total transparency tools

Links for 2011-05-08 [Digg]

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 PDT

Happiness Goes Up With More Government Services
People living in countries with governments that have a greater number of social services report being more satisfied with life, according to a study by a Baylor University researcher.

Links for 2011-05-07 [Digg]

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 PDT

Conservative Journalist Roland S. Martin Apologizes for Donald Trump
Roland S. Martin apologizes as a journalist for the MSM's creation of "The Donald" but it is only a down payment for the MSM's many sins, like Sarah Palin
World's Farmers Feel The Effects Of A Hotter Planet : NPR
Scientists have long predicted that — eventually — temperatures and altered rainfall caused by global climate change will take a toll on four of the most important crops in the world: rice, wheat soy and corn.
Finally a Mainstream Media Member Apologizes for their Donald Trump Coverage
Roland S. Martin apologizes as a journalist for the MSM's creation of "The Donald" but it is only a down payment for the MSM's many sins, like Sarah Palin

Links for 2011-05-06 [Digg]

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:00 PDT

Storify Gets Funding From Khosla Ventures to Reinvent Media Online
Storify, a San Francisco-based startup that launched a social-media aggregation service for journalists last fall, has closed a $2-million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures. Founder and former Associated Press foreign correspondent Burt Herman says he wants to reinvent the way storytelling happens online.

Links for 2011-04-29 [Digg]

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 PDT

24 Months on, International News Syndicate’s website still “undergoing redevelopment” - Why?
“But there is a price for telling the truth. Professional journalists committed to truth in media are invariably penalized by their corporate employers. They are pressured into accepting media disinformation as routine, as part of the job. They are encouraged to skim the surface or to convey half truths.” “This system rewards mediocrity. Lying brings fame, funding and career advancement. Those who refuse to abide by the standards of the mainstream media are fired, blacklisted and their prospects extinguished. Journalists who have the courage to say the truth find themselves marginalized and excluded, and therefore often driven into poverty. Indeed, a considerable number of journalists who contribute to Global Research find themselves in this predicament.”
Democracy Needs Reform - We are the unsatisfied lead by the unqualified
Malcolm Fraser: “There aren’t enough people who have done something before they got into Parliament” (ABC Radio, 9 April 2011) At a time of economic uncertainty, in the US, people also increasingly conscious about the quality of their politicians. The Washington Post recently carry a report ‘2012 Republican presidential candidates all have flaws’ (30 Jan 2011). A survey by NBC News/Wall Street Journal (March 2010) indicated that the Congress enjoy only 17% of approval rating from the American public. In the UK, the 2010 election also resulted in a hung parliament, with all 3 major parties “failed to disclose to the voters the scale of tax rises and public sector cuts required to tackle the financial crisis”. The outcome of the election has been labelled as “No Choice Democracy”.

Links for 2010-06-30 [Digg]

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Democracy needs reform - The cruelty of poll driven politics
After a series of sudden and drastic moved initiated by a handful of people within some fractions of the Australia Labor Party on Wednesday evening, Australians woke up the next morning (24 June 2010) watching their elected Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd) cr

Links for 2010-04-18 [Digg]

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Journalism's parasites
No matter how much Pulitzer Prize triumphalism hides it, the fact remains that journalism these days is "a disaster," as Ted Koppel said recently. Here are 2 critical questions: 1) If every crisis is an opportunity, who is making an opportunity out of journalism's crisis? & 2) are those opportunity-maximizers parasites destroying journalism?

koha avaiki trust donation policy

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:03:00 +0000

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koha trust donation policy:

TTT is founded by avaiki trust, in registration.

All income is via koha.

Donations are only via registered bank account, deposits auto-updating to my Kiwibank account. This is not a drill.

via TTT avaiki trust.

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what is TTT

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:31:00 +0000

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TTT is based on email.

Using email as bedrock for online governance means instant access to the number one skill among all internet communities: email.

By emphasising email as a frontline solution to world communications, TTT offers a 'gateway' solution to solving global problems.

Via the magic of web2, software has got sophisticated enough to be simple enough for all of us. This means an end to ad hoc spending decisions. People with power and access to money will think twice about every transaction, knowing each appears automatically online.

Publicly.

TTT embraces what we call email2web.

Any blogger can set a secret email address to publish online automatically. Any blog can be set up to look like a "proper" website.

Productivity?

TTT crosses a digital divide to enable a hand up to those most deserving - communities of any age, gender, income, idealogy or faith - people hiding in plain sight.

Millennia of secrecy end here.

TTT embraces the facebook-bebo generation as an exemplar of new human tradition - total transparency in real life - more curriculum veritas than curriculum vitae.

TTT envisions a diaspora community handling behind-the-scenes admin of web logs and web sites, on behalf of remote communities, especially those most vulnerable.

case study 1

A basket weaving collective might appoint a 3G mobile neice to message mates online overseas: set us up a blog - here's the name.

Roughly half an hour later, the neice gets a message back: their secret email address.

Neice takes 3G phone to a community media centre ... quantum and quality of ground-truth governance information is enhanced, as are economies.

efficiency, effectiveness

TTT offers ultimate efficiency, effectiveness.

Total Transparency Tools mean transparency in real-time, real-world situations, with real people.

Ultimate efficiency, and accountability, via a gateway skill common to all internet communities.

Only an email away.

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Links for 2009-11-09 [Digg]

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Marijuana May Help People With Bipolar disorder
A new study from the University of Oslo finds that marijuana use is associated with better neurocognitive functioning in bipolar patients.

30 seconds | TTT

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:53:00 +0000

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30 seconds | TTT

30 seconds to Total Transparency Tools start here:

TTT transforms cash flow
TTT techniques awareness
TTT tools up communities for transformation

T3

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TTT usage

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:00:00 +0000

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How would TTT work?

Think of email. Tool.

Imagine email publishing automatically to a webpage. Conceptualise your daily deposits and monthly expenditure, online, for all the world to see. Transparency.

Extrapolate those impressions to, firstly, the NGO world. Accountability.

Elevate pressure from the NGO world to influence behaviour change among transnationals. Techniques.

Bottom-up transformation. Yes, we can.

Tools.
Technique.
Transformation.

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whos buying our cabinet ministers

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:28:00 +0000

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COMMENT

No Right Turn asks the question: Who's buying our cabinet ministers?

It would be great to see New Zealand and Australian sources plugged into Source Watch, and similar efforts, to reflect our globalised world and funding sources.

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seven years

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:28:00 +0000

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Barely seven - closer to six - years remain before global deadlines in 2015 run out on aid agreements signed by the world's developed nations.

The agreements were signed in Paris in 2005, members of the powerful OECD group once again promising to meet aid targets of US$195 billion. Most also agreed to a higher percentage of aid, but, three years later, the OECD average is half what it should be. Six of 22 countries have not yet set a schedule for reaching targets. Starting in 2007, global economic crisis gathered force in 2008, wiping trillions of dollars off share markets, costing taxpayers huge sums to bail out private bankers, pushing aid priorities even further back.

TTT, total transparency tools are aimed at clawing back a percentage from inefficiencies like corruption - and at increasing that percentage each year.

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corruption

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:19:00 +0000

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Corruption costs the global economy more than every other inefficiency combined, and, by sheer priority alone, is the founding target of TTT, total transparency tools.

In 2000, the World Bank put their estimated costs from corruption as high as US$1.5 trillion a year, when the global economy was worth US$30 million, or about 5 %.

In today's dollars, the global economy was last year worth around US$58 trillion, meaning a 5% loss represents at least US$2.9 trillion annually. The United Nations estimates almost all deaths from starvation and disease could be prevented for around US$195 billion a year, reports poverty.com - an aid watchdog.

SOLUTIONS

seven years to reverse growth of corruption

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avaiki

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:47:00 +0000

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avaiki refers here to avaiki nius agency, a volunteer non-profit involved in establishing charity trust status in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

total transparency tools are registering under avaiki trust. All proceeds from licensing of this open governance brand accrue to objectives of avaiki trust.

Charity trust status enables avaiki to protect intellectual copyright associated with combining the triple T acronym, TTT, with the green and white logo on these pages, and, the words "total transparency tools."

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email-2-web

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:32:00 +0000

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Using email is the most common on the internet by far.

Total transparency tools give leaders a way to keep their communities updated with issues and events. Transparency leaders can also use TTT to publish bank alerts online, also via email.

Under TTT, email-2-web is an attempt at a simple description of web2 software that auto-publishes email to the world wide web.

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governance

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:23:00 +0000

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TTT, total transparency tools extend existing email skills, enabling users to automatically publish to web pages as easy as clicking send.

Using an existing skills base like email users sees TTT lower barriers, widen bottlenecks and remove the gatekeepers that stop people from fuller online participation in due process. Providing user ability to not just access information but also create feedback with comments and rating reviews are essential to providing interactivity to transparency and accountability systems across sectors.

In governance terms, TTT positions near so-called bleeding-edge notions of 'radical transparency' and creates future proofing by looping web2 social networks through ordinary emails.

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contact

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:48:00 +0000

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Jason "tatini" Brown
founder
TTT
avaiki.nius@gmail.com

cell +6421 02484560

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projects

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:27:00 +0000

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Three projects are in progress under TTT, Total Transparency Tools.

latest:

TTT knight news challenge - garage
TTT knight news challenge - final
TTT knight news challenge - word

3 top projects:

2004 Avaiki News Agency
2005 Project JPK
2007 Curriculum Veritas

Each are testing various aspects of TTT, including public publishing of bank accounts, organisational queries, and donations.

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home

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:45:00 +0000

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innovative ideas in draft

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:36:00 +0000

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How is your idea innovative, new or different from what already exists?

TTT, total transparency tools apply an innovative approach to information technology – information first.

New in a news sense.

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Like 1950’s paranoia about rock-and-roll, today’s youth get warned off social networking – beware Bebo! Elvis Presley is the devil!

Teenagers sigh, oldies just-don’t-get-it. This is me. Why pretend? And, thus, millennia of secrecy-based management crumble in the face of one brutally blond word: “Whatever.”

Formalising this trend, TTT offers an email-based approach to institutional transparency, similar in concept to what another applicant describes as an “online seal of ethics.”

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. . . another example of TTT in action is Curriculum Veritas, a third millennium approach to the curriculum vitae, outlining weaknesses as well as strengths. TTT, total transparency tools extrapolate historical trends towards ever greater transparency to apply future accountability, today.

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TTT, total transparency tools take an imaginative leap into the future, perhaps 500 years hence, no secrets, no lies.

Salary, health, education, sero-status and other personal statistics mix up as a galactic cyber-soup.

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Ethics commoditisation.

Transparency and accountability are bottom-line expenses under current economic models.

TTT, total transparency tools, apply fundamental free market efficiencies to ethics, transforming emerging management approaches to globally transformative accountability.

Using an all-Google platform based on Gmail is bedrock to a back-to-basics application of global email skills, offering exponential scalability.

TTT

KNC: How is your idea innovative (new or different from what already exists) ?

Back to basics. Email.

After 12 years of world wide web, email remains king of the online world, much as radio does offline. TTT, total transparency tools, take email to the next level. Email2, maybe. Or email2web, more accurately.

Publishing online, automagically.

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TTT enables exponential scalability for accountability systems. Swarm and cloud computing is mostly seen as tech talk, and so it is, so far. TTT takes an informational approach to IT, stripping away technological barriers in favour of the internet’s baseline skill: email.

Text? From mobile phones? Sure. Way more than email. Very little of that, however, actually ends up online.

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TTT forges against IT fashion, using an email paradigm to enable community networking, communication and participation in democratic processes.

Bank alerts via publish bottomline budget expenditure as it happens, once retail banks expand email alerts beyond deposits to withdrawals.

. . . and strips governance back-to-basics and back-to-the-future.

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Email is the Model-T Ford of the third millennium.

. . . applying advanced transparency tools to enable exponential growth in accountability.

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improve geographic community news information delivery ?

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:29:00 +0000

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TTT

KNC: how will your project improve the way news and information are delivered to geographic communities?

TTT: By stripping away technical barriers to creating news and information, gaining immediate accountability from instant transparency.

TTT, total transparency tools adopt an all-Google platform as an ad-hoc public-private, profit-non-profit partnership, providing information leadership through an all-email paradigm. For geographic communities, and most online citizens, email remains a fundamental means of communication and participation.

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describe your project

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:13:00 +0000

TTT

Describe your project:

I would describe this project as an open-source-style approach offering exponential scalability, using mainstream web2 tools like Google and Gmail.

'Gateway' and 'golden mile' concepts come into play here, TTT, total transparency tools falling into categories like 'head-slapping-obvious' and 'under-our-noses' and 'email-anyone?'

Basically? Rather than wasting time, money and resources on "the website", communities at all levels of internet access can partner to produce real-time, real-world, real-people transparency and accountability - all via email.

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requested amount from knight news challenge

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:08:00 +0000

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TTT, total transparency tools budget

Requested amount from knight news challenge:
US$500,000

Expected amount of time to complete project
1 year

Total cost of project including all sources of funding
US$500,000 + other donations

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knight news challenge 2009 profile jason brown

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:31:00 +0000

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avaiki founder jason brown

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profile:
jason brown, avaiki trust

likes:
exposing corruption

listens to:
bob marley, angelo from tahiti

site:
http://totaltransparencytools.blogspot.com

bio:

Jason Brown is an investigative freelance reporter, typically penniless.

He volunteers policy-level advocacy on media centrality through a non-profit, avaiki, registering to trust laws of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Jason’s current focus is on attracting angel investors to develop total transparency tools, trade marking as TTT, piloting under project JPK.

favourite colour:
green

history:
Member for
1 week 2 days

project:
TTT, total transparency tools

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about TTT

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:20:00 +0000

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TTT, total transparency tools allow rapid scalability of "effective financial oversight" across communities.

Avaiki trustees discuss governance issues with thousands of people, developing effective, simple solutions to leading problems arising from globalisation.

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Corruption. And capacity.

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founding editorial | total transparency tools

noreply@blogger.com (avaiki nius agency) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:49:00 +0000

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NEWS RELEASE

Thinking, inside the box.

What do we all know, most? Simple, one word answer:

email.

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