Sounds like an illegal drug-related market doesn't it? Actually, it is the Online Program Industry and in the moments after I hit publish on the preceding post, I saw a tweet about 2U, the putative pioneer of the industry. I got cranky as I tend to do when I see yet more dialog about this [...]
More on humanitarian tech
A while back I shared the abstract from my recent submission to IEEE's Global Humanitarian Tech Conference. You can see the original post here. I learned this week that it has been accepted. Hoping that this year's conference really will be in person. For more information on timing (September 8-11), place (Santa Clara University), and [...]
The soul of innovation
This thought that tech architecture might be rooted in something other than way cool technology or wealth creation rolls around in my mind all the time. It informed the due diligence methodology I recently proposed for IEEE's Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. It also relates to my memoir project covering my experience and insights as a [...]
Humanitarian Tech and Crypto
IEEE is preparing for another Global Humanitarian Technology Conference and I have submitted again. I billed this as Part II of the technology due diligence methodology for humanitarian contexts. Here is my new abstract which combines elements of the first GHTC talk I delivered and my participation in the Web 3 panel of January. The [...]
Web3, Meaningful Framework or Rebranding
I was invited to participate in a panel discussion about Web3. This is the title: "Governance and Web 3.0: Sense and Sensibility." It struck me as a clever enough title. The details were a bit complicated. It was a virtual meetup with over 80 attendees. I suspect most were enthusiastic about the Blockchain/Crypto angle on [...]
Data Governance and Workflows
It's hard to say whether workflows or Venn diagrams are my favorite. Lately, it seems to have been workflows non-stop. It probably has something to do with my background in music. I like the flows of melodic lines. In any event, below is a workflow for a data governance framework that brings each of these [...]
What makes technology humanitarian?
This is the month when I deliver my very first talk at IEEE's Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. Here is the abstract: The United Nations addresses economic objectives in SDG 8 (promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth) and SDG 10 (reduce inequality within and among countries to achieve greater participation in economic growth). A 2017 UN [...]
I coined the term Open Technology
It was late 2004. I had been asked to make the idea of a small business incubator in Beaverton, Oregon (Portland outskirts) a reality. The City of Beaverton put up the initial funding. The Software Association of Oregon (SAO), learning of this, decided to jump in with some gentle nudging to make sure the incubator [...]
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