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…
Category: digital rights
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…
New Report: “Smart Cities: A Key to a Progressive Europe”
I’m happy to share that a report is out today that I had the honor and pleasure to co-author. It’s published jointly by the Foundation for European Progressive…
Trustmarks, trustmarks, trustmarks
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:08. A couple of…
App In, Driver Out: Why Digital Concierge Services aren’t Quite the Future
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:07. Two things, side…
Cost-benefit analysis, Data-Driven Infrastructure edition
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:04. It’s a common…