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Word clouds, the images that help to see what a speech is about
About 25 years ago I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. For whatever reason, one of the things that impressed me the most was the passage in which Asimov portrays the power of (automatic?) mathematical...
View ArticleNotes from the first Personal Democracy Forum Meetup in Rome
Tuesday I took part to this meetup. The only point in the agend was getting to know each other, as a starting point for planning future activities. It was a good and productive time for me. Spending...
View ArticleA quick summary of the status of programmable ICs and Open Hardware
(this is a reformatted version, in two parts, of a paper originally proposed for a conference)Abstract: making custom integrated circuits at home or school that are more powerful and much more flexible...
View ArticleIt's time to bring FPGA design to the masses
(this is part of a paper originally proposed for a conference)Abstract: making custom integrated circuits at home or school that are more powerful and much more flexible than the popular Open Source...
View ArticleLack of public interest
(this page is part of my 2011 report on “Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices”. Please follow that link to reach the Introduction and Table of Content, but don’t forget to also check...
View ArticleIf European senior, jobless or student citizens knew that...
(this is a reformatted version of a proposal I submitted to the Gdansk Agenda website in September 2011)According to a survey published in December 2011 from the EU statistical agency, more than 100...
View ArticleSome comments on the invitation to take Open Gov out of the hands of...
Last week at ForumPA in Italy, Andrea Di Maio gave a talk on “Open Government: The Reality Behind the Myth”. He left the conference disappointed for the lack of attendees and the somewhat nasty...
View ArticleWhy Facebook cannot really help you in your neighborhood
E-democracy is working on a blog post on the Top Ten Reasons Facebook (Alone) Doesn’t Cut It for Neighbors Online. This is a partial, extra-short summary of that page, expressly written in the hope...
View ArticleWhy (for now) I am still on Facebook
There are many reasons to not be on Facebook, or to leave it. There is one though, from Digital Interface, that doesn’t make sense, as far as I am concerned. It goes more or less like this (please read...
View ArticleUrgent: help needed for a Workshop on Open Data in and from schools
I just got a request to run a workshop on “Open Data in and from Schools” next week, at the Open Data Week in Marseille.(added 2013/06/21, 07:30) IMPORTANT: please note that this is NOT, I repeat, NOT...
View ArticleWho will make the percloud happen? Traditional FOSS advocates, or everybody...
A reader of my critique to the “Linux owns the Internet” slogan just made the comment integrally copied here:I agree that some of the big companies are pure evil when it comes to user’s data, but your...
View ArticleOn people offended when asked not to use Facebook, and who will die first
In December 2013 I came across something I still consider yet another proof of two things: first, much trust in the actual competence of many “digital savvy” Internet users is misplaced; second, many...
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Trip report: Open Data in Skopje
A couple of weeks ago I was invited at the first National Open Government Partnership Forum in Skopje, Macedonia, for the panel titled “OGP-related Initiatives at the Local Level - Comparative...
View ArticleIt's time for Open Data in and from (not "ABOUT"!) schools
PrefaceThis essay expands a proposal on Open Data in schools that I made in 2011, which requires very little, if any, funding and central authorization/coordination to be implemented. As of this...
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