Just a short article to share some considerations, as I saw that also in my country of birth (Italy) communicating via Internet is becoming an alternative direct-to-the-people-and-bypass-the-media channel.
Certainly inspired by the recent live broadcast and open letter during the discussion of the health reform in the US Congress.
This article is focused on information technology, security, and monitoring the flow of your IPR beyond your firewall.
Technical? Yes. But I will try to make it understandable for a non-technical audience (the one that actually could use some of the ideas).
The concept? More than an article, a simple sharing of a potential issue and its (cheap) solution.
With a side-effect: once implemented, the solution could also act as a preventive defence against yet unknown issues using the same method- overloading the “filtering”.
Why now?
Over the week-end I was “testing the waters” inside an online community, to see if it would be a worthwhile effort to resurrect a security software/platform that I started creating at the end of the 1980s, to fill my (pre-Internet) travel time.
I found quite interesting the constant stream of books and articles about how Internet is challenging communication processes- albeit a little bit too long on hype, and too short on substance.
I am no real theorist- cultural anthropology and archaeology were some of my hobbies as a teenager.
But the inspiration for this short article comes from [...]
If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.
Following the guidelines that I described in a previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.
PS Yes, this preamble is shared with the previous article, “Drawing maps“.
If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.
Following the guidelines that I described in the previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.
The inspiration for this article came from a twitter-war between some of my online friends, siding either with Nokia or with Apple in their fight about who should license what.
The last round? Apple asking US Courts to block the sale of Nokia products in the USA (as a side-effect of Nokia request that Apple licenses its innovations that have been allegedly used for the iPhone etc).
Inspiration, I said.
The real issue is: are our business development and FDI (foreign direct investment) attraction models, created for an industrial era, sustainable when we shift toward a knowledge economy based on the WTO legal framework?
Today is Sunday, and, as it is becoming my tradition, I enjoy watching at specific issues (e.g. political polls) from a different perspective.
In this case, biology.
Actually, the inspiration is the constant flurry of partisan bile that I read on my wall on one of my Facebook profiles (the one where, for historical reasons, I have mainly Italian connections).
From the press release: “The new Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC), which will replace the European Regulators Group (ERG), has its first meeting scheduled for 28 January 2010 in Brussels”.
This article will be conveniently short- as I think that privacy statutes and regulation should be.
If you are curious but either too young [...]
The title of this article is both a provocation and a simple statement of facts.
It is funny to observe as something that was often the most critical issue with startups and growing SMEs is now visible in sensibly larger organizations.
The issue? The temptation of reducing risk by spreading too thin across multiple line of activities.
In theory, this could mean having multiple “fall-back” opportunities, should one or more of the alternatives fail to deliver the expected results.
In reality, this implies that you have multiple initiatives to coordinate- a tough call, made even more difficult to manage if you are within a competitive environment, where external issues could require a constant refocus.
In this article, taking the lead from the first public speech of the European President, a “what if” story on the application of the streamlining approach to the external relations of the EU 27.
Considerations on PIIGS and post-colonial EU Governance
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010I was actually preparing an article on why stamping out tax evasion without first removing the main reasons why institutional corruption exists is as results-oriented as the charge of the 600.
Then, few articles attracted my attention: a statement from Theodoros Pangalos (vice-premier of Greece), an article/contribution from the Deutsche Bank, a series of commentaries on [...]
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