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Civil Rights and Civic Responsibility

August 7, 2012 / kpratt / Public Discussion Blog

Should everyone have equal civil rights?  This group felt that civil rights should be based on the highest morality of the people and the people have a civic responsibility to enforce those rights for all US citizens.   Exceptions should be considered and made on a case by case basis such as in the instance of … Read more »

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It’s up to all of us to protect our Civil Rights

August 7, 2012 / kpratt / Public Discussion Blog

The group began discussing the issue of civil rights from their own idealistic philosophical points of view.   After discussing which populations of people should have certain rights, the group uncovered deeper feeling of unfairness to the “system” if, for example, illegal immigrants access healthcare and drive up costs for everyone because they are uninsured.   The … Read more »

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What’s the Point of IF’s Public Discussions?*

August 2, 2012 / Adolf Gundersen / Blog, Public Discussion Blog

To answer the question directly, the primary objective of public discussion is to promote democratic discussion of policy concerns as a way of contributing to citizens’ individual and social choices and, through them, to useful public policy making.  This objective comprises two goals that tend to be mutually reinforcing: (1) stimulating (or promoting) democratic discussion; … Read more »

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What is meant by Privacy?

July 27, 2012 / kkelly / Public Discussion Blog

One of the participants asked us who the biggest threat to our security is. Howard University alumni met to discuss privacy on July 25, 2012 in Maryland. After discussing all of the six possibilities, we concluded that hackers are more of a threat than the government. The government and private entities are both afraid of … Read more »

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Howard University Discusses Food: What Might Be For Dinner?

July 20, 2012 / kkelly / Public Discussion Blog

By: KKelly The discussion of six policy possibilities by six Howard University alumni and students on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 was lively.  All of the possibilities provoked ideas that we could do more to equalize access to good and healthy food for all people and that we have a responsibility to promote subsidies that can … Read more »

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Howard University Takes On Higher Education

June 29, 2012 / abrown / Public Discussion Blog

On Tuesday, June 12, the group discussed all of the six policy possibilities in the Interactivity Foundation report “The Future of Higher Education.”  The group began by exploring several possible definitions of “higher education” and then wended its way through the report from there.  Many of the possibilities – including for example Possibility B (Higher … Read more »

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Embracing the Random with Howard University Alumni

April 12, 2012 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog, Public Discussion Blog

The magic in some discussions come from the unexpected–the stuff you just can’t script. That was the lesson in a recent education discussion in Washington, D.C. For several months, the Interactivity Foundation has been sponsoring small-group public policy discussions through a partnership with the Howard University Greater Washington Alumni Club, led by former club president … Read more »

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