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Why Your Meeting Needs Rules
By: Debi Peverill
Tags: Governance, Productivity, Meetings, Rules, Agenda

Meetings can be annoying. Spending time in a meeting is not usually how people wish to spend their time. Therefore, if we can make a meeting more effective and shorter this is a worthy goal.

One of the ways that a meeting can be better is to impose order on the meeting. Rules!

Rules like only one person can talk at one time.

Agendas have to be circulated a week before the actual meeting.

Every meeting should have a goal.

How participants behave at a meeting has a big impact on how effective the meeting is. If participants won’t stick to the agenda, or listen to each other, then the meeting will not accomplish what needs to get done.

Whenever a meeting is called, there should be an agenda. This document does not have to be pages long, in fact short agendas are more popular.

The purpose of an agenda is to explain why there has to be a meeting, what will be discussed and what victory looks like. I would suggest that you not attend a meeting unless there is an agenda. You can call is something else, if the word agenda scares people, but you do need to know why the meeting is called and what you hope to accomplish.

Once everyone has agreed on why they are there and the goals for the meeting, then it is time to ask everyone to commit to following a few simple rules of conduct. Such as participants will not interrupt each other, unless it is for something like telling people that we cannot hear them. How many times do you interrupt a speaker on Zoom to let them know that they are still muted? This is a good reason to interrupt someone as we are all wasting our time if we are watching someone talk without hearing them, as we know that all of those words are going to have to be said again.

What other rules would you agree to follow? How about no name calling, no food fights — both of these rules could be summed up with the policy that we are going to treat each participant with respect, and we are attending the meeting to discuss ideas not personalities.

You should also establish who is chairing the meeting and who is taking the official notes.

Whoever is appointed as the chair should agree that everyone at the meeting will get a turn to speak and that as chair, he or she will stop any participant from interrupting or speaking in a disrespectful manner to another participant.

The question should be asked at the beginning of the meeting, does anyone have any conflicts to declare before we open the meeting. The conflict would be declared based on the information that was provided in the agenda. Which is yet another reason why an agenda should be prepared, so that participants can figure out ahead of time if they are likely to have a conflict with the matters to be discussed at a meeting.

If you have followed the above then you are ready to begin the meeting knowing that there are rules in place to ensure that the meeting has a good chance of accomplishing the goals that were set out for the meeting.
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KROWN NEWS — MetaDAC’s DACathon Defi Presentations — 12/11/20 #DACATHONdefi
By: Krown Community Dac
Tags: Governance, Cryptocurrency, Krown, Token, Software Development

KROWN is a Decentralized Autonomous Community (DAC) that manages the KROWN community and KROWN token. Learn more about KROWN on the KROWN DAC Site.

Virtual conference focusing on building together.

Questions? Ask and Follow the Latest News on the DACathon 2020 Telegram Group https://t.me/dacathon Watch the recent DACathon events here.

Please join us for MetaDAC’s second DACathon Event:

The Power of DACs and Defi

#DACATHONdefi

Watch the Hackathon portion of the event live or on video on YouTube.

Watch the DACathon Presentations

Join us on Friday, December 11, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. P.T. to hear presentations from DACathon entrys and community projects. Join us live on Zoom (if registered) or YouTube.

Schedule

Read more about the 2020 DACathon DEFI in our recent newsletter and on the DACathon Website www.dacathon.com.

Fri. 12/11 1PM PST Prize Pool Contributions Due

Current Prize Pool | Prize Distribution

12/11 Voting Begins

Vote on Consortium | View Submissions

12/18 Voting Ends and Awards Distributed

If you have questions, ask in the DACathon Telegram Group or the MetaDAC Telegram group.

In case you missed it…

DACathon DEFI Event Videos

Hangout Session — Dec. 3rd — 3:56 hours

Kickoff & Discussions — Dec. 5th — 5:27 hours (of the nearly 9 hours!)
Conference Paper: Is There a Ponzi Scheme at the Central Bank of Lebanon?
By: Mike Masoud
Tags: Governance, Bdl, Ponzi Scheme, Corruption, Cbl

December 10, 2020

Ms. Gina Chammas’s presentation discusses whether there is a Ponzi scheme at the Central Bank of Lebanon or not based on discussing the CBL audited financial statements and the audit report of the year ended December 31, 2018. In addition, Ms. Chammas discusses the Ponzi scheme news presented in The Economist magazine on August 6, 2020, and what the President of France said about the Ponzi scheme of the financial system of Lebanon.

The following are selected resources used in the presentation:

August 6, 2020

The Economist

No way to run a country

A big blast should lead to big change in Lebanon

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/08/06/a-big-blast-should-lead-to-big-change-in-lebanon

September 29, 2020

Financial Times,

Lebanese bankers plead their case to some new sheriffs

A visit to Paris by representatives of the country’s powerful banking lobby shows how far financiers have fallen

***END***
How Using Zoom Leads to Better Meetings
By: Debi Peverill
Tags: Governance, Zoom, Board, Productivity, Meetings

2020 has seen the rise of Zoom. Many of us spend a great deal of time attending Zoom meetings and we have some new words. Zoom fatigue and zooming to name my favourites.

What Zoom can do for your meetings is to make them more effective by limiting participant interruptions. When we are meeting in a physical space it can be very difficult to control the participants that are bullies. They might be interrupting the other participants, and some of the really rude ones will not stop interrupting even after the chair of the meeting reminds them.

The meeting host on Zoom has the ability to mute the participants. If a participant is muted, their lips may be moving but no one can hear them. This muting ability will allow the meeting host to control who is talking and who is not talking.

A board meeting, or any other meeting, will proceed in a more orderly fashion if only one person is talking at a time. The type of people who interrupt others can be easily controlled on Zoom. There are two benefits here, the people who have trouble staying quiet are well controlled by the mute button and the more timid board members have the floor uninterrupted so that they can share their thoughts.

Bullies don’t like digital meetings. The ability to talk over someone and to interrupt disappears when the host controls the mute button. There was an example of this during the 2020 presidential debates.

A board works best if all of the members are able to fully participate. The board has been carefully constructed with different skills and different points of view. We need to hear from all of the members when the group gets together. Any meeting will have a better chance of success if all the participants actually participate, this was the reason that they were invited to the meeting, so that their thoughts could be shared with others.

The settings of Zoom will allow the meeting host to mute all participants and also to prohibit the participants from unmuting themselves. This is an ideal situation. There is also a feature that allows a participant to “raise their hand” when they wish to speak and the chair of the meeting can make a note of who wants to talk and in the order that they raised their hands. This gives the chair a level of control that was not always available to them when meetings are held in person.

In extreme cases the host can remove a person from the meeting. The participant then would not be able to use the chat feature, or video or audio because they are simply gone from the meeting. I have been at meetings where I would really have liked to be able to mute someone or kick them out of the meeting.

The people who chair a Zoom meeting are known as the hosts and they are the ones who can adjust the meeting settings so that a participant is muted unless the host unmutes them. This feature gives the host control over the meeting.

Chairs should take advantage of all this technology to ensure that the meetings are as productive as possible. After all we all have other things to do besides go to Zoom meetings.
Conference Paper: History of Corruption
By: Mike Masoud
Tags: Governance, Corruption, Fraud, History Of Corruption, Cacm

December 10, 2020

L. B. Files, CACM, CDD, president of The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI), addresses Lebanon Certified Anti-Corruption Managers (LCACM) https://lcacm.org first International Virtual Anti-Corruption Conference on Dec. 9, 2020, celebrating the Anti-Corruption Day.

Mr. Files discusses the history of corruption and asserts several significant matters about the nature of corruption and how to fight it.
Automate Your Auditing Settings
By: Roy Martinez Blanco
Tags: Akamai, Governance, DevOps, Automation, Audit

In this blog, I’d like to share some code I created to help some of my customers automate auditing settings across hundreds of configurations on a regular basis to provide governance on their Akamai properties.

This project is meant to allow teams to pull account details in order to create a snapshot in time. Our goal is to make it easier for you to get an account snapshot audited or get an offload summary for additional deep-dive analysis, and to provide a quick idea of where an account is in regard to offload.

We have two types of audits right now, with more to come in the future:

Account Summary

This audit gathers information from multiple Akamai API endpoints, providing an account resource summary (like Property Manager configurations, Enrollments (certificates), etc). You can view the output in ‘xlsx’ format.

This audit gathers information from multiple Akamai API endpoints, providing an account resource summary (like Property Manager configurations, Enrollments (certificates), etc). You can view the output in ‘xlsx’ format. Offload Summary

This audit gathers the data collected from the total offload for each CPcode (grouped by extension or URL), the perc (percentage) of traffic that each CPcode represents to the total hits of all CPcodes reviewed, total bytes served and offloaded, and an extension offload summary for each of the CPcodes. You can view the output in ‘xlsx’ format.

You can see examples here: https://github.com/akamai-contrib/Akamai-Account-Audit/tree/master/Examples

Account Summary

When this is run, it will create a folder within the current directory under the name “Account_Name”. Within this folder, the following files will be created:

Offload Summary

There are two types of offload summaries that we offer: Account offload and CPcode by extension. Below, you’ll see an example of each.

Account offload summary

CPcode summary by extension

Add the API credentials with access to the Property Manager API (PAPI) In your ~/.edgerc file under a section called ‘papi’ (or indicate the ‘ — section’ parameter followed by the section name if you use something else than ‘papi’).

Ensure you have python 3.x.

As a pre-installation step, please add the libraries that are required.

This mode will collect offload data from the CPcodes provided in ‘ — cpcodes’ or if not provided it will do an account-wide review of all CPcodes. If no dates are provided it defaults to the last month.

Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python3 akamai-audit.py [parameters]

Options

Account audit example

python3 akamai-audit.py --type as

Offload summary example

python3 akamai-audit.py --type os --start {YYYY-MM-DD} --end {YYYY-MM-DD} --cpcodes {CPCODE_1} {CPCODE_2} {CPCODE_3}

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Here are great resources for you if you’d like to learn more:
How Using Zoom Leads to Better Meetings
By: Debi Peverill
Tags: Governance, Zoom, Productivity, Meetings, Boards

2020 has seen the rise of Zoom. Many of us spend a great deal of time attending Zoom meetings and we have some new words. Zoom fatigue and zooming to name my favourites.

What Zoom can do for your meetings is to make them more effective by limiting participant interruptions. When we are meeting in a physical space it can be very difficult to control the participants that are bullies. They might be interrupting the other participants, and some of the really rude ones will not stop interrupting even after the chair of the meeting reminds them.

The meeting host on Zoom has the ability to mute the participants. If a participant is muted, their lips may be moving but no one can hear them. This muting ability will allow the meeting host to control who is talking and who is not talking.

A board meeting, or any other meeting, will proceed in a more orderly fashion if only one person is talking at a time. The type of people who interrupt others can be easily controlled on Zoom. There are two benefits here, the people who have trouble staying quiet are well controlled by the mute button and the more timid board members have the floor uninterrupted so that they can share their thoughts.

Bullies don’t like digital meetings. The ability to talk over someone and to interrupt disappears when the host controls the mute button. There was an example of this during the 2020 presidential debates.

A board works best if all of the members are able to fully participate. The board has been carefully constructed with different skills and different points of view. We need to hear from all of the members when the group gets together. Any meeting will have a better chance of success if all the participants actually participate, this was the reason that they were invited to the meeting, so that their thoughts could be shared with others.

The settings of Zoom will allow the meeting host to mute all participants and also to prohibit the participants from unmuting themselves. This is an ideal situation. There is also a feature that allows a participant to “raise their hand” when they wish to speak and the chair of the meeting can make a note of who wants to talk and in the order that they raised their hands. This gives the chair a level of control that was not always available to them when meetings are held in person.

In extreme cases the host can remove a person from the meeting. The participant then would not be able to use the chat feature, or video or audio because they are simply gone from the meeting. I have been at meetings where I would really have liked to be able to mute someone or kick them out of the meeting.

The people who chair a Zoom meeting are known as the hosts and they are the ones who can adjust the meeting settings so that a participant is muted unless the host unmutes them. This feature gives the host control over the meeting.

Chairs should take advantage of all this technology to ensure that the meetings are as productive as possible. After all we all have other things to do besides go to Zoom meetings.
Putting Citizens on-line, not in line: Applying 3 Es of Branding in governance.
By: Md Shadan Zeb Khan
Tags: Governance, Branding

The increased thrust on e-governance is fast transforming the traditional notion of public administration to modern notion of ‘public management’. Although governments are hardly a harbinger of Internet innovation, yet use of the net to deliver services by governments world over, seem to be something like a silent revolution over the past few years. The real value of e-governance does not lie merely in putting public services on-line, but it has more to do with the ability ‘to force its agencies to rethink, reorganize, and streamline their delivery before doing’. The offices are meant to facilitate the customers, i.e.., citizens, not to frustrate the customers. The online facilities tend to lessen such frustrations of the customers by facilitating untaxing services catered to them. It is an established fact now that citizens love to be on-line instead of waiting painfully in line, for accessing services delivered by governments. In the online system, there are lesser risks of errors and biases. Fashioning more and more services on-line, improves efficiency, enhances effectiveness and makes the experience better for the target customers i.e., citizens, here.

The above reality brings us to the point that though Efficiency, Effectiveness and Experience (3 Es) — all three are essential to be a successful public management system, yet primarily it’s the experience part that makes all the difference, as far as delivery of services to the citizens is concerned.

It is, therefore, the fundamental question for governments to ponder over as to how a proportionate balance is maintained amongst efficiency, effectiveness and experience? It should always be clear that e-governance is purely in pursuit of delivering a better experience as efficiency and effectiveness of government machinery will lose its purpose if these do not facilitate a pleasant experience for citizens. To borrow the words of my teacher Prof Nader Tavassoli, if it (read e-governance) really is about experience, the vital question is how do policy makers design and deliver experiences?
How to Design a Security Organizational Structure
By: Christian Hyatt
Tags: Governance, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Leadership, Business

With experience working with hundreds of organizations, in this webcast we discuss the security organization structures most effective in reducing risk, reducing cost/overhead, and consistently being able to obtain certifications like #ISO27001 and #SOC2.
Conflux Network and The Commons Stack Partner to Accelerate Growth for Decentralized Communities
By: Conflux Network
Tags: Dao, Governance, Partnerships

Conflux Network is happy to announce a partnership with The Commons Stack, an organization focused on building open source tools to sustainably grow applications and communities. By partnering with Common Stack, Conflux will have access to a variety of tools for modeling and governance that can then be deployed on Conflux to benefit its extensive community.

With the recent introduction of the Conflux DAO, Conflux users are now able to make transparent, community-based decisions via the blockchain. This can now also be done so using Commons Stack’s library of open-source, interoperable Web3 components, which enables users to raise and allocate shared funds, and make decisions on where these shared funds will go. Alongside the technical integration, Conflux will support burgeoning Commons Stack communities in China and continue to collaborate and build on the Commons Stack library of open source components.

“Commons Stack provides a variety of modeling and governance tools which form a concrete e foundation for sustainable decentralized communities,” said Eden Dhaliwal, Conflux Network’s Global Managing Director. “Our partnership will provide our community with the necessary tools needed to govern new applications, enhance pre-existing governance tools, and grow a more sustainable decentralized ecosystem.”

Commons Stack, alongside the greater Token Engineering Community, has years of experience in multi-agent coordination and complex systems thinking. Together with its ecosystem partners, Commons Stack has created a modular library of tested, token-engineered, components that can be modeled, customized, and implemented to solve common challenges of distributed coordination
Archer DAO Governance Portal
By: Archer Team
Tags: Governance, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Dao, Dapps

Note: each proposal uses a historical snapshot to determine how much voting power users have available. Once a proposal’s snapshot has passed, staking or unstaking tokens has no impact on the voting power available for that proposal.

What to Expect from Completed Proposals

Proposals will most likely lead to one of the following outcomes:

Proposals may be executed directly. For example, config changes

Proposals may be executed later. For example, after some development

Proposals may be revisited in the “Core” channel. For example, if an issue is high impact, contentious, and/or gathers low support

Proposals may not be executed, especially if they are off-topic or low quality

Our team commits to work with DAO members to generate high-quality proposals. High-quality proposals will typically be actionable and have clear requirements.

Snapshot voting is not perfect, especially for complicated topics. Consider using proposals also as a signalling tool, where a series of proposals are used to form a fuller picture of how the community views topics.

Our team is available in Discord to answer any questions about the technical system or the governance process.

Governance Channels on Discord

The current proposals were discussed first in Discord.

ARCH token holders with at least 10,000 ARCH may access governance channels using the command “!join” in Discord.

Mine Smarter

Archer boosts miner revenue with a five-minute integration. Live now on Ethereum. Visit our website and join Discord to learn more.
Crowd-Sourced SharePoint Governance via DebateGraph Visual Wikis
By: Mike Gilronan
Tags: Governance, Wiki

This article was originally posted on June 18, 2009.

He and I care about some of the same things: Project Management, Governance, SharePoint, and pop culture (although I prefer Eric B & Rakim to Opeth, and I haven’t yet had cause to integrate Tom Cruise into my blog’s content, thematically) We’re unlikely to compete with each other for business, given the distance from Perth to Boston, MA (11,635 miles). He’s generous with his knowledge and his opinions, and has welcomed correspondence and feedback on these topics. He writes in a breezy style, accessible yet insightful.

OK, now that the honorifics are dispensed with, I’ll get to the point: Paul blogged this week on an innovative approach to SharePoint governance: a product called DebateGraph, which serves as sort of a visual wiki that shows graphically how ideas relate to one another. An example follows (sorry for the static image — can’t fit the interactive version into this format):

Seven Sigma has created downloadable DebateGraph SharePoint web parts to allow users to visually show the debate of any issue within a SharePoint wrapper, but to me the most interesting application is the one where “n” is the biggest: Seven Sigma’s public, Internet-facing debate about SharePoint governance, shown in the example shown above.

So, if you have strong opinions about SharePoint governance (I know you’re out there — you haven’t been shy about expressing your opinions with me), please take a look, vote, and make your voice heard about what works and what doesn’t in SharePoint governance. Join the debate today!
SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION APPOINTS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN TO AVIATION RULEMAKING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
By: Amfa National
Tags: Governance, Government, Aviation Industry, Aviation, Airlines

CENTENNIAL, CO — December 8, 2020 — The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) applauds Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao for her decision to appoint an aircraft maintenance technician (AMT) to the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC). AMFA Executive Director of Government Affairs and Southwest Airlines AMT Justin Madden’s appointment to the ARAC fills a critical void in the Committee’s membership.

AMFA National Director Bret Oestreich stated, “The AMT is a highly educated and skilled professional charged with inspecting, troubleshooting, and repairing aircraft to ensure the safety and security of the flying public. Justin’s appointment is recognition of that role. He represents what is best about our profession: his breadth of experience is wide ranging and his passion for the craft is unmatched. He will be an asset to the Committee, Secretary Chao, and FAA Administrator Dickson.”

AMFA would like to thank U.S. Representative John Katko (NY-24) for his leadership in making sure the AMT perspective is included. “Representative Katko understood early that an integral safety voice was missing from ARAC,” Mr. Oestreich said, “and he continuously advocated for a craft specific union to represent the AMT perspective on the Committee.”

In addition to his role with AMFA, Mr. Madden is an FAA certified and practicing airframe and powerplant (A&P) AMT with over 20 years of experience, including serving honorably in the United States Marine Corps. He is also a member of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Aviation Safety Advisory Committee (ASAC), having been appointed by the TSA Administrator to multiple terms.

Contact: Justin Madden, Executive Director of Government Affairs

Email: Justin.Madden@amfanatl.org
Decentralized Governance: How to Put Power Into the Hands of the People
By: Trust Wallet
Tags: Governance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trust Wallet, Blockchain Governance

An Industry-Wide Move Towards Decentralization

The majority of crypto networks and decentralized applications are still — for the most part — largely centralized affairs.

The typical blockchain project starts off centralized, often run by a VC-backed company or a token sale-funded foundation, and then gradually moves along the spectrum from centralized to more decentralized.

The overarching goal in this industry is to build distributed systems that can run autonomous protocols dictated by code and community — not by a centralized authority.

To make that a reality, decentralized governance is essential.

For decentralized applications and crypto startups, decentralized governance mainly comes in the form of a community of token holders voting on proposals.

At Trust Wallet, for example, empowers its community to vote on proposals using the Trust Wallet Token (TWT). The app’s first governance vote allowed users to choose whether we should integrate Filecoin support into the wallet or not. 96.73% of participants voted ‘Yes,’ which resulted in Trust Wallet rolling out FIL token support roughly three weeks later.

It was the largest vote on Snapshot thus far, and an indication of how enthusiastic the community is for taking part in the decision making process. This is the very beginning of what could be possible in a token-based economy powered by community-based governance.

By providing users with the ability to dictate the directions a product is taking, products are more likely to succeed as they are shaped by community needs. Growth and innovation can be propelled forward as the focus moves away from a handful of decision-makers and is handed to the people who will actually use the product or service.

While it is still early days in the crypto industry’s move from being largely centralized towards the decentralized digital economy, we are all imagining, early steps in the right direction are being made.

The Decentralized Digital Economy of the Future

Sometimes people forget how early we still are in this movement. Bitcoin is only a little over a decade old, while DApps were barely around five years ago.

We are still seeing only a glimpse of what’s possible in terms of creating a decentralized digital economy that can bring more freedom and prosperity to the world.

As the development and adoption of decentralized technologies continue, we will continue to see more innovation in the area of decentralized governance as autonomous protocols that have no “ruler” will require their communities to ensure adequate governance.

At the current rate of growth, innovation, and adoption of decentralized technologies, we can expect to see a reshaping of the digital economy towards more community-run and governed products and services and away from large centralized authorities that have dominated the global economy for so long.
88mph Special Interest Groups
By: Zefram Lou
Tags: Governance, Ethereum, Defi, Special Interest Groups, 88mph

What are Special Interest Groups?

88mph special interest groups (SIGs) are community-led groups that contribute to particular aspects of 88mph. SIGs can receive funding from the governance treasury denoted in MPH tokens, and are answerable to the MPH token-holder governance. SIGs will live inside the 88mph Discord server, and each SIG will have its own channel.

Initial SIG lineup

We will organize three initial SIGs to get things off the ground: SIGMeme, SIGDev, and SIGGov. They are responsible for marketing, development, and governance respectively. We will give 88 MPH tokens as seed funding to each SIG, coming from the governance treasury, and more funding may be given in the future.

SIGMeme

SIGMeme will be responsible for getting the word out for 88mph. Its tasks include meme-making, organizing events, writing blog posts, and so on.

SIGDev

SIGDev will seek to develop new features for 88mph, as well as build new protocol adapters to connect 88mph with more yield-generating protocols.

SIGGov

SIGGov will design the governance process for 88mph, including how to draft governance proposals, how a proposal gets put before MPH holders, and so on.

How do you join an SIG?

We want to see as many people as possible have a chance to contribute to 88mph, but also want to ensure that whoever participates will have the best interests of 88mph in mind. Therefore, we will require SIG members to hold at least 88 MPH tokens in their wallet at all times, which is the only requirement for joining an SIG. This criteria will be enforced using the Collab.Land Discord bot.

Of course, in order to join an SIG you also need the existing SIG members to accept your application. Each SIG can have its own process for accepting new members.

Since the three initial SIGs do not have existing members, we will let in anyone who wants to contribute.

How do you create an SIG?

Just create a channel in the Special Interest Groups category in our Discord server! Creating an SIG does not guarantee receiving funding from the MPH governance treasury, but if you make good contribution that’s definitely going to work in your favor ;) Ultimately, whether or not you receive funding from the governance treasury will be decided by MPH token-holder governance.
In the beginning…
By: Governance
Tags: Citizenship, Governance, Governance And Politics, Citizen Engagement

In the beginning…

Images by Katie Moum via Unsplash

Today, there is a people and there is a society, only these people and the societies they lived in are vastly different. We have come to a place where we can no longer afford to fold our hands and claim to be helpless when we have not taken our responsibility. Nothing is ever going to change until we change it. And that is not only relating to the political climate and the rule of governance but also relating to ourselves as the citizenry.

Through this medium, I hope to be able to break down governance to the simplest way so that you understand your responsibility and are equipped with the right knowledge to make the society you live in better than you met it, for yourself and for the people after you.
Prescription for hearing aids sounds unimaginable.
By: Timo O. Korhonen
Tags: Governance, Diabetes, Money Management, Community, Healthcare

Prescription for hearing aids sounds unimaginable. And the prices of them you report sound even worse. Too much weight on money-making logic removes especially the general logic!

Connection of hearing problems to diabetes was interesting to hear. There is similar connection to eyesight as well. Diabetes related overweight is a preexisting condition for Covid too.

Taking care of affordable national health is not communism. Many countries in Europe have the affordable healthcare already, USA apparently never and Trump has tried his best to kill all Obama did also in this respect.

Interesting enough, about 1/3 of hospital deaths in the USA are counted for care errors still the charges are very high. So, quality/price ratio is evidently very poor.

Government should indeed serve the people, not to support only the over-priced corrupted money weighted healthcare business. Old fashion ideas and related methods are an important obstacle for any true progress.

The American dream of total individual and societal superiority needs some substantial upgrades. In the current world there is no need for the total superiority. More so, for fine discussions and courage to get on with the required changes.
mdsl apprentice recruitment 2020
Tags: Governance, Jobs, Government, Sarkari Naukri, Latest Job Vacancies

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited MDSL Are Invited online Application Form for Various Post s. some eligibility is for this all notifications are given below. if you are interested then apply on their official website. if you are eligible for this post and all requirements are clear then fill the form. all-important dates are given below.

Application Start: 04–12–2020 Last Date Apply Online: 23–12–2020
Introducing the ESD Treasury
By: Lewis Freiberg
Tags: Governance, Ethereum, Defi, Empty Set Dollar, Stable Coin

On Nov 27th, a community member proposed EIP-10 which details the creation of a treasury whose purpose is to fund protocol changes and various other activities that are voted upon by the community. This treasury will have a separate governance process that utilises the off-chain governance platform: Snapshot.page.

The proposed changes are as follows:

Protocol Changes

After discussion around the initial post by Andrew Kang, the part of the proposal that effects the core code is as follows:

The protocol will one-time mint 500,000 ESD to the specified treasury address

Going forward all expansions will contribute to the treasury. In a “coupon” expansion the split will be 77.5% Coupons, 20% LP, 2.5% Treasury. In a “supply” expansion the split will be 77.5% DAO, 20% LP, 2.5% Treasury

Treasury Specifics

The treasury that will receive the proceeds from the supply expansions has been setup as follows:

Gnosis Safe with 7 signers, with a threshold requirement of 4 signers

The treasury will only act upon the outcomes of proposals submitted to the ESD Snapshot Governance page

Treasury signers have no specific executive authority over any of the funds and must purely enact voted budget proposals.

All treasury funds will originate from supply expansion rewards, and not from any other sources (e.g. donations).

The treasury address is: 0x460661bd4A5364A3ABCc9cfc4a8cE7038d05Ea22

Treasury Signers

A diverse set of individuals have been proposed from the ESD community to act as signers of the Treasury multi-sig. They are committed to only enact budget proposals that have been approved by bonded token holder voting on the Snapshot governance platform and generally to act in the best interests of the project.

The signers are as follows:

Establishing the Treasury

The treasury is yet to be established and requires an on-chain governance vote to pass in order to modify the protocol to fund the treasury.

The proposal contract has been deployed and proposed. It is live for voting here. Please make sure you vote on this proposal!
Alan Hudson: Following the money and leveraging learning
By: Hewlett Foundation Tpa Team
Tags: Governance, Transparency, Open Government, Africa, Civil Society

In the eleventh “Coronavignette” we continue to share conversations with leaders of civil society organizations on how COVID-19 affects their work.

Alan Hudson is the Executive Director of Global Integrity, a non-profit based in Washington D.C.. Global Integrity works with partners around the world to address corruption and improve the use of public resources. They do this by supporting partners’ efforts to work in the learning-centered and adaptive ways which Global Integrity view as key for addressing complex and systemic challenges that are fundamentally about power and incentives.

In this 10 minute video, Alan describes:

The Account4Covid initiative to take stock of the socio-economic and political impact of Covid-19 in Africa.

A database of more than 670 resources and initiatives focused on Covid-19, fiscal governance, and anti-corruption.

The root causes of procurement corruption scandals and what can be done to make procurement less corrupt and more accountable.

The learning opportunities presented by Covid-19 and how they could inform the next ten years of the governance and development agenda.

What the United States can learn from other countries to address our governance challenges through Global Integrity’s blog series Outside/In.

We’ll have future Coronavignette videos with Al Kags of Open Institute, and more in the coming weeks.
CARVE is officially launching today!
Tags: Yield Farming, Governance, Defi, Cryptocurrency, Staking

👨‍🚀 The Mission:

Our vision will change the way yield farming and decentralized finance (Defi) is done today by bringing higher and more stable yields while offering some of the most secure features in this ever-growing and evolving market.

We are building on what some of the best Defi projects have already started and are working diligently to bring our users some of the best new features today, as we offer a robust roadmap moving forward! More importantly, our protocol aims to create equality for any user looking to enter the space, driven by actual contract governance with strong tokenomics at its core.

Our approach uses best practices in lean and agile delivery, allowing us to focus our time on a consistent release of features and a great user experience. More so, this will look to maximize the confidence of our treasury within our community.
Enter $SCIFI
By: Scifi Finance
Tags: Index, Governance, Gems, SciFi, Crypto

The dawn of a new paradigm

The world of finance is on the brink of disruption. Centralised financial governance schemes have seen their pinnacle of innovation. The rule of CeFi has become disconnected from the needs of the average citizen. Capital requirements, cross border movement difficulties, stellar management fees and information asymmetries have barred the majority of society from access nurturing the expansion of a new, decentralised universe.

New risks demand new technologies. New technologies create new opportunities. And so we board a ship to venture into the depths of the DeFi wormhole in search of more democratic access and community-driven exploration. A ship where efficiency and architectural transparency is implemented by design, which is navigated by the experienced, knowledgable and impactful and which anyone can board and contribute with their resources and skills to create value for and with the community.
Trust, Privacy and Governance During Pandemics and Disasters
Tags: Covid 19, Governance, World Data Forum, Data

Trust, Privacy and Governance During Pandemics and Disasters

This post is part of a series highlighting sessions from the 2020 UN Data Forum. Watch every session or read our summary.

Summary: Timely and granular data is more critical than ever in the current global pandemic, but privacy concerns must also be addressed. In this session, panelists discuss how governments can balance critical data needs while mitigating negative corollaries.

Speakers

Key Takeaways

Oyeronke Oyetunde, MTN Group

The work of mobile communication companies in the face of a pandemic is clear:

Ensure network stability

Ensure connections of vital emergency services

Support payment systems

Supporting government and collaboration efforts

Jeni Tennison, Vice President and Chief Strategy Adviser, Open Data Institute
Motivation Beyond Money
By: One Percent Rule - Improving
Tags: Motivation, Onepercentrule, Team Building, Zig Ziglar, Seth Godin

At the end of this article I will tell you one simple trick that I use to convince and change my thinking towards work for motivation beyond money

Also, feel free to let us know what causes you to sometimes get down that path where you end up only valuing your job for the money and forget other perks it provides for a brief moment ?

How do you find motivation beyond money in your workplace or anything you are doing ?

How to motivate beyond money ?

Sometimes I find myself wondering why am I doing this job ?

If it wasn’t for the money perhaps I would not do this 9–5..

But this attitude of thinking about your job is wrong!

First of all, there is much more than just money that your job provides.

Its not only the bills it takes care of, but also gives you stability and security — which is far more important that we think it is.

It gives us a peace of mind to enjoy other things, and we only realize it when its taken away from us, when we lose our job.

Humans think differently when they have things and when they don’t have them. The value in our mind for it changes. Suddenly, when we do not have that oven — we realize how much we miss baking

Starbucks may be an everyday thing for some of us — but when we do not see one in Italy or Africa (both places that I missed it), we realize how much we like it.

As usual, I decided to read multiple books to understand this more.

Some of the recommendations for the readers here are —

Linchpin — by Seth Godin

This explains the critical role of a linchpin in the entire machinery, and how to become one — at your work.

How becoming a linchpin will increase your contribution, and make you enjoy your work even more!
I’ve done drumming once with my team, now it’s time for a new activity. What do I do?
By: Shriti Sharma
Tags: Team Building

I’ve done drumming once with my team, now it’s time for a new activity. What do I do? Shriti Sharma ·Dec 22, 2020

This reasoning is valid if the purpose of the activity is merely to superficially engage the team which will only scratch the tip of the iceberg after one drum circle(team building activities in Pune). The true therapy or deep-rooted learning effect only takes place by engaging in this activity on a long term basis. This will help create a culture of emotional expression (and hence, awareness), sharing and mutual respect in the team (which is obviously a long term process).
2020 State of Play — Remote team experiences
Tags: Startup, Company Culture, Team Building, Remote Working, Culture

Culture matters

Having a strong company culture is more important now than ever. 40% of employees report feeling disconnected or lonely while remote working. And non-thriving cultures are 10x more likely to be negatively impacted by crisis.

So if you aren’t already, you should be prioritising culture-building activities for your team. Most companies organise team-building activities once per quarter… do you? 👀

Organising takes money… and time

On average, remote events cost between 30€ for a fully virtual event to 86€ for a premium at-home activity. But there are also overhead costs that companies incur due to the time and effort they put into organising the event. When taking into account the 20 hours and 35+ emails sent to organise an activity, it can inflate your bill by 20–25% with hidden costs.

But team experiences are non-negotiable

At the end of the day, company culture is not a nice-to-have. It’s an integral part of an organisation that must be fostered. When you are facing the most uncertainty is when you should be focusing the most on keeping your team connected.

As Peter Drucker says, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
Comment bien lancer un icebreaker
By: Carine Ramelet
Tags: Team Building, Se Connaître, Icebreaker, Management

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Learn how to compliment your team members at the end-year team meeting
By: Linda Liu
Tags: English Learning, Team Building

Learn how to compliment your team members at the end-year team meeting Linda Liu ·Dec 16, 2020

The big research team held a last team meeting before the end of Year 2020. The key topic of the last meeting was to celebrate each other. I was totally impressed by how team managers compliment each team member.

Here are several learnings I’ve got.
How to Discover Rapidly Growing Topics on the Internet
By: Amar Desai
Tags: Newsletter, Team Building, Productivity, Trends, Investing

1. Exploding Topics

I discovered Exploding Topics 2–3 years back while doing some research on trending topics on the internet. It's similar to Google Trends and it gives you a list of topics that are trending across various categories. It uses google trend and some of their proprietary technology to discover trending topics.

It's basically a Twitter trend feeds for the entire internet. I find it very accurate and you can discover many trends that are about to go viral before anyone else.

It also offers a newsletter where they send weekly exploding topics along with expert analysis. Thanks to the exploding topics I saw Peleton trending and made a bet on its shares for which I got rewarded handsomely.

Photo By Exploding Topics

I highly recommend this website if you want to keep up to date on what is trending.
Fun Online Activities for Teams. As 2020 was probably the year for…
By: Roland Auer
Tags: Team Building, Meetings, Activity, Online, Remote

Bring Your Own Website

(Preparation: Low, No. of Participants: 5–100, Duration: 15 mins)

A variant of the game Bring Your Own Book. Participants opens their favourite websites. The facilitator gives a prompt, e.g. “With which words should our manager start 2021?” In 3 mins, everyone tries to find a quote on their respective websites. If you have a virtual canvas, let the participants post their results — including images — , otherwise let them read it.

PowerPoint Karaoke

(Preparation: High, No. of Participants: 5-100, Duration: 20+ mins)

Prepare or download some funky Powerpoint decks. Hand out a deck to a voluntary presenter. This presenter sees the slides the first time together with the audience. Obviously this can’t work out all too well, but the spontaneous creativity can be quite rewarding. Detailed article here.

Jigsaw Puzzle

(Preparation: Medium, No. of Participants: 5–100, Duration: 10–30 mins)

Take a nice photo, e.g. of a previous team event, and use it to create an online jigsaw puzzle (e.g. www.jigsawplanet.com). If you have more than 7 people, assign participants to teams. Each team shares one puzzle and tries to finish the photo. Optionally: Play against the time or the fastest team.

Song Miming

(Preparation: Low, No. of Participants: 3–10, Duration: 10–30 mins)

The facilitator sends a song to a participant who mimes this song for the others to guess. To make it easier, songs should be themed, e.g. Christmas Carols. Other categories like animals also work.

Google Translate Garbage

(Preparation: Medium, No. of Participants: 3–15, Duration: 10–20 mins)

Preparation: The facilitators translate famous song texts, idioms or quotes with Google Translate into multiple languages and then back. Participants try to guess the original. Works great with Christmas Carols!

One Thing You Don’t Know About Me

(Preparation: Low, No. of Participants: 3–30, Duration: 3–10 mins)

Each participant state one thing that they assume almost nobody else really knows about them. Good as warm-up. If you have a virtual canvas, let them spell it out and ideally enhance it visually. If you think you know your team well, gather each statement before and let participants guess who it came from.

Baby Photo Guessing

(Preparation: High, No. of Participants: 10–20, Duration: 10 mins)

Each participant sends a baby photo to the facilitator who reveals them and let everyone guess. Too intimate for many teams, but it’s nice when it works.