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coolie whoever votes for a topic is basically also agreeing to volunteer to help there. so if your gang wants to vote and work ...sure.
and as far as multinicks go, if someone wants to get a workload based on the number of nicks they have, thats okay as well. they should just learn to get by with less sleep :)
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^:hehe: yeah!
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And so folks, the voting ends!
**The Vote Result
Topic - Votes**
1 - 0
2 - 1
3 - 1
4 - 1
** 5 - 3**
6 - 2
7 - 1
8 - 0
9 - 0
**
Pleased to announce the winning topic # 5
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Haris thanks. Keep the ball rolling.
so who suggested that topic, cuz that is the team lead. people who are realy interesting in getting involved in this effort, please identify yourselves. I will assume that anyone who voted for #5 has in essence volunteered to work on that, and others who did not vote for it are also volunteers unless ai hear otherwise.
Originator of the idea, please put together an abstract, of what and how. Maybe areas of focus of think tanks? as step 1, picking out the most relevant ones and then figuring out what to track and where..maybe get a repository of sites and info going.
I will be tied up in some stuff until the weekend, but the result of that will help us break into sub teams as and when needed to work. more to come on that later.
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Plz let me know what you want me to do/write on this winning topic.
waisay dhaandli hoi hai lakin chalein koi baat nai.
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baychaaraa ravage.
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^ :D
weekend pe weeked pe
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now with alldost.com set the team can set up a private group there to discuss this, share links, compile info and do watever is needed.
depending on how that goes, I am fully ready to set up an entire different site to support these initiatives, we have the domain name and all allready.
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can someone else do the groups wroups waghera... im not very good with that. i'll try to put together a draft abstract today.
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I know it's too late but still I think chitrol for the danda weilding ninjas can be added in the list. Oh well, don't bother I am just venting.
What is the progress guys. Any clubs yet?
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so are we going to continue ... or is that it.
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providing facilities is tools is my head ache, and right now with the club format it can be a private club here information can be shared.
I have stated previously, I have a specific domain name ready, we have the tools at our disposal to allow for documents sharing, archiving etc.
I will make that investment when I see initiatives more than questions :)
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I'm ready to follow the lead...
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can someone put up the names of all people who are active in this thread and I will open the CLUB
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sorry for my disappearance guys, work was crazy busy. but im back now, doing a bit of initial research, will report back soon.
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alrite guys, I havent got much time at all to follow up on this properly. could someone else please take the lead as far as setting out goals is concerned and in general the management/organization. Im willing to do reading up on specific topics that we’ve outlined, but we need someone to really spell out/designate tasks.
Im gonna write out what I did/thought so far, I think if we lose the momentum completely now (thanks largely to my disappearance) then this wont happen. My apologies for my houdini, Ive had to focus on keeping my job though :/.
i got a little bit of literature on the impact of think tank groups in context of the West, but I havent as yet found something more specific to online groups.
But the general sense I got was that we need to cover a lot of ground to do this properly.
“Do Think Tanks Matter? Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes” by Donald E. Abelson
Can we purchase this book? I couldnt find it in my library and I havent found an etext of this either but there is a similar text by the same author specific to US and Canada that is a journal article (presumably more condensed too) that could be useful
Do Think Tanks Matter? Opportunities, Constraints and Incentives for Think Tanks in Canada and the United States
Donald E. Abelson
The advantage of getting an etext would be that we can share the PDF file.
This is all to get an ideas of the general field of think tanks. Since there is no specific study more pertinent to “our” world I guess we have to do the study ourselves. The only way that I can think of doing that is to collate a list of prominent NGOs operating in the third world and study them. Is there any way we can narrow down this effort?
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Perhaps as a first step we can figure out exactly what we see the contents page of the study to look like?
In the proposal I wrote of comparing with specific NGOs, however do we need to have a background in the general motivations and constraints of NGOs that we can get from existing research?
yikes its been quite a few days since our last activity. i am very sorry for that guys.
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are we still looking forward to it.....
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Definitely!
Or so I hope…
Thank for putting life back in here CB.
Guys come back! let’s get somewhere 