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A draft of the Twelfth Five Year Plan 2012-17 by the Planning Commission of the Government of India has been published at the Planning Commission’s website.

On 6 & 7 April 2013 the Planning Commission and the National Innovation Council are inviting citizens to innovatively communicate the Plan through creative visualizations and software applications. This is at the first ever Hackathon on aFive Year Plan (2012-17). 

These are exciting times, and social media will play an increasing role in implementing Five Year Plans.

More than half a century ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” How to interpret this quote in the contemporary public planning and media setting?

The current version of the plan is published as three pdf books, of 360, 436 and 292 pages. A very good read for any one interested in the socio-economic status of India, its states, its economic sectors and its people.

The success of the plan will depend on how it facilitates further planning, and on the communication of insights and resulting commitments to stakeholders, including those at the base of the pyramid. It is clear that the current version of the plan is nothing in that regard, and that expectations are high that creative visualizations and software applications will improve the situation.

The India development dashboard is intended to offer a service in the targetted low-hurdle communication of planning inputs and outputs among all stakeholders in all economic sectors and functions of government. The Social Media Dream being that the people of India can harvest the everything of public planning.

May be you have some very interesting article about the raising of sheep, or the growing of maize, or of any other sector listed at http://www.actor-atlas.info/sector-actors-maps  

ISIC denotes about five hundred classes of economic activities with a four digit code.

For each of these codes there is an individual Actor Atlas page, for instance:

http://www.actor-atlas.info/csm:0144  for ISIC 0144 - Raising of sheep and goats .

If you have a Twitter account, and know or wrote an article that is particularly relevant to any ISIC class of economic activities, then find the ISIC code, e.g. 0144 , and use #isic0144 in the tweet with the article’s link (and title).

Visitors of the Actor Atlas, looking for information on their sector of interest will see your tweet and may access the article, even weeks after you tweeted it. No need for retweeting anymore!

Visual Loop maintains a large number of infographics pinboards.

A number of these are related to functions of government or economic activities. That’s why resource links have been included in these Actor Atlas pages:

• Economic activities (ISIC Sections)

I - Accommodation and food service activities

Q - Human health and social work activities

• Economic activities (ISIC Classes)

0127 - Growing of beverage crops

0610 - Extraction of crude petroleum

1102 - Manufacture of wines

3510 - Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

3600 - Water collection, treatment and supply

5110 - Passenger air transport

5813 - Publishing of newspapers, journals and periodicals

7420 - Photographic activities

8620 - Medical and dental practice activities

8890 - Other social work activities without accommodation

• Functions of government (COFOG classes)

01.1.2 - Financial and fiscal affairs (CS)
07.2.3 - Dental services (IS)

• Role pages

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If you know of other pinboards or infographics that are specific to any of the functions of government, sectors of industry, or actors or roles, then let us now at the suitable Actor Atlas page, by commenting, and we will make sure the infographics get crowd curated.

Reading the tweets by  @theneweconomics my attention goes to

How much of a subsidy do #US#banks receive from being too big to fail? And four ways to change it http://ow.ly/gVfHO

A link to an article by The Financial Times to which I register free for online access to 8 articles/month. Nice.

The article mentions topics for which I perform actions in the Actor Atlas:

• the Dodd-Frank Act: the link to a signed original is added at http://www.actor-atlas.info/statute-book:united-states ),
• the General Accountability Office (this is a mistake in the FT, must be Government Accountability Office):  A US public sector agency (= actor in the Actor Atlas jargon), for which a role page is created: http://www.actor-atlas.info/role:government-accountability-office. In this page I generalize a definition for the U.S. situation towards a generic one, referring to Legislature, Executive, and Citizens.
• open access academic literature: Have we solved ‘too big to fail’? (in VoxEU.Org, by Andrew G Haldane, January 17, 2013) 
• both articles, the one in the Financial Times, and the one by Haldane mention a number of options to deal with the too big to fail problem: these I haven’t studied in detail yet, as these options are from trustworthy sources, I put links in a comment at the sector map http://www.actor-atlas.info/sector-map:financial-sector

Now I invite readers to join the Google+ community Stewardship of Finance and  further describe and analyse the proposed options. This could be done in a Debategraph, for instance following the ParliamentWatch Pattern.

To be continued in the Google+ community!

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, this is relying upon technology to make content findable according to pull-mode.

There are two mainstreams in the As-Is media.

Inclusive social media in which everyone has become a creator, pushing content to the socially engaged via ”spam” of the first (e-mail), second (posting) or third (chain-posting) kind.

Traditional media, on the other hand, caters to the socially privileged. It maintains the rent-picking business models optimized in the printing-press age for engaging the economically privileged in non-inclusive innovations.

The search-engine-for-pull and social-media-for-push entrenches inclusive content interactions into a creation wave that hardly yields social engagement for inclusive innovation. Hence the (image of a) content tsunami hiding the Internet’s inclusive innovative potential.

The small differences that would yield a critical juncture in our media use for inclusive innovation are simple. It consists of nourishing some of the best practices of the printing press age in the age of Internet.

Open online dictionaries, encyclopedias (Wikipedia) and translation services (Google Translate) are building blocks. The Actor Atlas aims to further improve the social engagement for inclusive innovation. This is explored in these Google+ Communities:

• On Smart Content
• Wikiworx User Group

Acknowledgements. These discussions have stimulated the writing of this article:

• With Philippe Verstichel: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104272445949750214224/posts/fd4fzWFpNEv (in Smart Content)
• With Hazel Chism: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115317319130028017980/posts/PcdBMBmodu6 (in Google+ Community ”Community Moderators”)