On Controlling “Your Data”
For years now, we’ve discussed variations of the question “who owns my data?” And alas, we didn’t get very far, for several reasons: The most economic value of…
Category: digital rights
6 Investment Hypotheses for Foundations & Public Funding Organizations
A lot of institutional funding goes to established partners and towards well-understood problems. And that’s good! But it also leaves some critical blank spots that are underfunded — especially…
New offer: Remote sessions for foundation leaders and policy makers around tech & societal issues
In 2021, I’m offering remote workshops as well as discreet consultation sessions for policy makers, investment managers in foundations and public funding bodies, and public sector managers to…
Better Social Networks
We’ve been seeing regulators around the world taking a strong stance against Big Tech. From China blocking one of the world’s largest IPOs to the anti-trust moves against…
Foundations: Look at the cutting edge to maximize your impact
Summary: In this post I’ll argue that foundations should focus on bringing their expertise, contacts and resources to bear at the cutting edge where they can prevent and…
New series now live: Corona Crisis — Lessons for the Future of Cities
I’m excited to introduce a new interview series: Corona Crisis — Lessons for the Future of Cities. Over the last few months I had the opportunity to talk to…
The Ryanair Test for Technology
A classic lens to prob the potential impact of a new technology is to explore that technology from adversarial points of view: What might a criminal do with…