Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Digital Britain loses the plot

Monday, July 27th, 2009Recently a conference took place to discuss Lord Carters report on Digital BritainA while ago I asked David Bollier who had worked with the Aspen Institute for 15 years to help draft a response to the Digital Britain report - ...

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 ...

How free are we – really?

Friday, July 17th, 2009Leo Plaw, who works on the SMLXL web presence, is also a bit of a thinker and an Aussie. He's all good things and raises in this post some very interesting points about how free are we really?He writesThese same ...

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 ...

Reboot asks: from social media to social good?

Monday, June 29th, 2009In 1997 Charles Handy wrote a book called the Hungry Spirit, in it he askedCan Capitalism be made more decent and its instrument business work more obviously for the good of all, everywhere?Handy to my mind sits alongside Ivan Illich ...

Reboot asks: what is the highest form of efficiency?

Monday, June 29th, 2009According to Woodrow Wilson it thespontaneous cooperation of free people.Lee Bryant in last weeks Independent – asked the question, whether people power can reboot Britain?Reboot is a event happening next Monday [6th July @ the Savoy Place] exploring what and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Consumed, nickel and dimed in the land that is their land

Saturday, April 4th, 2009There is no room at the mall.The hope and expectation was that this mass consumption would be the way to deliver many long-sought American goals of greater equality, more democracy, if all Americans prospered and were on a similar footing ...

Barclays bank, the real indoor pirates

Saturday, March 28th, 2009Recently I posted The indoor pirates @ Communities Dominate Brands, of particular relevance... A friend of mine interviewed the No.4 of a high street bank. This bankers view, was that governments need banks, and so recent circumstances won't change much. You ...

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