Archive for the ‘Engagement Politics’ Category

in the next decade we need to be radical about power; realistic about money; and relentless on innovation

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009I picked up this quote by Liam Byrne MP from Emma Mulqueeny's post on two recent reports, [1] Cabinet Office Strategy Unit Power in people’s hands: learning from the world’s best public services [2] Lords Information Committee creating connections between ...

Simon Caulkin tells us why its time to Reboot Britain

Sunday, July 5th, 2009At Reboot Britain tomorrow I make the observation that George Soros worried deeply that unfettered capitalism was creating a Cosed Society in which only one thing counted – material success. He argued for an Open Society; a new type of ...

Rebooting Britain

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009A call to arms has sounded - that hails you and I to be participants,  as Woodrow Wilson wroteThe highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of free people.That's us then!! Reboot Britain shouts from the rooftops ...

Life and commerce in the connectivity of clouds

Saturday, May 16th, 2009Nicholas Carr in his book The Big Switch describes how Edison transformed society, by being able to generate and deliver electricity through a connected network that was previously thought impossible - or had not even been though about at all.The ...

Taxing times for the real indoor pirates?

Saturday, May 9th, 2009The Guardian's Tax Gap series has highlighted the injustice of companies making huge profits yet using complex accounting arrangements to avoid tax. The root of these problems is financial secrecy in some jurisdictions (usually tax havens), which allows companies to ...

The land that broadband forgot

Saturday, May 9th, 2009Digital Britain? Digital SchmigitalLyddington in Rutland is part of the land that Digital Britain forgot: big telecoms firms have refused to lay fibre optic cable to it that would give it high-speed broadband. So its 400 residents have clubbed together, ...

Yearning for the vast and endless sea

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009I am currently working on a new publishing project - my ambition to try to find a way to look upon and think about the  world we are currently living in and try to find a way of frameworking and ...

Straight line thinkers struggle in a world of no straight lines

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009John Naughton writes about CP Snow's big idea that in the UK we were divided by "two cultures".Snow's Big Idea was that there were "two cultures" in our society - that of the "literary intellectuals" (as he called them) and ...

Bottoms up for democracy

Friday, May 1st, 2009In the past decade the ability of governments to cooperate has radically declined. Unfortunately, this decline has collided with the recognition that there are major problems that can only be addressed effectively by common international responses. This disturbing divergence of ...

Alan Moore lecture at MIT

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009A while back, I spoke at MIT - I was invited by Henry Jenkins - who runs the Comparative Media Studies course, I was given the opportunity to discuss and explore my thoughts and ideas around what drives our communications ...

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