Homo Datumicus : correcting the market for identity data

Effective digital identity systems offer great economic and civic potential. However, unlocking this potential requires dealing with social, behavioural, and structural challenges to efficient market formation. We propose that a marketplace for identity data can be more efficiently formed with an infrastructure that provides a more adequate representation of individuals online. This paper therefore introduces the ontological concept of Homo Datumicus: individuals as data subjects transformed by HAT Microservers, with the axiomatic computational capabilities to transact with their own data at scale. Adoption of this paradigm would lower the social risks of identity orientation, enable privacy preserving transactions by default and mitigate the risks of power imbalances in digital identity systems and markets

Continuous and discrete transformations of a one-dimensional porous medium equation

We consider the one-dimensional porous medium equation $u_t=\left (u^nu_x \right )_x+\frac{\mu}{x}u^nu_x$. We derive point transformations of a general class that map this equation into itself or into equations of a similar class. In some cases this porous medium equation is connected with well known equations. With the introduction of a new dependent variable this partial differential equation can be equivalently written as a system of two equations. Point transformations are also sought for this auxiliary system. It turns out that in addition to the continuous point transformations that may be derived by Lie's method, a number of discrete transformations are obtained. In some cases the point transformations which are presented here for the single equation and for the auxiliary system form cyclic groups of finite order

Franz Ferdinand at Spokane, 1893

"Franz Ferdinand did not like Spokane and said so with frank superciliousness but of this opinion Spokane neither knew nor cared.

The North Idaho Annexation Issue

"He [who] has crossed the Idaho Panhandle, and may wonder why, in a land where it would seem that the topography would determine the political areas, this narrow strip of Idaho along the western slopes of the Bitterroot range should be wedged in between the bulky masses of Montana and Washington...

The Walla Walla Separation Movement

"Washington Territory wished to retain the Walla Walla country while the people of Oregon sought to add it to Oregon.

The North Idaho Annexation Issue (Continued)

"He [who] has crossed the Idaho Panhandle, and may wonder why, in a land where it would seem that the topography would determine the political areas, this narrow strip of Idaho along the western slopes of the Bitterroot range should be wedged in between the bulky masses of Montana and Washington...

The most 'undeserving' of all? How poverty drives young men to victimisation and crime

Public policy reform over several decades has succeeded in systematically impoverishing and worsening the social and economic conditions of poor, single young men. That this group is the most prone to criminality and criminalisation, while being pushed further into the margins of the licit and illicit economy, has been a central feature of long-term and growing crime trends. The article argues that successive governments have been unwise to neglect the poverty of unemployed, single young men into young adulthood. Their comparatively unfavourable treatment (as the most 'undeserving' of the 'undeserving poor') has impoverished a group renowned for being crime-prone

The evolution and design of safety management systems

Research in safety management has been inhibited by lack of consensus as to the definitions of the terms with which it is concerned and, in general, the lack of an agreed theoretical framework within which to collate and contrast empirical findings. This thesis sets out definitions of key terms (hazard, risk, accident, incident and safety) and provides a theoretical framework. This framework has been informed by many sources but especially the Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT), cybernetics and the Viable System Model (VSM). Fieldwork designs are proposed for the empirical development of an analytical framework and its use to assist study of the development of safety management in organisations