What is a “Nudge ?”

June 30, 2016 • in Innovation, Podcast
Data Points Podcast Episode 8 – Nudges for Government

By Eric Reese and Sharon Pauley
Listen to the 23:21 Podcast on this Link >> http://govex.jhu.edu/nudges-for-government/
What is a “nudge?” How can human behavior, and errors, affect the everyday work of government? How can data help government start to correct those errors? We discuss these questions and more with Elspeth Kirkman of the Behavioral Insights Team (or BIT) in this week’s episode of Data Points. What Works Cities Initiative (which also launched GovEx).

Elspeth is the Head of BIT North America, which launched last year as a part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies
BIT grew out of 10 Downing St, where it was the United Kingdom’s “nudge unit” and the world’s first government institution dedicated to the application of behavioral sciences. BIT’s work focuses on redesigning services based on empirical evidence from the behavioral science literature. Their work also involves rigorous testing of behavioral science concepts to ensure that governments know what works before they scale up new practices.
Through What Works Cities, BIT has expanded its work to the US and is working with several cities across the country on low-cost evaluations. These evaluations help cities test different a variety of techniques in service delivery to determine which ways are more effective, and which ways aren’t, to improve service delivery.

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Vendor Payment Data Set Now On City of Mesa Open Data Portal

Vendor Payment Data Now Available 

The newest data set on Mesa's open data portal has been released 3 daysagoand includes information on payments made to vendors that do business with the City of Mesa.
http://open.mesaaz.gov/dashboards/9611/financials/

Checkbook register including Paid Date, Payee, Amount, Department, Object, Fund and Commodity Code.

For full page view hit this link >>

http://open.mesaaz.gov/dataviews/227934/vendor-payments-2016/

 

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The data set can be found to the infographic above by going to this link for detailed viewing >>  http://open.mesaaz.gov/visualizations/26681/vendor-payments-2016-summary/


The vendor payment data set includes payments made by the City to vendors that provide goods and services to the City of Mesa.  
More detailed information is also included in the data set that shares which department the purchase was made for, the type of good or service provided, and which fund the purchase was made from.
The vendor payment data set allows residents to see how the City of Mesa spends funds and which goods and services are provided broken down by vendor.  
The data set increases financial transparency and gives easy access to payment information through Mesa’s open data portal.  

 

Millennials, Politics & Causes:The 2016 Millennial Impact Report

Research from Wave 1 of the 2016 Millennial Impact Report Now Available
New research from Achieve investigates how millennials’ involvement with causes trends during a presidential election year
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (PRWEB) June 22, 2016

Today marks the release of the first wave of trends from the 2016 Millennial Impact Report.

Research from previous studies within The Millennial Impact Project (themillennialimpact.com) repeatedly indicates millennials (born 1980-2000) value cause engagement. With the changing landscape in the U.S. brought on by a presidential election year, Achieve, the research agency behind The Millennial Impact Project, wanted to understand how – or if – this generation’s philanthropic interests and involvement changes as well.

The 2016 Millennial Impact Report investigates how millennials’ cause engagement behaviors may change during an election year, and how these changes may be influenced by important demographics such as their political ideologies, geographical location, age, gender and race/ethnicity or by the emerging candidates for election. This study also examines millennials’ interest and activation in specific causes that may be differentiated by their support of a particular political party.

“It is likely that during an election year, causes and organizations that are politically aligned or part of a candidate’s agenda could see an increase in participation from this generation, and vice versa,” said Derrick Feldmann, Achieve president. “As millennials are the largest generation in the U.S. and are now tied for the largest share of the vote, understanding the evolving millennial mindset in the current political landscape is critical to informing leaders and organizations that want to unleash this generation’s ability to create change for many years to come.”

Download the 2016 Millennial Impact Wave 1 Trends Report, as well supporting infographics and profiles, at themillennialimpact.com/2016-report.

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The Millennial Impact Project is the most comprehensive and trusted study of the millennial generation (born 1980-2000) and their involvement with causes.

Since beginning the study in 2009, Achieve continues to lead the national research team in partnership with the Case Foundation. With more than 75,000 participants in its studies, The Millennial Impact Project has helped organizations, corporations and individuals around the world understand the best approaches to cultivate interest and involvement with this generation. themillennialimpact.com

Achieve is a research and marketing agency for causes. We leverage our expertise in research, technology, creative and strategy to understand and inspire your audience – whether current or yet to be discovered – to take action.
 

Learn more about Achieve, our research, events and cloud-based technology solutions, TrustedPartner and RacePartner, at achieveagency.com

In The Public Square: Junk Food & Junk Infrastructure

Typically, the highways exported value from the downtowns to the suburbs resulting in damaged downtowns and sprawl . . . but Highways were sold as infrastructure that would speed up travel times and allow car-dependent people, living far away, a means to access the jobs, culture, and services in the downtown . . .  QUESTION: is Main Street in The Urban DTMesa out of context?

Junk Infrastructure
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/junk-infrastructure

IAN LOCKWOOD    JUL. 1, 2016

Since the last recession, providing “infrastructure” has been synonymous with providing foundational facilities upon which communities can grow and prosper. Providing “infrastructure” is seen as inherently good. Similarly, food production is considered inherently positive too. After all, we want to feed the world’s population. However, we all know that there is such a thing as “junk food,” characterized by long shelf-lives, lots of calories, lots of salt, and low nutritional value. In so-called “food deserts,” populations don’t have access to nutritious food—only junk food—leading to negative health consequences.
Is there such a thing as “junk infrastructure”?
Is there such a thing as infrastructure that damages cities, creates costs, and harms health?
Sadly, there is.
It’s known as “in-city highways.” Notice that I did not call them “urban highways.” Just because a highway is in a city, does not mean that it is urban. “Urban highway” is an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp” or “clean coal.” The pattern is clear: When highways are built in cities, the place gets worse; when highways are removed from cities, the place gets better.
Highways were sold as infrastructure that would speed up travel times and allow car-dependent people, living far away, a means to access the jobs, culture, and services in the downtown. Typically, the highways exported value from the downtowns to the suburbs and resulting in damaged downtowns and sprawl. The highways divided and damaged neighborhoods. A myriad of negative health and environmental consequences ensue.
I’m not actually anti-highway; I can accept highways between cities but not in cities. I’m not anti-high volume street either.
However, the street design should suit its context.
So, let’s start recognizing in-city highways for what they are: junk infrastructure.
So, when your politicians, MPO, or city leaders want to bring home the bacon so-to-speak, ask them for contributing infrastructure and ask them to remove the junk infrastructure. You and your city will be far healthier as a result.

 

Ian Lockwood

Ian Lockwood PE is a Livable Transportation Engineer with Toole Design Group who specializes in active transportation, place-making, and helping cities through collaborative planning, design and engineering. Ian’s cartoons are intended to spur discussion, raise issues, challenge conventionality, and occasionally cause the odd smile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Educating The Work Force: Hard Data Re/Occupational Employment

From the Western Information Office for the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics there's this report for May 2015 [ .html version ] . . . what does this tell you about the emphasis on STEM education??
This report tells you what occupations are parts of the workforce and their average salaries

Informing & Engaging The People - FKN News with Jonathan Pie

Brutally honest views on the world of politics, listening and talking back to some guy named Tim who's the producer connected on his headset, having a good go at the failed campaign to remain in the European Union where incumbent politicians and financial markets got roiled big time taking a drubbing and beating by the vote of the people . . . unlike here in Mesa where people are not engaged in politics and City Hall wants them to stay that way!  

Once again he takes aim at the news and reporters in a hard-hitting hilarious rant

Published on Jul 1, 2016

Views: 17,463

In Jonathan Pie's latest episode he warns people to "stop moping" as a bigger problem is coming

Climate Change Emergency // Unprecedented? Jet Stream Crosses Equator.

Published on Jun 28, 2016

Views: 265,178

The jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere has crossed the equator and joined up with the jet stream in the Southern Hemisphere. This seems like new behaviour, and indicates that climate system mayhem is ongoing.

Our climate system behaviour continues to surprise us in new and scary ways that we have never anticipated, or even seen before.

Welcome to climate chaos. We must declare a global climate emergency.

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Published on Jul 2, 2016

Scientists warn of 'global climate emergency' over jet stream shift
The weather has completely broken its routine. Expect Snow in July. Floods. Hurricane winds in monsoonal weather. Expect everything.
Just as the Native Americans said thousands of years ago, the Earth has four winds.
That is to say 4 jet streams. Two in the northern Hemisphere, and two in the southern hemisphere.
These jet streams drive the Earth's weather and climate.

Often a winter storm, full of blizzardy snow, will arrive to lower portions of the United States, brought by a Northern jet stream, which will dip into the continent.

Low pressure systems almost always accompany such dips in the jet stream.

What is the science behind the Jet Streams?

Each jet stream has a positive or negative charge. The northern hemisphere has 2 positively charged winds, while the southern hemisphere has two negatively charged winds.

For a northern wind, positively charged, to cross the equator and dip into the southern hemisphere signals a massive polarity change in the Earth's Magnetic field.

So what does this mean? Chaos, from a climate's point of view.

Having a jet stream of a positive charge hovering in the Earth negatively charged zone, means that the jet stream is in danger of being captured and having it's polarity changed.
The southern hemisphere would then have three jet streams.

In a worse case scenario the other two jet streams could absorb their northerly neighbor, illuminating that wind all together. An even more catastrophic outcome is the wind does not get absorbed or change polarity, but instead keeps it's polarity.

However this arrangement is total chaos for the climate and we could expect weather disasters mankind has never seen before.

Let's look deeper into what this means for the Earth.
Just like a magnet, there Earth has two polarities.

A south pole and a north pole. These poles transmute the Earth's Magnetic field. Power leaves the Earth through the southern pole, heads out and up. And finally back into the northern pole.

The Southern pole is negatively charged.
The Northern pole is positively charged.

This flow of energy is possible due to the Earth's powerful nuclear core reactor.

The Earth's Magnetic field, among other things, protects all life from the Sun's constant burst of radiation.

Sometimes the sun belches and a super burst heads our way.
These burst are dangerous and can severally damage our satellites and equipment here on Earth.

In the 1800s, one of the most powerful burst ever recorder took out America’s telegraph system. People saw the very wires flaming. And the buildings housing the equipment burnt to the ground.

If such a solar burst were to happen today, it would mean the end of man's technological accomplishments. We would be right back before the industrial revolution.

No power. No cell phones. No cars. No food deliveries. It would be pandemonium.

If the earth experiences a pole shift, there would be a dangerous time when the Earth could not protect us from the Sun's powerful energy. Until the new polarity shift stabilized, the magnetosphere would be weak.

And the Sun's energy would have less of a barrier before striking the Earth, and man's machines.

If the positively charged jet stream does not return to the positive zone, the pole shift could keep on going until the magnetic sphere buckles under mischarged particles.

The Earth's energy would spurt out with no real direction, or place to go.

Not only would we be experiencing severe weather changes, but also the solar atmosphere would be chaotic. It could really mean the end of mankind if we don't take the proper precautions.

Store up food and water. Insulate your basement from EMPs. And keep important electronics down there. A ham radio. Several 12 volt batteries. A Generator. Light sources. Things that can be recharged.

Be careful of strangers who will be in desperate need of food and water. They may even kill you for it. At first they will pretend to be nice people and wait for your guard to be down.

Suddenly you will be staring down the barrel of a shotgun, as your food, water and women are hauled away. Most likely they will kill you, so be careful.

Armed independence is best, but if you can not manage it try to get to a camp. The government may provide camps for families in need of food and water and shelter.

If you can not find one then make your way to a river or lake. Arm your self with makeshift weapons. Be vigilant at all cost.

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