Just finished reading feminist activist Jo Freeman’s article, written in 1970, called The Tyranny of Structurelessness. She argues there is no such thing as a structureless group, and that structurelessness tends to be invoked to cover up or obscure — and cannot eliminate — the role, nature, ownership and use of power within a group. [...]
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Structurelessness, feminism and open: what open advocates can learn from second wave feminists
From here to open – How the City of Toronto began Opening up
Toronto the open For myself, the biggest buzz at ChangeCamp Toronto was that the city showed up with lots of IT staff (much of it quite senior) who were trying to better understand how they could enable others to use their data and help citizens identify and solve problems. In fact the City of Toronto [...]
TransitCamp
Want to say congratulations to Jay Goldman, Eli Singer and Mark Kuznicki. Their article on TransitCamp has been published in the February 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review. For those unfamiliar with the concept of an unconference – like TransitCamp or the opencities unconference we put on last year – the article is a [...]
Open Cities – A Success…
Finally beginning to relax after a hectic week of speeches, work and helping out with the Open Cities unconference. Open Cities was dynamite – it attracted an interesting cross section of people from the arts, publishing, IT, non-profit and policy sectors (to name a few). This was my first unconference and so the most interesting [...]
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