They certainly need to clean up their act on what's funded and why.
From this, we can see from a different perspective what CTP funded researchers concentrate on.
Since we know little of Omidyar's intentions (interview here in the NYT and a story outlining the project), I'll spare Monday Note readers my usual back-of-the-envelope calculations, and I'll stick to a general outline of what a richly funded news ventures could look like.
Nearly everyone has a desire to know more about "who" funded "what" and at "what price".
Brett Morgen's Cobain: Montage of Heck, Asif Kapadia's Amy and Liz Garbus's Netflix-funded What Happened, Miss Simone?
Presumably we care about what the deficit-funded military adventure accomplishes, relative to alternative deployments of national wealth.Unfortunately, deficit data releases in a highly charged political environment do not seem to lend themselves to sober discussion.
And the Office for National Statistics and the government-funded What Works Centre for Wellbeing, both partners of the Happy City Initiative, have become ever bolder in their endorsements of alternative prosperity metrics.
The technology is similar to what a lesser-funded competitor Card.io already has in place.
There are a number of issues that Corbyn's comments raise, not just about the free market, but about what a publicly-funded model might imply for startups — which are (in theory!) for profit and part of a large push to boost entrepreneurship and small businesses.
