November 21st, 2009 on
I posted yesterday about my remarks to the 5th Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Malmo, Sweden. The first wave of democracy established elected and accountable institutions of governance, but with a weak public mandate and an inert citizenry. Citizens listened to speeches, debates, and television...
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November 20th, 2009 on
I gave a speech today to the 5th Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Malmo, Sweden. My message was that governments should not let the world’s current economic crisis delay much-needed government reinvention around the Internet and other digital technologies. Instead, the current crisis makes public-sector...
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November 2nd, 2009 on
I was interviewed by 2 Net Geners for Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, one of Germany’s largest circulation dailies. I enjoyed the interview and below is a pretty good translation. The original can be found: http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/488882 “For you the internet is like breathing” Those who are...
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September 30th, 2009 on
Mark your calendars! This year’s Get Lit event in Toronto will be held on Thursday, October 22nd at the Gladstone Hotel. Get Lit is foremost a reading series, featuring a diverse cast of Canadian celebrities who share a piece of writing with the audience...
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September 28th, 2009 on
I have a group project. Anthony D. Williams, my co-author of Wikinomics, and I are writing a new book about rebuilding the world for an age of networked intelligence. We need to redesign all of our institutions for the global, knowledge economy. The global...
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September 24th, 2009 on
The U.S. Department of Education has released a report comparing traditional face-to-face classroom instruction to learning supplemented or completely replaced by online learning. The conclusion: “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same...
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September 24th, 2009 on
President Barack Obama stuck to the script almost word-for-word in his address to schoolchildren across the nation earlier this month. Critics of the speech complained that Obama would try to indoctrinate schoolchildren with his “socialist ideology.” Some said they would keep their children home....
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September 24th, 2009 on
My good friend and mentee Michael Furdyk has just posted an excellent brief video on the Globe and Mail website discussing how companies can reach out to the Net Generation. I’ve worked with Michael for more than a dozen years. Our first project was...
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September 24th, 2009 on
The Boy Scouts have released a new version of their famous 475-page Boy Scout Handbook that still includes tips on how to build a campfire but adds new material on how to surf safely when out in the World Wide Web. For the first...
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September 24th, 2009 on
Information technology in the private sector didn’t make a substantive difference until users realized IT’s real purpose was to do more than simply digitize existing processes. IT enabled new processes and new business models. I was reminded of this when reading an interesting story...
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September 24th, 2009 on
In a speech during the summer to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, President Barack Obama cited a Manhattan high school, Bard High School Early College, as one example of the type of innovation in education that should be encouraged across...
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September 24th, 2009 on
In the wake of Walter Cronkite’s death, time.com asked readers to vote for today’s most trusted newscaster. The decisive winner, with 44 percent of the vote, was Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s pull-no-punches “The Daily Show.” This was well ahead of the 29...
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