The strategic importance of information policy for the contemporary neoliberal state: The case of Open Government Data in the United Kingdom

The article analyses the role of Open Government Data policy as part of the broader public policy agenda of the UK government. A thematic analysis of interview, observational and policy documentation is presented which suggests that since 2010 the Open Government Data agenda has been used strategically by the UK's centre-right coalition government to progress a range of controversial policies, which are aimed at the continuation of the neoliberal form of state through its current crisis. Specifically, the relationship between Open Government Data policy and the neoliberal objectives of the marketisation of public services and privatisation of public assets, the leveraging of financial markets and the pharmaceutical industry, and the embedding of OGD into a broader agenda aimed at rebuilding trust in political elites are analysed. These findings are examined in relation to Braman's (2006, 2011) arguments regarding the strategic implementation of information policy by Governments in the exercising of state power, and the development of the ‘informational state’.     

优化高等教育的人才培养机制--以学习十八届三中全会精神为契机

党的十八届三中全会所提出的“深化教育领域综合改革,健全促进就业创业体制机制”的战略思想,为我国高等教育事业的发展指明了方向。培养高质量的人才是高等教育发展的核心任务,也是科教强国的基本要求。全国各地高校应紧紧围绕培养高质量人才这一核心,以十八届三中全会精神为契机,优化学科专业结构、培养大学生实践创新精神、推动就业创业教育,从而培养出社会所需求的高质量人才。     

第三方测试在四川省基层医疗卫生机构管理信息系统建设中的应用

介绍了四川省基层医疗卫生机构管理信息系统建设过程中引入第三方测试的背景、工作思路、第三方测试团队的具体工作内容,分析了建设过程中需要注意的问题,并提出了解决办法。     

中国所有制结构变迁与部门工资差距问题——基于中国微观家计调查数据的实证分析

不同所有制部门间的工资差距是近年来中国收入差距现象中的一个显著维度,国有与非国有部门在不同时期,经历了由折价到溢价的工资差距现象,构成了其中一个典型特征。但由于进入国有部门者与非国有部门者可能存在系统性差异,所有制性质在多大程度上可解释二者工资差异存在质疑。本文从工资决定因素分析的视角,通过Treatment-effects模型校正样本自选择偏差,利用CHNS数据分析中国部门工资决定中各因素的影响,尤其是所有制性质对部门工资差距的影响。基于1993-2006年CHNS数据的实证分析表明,部门性质对部门工资差距具有显著的影响,这种影响呈现出由折价向溢价转换的分阶段特征,表现出了较强的政策与体制相关性。     

Environmental innovations in services: Manufacturing–services integration and policy transmissions

This paper investigates the relevant factors behind the almost unexplored realm of environmental innovation in services, using a dataset of 8161 Italian service firms. Specifically, we test whether manufacturing-services integration matters for environmental innovations. In addition, taking account for the heterogeneity of the service industries, we analyse whether environmental policies for manufacturing transmit ‘induced innovation’ effects to services. Our findings show that: (i) the drivers of environmental innovations related to carbon abatement and energy efficiency differ across industries, and (ii) cooperation, training, environmental management systems and public funding play key roles in these processes. The integration of services and manufacturing through push and pull-effects, and the environmental policy transmission effect from manufacturing to services, generally do not seem to have a positive impact on the diffusion of environmental innovations.     

Legitimising inequality? The governance of ‘Others’ through participatory initiatives in schools

This article discusses how the call for families’ active participation in school can be understood as a form of regulatory act producing neoliberal subjectivities based on responsibility, entrepreneurship and rational calculation. The analysis draws on the results of two projects aiming to improve the relationship between families of Spanish Roma and immigrant background and the school. Results suggest that the idea of participation is presented as an element for the transformation of the schools. Nevertheless, the programmes are implemented without questioning the power structure present in school, and so put even more responsibility on the families, and make more visible their supposed deficits. Approaching participation as a key feature of neoliberal governmentality, our analysis highlights how these participatory initiatives foster a type of assimilationist diversity approach and legitimise the existing status quo in schools.     

Jesús and María in the jungle: an essay on possibility and constraint in the third-shift third space

One hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair, in The Jungle, exposed the deplorable working conditions of eastern European immigrants in the meatpacking houses of Chicago. The backdrop of this article is the new Jungle of the 21st century—the hog plants of the rural Midwest. Here I speak to the lives of the Mexican workers they employ, and, more specifically, the science-learning experiences and aspirations of third-shifters, Jesús and María. I use these students’ stories as an opportunity to examine the take-up, in education, of the concept of hybridity, and, more particularly, to interrogate what I have come to regard as the “third space fetish.” My principle argument is that Bhabha’s understanding of liberatory Third Space has been distorted, in education, through teacher-centered and power-neutral multicultural discourse. I call for a more robust approach to hybridity in science education research, guided by the lessons of possibility and constraint contained in Jesús’ and María’s third-shift third space lives.

An inductive model of technological progress

It is one of the paradoxes of our age that, while new information technologies have provided us with the ability to store, retrieve, manipulate and communicate more data, faster than ever before, at the same time many of our public institutions seem to be losing their memories. Many texts have been written about 'organizational learning', but few about organizational forgetting. The core contention of this paper is that the phenomenon of organizational amnesia deserves attention, from scholars and practitioners alike. My aim, therefore, is to set out the character, causes and likely consequences of institutional memory loss in the contemporary public sector.     

智能手机短信过滤方法的研究

介绍了智能手机短信过滤器的基本功能,以及实现短信过滤的关键技术,给出了过滤器设计流程和实现方法。     

天柱名刹三祖寺及其诗文

乾元禅寺至今已有1400多年的历史。三祖寺及其风景区的大量文人诗词碑刻和名称的寓意,体现了深深的历史文化内涵以及禅意对诗境的追求。出家人的慈怀之举,是以佛教实践对佛理的阐发。