Monthly Archives: April 2006

Knowledge vs Wisdom vs The Enterprise

What’s all this babble about Web 2.0 & The Enterprise … coming to a company near you? Organizational memory meets the photocopying machine? Cut and paste and offer it to the employees and customers alike? Sounds like Anthony_Kiedis is singing another song about California
What are the leaders and shakers thinking [...]

Early to bed - early to rise in South Korea

Cyworld=MySpace+avatars+Flickr+virtual world+people
Started in South Korea and owned by SK Telecom (Korea’s largest wireless provider), Cyworld boasts 17 million users — that number is almost one third of the country’s population.
This is possible because South Korea is the world’s most wired country, where 72 percent of all households have broadband access. The secret of their success [...]

Social entrepreneur 2.0

Despite efforts to spread an innovation-based definition, far too many people still think of social entrepreneurship in terms of nonprofits generating earned income. Too bad. This shifts attention away from the ultimate goal of any self-respecting social entrepreneur, namely social impact and focuses it on one particular method of generating resources.
This view is too [...]

Social entrepreneur 1.0

While the ‘digital divide’ makes computer technology an elite domain, a ‘cognitive divide’ may hinder local socio-economical development and eventually, the success of any local initiative. Should social entrepreneurs start bridging the cognitive divide?
Just a note: the United Nations today announced the launch of a new Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) [...]

Message for the class of 2010

The currently enrolling class at universities will be the graduating class of 2010. What are they thinking? Why are they different?
Here’s some very humble advice.
1. Bringing online behaviour offline.
Online or cyberspace is like ‘training wheels.’ On the internet, you may be experimenting with new ways to express yourself. You may be developing new behaviours and [...]