A little over two months ago I gave a keynote at the Just a Click Away Conference in Vancouver. The conference was a gathering for legal information and education experts – for example the excellent people that provide legal aid. My central challenge to them was thinking about how they could further collapse the transaction [...]
Entries from April 2011
Just a Click Away Keynote Slides
Why Does Election Canada Hate Young People?
This weekend the New York Times had an interesting article about how the BBC and other major media organizations are increasingly broadcasting new television episodes simultaneously around the world. The reason? The internet. Fans in the UK aren’t willing to wait months to watch episodes broadcast in the United States and vice versa. Here a [...]
Back to Reality: The Politics of Government Transparency & Open Data
A number of my friends and advocates in the open government, transparency and open data communities have argued that online government transparency initiatives will be permanent since, the theory goes, no government will ever want to bear the political cost of rolling it back and being perceived as “more opaque.” I myself have, at times, [...]
Canadian Real Estate Association Talk and Slides
A few months ago the Canadian Real Estate Association’s (CREA) board invited me to speak to their board about open/platform strategies and the future of the real estate industry. Last week I was invited back to give a similar talk at their annual general meeting in Ottawa. I had a great time at both conferences [...]
Developing Community Management Metrics and Tools for Mozilla
Background – how we got here Over the past few years I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about how we can improve both the efficiency of open source communities and contributors experience. Indeed, this was the focus, in part, of my talk at the Mozilla Summit last summer. For some years Diederik Van [...]
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