Liberating data for public value: The case of Data.gov

Public agencies around the globe are liberating their data. Drawing on a case of Data.gov, we outline the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the liberation of public data. Data.gov is an online portal that provides open access to datasets generated by US public agencies and countries around the world in a machine-readable format. By discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by Data.gov, we provide several lessons that can inform research and practice. We suggest that providing access to open data in itself does not spur innovation. Specifically, we claim that public agencies need to spend resources to improve the capacities of their organizations to move toward ‘open data by default’; develop capacities of community to use data to solve problems; and think critically about the unintended consequences of providing access to public data. We also suggest that public agencies need better metrics to evaluate the success of open-data efforts in achieving its goals.     

福建省青少年体育现状初探

为促进福建省青少年体育工作,运用文献资料法、实地调查法采集了福建省体育局青少处近几年工作总结文献资料,利用参与福建省后备人才基地评估机会开展实地调查,对全国青少年基础数据年度统计福建部分数据进行分析,研究发现福建省青少年体育近年来取得实质性进展,青少年体育公共服务体系初具雏形,后备人才在训规模基本稳定,并形成福建特色.研究提出了注重职能转变、有效动员社会力量以及推动体校转型发展等建议.     

Do public subsidies and facility coverage matter for voluntary sports clubs?

In many countries, voluntary sports clubs are the main recipients of public subsidies regarding the provision of recreational sport, and the economically most important level of government is usually the local government (i.e. the municipalities). The purpose of this article is to examine whether and how municipal framework conditions matter for sports clubs. Inspired by previous studies, we examine the role of direct and indirect public subsidies as well as facility coverage. The authors conduct analyses on a general level (for all sports) and specifically for five sports (badminton, football, gymnastics, handball and swimming). The differentiation between sports allows us to examine how municipal framework conditions might be associated differently with density and participation across sports. In the statistical analyses, the authors apply data collected among all 98 Danish municipalities. The results show that the municipal levels of direct and indirect subsidies are weakly correlated with both the density of and participation in sports clubs, while stronger correlations can be identified with regard to facility coverage. The analyses for the five sports reveal that the supply of relevant facility types is – with few exceptions – positively correlated with sports club density and participation levels within each sport. Thus, facility coverage seems to play a more important role for sports clubs than the levels of indirect and particularly direct subsidies.     

当下农村公共体育服务现状与发展路径研究

随着我国农村经济社会的快速发展和农民生活水平的不断提高,农民对于体育锻炼的需求也愈发强烈,农村公共体育服务作为满足农民公共体育需求、实现全民健身目标的重要手段和途径,其建设的成败与否将直接关系到广大农民的生活幸福感。因此,解决农村公共体育服务供给问题,形成科学化、精准化、高效化的供给局面就显得极具意义。该文通过对当前我国农村公共体育服务的供给困境进行分析,并提出相应的发展路径,从而促进我国农村体育事业取得更加健康、完善的发展。     

Managing Health Care in Oregon: The Search for a Civic Bioethics

Managed health care deliberations in Oregon point to a "civic bioethics" model to resolve allocation issues through publicly articulated community values and priorities that influence legislative action. Communication practices in the Oregon experiment provide data to develop an evaluative framework to assess public moral deliberation in value-laden contexts such as health care distribution. The Oregon experience also points to dialogical virtues to heighten citizens' ethical sensibilities and political will, discursive tools to inform ethical communication practices in a civic bioethics model.     

文化全球化中的公共图书馆

文化全球化是当今世界的大趋势,如何在国际文化交流中宣传本国文化,同时又更好地吸收外来优秀文化,为我所用,是新时期我们面临的一大课题.笔者由德国文化机构与中国公共图书馆的合作得到启发,阐释了公共图书馆在文化全球化进程中的重要作用及其在国际文化交流中的工作思路.     

用几个实例谈图书馆的柔性服务

本文从目前图书馆普遍存在的处罚制度中摘出3条对其不合理性进行分析,指出以人为本的人性化服务应该在公共图书馆日常工作的细节中体现出来,针对处罚条款损害读者合法权益的事例,提出了改进建议。