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 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 moreCan anonymity add to the quality of debate?
When engaging people on an information market the goal is to get them to speak up and retrieve the information sitting with them. This is what enables effective “information aggregation” – when all the players are contributing with their private information: information that only they have access to. This is not the norm. In a face-to-face meeting, you would watch out what your peers and superiors would say to what you say, so being the social animals we are, we watch out for inappropriateness. While being a good thing in general, this lowers the quality if a debate, as...
read moreThe FaceBook movie
I just watched the movie. Really good one. And lessons for all start-ups. Mark’s drive reminded me of a story I had heard of Michael Jordan: he used to be teased for his relatively short height at college and made him train harder to make himself excel through. Mark had very few friends. Yet with his analytic mind, this (lack of popularity) frustration made him think how the social networks work. Made him solve the problem, and probably one of the most wanted FaceBook profiles. One – or “the” – most popular guy with the measures of his society. Exclusivity,...
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