Thursday, June 19, 2014

Ordinary everyday people!

Its noticeable in the last year that across the political and media elite the idea that people have to listen to and respect the ordinary everyday people of a country is important. For anyone who has ever worked in a local community and deal with some of the most needy, these people are the same as the rest as us, they want the same for their kids. The way to support and build their aspiration and capability and to allow them the dignity of a voice and independence while knowing the support is there is not rocket science.
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/understanding-europes-white-working-class-communities?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=wwc_ads_062014
Im glad others on all sides are waking up to this, all lives are of equal value!

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

DfID Gets a Failing Grade for its Private Sector Work | Center For Global Development

".............DfID’s management would be well-served to read a 2011 blog post  from David McKenzie, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost researchers on private sector development. David cites a 2010 IFC report which argues: “We know that it takes more than volume to meet the needs of the poor. That is why we carefully target our resources, selecting where our financing and advice can be deployed most effectively. And we set measurable goals to gauge our impact, and improve our performance. In 2009, our clients provided 2.2 million jobs, including nearly 514,000 in the manufacturing and services sectors.”  David says “clearly this is in no way a measure of impact, and presenting it as such is both disappointing to both researchers working on credible measures of the impacts of different projects, as well as to the readers who are being presented this information as if it is in any way informative about the effects of the World Bank Group’s work.”..........."


DfID Gets a Failing Grade for its Private Sector Work | Center For Global Development


Interesting perspective, balancing the different approaches and having open governance of the process is critical everywhere!

Monday, June 16, 2014

Change leader, change thyself | McKinsey & Company

Change leader, change thyself | McKinsey & Company

Friday, June 13, 2014

A Ranking of the Most Entrepreneurial Corporations

If this was right it still need "BIG" in front of the word "corporation" or company!




A Ranking of the Most Entrepreneurial Corporations#.U5dKhaqIPTM.twitter#.U5dKhaqIPTM.twitter

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Elon Musk blows your mind and grows your triple bottom line!

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/12/5804122/tesla-opens-patents-to-all

From Zip2 to PayPal to SpaceX to Tesla and SolarCity Elon Musk is. True leader of the 21st century. My blog has covered him for over 8 yrs, I'm proud of that!

Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 vs Web 4.0 – A bird’s eye on the evolution and definition | Flat World Business

This is a nice simplified view on the evolution I have often referred to over the last decade of this blog.


Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 vs Web 4.0 – A bird’s eye on the evolution and definition | Flat World Business


I visualise this past, present and future through my own experience of life and technology as do others like on this link.


Other reference before from TBLee etc can do this more justice at a wider and technical level but others can do it more justice when they talk about the big issues for people in this world, ie around education, health, food, social justice, law and order, governance, stewardship, climate or whatever your thing is.


For me its been a simple jouney - computers in the 80's, browser in the 90's, human social communication in the 2000's and now collaboration and interaction in the 2010's . We have moved from Computers that just used to be about bits and bites and simple programs and number, to becoming more text and visual which then led to the web becoming more graphic with the Browser and then more interactive with Social media to now being more Collaborative with the "cloud and crowd" extending further the human-machine interrelationship of "the internet of things" and the CONTEXT of content, people and things. (Note: it worth pausing just to toss in the arrival that we now take for granted of: the memory stick, the mobile phone and GSM, the dongle, the wifi, the camera,mic and GPS all adding to portability, mobility, location based services and all!!)


All this for me is interesting at a technical level but more important at a human and economic level and as a long term "Triple Bottom Liner" linking responsibility to people, planet and profit for all. The challenges are now to unite people further and to unite technology for the good of everyone, avoiding exclusion and embracing inclusion. MOOC's are just one example for me, life long learning, open and free, self paced, generous and participatory. I caution it a little with what else goes on around towards a autodidactic world which has its own issues, teachers are still crucial, formal learning cannot be replaced just complimented. Those that neglect one for the other could be a problem for themselves and others.


The changing technology is great but as a lacanian might say, the mirror phase is the real interesting bit, the way it is changing our look and gaze, our behaviour, our needs, our desire and our ability to act. There is jouissance in there!


The internet of things and BigData on through to the semantic web and Linked Data is having to keep up with the change in people, communities and society, Some tend to instantly think of it the other way round, but computers and technology are evolving because we and especially the thought and action leaders are insisting and making them change. The challenge as we go beyond web.20 and web3.0 is to make web4.0 and beyond, keeping it as technology chasing and serving us and not the other way round. Concerns for Massive systems and a 1984 type scenario or the real issue today of killer Roberts are coming to the for. This requires some real leadership of though and action at a commercial, technological but also political, philosophic and societal, perhaps even a psychoanalytical level. From futurologists and ethnographers, I know there is great progress, perhaps there is a new Freud and Jung or Lacan to emerge around human-machine and mass interactions making the planet the global-village even more useful to everyone.


The science, the philosophy the politics and economics of this is great to think about past, present and future IMHO! I for one feel its power towards #zeropoverty2030 but the real power is in the people to get us all there!!

Friday, June 06, 2014

#BecauseOfSchool

"I'm free to decide" yes and I also learnt about the chicken and egg! The foundation for dealing with all the big challenges in the world north and south of the Brandt line is health and education and dealing with both is one job. http://interestingthingsiveread.blogspot.ru/2014/05/deworming-kids-is-56-times-better-than.html www.givewell.org show well with their top3!