat about £50 for half a pig whole (or £60 for it jointed)thats about 25-30kg weight we got dozens of huge chops, diced pork ,ribs (proper ones with meat on )and about 5 joints out of that the lambs a bit smaller but still does about 10 different meals though , would recommend it to anyone who's not squeemish
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ive always made my own burgers as i hate store bought ones.
ive had horsemeat, as well as reindeer and osteritch, i think theres no problem in eating it but it should definately be labelled correctly as i wouldnt like to eat something and found out later its actually something else.
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You make some really good points DL05. Before reading that I wouldn't have been bothered about eating horse meat but everything you said made a lot of sense. In theory I'm not bothered about eating horse meat the same as I'm not bothered about eating beef etc but you're correct in that it should be labelled and about the other issues.


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Some family friends and their two little boys are coming to visit this weekend, which means there's a lot of cleaning going on. And thinking about food, of course.
We always like to come up with a great breakfast spread for overnight guests. (Daddy's mainly the breakfast chef in our house.) Anyone have a tried and true egg casserole to share? Or something fantastically sweet?
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The NRA cracked crock is full of it again.
To soon Lester.
Hypocrite. Why aren't you responding this way on all your leftist buddies 'toons?
It's both!!!
"It is too soon."
This 'toon could well relate to many of the other tragedies that we've endured. Too soon, no in terms of gun control and mental health availability it's inexcusably late.
This is a MENTAL HEALTH issue NOT a gun control issue.
You're half right. It's both.
Anyone who thinks that more guns are the solution to gun violence is insane and shouldn't have guns.
So as usual, we will pass another law and that will fix everything? No, it's just the American political tradition of a quick fix that will appease the uproar from the people and do nothing to address the underlying problem…
Stupid 'toon. Fewer guns = more carnage. You have to live in a fantasy world to believe that. If you want to see how a society functions when everyone is heavily armed, look at Iraq.
Your egotism and arrogance totally negates any message you might be trying to impart. In effect screaming at people calling them evil, "murder ers" and the myriad of other insults you heap on people just makes you another judgmental voice with no credibility in the argument. You talk about approving of a cartoonists work as if they have to pass your criteria for credibility. What you fail to realize is people that actually matter in such issues discount you as just another extreme in the argument. I'm sure this falls on deaf ears since you seem so self absorbed you are impervious to any opinion other than your own…
Cause they don't make tasteless jokes about killing children.
The Harvard Injury Control Research Center assessed the literature on guns and homicide and found more guns tend to mean more homicide.
Respectfully and because of the sensitive nature of recent events allow me draw you a picture: if you were going to design a video game where the object was to slaughter as many as possible w/ no fear of resistance, you'd name it "GUN FREE ZONE."
I looked through this list of 10 most popular video games and low and behold, one wasn't pure blood and guts violence. Seriously, look these over.
Dr. C. Since you are going to put this on a logic level (and statistical) lets look at this. 100 million people own guns. A very, very minute percentage of those people abuse firearms and in particular the Newtown kind of genocide. That doesn't excuse the shooter or denigrate the heinous nature of his crime. He also belongs to a minute percentage of the mentally ill that are violent to others. All this discussion of cause and effect being numerically bandied about here goes both ways.
Obviously we need better gun control. I have posted ad nauseam many controls and procedures that cover background checks at gun shows, storage and training issues amongst others. Unfortunately I see a sales ban on these guns will probably be likely. I'm a libertarian and I abhor government control, it is the absolutely last resort IMHO.
One website (actually anti-gun) states there are over 4 million assault rifles in the U.S. 310 million guns in total. What degree of gun control do we go to for assault weapons? Confiscation? Banning the sale? Special licensing? California did that years ago. I wish I could believe any of these actions would prevent this kind of horrible crime from happening again. This kid was refused purchase of a gun, so he stole his mother's, obviously not well secured. I fear this will be a knee jerk reaction to an incredibly complex problem…
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Because of a computer glitch, 1,300 residents did not receive information about Proposition 218 water rate increases - which caps increases at 3 percent per year for five years - and nobody in the city received the information in Spanish.
The City Council on Wednesday night voted unanimously to resend the letters in utility bills with a large notification that indicates its importance. Councilwoman JoAnne Mounce also asked for the information to be sent in Spanish and that a translator be hired for the rescheduled public hearing.
City staff had proposed a 2.5 percent increase in the coming year of the Proposition 218 process. Water rate increases help pay for capital projects at city facilities.
Public Works Director Wally Sandelin said customers should look for letters in their utility bills by March. A public hearing is likely to be rescheduled for April.
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Issue No.01 - January/February (2009 vol.11)
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Wushow "Bill" Chou , North Carolina State University
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Inspired by President Obama's call for "change we need" to "build a smart federal government," this article offers one man's viewpoint on how to build a better federal IT operation. The core change we need to make is to move from the current culture of long in management and short in IT technical expertise to the paradigm of long in IT technical expertise and short in management.
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