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Millennium Scholarship Foundation: A Case Study in Sustaining a Network

For those who haven’t heard, one of the worst decisions of the current government has been to not renew the Millennium Scholarship Foundation.
The foundation, created by Chretien in 2000 had a 10 years of funding to pursue three goals: 1) improve access to post-secondary education, particularly for students facing economic or social barriers; 2) encourage [...]

Posted 06 August 2009 | David Eaves § random ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

ChangeCamp: Pulling people and creativity out of the public policy long tail

ChangeCamp is a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer one question: How do we re-imagine government and governance in the age of participation?
What is ChangeCamp? It is the application of “the long tail” to public policy.
It is a long [...]

Posted 22 January 2009 | David Eaves § cool links § open source § public policy § public service sector renewal § technology ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

The Open Source Public Service

Consider these to quotes side by side:
First,
“Human beings generally take pleasure in a task when it falls in a sort of optimal-challenge zone; not so easy as to be boring, not too hard to achieve. A happy programmer is one who is neither underutilized nor weighed down with ill-formulated goals and stressful process friction. Enjoyment [...]

Posted 03 July 2008 | David Eaves § open source § public policy § public service sector renewal ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

myforeignpolicy.ca

So in February, during the online discussion with Granatstein and Axworthy, when I picked up on the Canada25 Middle to Model Power thread and argued that:
“As a country we may appear adrift, but, as individuals, Canadians are more effectively and successfully engaged than ever. Quietly, we’ve transitioned from a middle power — a plucky country [...]

Posted 02 April 2008 | David Eaves § canadian foreign policy § interesting people § public policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Europe as Model Power…

So it appears that Hillary Clinton isn’t the only person reading Canada25 reports. British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, gave a speech entitled “Europe 2030: Model Power Not Superpower.”
Ring a bell? In 2004 Canada25 published From Middle to Model Power: Recharging Canada’s Role in the World.
A brief excerpt from Miliband speech:
The EU is not and never [...]

Posted 19 November 2007 | David Eaves § canadian foreign policy § public policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: ,

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