Archive for the ‘Government & Politics’ Category

True democracies in open space

Saturday, February 19th, 2011True democracies need open public spaces, that are shared, where people can meet as equals, writes John Keane in The Life and Death of Democracy. It is no surprise then that we see the square recently as the symbol of ...

Did the church see Gutenberg coming?

Thursday, February 17th, 2011Social Media or Social Business?Did the Church see Gutenberg coming? I asked this question recently at an event on innovation and disruption. Those of you that are fans of Blackadder, let me use the comedic twinning of Rowan Atkinson as ...

My East End is no longer our East End

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Why do people quest for connection and communication? Why is the world gone all social? Why does social communication dominate? Why is everyone writing about it? And why is everything that we define as 2.0 defined by participatory culture and ...

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 ...

Competing to Innovate

Monday, January 24th, 2011This is my summing up in the MIT/Sloan British Consul's event Competing to Innovate.Compete to Innovate smlxlView more presentations from Alan Moore.

Innovation, innovation, innovation

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Here is the presentation that I gave on innovation and entrepreneurship at the HP's HQ in Cupertino, organised as part of the Global Entrepreneur week

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 ...

Jay Rogers of Local Motors @the Do Lectures

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010The Do Lectures guys and gals write, Jay Rogers is a modern day Henry Ford. He is going to change the car industry. He has created a community company that will spark a revolution in this capital and time intensive ...

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. ...

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