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Stephen Downes

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Goldie Blumenstyk follows up on a competition launched five years ago by the Robin Hood Foundation. The upshot is that there were no winners and that Robin Hood never did release the analysis of the results (indeed, they hardly even mentioned the outcome of the competition). And that's the sort of problem you get from a lot of foundation-backed efforts. "Maybe the contest wasn't designed so thoughtfully to begin with. Maybe it was too steeped in silver-bullet thinking."

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