A smart city and responsive governance report for the German government
I’m super excited to be commissioned to co-auther a chapter for a report for WBGU, the German government’s Advisory Council on Global Change, with Dr. Christoph Bieber. We’ll…
Category: How to work the internets
Featured in BrandEins
BrandEins is one of these rare publications that – starting the moment it appeared – made the media landscape a little better just by virtue of being there.…
Opening up expert knowledge for social change
tl;dr How can we make traditionally expensive expert knowledge available for free for social causes and communities in need? Sharing professional advice freely & openly I make my…
The most interesting indie R&D shops
For future reference, a short list of some of the more interesting independent companies, studios, design and dev shops that are engaged in invention, prototyping or research…
The year of the connected device, but consumer IoT startups face big challenges
Over on the BoschSI Internet of Things blog, I contributed a short piece on the challenges that startups in the consumer IoT space are facing. There is hardly…
Publishing a book! Connected: Understanding the Internet of Things
Together with the long time friend and lovely collaborator Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, I’m working on a book: Connected: Understanding the Internet of Things. We’re on a pretty tight schedule…
An Entrepreneur-in-Residence program for non-VC firms?
Wherever you look you see corporations trying to get closer to startups, variably in terms of reputation, release cycles, culture or reputation. One of the more common ways…