A first glimpse at the new German government roadmap
Germany has a new governing coalition—and with this 3 party combination of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens (B90/Grüne) and Liberals (FDP), it’s a first. I was skeptical about the…
Tag: politics
S07E15 of Connection Problem: A New Chapter of Big Tech Antitrust
Note: This is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter in an attempt to both to make it easier to read this via RSS feed and to have this in…
Welcome to the Post-Social Media Era
The last decade was the era of Social Media: Community-driven platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and even LinkedIn have completely changed the way we interact with, and perceive, the…
Challenges for governance in the Internet of Things
I’d like to share 3 short stories that demonstrate just a few of the challenges of governance for IoT. 1) In the fall of 2016 Facebook, Twitter, Netflix…
Net Neutrality Begone: Startups, stay out of Europe (for now)
A few days ago, the EU passed legislation around Net Neutrality that in name should have guaranteed net neutrality, but in the legal text has such huge loop…
The key to a truly smart city is decentralization
Earlier this year, as preparation for some research & policy input for the German government, we dug into the current state of research around connected cities. The lense…
I’m becoming an e-citizen of Estonia
I had been vaguely aware of Estonia’s initiative e-Estonia, in which people from around the world could sign up for a sort of e-citizenship for this most technologically…