Another New Year is here! One of the most popular things to do before a new year rushes in is to conjure many new beginnings—or to make a list of New Year’s resolutions—or, in other words, to set some personal… Read More »
Author Archives: Ieva Notturno
Is Online Relevance Killing Diversity?
Like many people, I am spending increasingly more time working, educating myself, socializing, and shopping online. Search engines like Google and Yahoo, online companies like Amazon and Ebay, and social media networks like Facebook and Twitter are making my online… Read More »
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What Does It Mean to Develop a Policy Possibility?
What does it mean to develop a policy possibility? And why do we spend so much time doing it in our sanctuary projects?
Most IF projects follow the same discussion process: the panelists first develop concerns that Americans may have… Read More »
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Teaching How to Think About Policy
One of the things that the Interactivity Foundation does is to teach people how to think about public policy possibilities. This will sound patronizing only if you misunderstand why, what, and how we do it.
I heard an interview with… Read More »
Interactivity of Ideas
There are many different kinds of the interactivity going on in IF public discussions. But the interactivity of ideas is one of the most important ones. Our reports are developed by two groups of people who meet every month for… Read More »
‘You lie!’
On this April Fools’ Day, I have been thinking about people lying, and accusing other people of lying, and human folly in general. There are all sorts of lies: white lies, prevarications, fibs, half-truths, exaggerations, and other kinds of deceptions.… Read More »
What Makes a Policy Possibility Worthwhile to Discuss?
I recently participated in a conference on immigration policy in Washington DC. One of the speakers forestalled criticism by saying that his recommendations were neither new nor original, and that that none of the ideas in the current discussion of… Read More »
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What’s in it for the panelists?
I have almost completed recruiting panelists for my new project on Human Migration. All of the panelists I have recruited are enthusiastic about the project. But I am still looking for one or two more. I have been asked to… Read More »
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‘The Best-Laid Plans…’
“Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men
who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage”
Aristotle
Actions have consequences. Whatever we do in both our private and public lives has… Read More »
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