Posts Tagged ‘jurisdiction’

Cyber-jurisdiction and the cloud: the smartphone case

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

A short commentary to share (again) some doubts and ideas about what I could define… the separation of the Cyber-church and the State.

Geolocalization

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Geolocalization

If you visited websites recently, often you found that the website was tailored not just to your our language settings, but also to your own location.

As an example, search websites now have “virtual” country search sites- and, of course, spammers too.

While companies redesigned their (physical) logistics chain, often the value of geolocalization (i.e. pinpointing your location) is not fully accessible to all the people involved, from customers, to affiliates, to partners.

In this short article, a couple of questions and some ideas- with examples from both online and offline activities.

Taxing the digital economy:blueprint for a virtual nation?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

This short article (1000 words) tries to see some potential side-effects of the digital economy

Certainly, I am neither the first nor the last.

But it is a little bit disheartening to see how the discussions proceed as if reality had been frozen when the discussions began.

Probably SecondLife was the first case where a real-world entity had to sustain a virtual world currency to avoid a crisis of confidence.

And who should regulate these neo-financial virtual entities?

A short article.

As usual, with more questions than answers.

AGB2009: technological disintermediation

Monday, October 19th, 2009

This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: technological disintermediation

BACKGROUND

Technology and tecnological innovation are not anymore what they used to be.

ABSTRACT

Most of the publications on the “new” or “soft” economy talk only about the positive side-effects of this “crowdsourcing” of innovation, but..

In the past, user-generated innovations required skills, or money, or both, e.g. in “tuning” the engine of you car.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

For this article, not really a bibliography, but a “mini-library”.