I am back from Berlin, where we were discussing at the google collaboratory how to evaluate the impact of open government. While the excitement about enterprise 2.0, government 2.0, and open government has been building, critical voices in organizations have questioned the return on investment (ROI) of such projects. 2.0 projects are often still...
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Open government is the doctrine and governance approach which holds that the business of government and state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny and oversight to improve capacity and legitimacy of collective action. It outlines a “brave new world” of doing governance. The discourse on the topic has focused...
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John Maynard Keynes once famously quipped that “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”There are four authors of the 20th Century that have become background knowledge shared across most global cultures that are keeping us from fully seeing the opportunities...
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I am sitting in my apartment at Peapody Terrace, overlooking the Charles River wrapping up my time at Harvard. Teaching in the collaborative governance program with Jack Donahue, Akash Deep, Tony Gomez-Ibanez, Chris Letts, Edgar Aragon and Mary Hilderbrand was amazingly fun. Conversations with Gerald Knaus, Jorrit de Jong and Linda Kaboolian have been...
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Yesterday, I was giving a talk at the Salzburg Business School in Schloss Urstein for Austrian business leaders. My main argument was that we should not think about 2.0 strategies, i.e. the integration of twitter, facebook, Xing into our communication strategies, but about Strategy 2.0, namely the integration of the logic of new forms...
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I am just coming back from a wonderful day of debate with Germany’s and Austria’s top policy makers in the information technology field. The conference headlined by the new German CIO was titled Information and Communication Technologies as Strategic Instruments for Government. I had been asked to give the final talk after a wonderful...
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The following video is a virtual choir of 200 voices from 12 countries that were brought together by conductor/composer Eric Whitacre. The project has all the attributes of what we expect of networked organizations: Disintermediation of space and time, asynchronous collaboration, granular well-specified tasks, and modularity. If this can be done, what else could...
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Co-authored by Sofia Elizondo and Philipp Mueller This year in our leadership course students came up with new questions that we had not heard before: why do you teach us leadership, if value is created through the collaborative efforts of open source communities? And how does your class help us to foster such collaboration?...
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It is always good to re-read Kevin Kelly’s Rules for the New Economy (article came out in 1997, the book in 1999). My Tec de Monterrey students will remember that we read it in 2003 as “contemporary political theory.” The following passage is taken from the 1999 book: A trillion dumb chips connected into...
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Kevin Kelly argues that technology is deterministic, but we have choices about how to shape it. And we find out about these choices by using technologies… Kevin Kelly is famous for reframing how we think about the web, the economy, and humanity. So make a cup of coffee and enjoy! …and while you are...
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