This article is not about science or technology (albeit there will be some references).
It is about cultural heritage- and its transmission.
Trying to use our technology to move beyond the mere literacy or numeracy, and adding instead cultural awareness.
While preserving our cultural diversity for future generations.
While reading articles on the first Euro crisis, something unique about post-Lisbon EU kept being quite visible.
Most countries have “just” to sell their foreign policy to their own country and to their “foreign buyers”.
In the EU, the number of constituencies to take care of is variable, where “n” ranges from an handful to few dozens (each member country plus each EU institution- sometimes also with ripple-effects in member countries).
This short article has already been partially diffused in one of my weekly “broadcasts” yesterday evening, so I will apologize if you already heard some of its content before.
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).
Next week I will start publishing some “what if” segments derived from my previous Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI article.
As today is Sunday, before starting with the first what-if in this series, I wanted just to share some writing ideas.
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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