Archive for the ‘Government & Politics’ Category

Patrick Holden discusses food security @ Do Lectures

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows. He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago. The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Patrick Dixon on the global economy

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

David Rosenberg on building a sustainable world

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 David has emerged as a world leader in sustainable construction innovation and has lead Hycrete admixture through the very first Cradle to Cradle certification. He has participated in numerous conferences around the US and the world, including a closed panel ...

Old world new world the journey to enterprise 2.0

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT and recently wrote an article in the Financial Times, I would like to quote Andrew from the article but I can't, Copyright The Financial Times Limited ...

Humanity does not follow the straight line rule

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Jane Young has put together a very easy to understand set of thoughts that go to the very heart of of my current work. The communications revolution driven by a fundamental human need to connect and collaborate, and what that ...

The Do Lectures, the Achuar speak truth to power

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Gregor made a powerful presentation at the Do Lectures his topic the  threat to the Amazon rain forest. Harnessing the collective intelligence of the tribe, he showcases The Atwa, who embrace the state, pens and paper, GPS mapping technology, YouTube, ...

Local Motors: a business model of our times

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4729" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline"][/caption] Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source, one on open source mobility ...

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption] Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

Ecotopia

Monday, November 16th, 2009 My good friend Andy Middleton is organising an event called Ecotopia - December 4th 2009 So if you want to follow the No Straight Line rule of doing something. Get over to and get stuck in with Ecotopia. Become the change you ...