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My Three Wishes for 2006

I have three wishes for the nonprofit sector in 2006. I hope you will help me make them come true. In brief, my wishful thinking is this: (1) Mainstream leaders across US civil society wake up to the fact that the fundamental underpinnings of our sector are being destroyed. (2) The traditional silos and boundaries of nonprofit corporations loosen and open enough to take advantage of the power of networks. (3) Those who concern themselves with innovation in the sector will stop confusing it with hipness and will start investing in true structural enablers of new ideas. Posted: 1/1/06; 11:05:59 PM #

2005: Year in Review

The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy has published a robust Year in Review for 2005. Available as a free PDF, the document includes: The Best and Worst of Public Policy, The State of the States, The DMI 2005 Injustice Index, Eye on the Right, The Year in the Blogosphere, The 2005 Reading List, and How 2005 Changed America. This is solid reading for a sense of how we enter the new year in US civil society and politics. Posted: 1/1/06; 10:55:49 PM #

2005: The Year the US Government Undermined the Internet

Kieren McCarthy looks back on 2005 and reports that it was the year the US government undermined the internet. It's not just that, despite a worldwide consensus to the contrary, that they kept unilateral control over key regulatory elements. They also initiated much less public changes that will result in greater state censorship of the Internet and an erosion of this strong framework for free expression upon which civil society depends. Posted: 1/1/06; 10:52:13 PM #