Archive for the ‘Engagement Organisations’ Category

So you wanna see the Rally Fighter @ sxsw

Friday, March 12th, 2010 I think I am becoming slightly American. Once upon a time I would have flinched at the word "awesome" or "awesomeness". I have been called awesome myself - but that was many years ago when I gave a speech in ...

Musings on the common spirit of distrust

Friday, March 12th, 2010 Taken from a post written in 2008, [caption id="attachment_5220" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/85593720@N00/2827812861"][/caption] Today we challenge the authority of our world, media, organisations and even governments via a whole set of activities that can be networked and grassroots. It is done via co-creation, ...

Silo busting the corporation

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 I met Jeff Saperstein last year, the first time at Reboot Britain Conference where I was presenting, and then shortly after in Cambridge. I was very interested in what he had to say, and so we stayed in touch. Recently Jeff ...

21st Century economics: No straight Lines

Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Umar Haque is not a shy retiring wall flower and his recent post confirms that observation - but I don't disagree with his perspective either. And this is because in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Perez writes, about technologies cluster and ...

Coalition of the willing

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Coalition of The Willing’ is a film that discusses how we can use new internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social ...

Book review: monkeys with typewriters

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 A year or so ago, I get a call from a lady called Jemima Gibbons who wanted to meet me to discuss how one went about writing a book - so we meet up in my favourite haunt at RIBA ...

Grow VC the Kiva of tech start ups

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 I am proud to introduce Grow VC which has some great heritage behind it. Not only the creators but also projects like Kiva, Artistshare, Galaxy zoo and Local Motors (More on networked economics). Here is the context, 80% of the growth ...

The story of txtEagle and the networked organisation

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 We posted about txtEagle recently here Nathan Eagle, explains his extraordinary story, and, the extraordinary story of how our world is being transformed by mobile communications. Nathan's personal fascination is the African continent he talks about how Mpesa and SMS ...

Networked government – could reboot Britain

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 CFA is the latest wave in the growing government 2.0 movement, joining the ranks of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Data.gov site and innovation contests like Apps for Democracy and Apps for America, where citizens can create shared applications using public-sector ...

The future of work=TxtEagle

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 By the end of the month, a company called txteagle will be the largest employer in Kenya. The firm, started in its original form in 2008 by a young computer engineer named Nathan Eagle and, as of this coming June, ...