Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
franchising the charles river?
Today the major German newspaper wrote an interesting article about public policy schools in Germany. You might want to read it (even if it is in German). We did pretty good. Also check out what the blogosphere has to say … Continue reading
Web 2.0 and Government
yesterday at the Government 2.0 workshop in the ESPP Alexander Schellong and I discussed the impact of web 2.0 on government. Web 2.0 is a tag used to talk about technologies and practices that allow the aggregation of user-generated content … Continue reading
playing around with the eepc
if you cannot decide if you want to participate in the OLPC give-one-get-one campaign or just buy an eeepc, check out the html-based demo. It is a amazing to play with and allows you to see if you would be … Continue reading
Mind The Gap: Copyrights, Copynorms, and the Panopticon
John Theranian’s article Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap is required reading. As a potentially infringing teaser… In the late afternoon, John takes his daily swim at the university pool. Before he jumps into the water, he discards … Continue reading
Martin Luther and Critical Perspectives on Global Public Policy
Joerg Friedrichs and other scholars have been using the term “new medievalism” to offer an alternative framework to think the global in today’s world. He analyzes in his article, the meaning of new medievalism (EJIR 2001) (..) the apparent contradictions … Continue reading
Law and Public Policy in the German-Speaking World
To understand law-driven public policy making in German-speaking European countries, one has to reflect the traditions in legal thinking. Kristoffel Grechenig and Martin Gelter (University of St. Gallen and Vienna University) are doing this in The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal … Continue reading
Can we please get rid of advertising and start the conversation?
Advertising is an atavism of modernity that is financing the expansion of network society. Check out Doc Searls at LinuxJournal.
Do we need Folksonomies in Mature Organizations?
Folksonomies work when a critical number of participants are willing to invest time into improving the framework of their work environment, without any direct payoff. Folksonomies can be generated as the an unintended consequence of individual action or as the … Continue reading
Global Public Policy Making II (OLPC MX)
Theoretically, in network society we expect public policy to be made by policy entrepreneurs that identify and define challenges, create coalitions of the willing and are responsible towards the outcomes they generated. A group of EGAP students that were introduced … Continue reading
Peer Producing Global Public Policy I (The Manifesto)
Remember the Wikipedia (peer-produced) definition of peer production: Commons-based peer production is a term coined by Harvard‘s Law professor Yochai Benkler to describe a new model of economic production in which the creative energy of large numbers of people is … Continue reading
