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Idea for Euskadi #1
The first idea is sent to us by our ICT expert. s David Arias. David is a telecommunications engineer and in addition to collaborating with Naider he has a mobile solutions company, Mobbittat and he sends us the following reflection: IDEA FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY #1: To promote citizen participation and digital democracy through a…
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Courage, intelligence and transformation
On October 21, elections are called for the Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. The representatives elected in that assembly will elect the lehendakari who will represent the Basques in the world and who will lead a government that will manage many billions of eurosand a couple of million of citizen wills. Setting priorities will…
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Is there a startup accelerator bubble?
The way to create technological businesses in the ICT sector ( Internet, e-commerce, software, mobile applications…) has nothing to do with the way in which a traditional company is undertaken. In this world there is a success factor that stands out above all: SPEED. The new technological companies -startups- devise and market applications at a…
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Entrepreneurs in the government?
Can a government hire reputable entrepreneurs to launch Are strategic projects for the country underway? Can you do it in the particular case of the technology sector, to create new services based on web technologies, or quickly implement a new technology throughout the administration? Can you do it to radically change the way public administration…
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Looking for culprits in this crisis
Before the arrival of this crisis there were few, the lucky ones of conscience, who warned about the gradual degradation of the citizen condition. Today, fewer are those who sing the “mea culpa” and many who point an accusing finger at the presumed precursors of the hurricane. Over the last three decades we have gradually…
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technology centers. A sector undergoing restructuring. Part II
In the previous post reflected on the need to restructure Spanish technology centers to adapt to changes in the environment and the needs of the business fabric. Logically, it is time to get wet and reflect on possible paths. First of all, nobody expects universally valid magic recipes, but rather reflections that can be used…
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The laws of the city, more than mathematical models
They say that we could explain cities through certain physical and natural laws. Geoffrey West, For example, through one of those TED talks that inexplicably receive enormous attention due to its simplicity, he insists on the predictability of certain factors that could be common to any urban reality in terms of population growth, mobility, or…
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Startups and programmers in Spain
I read a few days ago the extraordinary article by David Bonilla in his blog entitled “The fallacy of the lost programmer”, a response to a previous article by Enrique Dans. In my opinion, the article by David Bonilla and the debate generated afterwards (read the comments) constitutes the best review I have read in…
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Detroit, when demolition becomes an option
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The Urbapps platform takes its first steps
What is the potential of mobile applications for the improvement of cities? From this simple question we have built the proposal of URBAPPS: an open collaboration platform for the construction of mobile applications for the city< /strong>. The concern to build Urbapps arises from the observation of the confluence of two important current trends: the…