Democracy 2.0: Iceland crowdsources new constitution – Roos Jerome (June 11, 2011) Just two or three years after its economy and government collapsed, Iceland is bouncing back with remarkable strength. This week, the small island nation earned praise from foreign investors despite allowing its banks to collapse and refusing to pay back some of its […]
The New Digital Age (Book excerpt from The New Digital Age by Schmidt Eric and Cohen Jared) It’s easy to understand why governments and militaries like robots and other unmanned systems for combat: They never tire, they never feel fear or emotion, they have superhuman capabilities and they always follow orders. As Singer points out, […]
Estonia opens its digital borders Estonia has invited people to register as e-residents – a step towards a world where a person’s identity online matters just as much as their identity offline ESTONIA flung open its digital borders last week. The eastern European country invited anyone, anywhere, to open a bank account or start a […]
The New digital Age (Book excerpt from The New digital Age by Schmidt Eric and Cohen Jared) “Identity will be the most valuable commodity for citizens in the future, and it will exist primarily online. Online experience will start with birth, or even earlier. Periods of people’s lives will be frozen in time, and easily […]
Technology will win future elections David Plouffe, President Obama’s top political and campaign strategist and the mastermind behind the winning 2008 and 2012 campaigns, wrote in a forward looking op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that future campaigns will increasingly be fought out on mobile devices as much as television and computers. He cited, how […]
Estonia’s showcasing The digital society www.e-estonia.com Today’s governments are, for the most part, incapable of dealing effectively and justly with the complex global challenges of the 21st Century. Governance failures will not only cause suffering for today’s citizens, but will ripple through time, constraining the future for generations to come. Revolutions have recently ruptured decades-old […]
