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'The Virtual Revolution': Argentina

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I recently returned to the UK from a trip to Argentina. I had been invited to speak about The Virtual Revolution, the television series I presented for BBC2 2010 by the OSDE Foundation, the community arm of the country's largest health care provider. While there, I had the opportunity to learn a bit more about the country and what is motivating their technology industry.… more

Be.App: Towards Facilitating Curiosity

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Many people are talking about (and creating) better ways to do public education. There are amazingly innovative ideas happening. However incredible, they aren't currently equitable; they aren't accessible to all. Imagine if rather than waiting to scale these ideas, we focus on scaling each individual.… more

Understanding Digital Civics

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Last week, I gave a lecture titled “The Emergence of Digital Civics” at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. I was in South Australia to give another lecture, a joint lecture with Dr. Genevieve Bell of Intel in memory of her friend James Tizard. I hope to write up the talks Genevieve and I gave, but since I had detailed notes for my civics lecture, I’ve worked them into a blog post.… more