Denmark’s challenges solved on WeDecide
Our project 100Dage with Dagbladet Information – a prominent, radical Danish newspaper, that was founded during the Second World War by Nazi-critics – has resulted in 250+ proposals in 10 most pressing challenges of Denmark. The work was carried out by 1000+ brilliant citizens whose opinions have been visited by more then 25000 others during the 100 days. The platform closed to further discussion can be found here, and accepted proposals can be downloaded here (pdf). Anton Steinø (photo) has been one of the top 5 influencers on 100Dage, impressive to know he is only 16 and had...
read moreAn online think-tank using Wedecide for policy-making
Last week, Denmark’s most intellectual and progressive newspaper Information Avis launched a public think-tank in using Wedecide, called 100dage – after the first 100 days of Denmark’s new government at their job. The motive is to provide them with citizen-made solutions to most pressing challenges of the country. Essentially, Information is using its print media to attract its community of readers in order to generate proposals responding to challenges the country is facing, such as “How can Denmark provide quality public schooling for all?” Participants log on...
read moreNew fronts for state-funding of entrepreneurs
We should be bitter.. A lot of our money – that is the money of the state – that is put up to support new projects, is going down the drain. It is because we are not disseminating this money transparently, nor wisely. Let’s take Teknogirisim Fund, set up by Turkey’s Industry Ministry (Sanayi Bakanligi), which translates to “technology start-up funding” distributing USD ±30 million this year. Each satisfactory project (mostly in ICT but not only) receives 75% of its 12-month budget funded up to 100k TL in total in subsidies (±65k USD). Last week, the...
read moreDone with Facebook revolution.. What next?
Wael Ghonim and Julian Assange may be the two big names behind the Egyptian revolution. The two were excellent in interpreting the fascinating power of digital networks into social networks, and networks of actual human interactions every day on the streets of Egypt. Julian’s Wikileaks topped people’s (im)patience for the dictatorship, while Ghonim seems to have dripped a nice little last drop in the tension building up. What is next? Should Egypt settle for a new powerful one-man-show? Are people ready to delegate their rights to governance to a new regime in formation led by...
read morePutting the soul back to national and organizational economics
Gary Hamel wrote a great article about the lack of purpose and values in the corporate world at the Management Innovation Exchange. This post reminded me of a comment, I think by Drucker, that money is like oxygen for corporations. You cannot live without it but noone lives just to breathe. I think the industrial age became the dominant metaphor in our ways of thinking, especially in the business world and the business world became focused on metrics, processes to the degree of neglecting personel and intra-personal qualities, which are in a sence harder to develop because they are more...
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