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Ben Turner's Documents
Innovation Processes (White Paper by Rabin and Turner)
A white paper researching different innovation processes, how they've been used, and where future trends are going such that new innovation processes can take advantage of them.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:2,319Uploaded:05 / 24 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionBRIC Openness and Privacy (Yahoo!/Georgetown ISD research)
In the near future, most of the world's internet users are going to come from five countries: the US, Brazil, Russia, India, and China (or USABRIC). Each country has a profoundly unique culture and government-institutional memory that will shape how its citizens interact online through social networking sites (SNSs). But hard culture has been caught up in a swirling vortex of attitudes and customs online, where sharing more data about oneself and getting more connections and friends provides social capital benefits that can exceed the benefits from a country's cultural norms and its appetite for being more open about itself or more closed about itself. Thus, a desire for standardization in the form of a global social networking system is strong -- as shown by Facebook's rapid growth worldwide. As this standardization becomes more normal, though, hard cultures will emerge again and shape the way that SNSs look and feel and perform so that peoples' online data truly reflects their identities. But it will be through a model -- one which I propose -- of transparency in which users have greater control over their own data yet they still share it willingly, according to their cultural comfort levels.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:2,921Uploaded:05 / 06 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionIs Iraq Democratizing? (May 2009)
A look at whether Iraq is democratizing or not and why -- studies internal politics and composition of Iraq as well as the effect of external actors.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:5,685Uploaded:05 / 05 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionRe-Orienting US-Iran Negotiations Into the US's Favor
A paper describing the lack of US-Iran negotiations and why the US needs to change its Iran policy quickly, as Iran has been strengthening its negotiating position for the last two decades.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:1,582Uploaded:05 / 05 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionEcuador's Bono de Desarrollo Humano Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Program analysis of Ecuador's Bono de Desarrollo Humano program to increase human capital and to decrease consumption poverty.
Category:Essays & ThesesReads:6,910Uploaded:05 / 05 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Cloud and the Grid
A presentation on how the cloud and grid computing are affecting our lives.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:1,350Uploaded:01 / 03 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionFacebook Beacon Presentation
A presentation for my class on why you should love, and hate, Facebook's Beacon program.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:960Uploaded:01 / 03 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionMemo to President Obama on Tech Policy
Memo for my "what's shaping the internet?" class; a technology policy for Barack Obama involving an innovation commons, open-source software, and a national identity system.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:3,676Uploaded:12 / 11 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionIR Paper #2: OFFENSE, DEFENSE, OR NEGOTIATION IN THE LONG WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
More on Iraq and fighting Al-Qaeda and terror; the US squandering its only advantages against fighting a global insurgency.
Category:School WorkReads:1,468Uploaded:12 / 11 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionIR Theory Paper #1: Hegemonic Power Versus Iraqi Insurgency
A look at the US's quagmire in Iraq and the Iraqi insurgency.
Category:School WorkReads:1,434Uploaded:12 / 11 / 2008ShareAdd to collection
