Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
Humanistic Realpolitik for a Digital Age
This week on Wednesday, I had the honor to speak to the European Parliament in a conference titled “politicians in a communications storm”. The question the parliamentarians were grappling with was how complex humanistic ideas such as the European project … Continue reading
Realpolitik nach unserem digitalen Fukushima
Aus der Verbannung in San Casciano schrieb Machiavelli am 10. Dezember 1513 an Francesco Vettori, dass er die Zeit genutzt habe ein kleines Werk zu verfassen, das den Namen de principatibus trage. In ihm gehe er der Frage nach „was … Continue reading
Mastering complexity – my dinner speech in Heiligendamm
This is my Prezi from the Heiligendamm event
Tweeting the Revolution
Britta Glennon from the Chicago Policy Review, on our Oxford Internet Policy article: …Philipp Mueller and Sophie van Huellen, in their article “A Revolution in 140 Characters: Reflecting on the Role of Social Networking Technologies in the 2009 Iranian Post-Election … Continue reading
Reflecting Recent Readings
The festive season allowed me to reflect on some of the books that I have been reading in 2012. I have been trying to put my finger on the relationship between our day-to-day experiences and the more fundamental transformations our … Continue reading
…on my way to Berlin
…this week will be interesting. On Tuesday, I get to speak at Germany’s premier conference on the transformation of public administration, Effizienter Staat 2012 (#estaat12). In the afternoon, I’ll present my new book machiavelli.net – strategy for our open world … Continue reading
#OpenGov in Germany, Quo Vadis?
On Tuesday, we hosted a Japanese governmental delegation at CSC in Berlin. They were on a fact-finding mission to Brussels, Berlin, Paris and London to understand European developments in Open Government. Several of Germany’s deepest thinkers on Open Government willingly … Continue reading
Strategy for the N2N World
as I am preparing my keynote for the opening of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute on Internet and Society kickoff conference, I have been reflecting on the open statecraft research program. Five years ago, in 2006, O’Reilly (who earlier had … Continue reading
A quick note on the state of the art on the art of opening the state
25 years ago, in 1986, Fritz Kratochwil and Gerald Ruggie reminded us of the historicity of the state, by pointing at the hypocrisy of theories of statehood that assumed ontological inter-subjectivism (imagined communities), while at the same time positing epistemological … Continue reading
