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Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...managed through trust and leadership. A resilient community of practice must be able to develop design leadership whose work and guidance is respected and appreciated even without the convenient meter of coding meritocracy. Scaling subjectivity It comes down to the deep paradox at the heart of design (whether for interface, architecture, product, etc.). We are trying to...
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Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...managing editor Helena Vieira during the Mobile Money and Financial Development Conference at LSE. Could you tell me briefly about your digital strategy? Ecobank is a pan-African bank. We’re in 33 markets in middle Africa. The aim of the bank has always been to foster inter-regional trade, inter-regional business. But with the change in digital banking coming in now,...
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The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...Managing Director at Morgan Stanley from 2008-9. Jonathan is a member of the board of Save the Children International. Jonathan has published three books: ‘Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland’, ‘The New Machiavelli, How to Wield Power in the Modern World’, and ‘Talking to Terrorists, How to End Armed Conflict’. The Rt. Hon. (William)...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...managed to leave the body. Surprise, surprise: while bloodletting could help, the best cure was having sex. Sex would open up the body and move the retained blood around. It’s interesting that the idea of a “disease” worked for those who believed in the hymen as a barrier, and for those who didn’t. The latter thought that the problem was a different sort of...
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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...to the fore of efforts to secure language rights in the north of Ireland in the last decade. He is Communications Manager with Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and is Chair of Irish Language Community Group Gaelphobal Ard Mhacha Theas in South Armagh. Find out more To discover why the Good Friday Agreement matters in a wider context, why not try the courses below?...
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The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...managed by local authorities, often at threat and sold off at times when local authorities are short of money. So I think allotments pose a number of problems in that they allow people to garden. When I had an allotment for a short time, [I] took a class of kind of twenty-odd twelve year-olds down so they could pull out a carrot and see what it was like. Laurie Taylor:...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...managed. It might be that you enjoy finding things out, asking a question no one has asked before and uncovering answers that no one else has found. All of these are excellent reasons for undertaking an EPQ. Understanding why you want to do a research project will help you in your first task: designing a research question. Designing your research question. The research...
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Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...manage Sarah’s medication’ (Inquest, 2017). It was known that Sarah had been exhibiting psychotic disorder, bipolar, schizophrenia and bulimia, yet monitoring had been reduced, which gave her the opportunity to strangle herself in her cell. She spent her final days alone in a dirty cell without access to contact with her family. The tragic sequence of events that led...
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