When Estonians regained independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991 they not only acquired new political freedoms, they inherited a mass of rubbish–thousands and thousands of tonnes of it scattered across illegal dumping sites around the country. When concerned citizens decided that the time had come to clean it up, they turned not [...]
Entries from May 2008
50,000 Estonians clean up their country in one day
May 28th, 2008
Tags: Uncategorized · citizen participation · mass collaboration
Wikinomics and the future of education
May 12th, 2008
Last week I gave a keynote at Case Western Reserve University, as part of the President’s Symposium on Collaborative Technology and the Future of Education. I’ve posted my slides on slideshare.com and I’m working with the event organizers to make the video of my talk available here.
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The event was [...]
Tags: academia · education · web 2.0 · wikinomics