Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

Web 2.0 acts as accelerant in pending corporate Darwinian shake-out, says Palladium Group CEO- excerpts from a post by Dana Gardner on ZDNet.com on October 24th, 2008
Some excerpts from Dana’s post:
The impact of Web 2.0 technologies on the current global economic downturn will hasten the demise of closed and siloed corporate cultures while providing a [...]

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I have just read an excellent Edge essay, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb who continues his examination of Black Swans, the highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact. Taleb claims that those who are putting society at risk are “no true statisticians”, merely people using statistics either without understanding them, or in a self-serving [...]

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I have seen a recent resurgance in the blogosphere of awareness of and debate around Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger’s ‘Cluetrain Manifesto’, a seminal book (published in 1999) outlining 95 Theses on the newly connected marketplace, enabled by the Internet.  Having re-read the book again recently it is clear that this Manifesto presaged the powerful emergence [...]

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In February 2007, the Global Alliance organized “United Nations Meets Silicon Valley” in Santa Clara, California, which explored how the technology industry and business community in Silicon Valley can bolster development. Attended by prominent members of industry, academia, and the venture capital community alongside members of the Strategy Council of the [...]

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Ailish O’Hora writes in the Irish Independent on 16th January 2008:
Ranking for foreign direct investment is on slide
Ireland’s foreign direct investment (FDI) ranking fell four places to 14th out of 30 countries in 2007, according to a survey from National Irish Bank and OCO Consulting.
But the index, which is adjusted to take the size of [...]

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