Tag: Open source

  • Learning to learn

    Learning to learn

    I’m late to the VUCA party – the acronym was coined in 1987 to reflect Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity1. I’ve since come across it a few times in relation to the nature of society, with particular regard to the rate of change in the digital world and the natural environment. It’s hard to disagree;…

  • Welsh Government’s approach to ‘digital’

    Welsh Government’s approach to ‘digital’

    Welsh Government’s approach to digital is being described through a series of blog posts. I’m really encouraged by this approach to a new #digitalstrategy for Wales – and for public services in particular.  I like the way that a blog is being used to describe each of the ‘missions’ which underpin the strategy, and I think…

  • Open source social media will save our democracy

    Open source social media will save our democracy

    In an opinion piece in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper, Carole Cadwalladr describes how Facebook is the virus that has enabled the catastrophes of both Brexit, and the ascension of Mr. Trump to the White House. Facebook allows lies to spread virtually unchecked. It permits those people with the most money and least scruples to disseminate falsehoods…

  • Can Wales lead the world in ‘safe’ social media?

    Social media has energised the way in which we interact, communicate, promote and understand. As with any tool, it has the ability to be used for good, or for ill. I don’t intend here to detail the way that social media is used to abuse, to pillory, to demean and to spread hate. Nor is…