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Naider

  • Greek bread or European hunger

    Papandreou’s idea of ​​holding a referendum in Greece to ratifying the agreement on the re-financing of the country’s debt has not pleased those who govern economic Europe at all. Merkel and Sarkozy seem willing to retain the 8,000 million of the aid already approved “until there is a positive decision” in the consultation, which will…

  • Heading to Silicon Valley!!

    We are excited. In just a few hours we will take a plane to visit one of the most exciting places in terms of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship: Silicon Valley. There, hand in hand with ICEX, the Spain TechCenter and Banesto we will visit some of the best technology companies in the world (Google,

  • Emerald cities. Urban sustainability and economic development

    A few days ago days, we reviewed a book on how to achieve these times of economic austerity are not an excuse to stop acting in favor of sustainability. This new book, Emerald cities. Urban Sustainability and Economic Development, written byJoan Fitzgerald, can give clues to be even more ambitious and hope that urban sustainability…

  • The intelligence of the city is in the street

    I recommend listening carefully to thisintervention by Adam Greenfield, founder of Urbanscale and one of the people with the clearest ideas about the role that technology can play in urban life. As a pioneer of urban computing, his book Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing is a reference on ubiquitous computing and its presence…

  • Consensus and governance

    In other of the sins of “The Divine Comedy of I +D+i” byGuiller(Thought in Euskadi) mentions governance and with it, the inability to reach solid consensus on fundamental issues and the difficulties to find the balance in a system that, depending on the prism with which it is looked at, is fundamentally public, private, or…

  • Mediocrity and coffee for all

    I continue with the reflections related to The Divine Comedy of I+ D+i from our friend Guillerat Thought in Euskadi. I agree that “coffee for everyone” is a “great sin” especially in the world of knowledge and technology where creativity and excellence must prevail. I am not sure, however, that the Basque system is at…

  • sins and penances

    I really liked the series that he proposes to us “< a href="http://es.linkedin.com/in/guiller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guiller” in “Thought in Euskadi” about The Divine Comedy of R+D+i in the Basque Country and I want them to serve as a reflection on many things that are on my mind about political priorities, times of crisis, opportunities… I agree…

  • Socialist primaries in France, towards the refounding of political parties

    Yesterday, October 16, held in France the second round of the primaries of the French Socialist Party. As for two centuries, it is the French who are once again revolutionizing the way of doing politics in Europe and deepening the democratic debate in society. Yesterday all the French who claimed to be on the left…

  • When linking was a way of writing

    A El Roto cartoon from a few days ago perfectly explained one of the most annoying things and what worries me the most about the life we ​​live on the back of a postmodern society where the logic of social networks prevails for better and for worse: “Thanks to the new technologies I know the…

  • the world wants to change

    Citizens of 1,000 cities in everyone showed in the street their desire to build the world in which we live in a different way and to demand a transformation of the political elites of their respective countries so that they freely serve their people and never again be vassays of the economic, financial, military or…