In the past few weeks the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) and the Canadian International Council (CIC) both launched new visions for Canada’s foreign policy. Reading each, I’m struck by how much overlap both documents have with Middle to Model Power, the Canada25 report written 5 years ago by over 500 young Canadians from across [...]
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Digital Economy Strategy: Why we risk asking the wrong question
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise…. – John Tukey I’ve always admired Paul Erdos, the wandering mathematician who I first learned about by reading his obituary in the Economist back in 1996 (and later learned was a friend [...]
Connectedness, Volleyball and Online Communities
I’m currently knee deep into Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Christakis & Fowler and am thoroughly enjoying it. One fascinating phenomenon the book explores is how emotions can spread from person to person. In other words, when you are happy you increase the odds your [...]
The Real-time Politician – It’s about filters (and being unfiltered)
The other day Mathew Ingram, in response to articles about the president’s one year anniversary asked What Are the Implications of a Real-Time, Connected President? More specifically: Is a real-time connected president more likely to think for himself and look outside the usual Washington circles for ideas or input, or is being connected just a giant [...]
Making Open Source Communities (and Open Cities) More Efficient
My friend Diederik and I are starting to work more closely with some open source projects about how to help “open” communities (be they software projects or cities) become more efficient. One of the claims of open source is that many eyes make all bugs shallow. However, this claim is only relevant if there is [...]
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