into the UK and establishment of its first international exportation of youth learning software. CELL’s strategy calls for continued corporate growth by increasing market share and revenue over the next five years. In line with statistics of domestic market saturation, United States sales of… ...
From its origins in ancient China, civil service has been based on the concept of “meritocracy”—a system in which political power is vested in individual people based on merit and ability, rather than wealth or social class. One of the oldest examples of a civil service based on meritocra...
citizen sensing and 'human-in-the-loop sensing' in the era of the Mobile and Social Web, and the roles these domains can play in environmental and public health surveillance and crisis/disaster informatics. We provide an in-depth review of the key issues and trends in these areas...
• Open, whereby members of a group have to feel they can add to the conversation or reporting task other people who can provide value, thus creating a meritocracy and allowing the crowdsourced community to grow while factoring 'credentials, reputation and trust' into the process; • Geo-...
cronyism is favouritism toward friends. Patronage is the practice by a governingpolitical partyof rewarding allies and supporters with important positions in exchange for their partisan loyalty. The opposite of nepotism, and of favouritism in general, ismeritocracy, in which positions and rewards are ...
meritocracy See all related content spoils system, practice in which thepolitical partywinning anelectionrewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts and with other favours. The spoils system involves political activity by public employees in support of their...