Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: commercial

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label commercial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercial. Show all posts

Friday, August 02, 2024

The 'future' ... it's up to you* (i)

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

Chief Future Self-Care Officer





Chief Future Officer - CFO


*Well not entirely! ii to follow.

My source: TV - https://www.bloomberg.com/btv/series/chief-future-officer

Monday, July 15, 2024

FT: "Nearly 3mn people fell into financial difficulty last year"

Access to credit and illegal lending


Individual
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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES                   
HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      
 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 
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Group

study included an online survey 3,101
 financially vulnerable people
+
nationally representative online study
with a sample of 1,500 people


>20mn classed as vulnerable

'44% of the UK adult population'



exclusion from financial services

'People with flaws in their credit scores,
risk being excluded from affordable
financial services, being forced to
rely on subprime lenders.'


"the poverty premium costing the country
a staggering £2.8bn per year."

economic determinants of health

'We need to view financial inclusion
as a key enabler of growth.'



Hickey, S. Nearly 3mn people fell into financial difficulty last year, Money, FTWeekend, 13 July, 2024. p.2. https://www.ft.com/content/9fa98712-b73e-4eac-ba5f-71d3bad13fa7


Saturday, May 15, 2021

Webinar: Public Health and Responsible Innovation in a post-Covid Europe

On May 20th 2021 14:00-17:20 CEST a Webinar on Public Health and Responsible Innovation in a post-Covid Europe is organized by De Montfort University and “la Caixa” Foundation

As Covid-19 will remain a part of our lives for the next years, the role of public and preventative health has been rarely so important. Digital tools and technologies offer great opportunities to the healthcare sector. However, the challenges and risks in this aspect have to be considered critically.

This webinar will focus on:

  • the challenges and dilemmas for Responsible Innovation in the public health sector; 
  • bringing together community and commercial perspectives; and
  • helping to chart a responsible and sustainable way forward for innovation in public health.

Join this forward thinking event and:

  • Learn about recent developments for Responsible Innovation and how these fit with goals for CSR, ESG, circularity, the UN SDGs and European policy agendas; 
  • Engage, through your questions, in the dialogue between leading experts; and
  • Help your organisation when designing and developing health-related products, providing or procuring technologies and services in a responsible and sustainable way.

Please register under https://www.living-innovation.net/signup


My source:

Malcolm Fisk, Professor of Ageing and Digital Health at De Montfort University

Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Just because they have 'eco' in common ...

... don't assume you can monitise*

 the world's ecosystems 

by their roots and branches ... 

 

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humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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  E
ECOSYSTEMS

  O
  N
  O
  M
   I
  C
  S



*despite the ongoing 'project' ...?

Tuesday, May 07, 2019

The Fourth Quadrant - Johnson (2010)

For anyone who has read Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From, you might appreciate that for me it was a case of take-two from the previous post 'The adjacent possible'. How could I not include the chapter "The Fourth Quadrant" especially as the book's 'Conclusion'?

If title was one take, the other was "Oh! How does this relate to h2cm?" After reading and reflecting things fell into place. Johnson wants to represent the history of innovation (no less) using roughly two hundred of the most important innovations and scientific breakthroughs from the past six hundred years, starting with Gutenberg's press, Einstein's theory of relativity, the invention of air conditioning through to the birth of world wide web (pp.218-219).

There are three figures in the chapter spanning 1400-1600; 1600-1800; 1800-present. Johnson's diagram for 1800-present (p.229) is in-part 'mapped' to Hodges' model below.

A few insights into my reasoning. In the Interpersonal domain I am emphasising an individual's primary (and original) motivation for their work and what follows. In the sciences - here PROCESSES are central. As with all models this is an idealisation, so there is a lot of overlap.

Individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic / non-market ------------------------------- mechanistic / market
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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Network

3. Non-Market/Individual

Not devised for fiscal gain, individually devised .. amateur scientist, or hobbyist.

Spectroscope           Hormones
Bunsen Burner             E - mc2
Rechargable Battery      Special Relativity
Nitroglycerine        Earth's Core
Cell Nucleus          World Wide Web
Stethescope         CT Scan
...

1. Market/Individual

Devised for fiscal gain, individually devised i.e. Air Conditioner

Mason Jar
Tesla Coil
Gatling Gun
Nylon
Vulcanized Rubber

Programmable Computer
Transistor
...



4. Non-Market/Network

Not devised for fiscal gain, collectively devised.
Open source envirnoment or academia.


Braille      Periodic Table     RNA Splicing
Chloroform        EKG    Aspirin
Cell Division    Global Warming
Benzene Structure        Continental Drift
Hereditary       Superconductors
... 


2. Market/Network

Devised for fiscal gain, collectively devised, multiple firms interact

Airplane    Lightbulb    Steel   Automobile
Induction Motor      Radio 

Contact Lenses    Welding Machine
Moving Assembly Line   Motion Picture Camera
Locomotive     Vacuum Cleaner
Electric Motor     Washing machine
Refrigerator      Vacuum Tube
Telegraph      Helicopter
...



Johnson, Steven (2010) Where Good Ideas Come From, London: Allen Lane.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

"One-size-fits-all" Assurance of Insurance needed?

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group
mental health problems affect

Self-employed, single
No previous history of MH problems
PURPOSE#
Psychology - Counselling
12.5 million adults - 1 in 4

PROCESSES (automated?)*

'Life cover'
Insurer access to GP record - deemed high-risk
500,000 people affected by

Untimely death of a parent
Mother killed by drug-using driver
Refused IVF treatment
PRACTICE

insurance company
POLICIES
driver jailed
Voided application for life cover
(figures) suggest insurers reject up to 625,000 people a year
By law ins. companies cannot discriminate

*Need to discuss an application with a person, fill in 'gaps' then less likely to become subjected to an algorithm and an automated rejection.

# What were the reasons for referral to psychology and counselling?

My source:
Miller, L. (2018) My fight to get life cover after mental health trauma, The Daily Telegraph, Money, 22 September, pp.1-2.

See also: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/insurance/life/get-life-insurance-mental-health-problem/

Technology can, will and is helping to 'disrupt' the insurance market.

Friday, June 15, 2018

NTU Public Health Conference: Reverse knowledge innovation in global health and development

This conference examines the potential for reversing knowledge transfer and innovation and explore notions of challenging traditional assumptions about the production and flow of knowledge within global health and development studies.

The concept of ‘reverse innovation’ has been gaining traction in global public health and development over the last few years. Increasingly it is an interdisciplinary and multi-contextual concept which deals with knowledge(s) transfer to potentially foster mutual learning between different actors, stakeholders and communities, what Crisp (2010) called ‘Turning the world upside down’. We seek to critically interrogate this emerging concept and its link to knowledge(s) innovation and flows and the cross-cutting social, economic and cultural spaces and practices it inhabits.

We will consider the contribution and role of social sciences in global health and development issues, how partnership models operate this concept and whether this potentially increases sustainability, what new knowledge/perspectives in global health and development are emerging and how these interface with traditional knowledge(s) and practice(s).

We are now accepting Calls for abstracts. Registration for the Conference will open before the end of June 2018.

The objectives of the Conference

  • Extend understanding within social science, emerging perspectives on reverse innovation and knowledge transfer within the context of global health and development.
  • Highlight the research profile and experience of developing countries and their potential contribution to knowledge and practice innovation in developed countries.
  • Showcase the work of students and early career researchers within the sociology of global health and development.
  • Create opportunities for identifying potential international collaborations and networks.

Theme

  • Reverse knowledge innovation in global health and development
Sub-themes
  • Role of social science in global health and development (social theories, political economy).
  • Partnership models: sustainability
  • Emerging knowledge/perspectives in global health and development: methods, commercial determinants of health
  • Traditional knowledge(s) and practice(s)
  • Knowledge translation to practice: (Barriers: lack of preventive measures, funding, prevention vs treatment etc.)
See conference page for more...
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2018/10/public-health-conference

My source: @PublicHealthNTU

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Public Service(s) Ethos ii (notes)

Behind the post from 19 January 2018 are the 4Ps which can be related to Hodges' model.

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humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

ethos:
PURPOSE -

Were possible the patient should have a purpose in relation to their condition, care, and recovery as far as possible. (How do we define proactive, preventive care...?) The nurse and colleagues will similarly be purposed to deliver person-centred care. The organisation can make a difference here - to individual practitioners, translating the organisational ethos through leadership to ensure individual's can be creative, safe, effective, innovate and find their role and purpose rewarding and (constantly) refreshing. Ethos here should align with personal ethics and values. Fire may be a mechanistic phenomena, but burnout here is best avoided.

SERVICES:
process -

In the past and today nursing has been and is defined and described in task-oriented terms. Hodges' model acknowledges this by differentiating between the activities that nurses carry out some are mechanistic and others are humanistic. Through a combination of  interventions nurses help patients regain their independence as far as possible. 
Outsourcing and project management are also tied to process-laden perspectives, models and schema.
PUBLIC
practice -
Students are socialised into practice (yes, I had a bath).  Our practice is contextual, that is, it is situated. Interaction and the time nurses spend with patients and often carers places an emphasis on the exercise and maintained competence of interpersonal skills. Empathy, rapport, dignity and respect, universal positive regard ... they are exercised and practised here. If this is the domain were therapuetic relationships are forged, this is also the domain where contact-time counts. Count the beans as we may, the qualitiative relationships in the time spent between nurse-patient; lecturer-student; mentor-student; leader-team contact are definitive for the public and practitioner. Enjoy this, as the robot help is enabled with an ethos of its own?

ethos
POLICY -
The initial post was prompted by POLITICS.  Many nurses try to be apolitical, necessarily so at work. In a way, as you can see the HUMANISTIC-MECHANISTIC axis provides a dodge. The humanistic placement of practice in Hodges' model can account for the public service ethos of "Don't Panic Carry On". Although many try to circumvent the politics of healthcare, there is no escape from the effects of policy on the service. The UK and USA remain ideologically divergent in healthcare (and geologically) but the debate is now heard everywhere and when. It is infraglobal. It is heard everywhere and when. In the political domain there are obvious sensitivities associated with our use of maps and our place upon them. Addressing the ethos of healthcare at an individual and population level now calls for maps of a unique kind.

Friday, January 19, 2018

Public Service(s) Ethos

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

ethos

SERVICES
PUBLIC
ethos



Corbyn, J. "... public services ethos ..." heard this week on the news, 17 January, 2017.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Advertising: The air that we breathe; or don't?

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

Mental Pollution
Adbusters

Unbranded Advertising

Unbranded advertising of prescription medicines to the public by pharmaceutical companies (Protocol) 

Health - Literacy?

Digital Ad# Fraud
False / Fake Ads


Hodges' model makes explicit the divide between the public and the public's understanding of science.

Consider here the increased noise in advertising channels since the millennium as the media multiply, in addition to false advertising the rise of fake ads. Fake ads for jobs, drugs, goods and a littering of click-bait. Contactless plastic that touches the deepest oceans. Consumerism has become post-truth as any sense of 'standards' are undermined on several fronts.

The overlaps and increased complexity then become apparent.

# 'information'?

n.b. If I recall the source for the paper I will add it here!

Monday, February 15, 2016

[Business] Domains of extraordinary Disruption ?

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ---------------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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Creative: In this case the organisation itself is the disruptor. For instance, when new start-ups disrupt established players.


Transformational: These disruptions are planned and internal. An example would be a company turnaround.



Reputational: These disruptions are unplanned and internal. Examples include fraud cases, misconduct, management conflict and product safety problems.

Hostile: These disruptions come from an external source. Examples include cyberattacks, activist investors and hostile bids.

"Large disruptions can move from one category to another. Each type of disruption will require a different style of leadership."

Source: Boards in Challenging Times: Extraordinary Disruptions.

My source:
Chynoweth, C. Crisis? No, it's an opportunity, Business, Sunday Times, 7 February 2016, p.12.

Friday, October 02, 2015

Health care in the time of austerity and the funding divide: 'scrub epic veils'

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group



FUN 
?

'PUBLIC'
 DING
?

'AGENCY'


Smyth, C. (2015) Locum paid £500,000 as costs sore soar for the NHS, Doctor's deal reignites row over 'rip-off' agencies..., The Times, 2 October, p.1. (My source)


'scrub epic veils' = 'public services'
c/o http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Capital 'p': Patient, Person, Person-centred, Personhood

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group


capital Patient






Patient capital



Whenever financial markets get hyperactive - the norm rather than exception over the past three decades - we hear calls for "patient capital" that can fund long-term investment in the productive capabilities that are essential for a prosperous economy. ...
The problem is not just "short-termism" but more fundamentally value extraction that far outstrips contributions to value creation, with financial interests, including top executives, reaping gains that should go to taxpayers and workers.
For the sake of stable and equitable growth, it is time that these real patient capitalists lose their political patience, and demand fundamental economic reform. p.24.

Source:
Lazonick, W. Why patient capital is running thin, Armchair Alphaville, FTMoney. July 26/July 27 2014: p.24

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

More Human - istic?

subtitle: Hey! ... Steve, Tories, Labour, Liberals, Greens, DoH... over here!


More Human by Steve Hilton
individual
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            INTERPERSONAL  SCIENCES              
humanistic ------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY  POLITICAL
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 group






Friday, January 09, 2015

the GE METRY of CARE and C NTRACTS

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humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
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Image source:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Circle_-_black_simple.svg/500px-Circle_-_black_simple.svg.png

#entanglement

Friday, January 02, 2015

The mining of meaning: copper - in and out of the ground

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
group

West O'okiep Mine, Okiep (1862 to the early 1970s)
284,000 tonnes of copper extracted
Communities

$ £ ...



Image source and with thanks to Dillon Marsh
http://dillonmarsh.com/copper02.html

My original source: New Scientist 6 Sept 2014 pp. 24-25.

Thursday, January 01, 2015

The mining of meaning - across the domains and years

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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In September 2014 I visited Amsterdam to attend Drupalcon and arriving early spent a day at the Stedelijk Museum. Exhibitions included a project within On The Move by Witho Worms and Hans Gremmen
Witho Worms (Amersfoort, NL, 1959) is a photographer who lives and works in Amsterdam. Hans Gremmen (Langenboom, NL, 1976) is a graphic designer who works and lives in Amsterdam.  - See more at: http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/on-the-move/witho-worms-and-hans-gremmen#sthash.2lKS8S6r.dpuf
Witho Worms (Amersfoort, NL, 1959) is a photographer who lives and works in Amsterdam. Hans Gremmen (Langenboom, NL, 1976) is a graphic designer who works and lives in Amsterdam.  - See more at: http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/on-the-move/witho-worms-and-hans-gremmen#sthash.2lKS8S6r.dpuf

Around Wigan there were many spoil or slag heaps from the coal industry that once thrived across Lancashire. There is a leisure area known as The Three Sisters reclaimed land from the mining industry. Slag heaps can have a very physical presence over towns and villages.

For some communities these man-made mountains hold memories of a hard family life, of many loves and joys and disaster.

The exhibition of photographs and their book revealed how the coal mining spoil heaps are universal. They look the same and represent the same toil and graft. Whatever the country - risk is risk : dust is dust. In these modern pyramids we see mining as a global phenomenon not just coal and a happenstance of geology and local history. The process of production of the book's prints is fascinating too, saying far more than the images alone as with the socio-politics of this industry.
Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum

Cette Montagne, C’est Moi / This Mountain That’s Me (2006-2011)
http://www.alternativephotography.com/cette-montagne-cest-moi-this-mountain-thats-me-2006-2011/

and Happy New Year to all!

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

c/o [hifa2015] Stop the .health!

Hi everyone,

Some of you may know about the research I and colleagues around the world have been pursuing on the new health-related domains published in the Lancet, JMIR, Globalization and Health, and featured by news outlets such as NPR, Kaiser Health News, the CBC, and others.  Right now we have the unique opportunity to make an impact by demanding that that public health interests are a priority in the future of the Internet.

Background
Currently, about a dozen health-related generic top level domains (gTLDs) are being added to the Internet.  They include domains such as .healthcare, .med, .doctor, .clinic and MOST IMPORTANTLY a new .health.  Unfortunately, ICANN is now in the process of awarding this hugely important domain space that could shape the very future of health information online to a company that has no interest nor expertise in public health.  Basically, ICANN has ignored key stakeholders including the World Health Organization, World Medical Association, Save the Children, IMIA, France, Mali, and others who have expressed great concern about ICANN’s treatment of the .health.  This recently ended in a secret and private settlement to award the .health that was scheduled to go to a public bidding process.

This decision is important as it will impact global public health and the health of individual consumers.  As people increasingly use the Internet for health information and use that information to make crucial treatment decisions, the quality and trustworthiness of health information online has never been more important.  A .health that was properly governed, had sufficient participation from the medical and public health community, and that was structured as a global public good for the broader community, could have been a game changer for ensuing the reliability of health information online and improving health outcomes.  This has not happened, as ICANN has focused on economic and commercial interests over public health.

What you can do
We are now engaged in a last ditch push to make a real difference here and we have an opportunity to do so.  Right now ICANN is having their annual meeting in Los Angeles. After discussions with friends at WHO, other academics, and even those sympathetic to our cause within ICANN, we’ve learned that only the broader public health and medical community can make a difference.  For this reason, I am hoping you will join our coalition in letting ICANN know that the concerns of the public health community for the .health need to be addressed immediately.

You can make a difference by directly engaging in ICANN’s policy processes via an online public forum this THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 - 14:00-17:00PM PDT.  Participation is easy and will not take much of your time:

All you have to do is visit the following URL (http://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-public-forum), and then click the “Virtual Meeting Room Stream Live” link, click the option to participate as a guest, and you will be entered into an adobe connect chat room where you can participate and voice your concerns.  Some of the concerns that could be addressed are:

- why has ICANN ignored calls by the WHO, World Medical Association, France, Mali, and others about the .health
- why did ICANN award the .health with no transparency through a secret settlement?
- why has ICANN not responded to multiple letters sent to their board about the .health asking for a moratorium/suspension of the process?
- why does ICANN treat other domains such as .wtf, .sucks, with better safeguards than the .health?
- why has ICANN not listened to the public health community about the .health and other health-related domains?
- health is such an important issue, shouldn’t we have a place on the Internet where we can trust our health information?

I will be personally attending the ICANN meeting in LA and meeting with certain key ICANN officials to try to make an impact.  Please join us so that we can ensure the .health is a place to improve your health, not harm it.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me at anytime attmackey AT ucsd.edu.  Only with your help can we hope to make a difference.

Thanks!

References and Sources

Published articles:

  • Mackey TK, Liang BA, Kohler J, Attaran A. The Fight over dot-health: Ensuring the Future of Health Information Online.<http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)62215-1/fulltext?rss=yes> The Lancet. 2013; 382:1404.
  • Mackey TK, Liang BA, Kohler JC, Attaran A. Health Domains for Sale: The Need for Global Health Internet Governance<http://www.jmir.org/2014/3/e62/. J Med Internet Res. 2014;16(3):e62.
  • Mackey TK, Eysenbach G, Liang BA, Kohler JC, Geissbuhler A, Attaran A. A Call for a Moratorium on the .health Generic Top-Level Domain: Preventing the Commercialization and Exclusive Control of Online Health Information<http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/10/1/62. Global Health: 2014; 10:62.
News articles:
  • National Public Radio: (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/26/351416992/will-dot-health-make-it-more-likely-that-youll-get-scammed)
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/health-websites-could-be-overrun-by-commercial-interests-experts-fear-1.2779128)
  • TechDirt (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140926/08041428649/health-experts-issue-call-to-prevent-icanns-commercialization-new-health-domain-leading-to-exclusive-control-online-health.shtml)
  • Medical News Today (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/283165.php)
  • Kaiser Health News (http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2014/September/29/health-IT.aspx)
  • Medpage (http://www.medpagetoday.com/PracticeManagement/InformationTechnology/44766)

My source: HIFA: Healthcare Information For All: www.hifa2015.org

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Trade winds and time: The Clock of the South

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E --------------------------------------- W
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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G7
G8
 ..





Alt





trade-winds
Socio-
(political)

Clock of the South
individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
group

C/o BBC: Bolivian Congress clock changed to turn anti-clockwise

The clock displayed on the Bolivian Congress building, located in the city of La Paz, has been re-set to run in reverse.

Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to twelve to the left.

It's the latest measure taken by the government of President Evo Morales to promote the indigenous identity of the Andean country. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-28040065


updated 26 August 2014
BBC Radio 4 20:00: Whatever Happened to Global Governance?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f9rdr

Original image source:
http://bubblear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/clock1-1110x400.jpg