scholarly journals Una ventana de oportunidad para reformar la inteligencia en Uruguay/ A window of opportunity to reform the intelligence in Uruguay

2017 ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Nicolás Alvarez Rosas
Keyword(s):  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Legislative Policy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

Este trabajo asume como punto de partida que el escándalo suscitado tras la incautación del llamado archivo Castiglioni -donde se presume existen pruebas de espionaje ilegal en democracia- configuró una ventana de oportunidad que permitió colocar nuevamente los asuntos de inteligencia en la agenda de gobierno. A partir del marco de corrientes múltiples, se argumenta que el ágil reconocimiento del problema, mediante la creación de una comisión investigadora parlamentaria (corriente de los problemas) y la presencia de soluciones concretas aportadas por los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo (corriente de las políticas), suponen una oportunidad de cambio que dependerá, en gran parte, de la capacidad de los actores para capitalizar la misma: reducir la brecha entre soluciones y problemas (corriente de la política).     Abstract This work assumes as a starting point that the scandal that arose after the seizure of the so-called Castiglioni archive -where there is presumption that there is evidence of illegal espionage in democracy- set up a window of opportunity that allowed to put intelligence issues back on the government agenda. From the framework multiple-streams, it is argued that the agile recognition of the problem through the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry (problem stream) and the presence of concrete solutions provided by the executive and legislative (policy stream) represent an opportunity for change that will depend largely on the capacity of actors to capitalize on it: bridging the gap between solutions and problems (political stream).

The 60-Minute MVP

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-386
Author(s):  
Doan Winkel ◽  
Justin Wilcox ◽  
Atul Teckchandani
Keyword(s):  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Critical Aspects

The 60-minute minimum viable product (MVP) exercise teaches critical aspects of the entrepreneurial mind-set and lean start-up methodology, namely, the iterative process of hypothesis testing through the creation of MVPs. In 60 minutes, with no prior technical expertise, students will work in teams to design a landing page, create a teaser video, and set up a way to gather information from prospective customers. The resulting low-fidelity MVP can subsequently be shared with prospective customers to gauge interest and be used as a starting point for the hypothesis testing process used in the lean start-up methodology. This is an immersive exercise that activates students, builds confidence, and teaches important entrepreneurial principles.

scholarly journals The Dorjéling Armoury in the Potala According to the Fifth Dalai Lama’s gsung ’bum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Venturi
Keyword(s):  
Dalai Lama ◽  
Military Readiness ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Military Preparedness

Although the government established through the alliance of the Gélukpa (Dge lugs pa) and the Khoshud in 1642 took its appellation from the Ganden Palace (Dga’ ldan pho brang/Ganden Phodrang) at Drepung (’Bras spung), the symbolic seat of power of this government was the Potala, at the same time fortress, administrative centre, earthly copy of the celestial palace of Avalokiteśvara, and official residence of the Fifth Dalai Lama. Less known, however, is that the Potala also came to symbolise military readiness. It acquired this new martial function in 1667, when an armoury, called Dorjéling (Rdo rje gling), was set up at the base of the White Palace. The Fifth Dalai Lama memorialised its establishment with a poetic text, which is included in volume nineteen (ma) of his collected works. This paper examines this text, which provides information both on the contents of the armoury and on the logic employed to justify the creation of spaces dedicated to military preparedness within a palace that was fast becoming one of the most revered sites in the Tibetan sphere.

scholarly journals Reforming the Irish public service: A multiple streams perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Management Reform ◽  
The Creation

Abstract Following the Irish general election of 2011, a new ministry emerged which sought to combine public expenditure, industrial relations and public sector reform. The creation of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) represented a major departure in Irish administrative history, not least because it introduced a new actor at the heart of Irish government, but also for the range of tasks with which it was endowed. This article provides an administrative reform context for the creation of DPER before examining its work across three domains: industrial relations, financial management reform and administrative reform. Drawing on Kingdon’s ‘multiple streams’ model of policy change, the article argues that reform efforts across all three were made possible by the ‘window of opportunity’ presented by the department’s creation and the coming together of problems, policies and politics in respect of public service reform.

scholarly journals Salir de la calle: una aproximación etnográfica a un proyecto de revinculación social para personas en situación de la calle en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

2012 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Mariana Biaggio
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Treatment ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Specific Location ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Unexpected Outcome ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
The City

• A partir del análisis etnográfico del proceso de implementación de un proyecto que proponía la conformación de un coro de ensambles vocales de personas en situación de calle, indago en este artículo la ruptura que este proyecto propuso respecto del clásico esquema de asistencia paliativa que caracteriza al circuito asistencial en el que se ubican las políticas sociales dirigidas a la atención de la situación de calle en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Este proyecto, lejos de apuntar a la ayuda material en la supervivencia, otorgó una opción cultural que a partir del placer (no de la necesidad) motivó la participación. Sin embargo, diferentes aspectos oscurecieron este logro imprevisto: desde la mirada de los agentes gubernamentales que lo implementaron, el Resumen proyecto no logró su objetivo de ser un nexo entre la calle marginal y el mercado laboral formal. Los técnicos asociaban a las personas en situación de calle con una identidad y una localización específica, como si estuvieran desvinculadas de la sociedad. Sin embargo los modos en que las personas vivieron, sintieron y percibieron esta política, nos permiten cuestionar la existencia de aquella desvinculación. Las diversas expectativas en torno al proyecto desnaturalizan miradas y representaciones asociadas a las personas en situación de calle, quienes en esta experiencia se apropiaron de un proyecto del que participaron activamente y defendieron en forma colectiva.   • In this paper, taking as my starting point the ethnographic analysis of the process of implementing a project proposing the formation of a choir of vocal ensembles for the homeless, I investigate the break this project brought about with the classic set-up of palliative treatment commonly used by the caring network, embracing the social policies addressing care issues for the homeless in the City of Buenos Aires. Far from addressing material aid with regard to survival, instead this project offered a cultural option, which encouraged people to take part out of pleasure (rather than out of need). Nevertheless, various aspects contrived to obscure this unexpected outcome: In the eyes of the government agents who brought it into being, the project did not achieve its aim of serving as a bridge between the city’s down and outs and the formal labour market. The technicians associated the homeless with a specific location and identity, as if they were cut off from society. However, the ways in which these people lived, felt and perceived this policy enables us to question whether these ties were in fact really severed. The various expectations revolving around the project distort the views and representations associated with the homeless, who, in this experiment, embraced a project in which they played an active part and which they defended as a group.

scholarly journals Acting as Policy Entrepreneurs During COVID-19: The Case of Serbian Think Tanks

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Irena Djordjevic ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Think Tanks ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Government Program ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Multiple Streams Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Government

The starting point of this paper is John Kingdon’s (1984) Multiple Streams approach used to analyze whether think tanks can be acknowledged as policy entrepreneurs during COVID-19 crisis. For such purpose, the case of Serbian think tanks is examined, analyzing problems they raised, policy alternatives they proposed along with strategies they applied. Moreover, by comparing issues brought by think tanks and Governmental policy, it is assessed to what extent think tanks proposals match with the ones the Government introduced. The findings show that the selected think tanks applied diverse strategies in addressing problems, which were in majority cases accompanied with specific proposals on how to resolve them. In addition to focusing on issues that are in line with their area of work and referring to their pet proposal, think tanks as well raised some new problems, which were not on their agenda before. Finally, more than half of the problems addressed in the Government program were also recognized as important by think tanks. Therefore, it may be concluded that think tanks played the role of policy entrepreneurs during COVID-19 crisis, but in order to assess whether they were the ones that brought such ideas to policy makers, further analysis is required.

Leading through Chaos in a Neocolonial Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Laura Colket
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Foreign Governments ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post Disaster

Academic and public discourses often oversimplify the complex historical, social, and discursive forces that have created the current realities in Haiti. These discourses ignore or distort the role that foreign governments and international agencies have played and continue to play in the creation of the Haitian state. They portray the Haitian government as singular and static, corrupt and incapable, and fail to acknowledge changes in leadership and the diversity of individuals who exist within the government. This “single story” about Haiti privileges the international community and overlooks the stories from Haitians who are working to rebuild and reimagine their own country. This article examines the personal stories of Haitians in order to better understand the nature of Haitian leadership in a neocolonial, post-disaster context.

LES AXES DE LA CRÉATION ET LA NAISSANCE DE LʹIMAGINAIRE COMME LANGAGE MYTHIQUE

Trictrac ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Danciu ◽  
Petru Adrian Danciu
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
Rich Spectrum

The axes of the creation and birth of the imaginary as a mythical language. Our research follows the relationships of the concepts that are taking into account creation on the double axis of verticality and horizontality. We highlight those symbolic elements which would later constitute the mythical language about the sacred space-temporality. Inside this space-temporality a rich spectrum of mythical images develops; images capable of explaining the relationships of the creation plans. Without a religious perception of the temporality, the conceptualization of the axis would remain a philosophical approach. Through our point of view, the two are born simultaneously. Thanks to them, creation can be imagined. The first “frozen” formula of the mystical human spirit can be thought, brought to a palpable reality, expressed in an oral and then a written form. Studied together, temporality (sacred or not) and space are permanently imagined together. For example, a loss of mundane temporality in the secret ecstasy that offers to the soul an ascending direction does not mean getting out of universal temporality, but of its mundane section. In the sacred space the soul relates to time. Even the gods are submitted by the sacred, Aeon sometimes being synonymous to destiny. The universal creator seems to evade every touch, but not consistently, only when he avoids the descent into its created worlds. In sacredness, time and space seem or become confused, both expressing the same reality, by the immediate swing from thinking to deed. The mythical imagery conceives the displacement in the primary space-temporality by the spoken word. So, for something to appear and live, the spoken word is required. Even the divine dream appears as a pre-word of a creator’s thought. The thought follows the spoken word, the spoken word follows the gestures which finally indicate the meanings of the creative act, controlling the rhythm of the creation days. These three will later be adapted through imitation in rite. We are now situated at the limit of the physical world, a real challenge for the mythical imagery. The general feature of the mythical expression on the creation of the material world is the state of the divinity’s exhaustion, most often conceptualized by sacrifice or divine fatigue. The world geography identifies with the anatomy of a self-gutted god. Practically, material creation is most likely the complete revelation of God’s body autopsy. As each body decomposes, everything in it is an illusion. An axial approach of the phenomenon exists in all religious systems. The created element’s origin is exterior, with or without a pre-existing matter, by a god’s sacrifice or only because it has to be that way. This is the starting point of the discussion on the symbolism of axiality as a reason for the constitution of the language of creation, capable of retelling the imaginary construction of myth in an oral and then written form.

Covid-19 and its financial effects on the dental fraternity and health-care workers: A literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 628-631
Author(s):  
Devangi Agrawal ◽  
Namisha Khara ◽  
Bhushan Mundada ◽  
Nitin Bhola ◽  
Rajiv Borle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Dental Practices ◽  
Precautionary Measures ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

In the wake of the current outbreak of novel Covid-19, which is now declared as a 'pandemic' by the WHO, people around the globe have been dealing with a lot of difficulties. This virus had come into light in December 2019 and since then has only grown exponentially. Amongst the most affected are the ones who have been working extremely hard to eradicate it, which includes the hospitals, dental fraternity and the health-care workers. These people are financially burdened due to limited practise. In the case of dentistry, to avoid the spread of the virus, only emergency treatments are being approved, and the rest of the standard procedures have been put on hold. In some cases, as the number of covid cases is rising, many countries are even trying to eliminate the emergency dental procedures to divert the finances towards the treatment of covid suffering patients. What we need to realise is that this is probably not the last time that we are facing such a situation. Instead of going down, we should set up guidelines with appropriate precautionary measures together with the use of standardised PPEs. The government should also establish specific policies to support dental practices and other health-care providers. Together, we can fight this pandemic and come out stronger.

Water Pollution and Its Impact on Environment of Society

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Thyagaraju
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Biological Entities ◽  
Micro Organisms

The present seminar paper mainly highlight  the concept of  water pollution, causes of water pollution,  Its Effects, Elements of  pollutants, Methods  used to prevent the water pollution in environment  and the mandatory initiatives taken by the concerned authorities for prevention of  water pollution. Water   is essential for survival of all living organisms on the earth. Thus for human beings and plants to survive on land, water should be easily accessible. The term “Pollution” is generally refers to addition of any foreign body either living or non – living or deletion of anything that naturally exists. The basic Sources of Water pollution causes due to Culmination into lakes, rivers, ponds, seas, oceans etc. Domestic drainage and sanitary waste, Industrial drainage and sewage, Industrial waste from factories, Dumping of domestic garbage, Immersion of Idols made of plaster of Paris, Excess use of Insecticides , pesticides, fungicides, Chemical fertilizers, Soil erosion during heavy rains and floods, Natural disasters, tsunami etc. General pollutants  which are also caused for water pollution  which include Organic, Inorganic, and Biological entities, Insecticides, Pesticides, Disinfectants ,Detergents, Industrial solvents, Acids, Ammonia fertilizers, heavy metals, Harmful bacteria, Virus, Micro –Organisms and worms, Toxic chemicals. Agricultural lands become infertile and thereby production also drops, Spread of epidemic diseases like Cholera, Dysentery, Typhoid, Diarrhea, Hepatitis, Jaundice etc. The  basic responsibility of the Government, NGOs, National Pioneer scientific Research Institutions may conduct  research oriented programs on control of water pollution by create  awareness among the public through mass media and Environmental Education on recycling units,  and  water treatment plants must be established both at domestic levels and Industry levels, Every citizen must feel responsible to control water pollution. There have been many water pollution prevention acts that have been set up by the governments of the world. But these are not enough for permanent water pollution solutions. Each of us needs to take up the responsibility and do something at an everyday at individual level. Otherwise we can’t survive in a society forever in a future. 

Een Duits netwerk bij de voorbereiding van de Militärverwaltung in België (1939-1940)

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-305
Author(s):  
Etienne Verhoeyen
Keyword(s):  
Study Groups ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Student Group ◽  
German Army ◽  
The Future ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
First World ◽  
Preparatory Work

Nadat Hitler in oktober 1939 beslist had een aanval in het Westen te ondernemen, werden in Keulen twee studiegroepen opgericht, die het toekomstig bezettingsregime van België en Nederland moesten voorbereiden. Er was een studiecommissie die geleid werd door de toekomstige leider van het Duits Militair Bestuur in België, Regierungspräsident Reeder, en daarnaast bestond een geheime studiegroep die de Sondergruppe Student werd genoemd. Deze bijdrage belicht het voorbereidend werk van de leden van deze studiegroep op het gebied van handel, industrie, recht, Volkstum en cultuur in België. De groep legde een grote belangstelling voor de Flamenfrage aan de dag en trok daarbij lessen uit de ervaringen met de bezetting van België tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Ofschoon er van diverse zijden in Duitsland werd op aangestuurd, hebben zowel de 'commissie Reeder' als de Sondergruppe de wederinvoering van de bestuurlijke scheiding van het Vlaams en Franstalig landsgedeelte, één van de 'verworvenheden' van het Vlaams activisme uit 1914-18, beslist afgewezen. De bijdrage laat ook de tegenstellingen zien die in Duitsland bestonden op het gebied van de beïnvloeding (ten voordele van Duitsland) in de te bezetten gebieden. ________ A German network in the preparation of the Militärverwaltung (Army administration) in Belgium (1939-1940)After Hitler had decided in October 1939 to carry out an attack on the West, two study groups were set up in Cologne in order to prepare the future occupational regime of Belgium and the Netherlands.  The future leader of the German Army Administration in Belgium, President of the Government Reeder chaired the study group, and in addition there was a secret study group called the Sondergruppe Student (Special Student Group).This contribution illuminates the preparatory work of the members of this study group in the area of trade, industry, law, Volkstum (nationality) and culture in Belgium. The group demonstrated a lot of interest in the Flamenfrage (Flemish question) and in doing so drew lessons from the experience of the occupation of Belgium during the First World War.Although people from various quarters in Germany aimed for the reintroduction of the governmental separation between  the Flemish and French speaking parts of the country, one of the 'achievements' of Flemish activism from the period of 1914-1918, both the 'Reeder committee' and the 'Sondergruppe' definitely dismissed it. This contribution also demonstrates the contradictions present in Germany in the area of influencing the territories to be occupied (in favour of Germany).

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document