Amira Shahla with Berivan Esen and Anni Rowland-Campbell Intersticia is thrilled to announce that we now have a second Doughton Fellow following on from Chemist Berivan Esen. The Doughton Scholarship is for...
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...
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,...
After months of hard work on the part of our Trustees, Fellows and wonderful legal team of Abbie Rumbold, Suhan Rajkumar and Darren Chin of Bates Wells Braithwaite - who...
“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...
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. (Peter Drucker) Professor...
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...
(Quote from David Brin) On 1st March Ariana Huffington posted an article entitled "The Great Awakening" which stated that For most of the internet’s young life, the assumption of virtue was built...
A version of this was written for NPC's "State of the Sector" report. What do we mean by “digital”? In his book The Code Economy [1] Philip E. Auerswald talks about the...
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...
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...
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