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Berlin Remix of the Moose
Larry Lessig gave an amazing presentation on David Post’s Jefferson’s Moose (2009) at the Heinrich-Böll Foundation in Berlin last week. Watch it! What do you think about the RW/RO argument? The Remix argument? Is change as radical as Lessig argues? … Continue reading
One Rank to Rule them All: The Politics of Benchmarking
[Guestblog by Alexander Schellong] Almost a decade ago, the EU Commission started to measure the eGovernment progress of its member states (now 27) and select other countries. Whenever the new edition is published, the survey receives a lot of media … Continue reading
Crowd-Sourcing NY 311
(reporting from the Washington CIO Exchange) 311 is the shortcut for the multi-channel citizen relationship management system of New York City. The CIO of NYC just stated at the Washington Governmental CIO Exchange that they are thinking about building a … Continue reading
Ines Mergel: Web 2.0 Enthusiasts Worth Following on Twitter
by Ines Mergel I am a Twitter enthusiast and as one of those people who do spend a lot of time online, I noticed that Twitter is one of the information channels, that help me get access to information, that … Continue reading
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: The Politics of Identity Management
I am at the Austrian/German/Mexican/US CIO Exchange in Washington DC. Today we are at the CSC world headquarter in Falls Church. We are discussing identity management. CSC set it up with the song “beyond a shadow of the doubt†and … Continue reading
Unlocking Read-Write Culture
in the last two days in NYC I had amazing conversations on how our world is transforming with three of my former students. They come at the issue from different perspectives, Sofia is in the BCG Strategy institute thinking about … Continue reading
A City that thinks like the web
Mark Surman, the executive director of the Mozilla foundation gave a talk in Toronto last November titled “a city that thinks like the web.” His argument was that opennes and participation made the web better and can make cities better … Continue reading
Fabrics of Trust
Massive/enhanced collaboration is such a new phenomena that we still do not know what it can really do for us. Are Wikipedia and Couchsurfing a small organizations because they have very few staff? Or big, because many people collaborate? Is … Continue reading
A Geeky Way to Spend Friday-Night
Tonight at 8 pm New York time, Stephen Wolfram will launch WolframAlpha life on television/webcast. You can be there from the comfort of your home and do not have to be there in person like the people waiting in line … Continue reading
What $ 2 Trillion Can Do For You
As we are watching the global stimulus packages being implemented, it makes sense to step back and reflect on comparable interventions. Germany has invested around 4% of its GDP every year since 1990 into the reconstruction of former East Germany. … Continue reading
