Alejandro@Oxford

For some time, my interests have turning towards the direction of public transparency and collaborative government. I started my PhD at Oxford with the intention of writing a thesis on foreign policy and the Internet (!), and now I find myself absorbed by four things: freedom of information, open data, open government (the three legs [...]

For all of those like me that couldn’t go this year OpenTech in London, you can access their good quality audio recordings on their website. For those that don’t know what OpenTech is, let me copy&paste their descriptionOpen Tech 2009 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, democracy and [...]

Great video about a guy who dances unstoppably in Sasquatch Music Festival and makes everybody dance. Interesting to see the collective action going on. From the guy alone, one guy joins him, a couple of more, until all of a sudden everything breaks loose! The creator, the early adopters, the followers and the laggards.

On Saturday 11 July, fifteen people gathered in an isolated field in Sowton, Exeter (UK) to celebrate Andrew Poole’s 30th birthday with a barbecue and some beers. Before they plugged the music in, at around 4 pm “eight officers with camouflage pants and body armor jumped out of their vehicles and ordered everyone out about [...]

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Jon Worth says in one of his latest blog posts on a supposedly generational gap between political leaders and younger political “activists”.
How can political parties accept risk takers, leaders, people with drive, people with ideology, and bind them into a party structure rather than making them annoyed and demoralised? For me that’s the central question, [...]

The digital book is in its infancy. Yet I think at the end of this year we’ll see new developments that might change how books are commercialized. Although books are in many ways different than music, they are also susceptible of digitization and sharing, and therefore they are somehow affected by the extension of Internet [...]