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Delicious Governance: Not always an Oxymoron?
By Kaufmann | September 2, 2008 No Comments »
Governance is integral to everyday happenings around the world. They don’t always make the big headlines. Corruption, lack of transparency and accountability in government, censorship, abuse of and by the judiciary, regional conflicts and state-sponsored aggression, are some of the common manifestations of misgovernance. By contrast, there are also notable instances of good governance and integrity in many institutions around the world.
I have been blogging about many of these before, but a blog entry is one selective take on a particular issue, whether news that day or not. So I thought that it is worth also giving some broader snapshot of the governance news of the day.
But what does this have to do with ‘Delicious Governance’? Well, it is simply a play with words, because some governance news may be delicious, but unfortunately many are not, so the answer lies elsewhere: building on the social bookmarking trend, I am piloting a “Governance News” blog section through a space on Delicious –a social bookmarking service to manage and share web pages–, where I will show a selection of governance content from the news, blogs and other sources around the web. It is not going to be an exhaustive compilation of governance news and happenings, and it will not necessarily reflect my own opinions or points of view.
Instead, I am sharing topical and timely information on governance worldwide, these days for instance centered around developments in Russia-Georgia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, as well as others less mentioned in China, Mauritania or Mexico. Even though most of the content will be in English, will add a few bookmarks with content in Spanish, French and Arab.
How does Delicious Governance work? Whether you have a Delicious account or not, you can go to the “Governance News” section to see my bookmarks (bottom of the right column), and click on “governancenews.” If you do have a Delicious account, add me to your network, and feel free to send me more governance related content that you like (just add the tag for:governancenews, and I’ll receive your bookmark).
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