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  • Becoming Better Builders

    This is about an amazing idea of a 23-year young big thinker who created a fantastic community on-line and almost by accident stumbled upon a new platform for on-line communication that could change our world. I stumbled upon this absolutely great video of a speech given by Vanessa Miemis in NYC during the Social Business… Read more

  • Let’s Prepare the Future !

    This article is a cross-post of an essay that i prepared for The Fifth Conference and that was published this week.     The Fifth Conference is a forum for vision. Part publisher and part conference, The Fifth Conference tackles the ‘big issues’, the factors that drive our future. Think ten, twenty, even fifty years… Read more

  • Get a Life and Get Alive

    It’s quite some time ago i did a post with brand new content. It’s partly because i also have a family and a job, but mainly because i only feel the urge to blog when i have real content to contribute. These days i also share an awful lot via twitter: that’s where the day-to-day… Read more

  • Innotribe your event: CPA and SWIFT

    Innovation is a key theme in SWIFT’s discussions with the community on how they can collectively address both complex and basic challenges. Via the launch of the Innotribe Program, SWIFT has embarked on a new way of promoting innovation amongst the financial industry. Innotribe is an initiative that leverages the collective intelligence of the SWIFT… Read more

  • Identity Rights System 3.0

    Next week, SWIFT Innotribe will be hosting the European eID Interoperability Conference 2010. It’s a great agenda with presentations by European experts on eID, and also some of the smartest SWIFT folks on identity. For example, we’ll have Jacques Hagelstein, our Chief Architect, and we’ll also run an Innotribe Lab on day-2. Check out and… Read more

  • The Medici Effect

      The Medicis were a banking family in Florence who funded creators from a wide range of disciplines. Thanks to this family and a few others like it, sculptors, scientists, poets, philosophers, financiers, painters, and architects converged upon the city of Florence. There they found each other, learned from one another, and broke down barriers… Read more