Help Shape Our Common Future
Massive on-line education and collaboration are bringing forward the development of the decentralized infrastructure that society needs. I have just finished two MOOCs from the EdX Platform. The MOOC Data for Better Lives is a follow-up on the Flagship Report of the Worldbank with the same title. Download it here. The other MOOC is Fintech […]
Data Is (NOT!) The New Oil
Comparing data with oil is done, but it can lock up our thinking, imagination, and power to act. Data powers the new economy in the way that oil powers the traditional economy. But the analogy between data and oil breaks down right after that. Oil and data as raw materials have very different economic characteristics. […]
Openness and creativity with(out) law?
More citizens and entrepreneurs imagined the same innovation path for PDS services, namely a radically collaborative and open one. They found each other and started to collaborate thanks to the internet 2.0. As an entrepreneur in the recruitment business, I gathered personal data to connect to job opportunities. It became very problematic: market practices weren’t […]
Data is the fuel for the Social Contract of the 21st Century
The Tube in London is a beautiful collaborative innovation project. It applied the new techniques of the industrial revolution and had a big societal positive impact, it got its followers worldwide. London is The Underground, and The Underground is London. It became the biggest employer with a trade union that took up negotiating the distribution […]
Theory U and the (Digital) Self
The U Lab course of MIT and the Presencing Institute starts again. It is an invitation to all of us to envision our best possible self and our best possible whole and co-create it. A friend of mine started to pioneer with the learning of the Presencing Institute in 2009. Along the way, the picture […]
Not for profits, for multi profits
With Threefold’s digital twin, data compliance will become manageable and user-friendly. And at the same time, it opens up opportunities for new business modeling. Who won’t redesign processes and business models from the digital twin perspective? (I know the answer: no-one) Everyone wants to make a positive impact. It’s a human need.The time to lock […]
Community is abundance
In 1999, the internet got introduced in the business world, and Co-Inpetto started as a recruitment cabinet for IT professionals and business consultants. At its core, the recruitment business is an exchange of personal data between parties. Soon, a fork came in the road. Despite privacy laws, personal data got copied everywhere, without consent. Personal […]