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 ...
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Perhaps one of the most innovative FMCG launches anywhere - whilst others think that Buy One Get Free will suffice, Oh Well.
Tomi Ahonen, my co-author of Communities Dominate Brands provides insight into the mechanics and success of the launch. And ...
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 ...
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 ...
Monday, January 25th, 2010
My god Naomi Klein takes me back - No Logo is up there for anyone who is remotely interested in brands. And were I to draw up a time line of books I have read and how each book subsequently ...
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, ...
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist — he popularized the term “virtual reality” — wonders if the Web’s structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” is ...
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Not what you would quite expect.
Dominic Campbell from FutureGov writes
The London Datastore will see City Hall release, for the first time, huge realms of previously unavailable data for everyone to see and use free of charge. This is part of ...
Monday, January 11th, 2010
This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film)
The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...
Alan has addressed, radio, television, and conference audiences globally. His book and his articles have been published many respected magazines, journals and newspapers globally.
16th March Ballroom B. My @sxsw presentation that covers the themes and topics of The No Straight Lines Project, so come along to cheer me along, heckle or profoundly disagree with my point of view.