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A mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service.
International Governance is the political interaction of transnational actors aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region when there is no power of enforcing compliance.
[Above definitions are from Wikipedia]
Information provided in mashups are updated within seconds when users across the globe update their activities. The site provides users with a space with all the information they want without them having to go to various sites to search.
Mashups can serve international governance through e-governance. This is done through better communication with its own country’s citizens along with the rest of the world. The government will be able to feel closer to their people and hear their voices as oppose to only doing what they feel is right. Vice versa, this allows for everyone to feel closer to the government and be more aware or informed of the events that are going around them. Also, the government can be more efficient when implementing projects, services and business with different countries around the globe.
It can provide the government with the right and effective tool for international governance.
Here are some mashups that I found, hope you like them!
Popurls
http://popurls.com/
MusicMesh
http://www.musicmesh.net/
Yahoo Newsglobe
http://developer.yahoo.com/
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Whenever someone is googling a topic for their essay/papers, you will usually find a Wikipedia site listed somewhere on the first page. This is because people turn to Wiki as the first source of information for a general background on their topic, well at least I do at times.
I feel that Wiki is a good source of communication, and at certain times reliable. However, this highly depends on the information that you are searching for. I feel that it’s a good general source of information where a person can read about and determine by themselves whether or not it is reliable, since random people can edit the information. This really tests out a person’s skills/ability to extract information. Also it causes them to do more research, which hopefully educates them more =) Even professors and teachers tell students to start their research through google and Wikipedia for general information and then use links to find more accurate information!
