Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
XML-Dumping and the Data Liberation Front
I am in Chamonix right now, working on my book Shaping-Network-Society. There are lots of little tidbits of insights that I have posted to this blog over the last years and so yesterday night, I had the idea of downloading … Continue reading
Distributed Leadership for Open Value Creation
Distributed leadership is an important puzzle piece for making open value creation work. The internet gives us the tools to create open value, but that does not mean we will all be great at using them. In the following MIT-lecture, … Continue reading
The Long Telegram of the 21st Century
There are not many instances when a governmental memo shaped the political philosophy of a generation. Clearly Kennan’s Long Telegram comes to mind: The ‘Long Telegram’ was sent by George Kennan from the United States Embassy in Moscow to Washington, … Continue reading
Government 2.0 Barcamp Berlin
The countdown has started for the Government 2.0 Barcamp in Berlin (August 27/28). Join us, because the event can radically transform our thinking about public adminstration and government in the 21st Century. The German interior ministry and other policy makers … Continue reading
The Logic of Open Value Creation
In 2009 we are confronted with new public policy and management approaches in mediated policy initiation and formulation (Obama’s Open Government Initiative), distributed intelligence gathering (the US intelligence communities Intellipedia), crowdsourcing of accountability (The Guardian’s British Parliament invoice scandal platform), … Continue reading
The Hyper-Reflective Web: Revisiting My last 20 Tweets
As we are realizing that network society is contingent on technology, but not on specific technologies (such as email, friendster, myspace, facebook, twitter), we are learning to work and play across and beyond specific social media. For me, the integration … Continue reading
Network Society and the Futures of Modernity
I just spent the day at the Futures of Modernity Symposium in Munich, held in honor of Ulrich Beck, the grand sociologist and author of Risk Society (1992). The idea of the event was: Throughout the world, contemporary societies are … Continue reading
Discussing the IDC Framework: Ideation, Deliberation, and Collaboration
as we are learning to use social media in organizations, we overestimate some aspects of this new approach and are confused about others: What is new, what is not? What is hype, what is real? Therefore, it is a time … Continue reading
Strategizing Radical Transparency
Sometimes very simple ideas are counter-intuitive. Radical transparency clearly is one of them. Let me define the concept, ask why one would want (not) to go “radically transparent,†and how to implement the strategy. What is radical transparency? Radical transparency … Continue reading
The Politics of Open Sourcing Governance
Carl Malamud is a public domain advocate heading public.resource.org. His approach is the publication of public domain information from local, state, and federal government agencies. Over the years the publication of governmental data has become a surprisingly lucrative business for … Continue reading
