Just came back from Brussels, Barcelona, Rimini, where I met some nice people/projects.
Brussels: I had the traditional consultation meeting of the EC on the research priorities. I blogged on this before, looking for feedback. Well, David Price of Debategraph commented that post; he learned about the event from this blog; he provided useful information; finally he came to the event in Brussels; and he provided the best presentation of all. So what happened is that by blogging on a public consultation, and reaching out outside the usual audience, much better information/ people was found. Web2 and opening up the process (just a little bit) hugely improved the results of the public consultation: not by ensuring “representative” large scale consultation, but just a little valuable input. This reminds me of the previous post on eDemocracy and mass collaboration: web2 is not about everybody collaborating with everybody (quantitative improvement), but about connecting the most relevant information / people (qualitative improvement). As Tom Steinberg said, it’s about finding the “small cracks in the armour”.
I gave a short presentation which I am not really proud of, but I put it here just in case anyone’s interested.
June 6, 2008 at 6:30 pm |
David, molto piacere di conoscerti di persona. Ti posso chiedere di impostare i tuoi feed in modo che sul reader compaia TUTTO il post, e non solo le prime righe? Grazie!
June 9, 2008 at 3:29 am |
[...] strong validation for the approach that we are implementing and the goals that we are pursuing, and the enthusiasm with which Debategraph was greeted on the day was tremendously encouraging and much [...]