Archive for the ‘Engagement Civil Society’ Category

Cumbria’s DIY broadband community

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011MP for Penrith and The Border Rory Stewart, tells an important story of [1] what the 'Big Society' really means, [2] why in many way what we face is a design problem [3] that community is still situated and can ...

Wikileaks and the battle for middle earth begins

Saturday, December 4th, 2010In an erudite and compelling post John Naughton (What the attacks on Wikileaks tells us) brings from the shadows and into the foreground, some of the key issues that the current deluge of material from wikileaks has unveiled.Naughton makes 4 ...

How do you design for commercial success in our non-linear world?

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010How do you prepare for and design business success in a non-linear world? I was invited to give a keynote on how companies are beginning to discover and design new pathways/model/processes that truly harness the potential of our networked and ...

Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, sxsw keynote

Monday, November 22nd, 2010This is the slide deck from the keynote that I gave at sxsw this year. You can listen to the podcast Alan Moore sxsw keynote. And if you want more insight into Local Motors see Jay Rogers founder of Local ...

Vodafone and the indoor pirates

Monday, November 15th, 2010I while back I wrote a post called Barclays Bank, the real indoor pirates. In that post I explored the shameful way Barclays had abused tax rules, even offshoring to avoid paying the tax man a considerable sum of maoney. ...

Alice holden why putting our hearts and our hands into the land matters

Friday, November 5th, 2010Alice spoke at the Do Lectures this year: the Do team writeAlice represents a small group of young people who are choosing a career on the land. She will tell us how and why the work captured her and perhaps ...

The future of money in a non-linear world

Friday, November 5th, 2010I picked this up from Fast Company today an article about the future of money how we are reshaping a world to work based on more humane principals. This is the quiet revolution in complete contrast the rage of the ...

The networked society red pill or the blue pill?

Friday, October 29th, 2010I am wondering if this simply represents the two ways how companies and organisations embrace the networked world?

A compassionate society understands fairness

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Twenty years ago, Ernst Fehr had a seemingly sensible idea – that a deep-seated human preference for fairness might play an important role in economics. He writes,A substantial number of people exhibit social preferences, which means they are not solely ...

Our 2.0 destiny with data

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Refined Data, is the black gold of the 21st Century (SMLXL posts on data) something we have been writing about since 1995. We even wrote a book about it, as did Tony Fish (My Digital Footprint) So now The World ...

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