Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category

Euan Semple: One Man Digital Upgrade Solution for Companies

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Euan Semple's presentation at this year's DO Lectures that "rocked" according to more than one person. The DO guys writeEuan Semple is one of the few people in the world who can turn the complex world of social networking into ...

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 ...

The Do Lectures, Paula Le Dieu

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010The Do Lectures and The Do Village BlogSMLXL on copyright, open source, innovation, culture

The problem with Murdoch’s media

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Henry Porter discusses some of the key criteria as to why Vince Cable has such an important contribution to  make in controlling total media and therefore political power currently wielded by Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. This follows on ...

tattoos, identity and meaning [2]

Saturday, October 9th, 2010I am writing this post as my old friend David O'Hanlon asked a question to my post on Tattoo's, identity and meaning that I think requires a somewhat in-depth response. Patrick Skinner is a PHD student at Cambridge University, his ...

What gets you out of bed on a Monday morning?

Monday, October 4th, 2010Didier Marlier writes,Daniel relates an interesting study run by the famous M.I.T. seeking to understand the impact of financial incentives on employees’ motivation. Participants were offered low, medium or high financial reward depending on their results in a series of ...

Incubate 2.0

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5772" align="aligncenter" width="553" caption="A quote by the Austrian artist – Hundretwasser"][/caption]No matter if you are running a local incubator, building an angel network or you are in charge of an government agency for SMBs, you primary question is: How ...

Mobile money and Ian Bennett CEO and President of the Canadian Mint

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010They say life is stranger than fiction, last week Tomi Ahonen was with me in Africa, working with a world class team on the future of mobile for a client. Mobile money came up on a number of occasions, because ...

A people will only be free when their control their own communications Mr Murdoch

Sunday, September 19th, 2010The headline is a quote from Frantz Fanon someone who was recognised as an authority on post colonial rule, Fanon's statement about people, society, communication and freedom is encapsulated in the point Will Hutton makes, link to Observer story (here), ...

Journey’s in augmented reality

Sunday, September 19th, 2010Picked this post up from Layar co-founder, M. Lens-FitzGerald. Urban Augmented Realities and Social Augmentations that Matter: Talking with Bruce Sterling, Part 2The post is well worth a read, and I picked this nuggetJesse Schell described the importance of AR ...

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