tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81833265556084742282024-03-14T05:15:27.123+01:00Open EconomyLas nuevas reglas de la economía de la participaciónEditoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18156846819385060384noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-71777910853369678602010-12-24T18:29:00.010+01:002010-12-26T22:33:38.190+01:00Data Driven Journalism in Spain with Pro Bono Público<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Note</font>: This article is a translation with a few add-ons of what I wrote in Spanish for my personal blog. You can see the original post in Spanish: "<a href="http://www.joseluismarin.net/2010/12/data-driven-journalism-en-espana-de-la.html">Data driven journalism en España de la mano de Por Bono Publico</a>".<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.slideshare.net/mirkolorenz/data-driven-adam"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 249px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3xgUJ2UxK-Q/TQ_UgciOTiI/AAAAAAAACjY/dJY7xf3lkUA/s320/data-driven-journalism.png" alt=" Fuente: http://www.slideshare.net/mirkolorenz/data-driven-adam" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552890519451749922" border="0"></a>One of the most interesting things that happened to me in London during the<a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2010/11/lessons-about-open-data-at-open.html"> condensed course of government transparency I attended in November</a>, was the relationships I could strengthen. And not only with <font style="font-style: italic;">Open Data celebrities</font>. One of these relations was with the people from <a href="http://www.probp.org/">Pro Bono Publico</a>, the civil society association you may know for organizing the challenge <a href="http://www.abredatos.es/">Abre Datos</a>. This contest was first held in Spain to promote the reuse of public sector information.<br /><br />Since I met Jacobo Elosúa, <a href="http://twitter.com/dcabo">David Cabo</a> and <a href="http://www.furilo.com/">Álvaro Ortiz</a> at the <a href="http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010/after/">Open Government Data Camp 2010</a> and we shared a good time discussing about the state of open data in Spain, I have followed a bit more closely their activities. For example, last week <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2vPbPZ0c6bkXqz-lWbI0SXbb-Xyr52XlW99NkFxuVA/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNenpeUM&pli=1#">Pro Bono Publico released an excellent contribution to the spanish public consultation</a> on the draft Royal Decree on the reuse of public sector information. Along with them, <a href="http://datos.fundacionctic.org/2010/12/comentarios-rd-risp/">Fundación CTIC has also published comments</a> and the Spanish Ministry of Industry has released an over 100 pages <a href="http://www.mityc.es/dgdsi/es-ES/participacion_publica/cerradas/Documents/Comentarios_ConsultaPublicaBorrador_RDLey37_2007.pdf">document with all 26 contributions received</a>. Of course, one of those contributions is <a href="http://es.blog.euroalert.net/2010/12/contribucion-de-euroalertnet-la.html">the one that Euroalert has published on its official blog</a>.<br /><br />Another initiative in which Pro Bono people are working on, and that I really think as very valuable, is the organization of a <strong>workshop on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_journalism">data driven journalism</a>, aimed primarily at journalists and other information professionals</strong>. The conference is tentatively scheduled for February 15th 2011 and for the moment we are in the process of testing the real interest and gathering some feedback. I say we, because as a <a href="http://www.joseluismarin.net/2010/12/hablare-sobre-data-driven-journalism-en.html">few weeks ago I spoke at the University of Valladolid to students of journalism about the challenges of open data</a>, I'm trying to contribute what I learned from this experience. Of course, we ask for your comments and for your help to spread the event. As we get more details we will release them.<br /><br />The words of Sir Tim Berners-Lee seem to have been an inspiration to all of us who were attending there: <blockquote>"<strong>The responsibility [to analyze datasets] needs to be with the press</strong>"</blockquote> ... especially for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/furilo/5191943471/">Alvaro when Sir Tim took a sit beside him</a>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-16497510593196365072010-11-26T12:21:00.002+01:002010-11-26T17:39:59.379+01:00Lessons about Open Data at the Open Government Data Camp in London<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:110%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span>: This article is a translation with a few add-ons of what I wrote in Spanish for my personal blog. You can <a href="http://www.joseluismarin.net/2010/11/grandes-lecciones-sobre-open-data-en-el.html" linkindex="43">see the original post in Spanish: "Grandes lecciones sobre open data en el Open Government Data Camp en menos de 24 horas"</a>.</span></div><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3xgUJ2UxK-Q/TOlv0b-GbDI/AAAAAAAACig/YQYEQVbllZc/s1600/IMAG0150.jpg" linkindex="44" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542083763108211762" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3xgUJ2UxK-Q/TOlv0b-GbDI/AAAAAAAACig/YQYEQVbllZc/s320/IMAG0150.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 214px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" border="0" /></a>After changing my agenda, last week <a href="http://www.joseluismarin.net/2010/11/me-pierdo-el-ficod-2010-pero.html" linkindex="45">I was finally able to attend the second day of the Open Government Data Camp</a> held in London. In addition, invited by the <a href="http://okfn.org/" linkindex="46">Open Knowledge Foundation</a> I was privileged to be present at the <b>press conference which announced the release as raw data of the database containing all the UK Government expending over 25,000 pounds</b> (about 29,000 Euros).<br /><br />The event where the announcement of the release was made was presented and explained by <a href="http://www.francismaude.com/" linkindex="47">Minister Francis Maude</a> escorted by <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrs/" linkindex="48">Professor Nigel Sadbolt</a>, <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/about-tom-steinberg/" linkindex="49">Tom Steinberg</a>, <a href="http://rufuspollock.org/" linkindex="50">Rufus Pollock</a> ... and <b>Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web and advisor to the British Government</b>. It is highly recommended to watch the <a href="http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/11/government-spending-data-published-2-57257" linkindex="51">video of David Cameron as a lesson on Open Government</a>. This video was the opening of the event, so we must assume that the Prime Minister "wanted to be" there.<br /><br />Despite being "only" an official announcement, there were a few things that caught my attention and I'd like to share, just in case we can be inspired in Spain, and perhaps in other countries:<br /><ul><li>It was <span style="font-weight: bold;">not a typical press conference</span>, at least as we know them in Spain. I mean, it was not a long speech of the minister, followed by questions from reporters. Instead, it was organized as very short presentations about many important points around the matter of the announcement, both political and operational and even technological.</li><li>There were <span style="font-weight: bold;">presentations from all the organizations that had been involved</span> in the project and not just from the government. Representatives from <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/" linkindex="52">mySociety</a>, the Transparency Board and the <acronym title="Open knowledge Foundation">OKF</acronym>, made their points. But there was also an important space reserved for independent software developers such as <a href="http://countculture.wordpress.com/" linkindex="53">Chris Taggart</a>, who had been working in a <a href="http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/2010/11/19/how-to-explore-government-spending-over-25000-on-wheredoesmymoneygo/" linkindex="54">demo of the possibilities of the data released</a>.</li><li>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">wide technological culture that exhibit the members of government</span>, including the Prime Minister. Comparisons are odious, so I will not make any. This is an exercise for you.<br /></li><li>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">commitment of UK Government to transparency and open data is remarkable</span>. "<span style="font-style: italic;">We know this will be a very uncomfortable process within the government departments</span>" said Maude. In fact, <span style="font-style: italic;">uncomfortable</span> news began to circulate during the event, such us the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/19/cabinet-office-denies-conflict-interest-nick-clegg-wife" linkindex="55">payments to Nick Clegg's wife's law firm</a> or the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11792894" linkindex="56">rents paid to Prince Charles from the Ministry of Justice</a>. But the commitment is as firm as defined by the words of Francis Maude “<span style="font-style: italic;">It is our ambition to make the UK the most transparent and accountable Government in the world</span>"</li></ul>I noticed that in the UK the work done for years by activists of all kinds: journalists, associations, developers, companies and even civil servants and politicians has already achieved a great success: <b>the message of openness and transparency is firmly installed at the highest political levels</b>, of all signs. I think a good summary are these words said by Rufus Pollock, founder of OKF, half jokingly half seriously:<br /><blockquote>"<span style="font-weight: bold;">It's very encouraging to see that UK government is becoming more radical than me in terms of open data and transparency</span>"</blockquote><b>Thanks to the OKFN for the great work organizing the <a href="http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010/" linkindex="57">Open Government Data Camp</a> and in particular to <a href="http://jonathangray.org/" linkindex="58">Jonathan</a> and Rufus himself for pursuing my attendance at the event</b>. I hope that all the networking and interaction and the envy and inspiration that gives the speed at which things are developing there, <b>allows us to COPY in Spain and create a true Open Data </b><b>community</b><b></b>. I believe we have the grounds, but we need a little more action, less complacency ... and some more reusable raw data.<br /><br />About OGDCamp sessions, I'll write another post as this is becoming a bit heavier than I'd like to :) I recommend you check out the hashtags <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23openuk" linkindex="59">#openuk</a> and <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23openuk" linkindex="60">#ogdcamp</a> and <a href="http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010/sessions/" linkindex="61">conclusions of the working groups</a>.<br /><br />PS: On my way back to Valladolid, I read at the airport that the Government of Spain had released the <a href="http://www.mityc.es/dgdsi/es-ES/participacion_publica/Documents/BorradorRD_reutilizacion_consultaPublica_V1.pdf" linkindex="62">draft Royal Decree implementing Law 37/2007 of 16 November, on reuse of public sector information</a> and launched a <a href="http://www.mityc.es/dgdsi/es-ES/participacion_publica/Paginas/index.aspx" linkindex="62">public consultation</a> on it. Personally <b>I prefer the approach of less regulation and more publishing of open data as raw data</b>, but still congratulations on the move. As soon as I can read it in detail I will try to make my contribution.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-51574290447888288952010-11-07T22:24:00.000+01:002010-11-07T22:41:28.426+01:00Quick guide to Opendata EC Public Consultation, the on-line survey on the PSI Directive<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TNcbzuIgiSI/AAAAAAAAAbI/vhHyzV91eqE/s1600/DAE-logo.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 104px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TNcbzuIgiSI/AAAAAAAAAbI/vhHyzV91eqE/s400/DAE-logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536924842246310178" border="0" /></a>The <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm">Digital Agenda for Europe</a> lists the revision of the Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (<acronym title="Public Sector Information">PSI</acronym> Directive) among its first key actions. It is worth reminding the <a href="http://euroalert.net/en/news.aspx?idn=9768">key role of Spanish Presidency including PSI reuse in the Granada Declaration</a> showing a <strong>commitment with promotion of open data that we all hope it will be followed with some action</strong>.<br /><br />In September <a href="http://euroalert.net/en/news.aspx?idn=10471">European Commission opened a public consultation with the purpose of gathering information from as many sources as possible on their views on the review of the PSI Directive</a>. The consultation will feed into the debate on possible policy options that should be considered for the review, and will contribute to the impact assessment that will be carried out subsequently, associated with proposals for possible legislative or other measures.<br /><br />As you all know a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_consultation">public consultation</a> is a regulatory tool employed to seek the opinions of interested and affected groups in a certain matter. Gathering their views, opinions and contributions using the Internet both <strong>Member State administrations and EU institutions can understand the needs of citizens and enterprises better</strong>.<br /><br />The PSI consultation document is published only in English but <strong>responses are acceptable in all EU languages</strong>, as it is not stated otherwise on the consultation documents themselves. So please <strong>do not think that being a non-english fluent speaker is a barrier to participate</strong>.<br /><br />Werther you are a government, a public sector content holder, a commercial or non-commercial re-user or other interested parties <strong>your contribution is really important because your view will feed on the review of the PSI Directive</strong>.<br /><br />The consultation includes questions divided on several blocks:<br /><ol><li>the PSI re-use context and possible action to consider,</li><li>substantive issues regulated by the PSI Directive,</li><li>practical measures,</li><li>changes that have taken place and barriers that still exist<br /></li><li>other issues to comment regarding the review of the PSI Directive.</li></ol>It will take you some time, perhaps over 30 minutes to make a good contribution, although it is stated that it is only 15 minutes to complete the survey. But is it worth the effort. You can <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=psidirective2010&lang=en">answer online survey on the PSI Directive</a> but I should recommend to have a look at the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?userstate=prodpdf">pdf version of the consultation document</a>, in order to have a complete view, before answering.<br /><br />It is also worth noting the <strong>commitment that the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/index_en.htm">Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/neeliekroeseu">Neelie Kroes</a> is showing with the <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2010/06/web-of-data-is-here-to-stay-and-will-be.html">open data community</a></strong>. As she pointed out, much of <strong>Europe's PSI is insufficiently or even sometimes not exploited, which means losing out a great opportunity to generate innovation</strong>.<br /><br />The replies to this consultation will be published on the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm">Commission's PSI web site</a>. <strong>The consultation will run until 30 November 2010</strong> and 3 weeks before closing, EC has gathered about 350 responses, which is not much, comparing with the importance of the matter. So <strong>please <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=psidirective2010&lang=en">contribute with your views to build a more innovative Europe</a></strong>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-69509629715110659562010-11-02T23:43:00.001+01:002010-11-03T00:08:08.745+01:00Moving to the Everest, looking for 3G service<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TM85FIxeEKI/AAAAAAAAAa4/UVrUkpi6Jqc/s1600/Everest_kalapatthar_crop.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TM85FIxeEKI/AAAAAAAAAa4/UVrUkpi6Jqc/s320/Everest_kalapatthar_crop.jpg" alt="CC-BY-Pavel Novak-Everest kalapatthar-jpg-Wikimedia-Commons" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534705227478732962" border="0"></a>It is a <strong>well-know problem that Internet service in Spain has poor quality and high prices</strong>, both in domestic and corporate segments. I've often complaint about <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/08/competing-globaly-with-poor-local.html">the poor resources that many places in Spain offer for technology companies</a> and innovation because I believe there is something wrong with it. For example, <strong>in Spain you can hardly get GPRS service (not to say 3G) when you walk a few miles away from big cities</strong>. That makes really difficult to stablish information workers in rural areas, even temporarily, for example during school holidays in summer.<br /><br />And today I've read that a private telecommunications Nepali company, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.ncell.com.np/">Ncell</a>, has announced <strong><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/cant-talk-nowim-on-everest-2120518.html">3G services are available at the Mount Everest base-camp located at 5299 m</a></strong>. What the hell!<br /><br />Although we must give big credit for such an accomplishment, as mighty as the altitude, <strong>the real thing is that climbers will be able to update blogs in Everest and I cannot work 20 Km away from the 37th most populated city in Spain during the summer</strong>. And I do not believe that is a good thing for a country that pretends to lead a shift in the grounds of its economy. Perhaps I should move to the Everest during the summer to have a quality internet service.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-5968388440853035682010-10-21T23:11:00.010+02:002010-10-22T09:59:19.286+02:00Are you ready to change the world?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TMFDtGgCz2I/AAAAAAAAAaw/WPkD07Mtyr0/s1600/IMAG0122.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TMFDtGgCz2I/AAAAAAAAAaw/WPkD07Mtyr0/s320/IMAG0122.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530776259505868642" border="0" /></a>I have been reading daily about Silicon Valley ecosystem for over a decade. Before the bubble burst, I used to read with envy success stories from garage entrepreneurs and Stanford graduates founding start-ups. I follow several blogs from well-known <acronym title="Venture Capitalist">VCs</acronym>, serial entrepreneurs, reputed developers and technology journalists from San Francisco area and the valley. In some sense <b>I am more up-to-date with the Valley's life than with Spain's political affairs</b>, although I've never put a foot in California, not even in the United States.<br /><br />I am telling you this because yesterday I went to an event of <a href="http://www.globalbusinesstrip.org/">Global Business Trip</a> in Madrid that aims to be a facilitator for spanish technology companies in their way to the valley ecosystem. The project, hosted by Fundación Banesto Sociedad y Tecnología, and with the collaboration of <a href="http://www.icex.es/">ICEX</a>, <b>apparently is doing a great job trying to change spanish companies' endemic traditional lack of global ambition</b>. I went to the event curious to know if at last there is an emergent ecosystem of real tech entrepreneurs in Spain, and I hadn't noticed. Unfortunately few minutes after my arrival I discovered that there isn't and that it will not happen some time soon.<br /><br />On the bright side, and despite the naive way of thinking (and asking) of some entrepreneurs there, I got quite interesting takeaways. Specially from <a href="http://twitter.com/carlosbarrabes">Carlos Barrabés</a> (who really surprised me) and <a href="http://www.bernardohernandez.com/">Bernardo Hernández</a>, our most famous Googler and who seems really involved in contributing to Spain's technology internationalization<br /><br />First of all, <b>our country needs lots of new entrepreneurs if we want to really change the grounds of our economy</b>. And we also need our companies to grow if we want to compare ourselves to other developed countries. Spain needs several thousand new medium-sized companies, and less micro-SMEs that are closer to self-employment than to a company. This change will take time and Government should take steps to empower people to go that way. In few words, <b>we need more innovators, and most importantly ambitious innovators</b>.<br /><br />Secondly, <b>there is not much innovation in spanish tech start-ups</b>. Apparently, even <a href="http://www.guykawasaki.com/">Guy Kawasaki</a> has recommended us to stop copying American ideas and to contribute with real innovation if we pretend to attract big investments.<br /><br />And third, and very important to me, <b>our lack of entrepreneurship culture starts in the schools and ends in Universities</b>. That's the reason why there are more events than entrepreneurs :( In any case, I believe that events are necessary to accomplish a shift. <b>We need at least a first generation of successful innovators that can become the investors of new and more ambitious projects</b>. Just as Bernardo Hernández is doing. We are late, but an important part of Europe is also late. We can still make it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://euroalert.net/en/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 122px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TMFB4F3jDKI/AAAAAAAAAaY/ILpkM93wyfQ/s400/Euroalert.net+-+Information+services+about+the+European+Union:+EU+funding+and+grants,+Government+Contracts,+news,+EU+law+and+Events_1287733616994.png" alt="Euroalert" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530774249291320482" border="0" /></a>I went to the event really relaxed, I barely networked, except in Twitter, but I brought with me a really important question for the stage of my beloved <b><a href="http://euroalert.net/en">Euroalert</a> and its mission of creating a pan-european platform for public procurement information services gathering opportunities amounting the value of 17% of EU GDP</b>:.<blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>"Are we ready to change the world?</strong></span></blockquote>I must find the answer very soon. And yes, this can be taken as an invitation to potential investors interested in the project.<br /><br />Do not worry I am not planning to leave to San Francisco sometime soon. That ship already sailed for me... a decade ago. And sometimes I still regret that. But I have not resigned to making a remarkable contribution to the business I know about, although <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/08/competing-globaly-with-poor-local.html">I am based in a territory with poor resources to boost innovation</a>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-59521955400037935702010-08-11T16:16:00.002+02:002010-08-11T16:56:46.666+02:00Openness vs Appleness in the smartphone space<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TGK4JM5Ox5I/AAAAAAAAAaI/2YWAjF_i8f4/s1600/apple-droid.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TGK4JM5Ox5I/AAAAAAAAAaI/2YWAjF_i8f4/s320/apple-droid.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504164162819770258" border="0" /></a>Any reader will discover in a quick browse at <strong>this blog that we strongly promote "<span style="font-style: italic;">openness</span>" in its many shapes</strong>. We think open source software will finally be adopted and promoted by governments and used by more users than proprietary one. We have talked so much about <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/search/label/interoperabilidad">open standards as the right way to store and exchange data</a>. We are <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/search/label/open%20data">involved with the open data community</a> as it is the more needed space in the <span style="font-style: italic;">openness</span> world, and we will announce very soon our plans to support open knowledge more actively.<br /><br />Perhaps that is why I am frequently asked about the extraordinary success of Apple and its <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">i</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">[whatever]</span> brands when competing against the rest of the world with its more than closed platform. It is really remarkable that markets think that <a href="http://apple.com/">Apple Inc</a> (<a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL">NASDAQ:AAPL</a>) is the second most valuable company in the world (<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-26/apple-overtakes-microsoft-in-market-capitalization-update3-.html">Apple overtook Microsoft in market capitalization</a> in May 2010). And Steve Jobs is probably one of the biggest business genius in history and an incredible innovator as he has shown several times in his career.<br /><br />But I think <strong>Apple will fail as it did in the 80s when they had the opportunity to dominate the personal computing market</strong> with its Macintosh. They decided to play the hardware and software game on their own and refused to collaborate. As a result Intel and Microsoft dominated an incredible growing and profitable market that somehow Apple invented. <strong>After a painful decline <a href="http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/">in 1997 Apple had to be rescued by Microsoft's money</a></strong> to remain independent.<br /><br />In Apple's platforms third parties have no space and users hardly have any right further than paying every 2 years a lot money for a fancy new device. As far as "<span style="font-style: italic;">appleness</span>" is trendy and <span style="font-style: italic;">apple-fan-boys</span> go on spending 600€ a year in their i-devices, the big hype will work. Yes, <strong>hype is the word to define what Apple is living now</strong>. An incredibly big hype that openness will end up with. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29">Android</a> will emerge as the winner in the smartphone space simply because its business model and growth is sustainable and iphone's is not. As well as the iPad will enjoy a couple of years of lonely diving, as the prize for the big innovator. Of course Apple will make a lot of money waiting for competitors powered with open sourced platforms as they are doing with the iPhone, but in the end they will not dominate the market they have created.<br /><br />What I usually say when I am asked for a recommendation, oversimplifying is, "<span style="font-style: italic;">iPhone is cool, but if you plan to use an smart-phone, buy an Android powered one</span>". With <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704423504575212503407087936.html">Palm acquired by Hewlett Packard</a>, Blackberry looking like a retro device although still in place, Microsoft out of the game and <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-20/nokia-ceo-needs-silicon-valley-thinking-owners-say.html">Nokia completely clueless</a>, <strong>never an emerging market looked so clear to me</strong>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-51133275767494625022010-06-10T23:06:00.000+02:002010-06-10T23:07:16.204+02:00The Web of Data is here to stay... and will be full of Public Sector Information<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TBEHICPc5HI/AAAAAAAAAaA/j1_JC78vZOc/s1600/img_6252.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/TBEHICPc5HI/AAAAAAAAAaA/j1_JC78vZOc/s320/img_6252.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481170056108631154" border="0" /></a>Yesterday <a href="http://en.blog.euroalert.net/2010/04/euroalert-will-participate-in-psi.html">I was speaking at the PSI Meeting 2010</a>, that in my opinion was a <strong>great success for all the <acronym title="Public Sector Information">PSI community</acronym></strong>, which is a very important part of the <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2010/04/open-data-movement-free-our-data.html">open data movement</a>. With an excellent <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/psimeeting2010">organization by Spanish Proyecto Aporta</a> and the <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/">European Commission's project ePSIPlaform</a>, many people interested in the reuse of PSI around European Union, and even from Hong Kong, met in Madrid.<br /><br />It was a very intense day, with 19 thoughtful speeches made by people coming from <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/psi10table1">public</a> <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/psi10table3">administrations</a> (including European Commission) and platforms, <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/psi10table2">companies that reuse information and Trade Associations representing their interests</a> and <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/psi10table4">civil society organizations</a>. I was specially impressed by the <strong>honest description of how some civil servants face the unlocking of their own data</strong> made by <a href="http://twitter.com/cathrinelippert">Catherine Lippert</a>; the <strong>didactic description of open data picture and issues</strong> presented by <a href="http://opendata-network.org/">Daniel Dietrich</a> and the <strong>inspiration of the examples and replicas</strong> made by <a href="http://countculture.wordpress.com/">Chris Taggart</a>.<br /><br />But I am also worried about the strength that the business case trend is taking. Many voices, including the European Commission are asking to measure something that it is not possible to measure for the moment. I would say that <strong>if a company is willing to make an investment to develop a business model based on the reuse of a certain PSI, that should be enough proof of usefulness</strong>. If it doesn't work the only one who will lose is the company who is taking the risk. The information is being produced anyway and we should not ask the public bodies to over-engineer the formats or to build easy to use and expensive to exploit <acronym title="Application Programming Interfaces">APIs</acronym>. At least for the moment and at least during economic downturn. That can be part of the investments the companies can make. So please <strong><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html">RAW DATA NOW!</a></strong>.<br /><br />With these conditions, the <strong>business case will be built by itself in a few years</strong> for very little money. Because what we know for sure is what <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/contacts/epsiplus_network_contacts/epsiplus_network_team_analysts/marc_de_vries">Marc de Vries</a> said about the direct relation between access and reuse "<strong>No access, no reuse</strong>". And <strong>information industries need the raw material that represent raw data to innovate</strong>, specially as an stimulus for the recovery. It is not that difficult and I really think it is not that expensive. It is more a matter of will by the information holders.<br /><br />There were many take-aways from all the presentations and round tables, so I recommend you to read <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23psi_value">the tweet stream of the PSI Meeting 2010</a>, where you will find many of them. You will discover that many of the speakers are also <span style="font-style: italic;">twitterers</span> and you can follow their activities on open data. And that in the public sector, even in Spain, there are many people like <a href="http://eadminblog.net/">Alberto Ruiz de Zárate</a> or Amalia Velasco that can make things happen.<br /><br />For me the best part was to see that there is <strong>great group of brilliant people that are really committed to the objective of making Public Sector Information open and reusable for the benefit of citizens and businesses</strong>. And as usual in big causes, the best of them are volunteers. For the first time since I am following the open data community I really have the feeling that we are not very far from a big domino effect (as Catherine defined) that will make great things to happen... despite the <span style="font-style: italic;">business-casers</span>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-20458194768379117372010-06-03T23:06:00.021+02:002010-06-04T13:15:34.258+02:00Presenté mi libro en la misma tribuna en la que han estado Vinton Cerf y Bert Bos... Wow!Ayer por la tarde <strong>presenté en Oviedo mi libro "Web 2.0: Una descripción muy sencilla de los cambios que estamos viviendo"</strong>. Como <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2010/05/presentacion-del-libro-web-20-una.html">os adelanté hace unas semanas</a>, la Escuela de Informática de la Universidad de Oviedo, a través de su director <a href="http://jelabra.blogspot.com/">Jose Emilio Labra</a>, me brindó la posibilidad de celebrar el acto en el marco de uno de los <a href="http://www15.uniovi.es/master/ingenieriaweb/">Master en Ingeniería Web</a> más prestigiosos de España. Como sabéis la región de Asturias, alrededor de la <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">Oficina del W3C en España</a> (albergada en <a href="http://ctic.es/">Fundación CTIC</a>) y la Universidad de Oviedo (y especialmente de la <a href="http://www15.uniovi.es/">EUTIO</a>) ha construido un <strong>polo de innovación en torno a las tecnologías para la web</strong>.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jmoe-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=8497454839&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>La tarde comenzó con una muy interesante charla con <a href="http://www.lne.es/oviedo/2010/06/03/inteligencia-colectiva-red-fuerte-poderosa-academica/924051.html">Chus Neira, periodista del periódico La Nueva España, que publicó esta entrevista</a> en la que <strong>ha recogido muy bien la esencia de una conversación en la que tocamos con gran profundidad las luces y las sobras de la web</strong> (propiedad intelectual, nuevas generaciones, censura, privacidad, delincuencia, etc.) Cuando la persona que tienes enfrente sabe tanto o más que tú acerca del tema es fácil que la entrevista salga bien.<br /><br /><strong>Para la presentación, contar con una audiencia tan especializa supuso un reto y un orgullo añadido</strong> ya que, para que os hagáis una idea, tuve que superar el miedo escénico de hablar en la misma sala en la que han realizado presentaciones <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf">Vinton Cerf, uno de los padres de Internet</a>, o el creador del <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hojas_de_estilo_en_cascada">lenguaje CSS</a> que sirve para dar aspecto a las páginas web <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.w3.org/People/Bos">Bert Bos</a><br /><br />Como siempre, os dejo las transparencias con las que ilustré la presentación en la que hice un <strong>pequeño recorrido por las principales ideas que desarrollo en el libro</strong>:<br /><a title="View Web 2.0 Una Descripcion Sencilla de los cambios que estamos viviendo on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/32456852/Web-2-0-Una-Descripcion-Sencilla-de-los-cambios-que-estamos-viviendo" style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Web 2.0 Una Descripcion Sencilla de los cambios que estamos viviendo</a> <object id="doc_835527731933075" name="doc_835527731933075" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" style="outline-color: -moz-use-text-color; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;" rel="media:presentation" resource="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=32456852&access_key=key-yr7wm0joik8v0x7d6x2&page=1&viewMode=slideshow" media="http://search.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/media/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" height="500" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=32456852&access_key=key-yr7wm0joik8v0x7d6x2&page=1&viewMode=slideshow"> <embed id="doc_835527731933075" name="doc_835527731933075" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=32456852&access_key=key-yr7wm0joik8v0x7d6x2&page=1&viewMode=slideshow" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" height="500" width="100%"></embed> </object><br /><br />Al igual que todos los títulos de la colección Pocket Innova, el <a href="http://www.bibloworld.com/epages/61560601.sf/es_ES/?ViewObjectID=6846073">libro podéis adquirirlo online en la plataforma BibloWorld</a> o por supuesto en <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8497454839?ie=UTF8&tag=jmoe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8497454839">Amazon</a>. En su apuesta por hacer llegar sus contenidos a todas las plataformas y en todos los formatos, la editorial <a href="http://www.netbiblo.com/content/p20404/?p=e1f3f4d066924632a031f05f034c979b&pi=1">Netbiblo también lo comercializa como libro electrónico</a> y lo podéis adquirir completo o por capítulos.<br /><br />Después de la presentación y como aperitivo a la <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/psi10mesa2">PSI Meeting 2010 de la semana que viene donde participaré en la mesa 2</a>, realicé una ponencia sobre Open Data y sus modelos de negocio. Estaba dirigida principalmente a los alumnos del Master y por eso <strong>intenté acercarles la visión y el uso real que desde una empresa como <a href="http://euroalert.net/">Euroalert</a>, se hace de tecnologías como Linked Data</strong> en las que ellos son especialistas. Os dejo la presentación, que además tiene ya alguna corrección que me aportó alguno de los asistentes (gracias a Carlos Tejo):<br /><a title="View Euroalert Open Data Business Models on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/32456181/Euroalert-Open-Data-Business-Models" style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Euroalert Open Data Business Models</a> <object id="doc_103981148168666" name="doc_103981148168666" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" style="outline-color: -moz-use-text-color; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;" rel="media:presentation" resource="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=32456181&access_key=key-1kwijw1dr02561hqdx3r&page=1&viewMode=slideshow" media="http://search.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/media/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" height="500" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=32456181&access_key=key-1kwijw1dr02561hqdx3r&page=1&viewMode=slideshow"> <embed id="doc_103981148168666" name="doc_103981148168666" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=32456181&access_key=key-1kwijw1dr02561hqdx3r&page=1&viewMode=slideshow" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" height="500" width="100%"></embed> </object><br /><br />Tanto después de la presentación del libro como después de la ponencia sobre Open Data tuve un intercambio animado de opiniones con los asistentes, del que al menos yo aprendí muchas cosas. Hablamos del <strong>futuro del software libre, de los riesgos de la pérdida de privacidad o de la necesidad en educar mejor a los usuarios de la web</strong>.<br /><br />En definitiva fue todo un lujo, en el que tengo que <strong>agradecer la implicación de la editorial Netbiblo y sobre todo de la la EUTIO por ofrecerme un marco tan agradable para presentar el libro</strong>. Y por supuesto muchas gracias a todos los asistentes!!!, entre los que además pude volver a <a href="http://corralmatematico.wordpress.com/">encontrar a algún viejo amigo como Jose Manuel González Corral</a>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-37228849367953619382010-05-24T14:12:00.004+02:002010-05-25T17:37:58.854+02:00Presentación del libro “Web 2.0: Una descripción muy sencilla de los cambios que estamos viviendo”<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8497454839?ie=UTF8&tag=jmoe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8497454839"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/S_vtqGzf5ZI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/ud_sViGvtzI/s320/web2.0-una-descripcion-sencilla-del-cambio-que-vivimos-portada.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475231079635871122" border="0" /></a>Ya está disponible en Amazon el que es <strong>mi primer libro, y que lleva por título "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8497454839?ie=UTF8&tag=jmoe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8497454839">Web 2.0: Una desripción muy sencilla de los cambios que estamos viviendo</a>"</strong> y que se ha publicado dentro de la colección Pocket Innova de la editorial <a href="http://www.netbiblo.com/">Netbiblo</a>. Acostumbrado a escribir propuestas, proyectos, artículos para blogs, <a href="http://twitter.com/jluismarin"><span style="font-style: italic;">tweets</span></a>, ponencias o cursos, la experiencia de comunicar a través de un libro ha sido todo un desafío. Personalmente ha resultado muy enriquecedor, sobre todo porque se trata de un tema que, como sabéis, me apasiona y que es no es otro que <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/03/when-web-was-backed-up-on-floppy-disk.html"><strong>el invento más exitoso de la historia de la humanidad, la Web</strong></a>. Escribir este libro me ha permitido dedicar un poco de tiempo a reflexionar acerca del modo en el que están cambiando muchos aspectos de nuestras vidas. Ése es precisamente el objetivo para el que espero que sirva a los lectores: <strong>comprender mejor los cambios a los que nos está arrastrando vertiginosamente el increíble instrumento igualador que es la Web</strong>.<br /><br />Aunque el título lleva el manido "<span style="font-style: italic;">2.0</span>", he intentado <strong>recorrer los últimos 15 años de la Web buscando el origen de las transformaciones radicales que nos están obligando a repensar diversos conceptos que llevaban varios siglos bien afianzados en nuestra cultura</strong>. No me ha resultado nada fácil analizar con un poco de perspectiva acontecimientos que en el mejor de los casos han ocurrido hace unos pocos años o que incluso estaban ocurriendo mientras estaba documentando los capítulos pero espero que el esfuerzo haya valido la pena.<br /><br />El formato de la colección <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2010/04/coordinando-la-coleccion-pocket-innova.html">Pocket Innova, para la que, como ya sabéis, además realizo coordinación editorial junto con Juan Vicente García</a>, pretende acercar los temas relacionados con la innovación con sencillez y rigor, principalmente a directivos, académicos, estudiantes y técnicos de empresa. Me he permitido, por tanto, en algunas ocasiones licencias como intercambiar los términos software libre y software <span style="font-style: italic;">open source</span>, para poder mantener un lenguaje claro y directo.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=jmoe-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=8497454839&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Además he tenido el honor de contar para el libro con un prólogo de <a href="http://jelabra.blogspot.com/">Jose Emilio Labra</a>, director de la <a href="http://www15.uniovi.es/"><acronym title="Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Informática de Oviedo">EUITIO</acronym></a>, y con quien ya tuve la oportunidad de escribir un capítulo que <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/02/web-20-business-model.html">contribuimos conjuntamente para el libro "Web 2.0: The business model" (Springer)</a>.<br /><br />La presentación del libro se realizará el próximo miércoles 2 de Junio a las 18:00h en el <a href="http://www15.uniovi.es/info_general/localizacion.php">salón de Actos de la Escuela de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Oviedo: C/ Valdés Salas, S/N</a> y a la que por supuesto estáis invitados todos quienes tengáis disponibilidad para acercaros.<br /><br />Acompañando a la presentación del libro realizaré la ponencia “<strong>Open Data: modelos de negocio de la reutilización de información del sector público</strong>”, principalmente dirigida a los alumnos del <a href="http://www15.uniovi.es/master/ingenieriaweb/ingenieriawebnie.html">Master y Doctorado en Ingeniería Web de la Universidad de Oviedo</a>, pero a la que también podrá asistir quien tenga interés en la incipiente <span style="font-weight: bold;">Web de los Datos</span>.<br /><br />La ponencia tendrá algunos puntos en común con la que realizaré en Madrid el 9 de Junio con motivo de la <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/news/news/madrid_psi_meeting_2010_new_date_9_june">PSI Meeting 2010</a> y cuyo título provisional es: <strong>¿Los datos se liberan para fomentar modelos de negocio innovadores o ... son sólo para que juguemos con ellos sobre mapas online? RAW DATA NOW!!!</strong> Sin embargo tendrá un carácter mucho más formal como corresponde al foro que supone la Universidad de Oviedo y en ella repasaré los diferentes conceptos que intervienen en la apertura de información del sector público. Sobre todo a la forma de <strong>construir modelos de negocio innovadores y por tanto generar riqueza para nuestra maltrecha economía</strong>. Nos vemos en Oviedo.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-18630924573866171132010-04-08T10:26:00.000+02:002010-04-08T23:21:50.528+02:00Coordinando la colección Pocket Innova de la editorial NetbibloDesde hace unos meses, Open Economy, es decir, <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/jvmanjon">Juan Vicente García</a> y yo (<a href="http://linkedin.com/in/joseluismarin">Jose L. Marin</a>) estamos realizando la coordinación editorial de la colección <a href="http://www.netbiblo.com/content/?Subject=Coleccion+Pocket+Innova&Content+Type=Books">Pocket Innova</a> para Netbiblo.<br /><br /><em><a href="http://www.netbiblo.com/">Netiblo</a> es una editorial científico-técnica independiente que desde 2001 apuesta por la innovación tanto en el contenido como en el formato y en la difusión</em>, con la que, como sabéis, Juan Vicente ha publicado los títulos "<a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2010/02/presentando-innovar-en-la-era-del.html">Innovar en la era del conocimiento</a>" y "<a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/09/innovacion-en-la-empresa.html">Gestión de la innovación empresarial</a>".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.netbiblo.com/content/?Subject=Coleccion+Pocket+Innova&Content+Type=Books"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 132px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/S7e3wSng9YI/AAAAAAAAAZo/1rS4uiC4e6A/s400/pocket-innova.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456031513841825154" border="0" /></a><br />El objetivo de la serie POCKET INNOVA es <strong>acercar la disciplina de la innovación a directivos, académicos, estudiantes y técnicos de empresa interesados en conocer el qué y porqué de la innovación</strong>. Todos los títulos de la colección pretenden abordar, con cercanía y rigor, las distintas temáticas que componen la innovación y que se han estructurado en cinco áreas temáticas:<br /><ul><li><strong>Tecnología</strong>. Esta sección tiene como objetivo acercar a los lectores la información sobre las tecnologías emergentes, los últimos avances y las aplicaciones a nuevos productos y servicios.</li><li><strong>Financiación</strong>. Desde las subvenciones hasta el capital riesgo, los <span style="font-style: italic;">business angels</span>, el VII Programa Marco de I+D y un largo etcétera, conforman los mecanismos de financiación de la I+D+i, los cuales serán abordados en la serie de una forma clara y práctica.</li><li><strong>Actores</strong>. Existen multitud de organismos y expertos que trabajan en materia de innovación en España, desde los organismos públicos hasta los privados, fundaciones, centros tecnológicos, expertos, redes... El quién es quién de la innovación en España y en Europa es el objetivo de esta sección.</li><li><strong>Gestión de la innovación</strong>. Sección central de la serie, la cual incluye metodologías prácticas que se pueden aplicar a la gestión de la innovación en las organizaciones. Desde la implantación de sistemas de I+D+i hasta la gestión de proyectos tecnológicos; desde la vigilancia tecnológica hasta la propiedad industrial y la transferencia tecnológica, todos ellos son temas cruciales para la puesta en marcha de organizaciones innovadoras.</li><li><strong>Capital humano y creatividad</strong>. Las personas son el elemento central de la innovación, su conocimiento, la creatividad, el trabajo en equipo, el liderazgo para la innovación y muchos otros temas componen una atractiva temática que todos aquellos que quieran adentrarse en el mundo de la innovación deben conocer.</li></ul>La coordinación editorial de Pocket Innova es un proyecto que estamos abordando con mucha ilusión, ya que además de participar en estructurar y decidir los diferentes títulos, nos está permitiendo <strong>colaborar de forma muy cercana con autores que son referentes en sus diferentes disciplinas de conocimiento</strong>. Además de trabajar en Netbiblo con profesionales de la talla de <a href="http://es.linkedin.com/pub/cristina-seco/9/3a4/119">Cristina Seco</a>, Carlos Iglesias o <a href="http://es.linkedin.com/pub/alejandro-%C3%A1lvarez-cotelo/13/591/150">Alejandro Álvarez</a>.<br /><br />En breve os contaremos más cosas acerca de los cuatro primeros títulos que están a punto de salir de imprenta y de sus autores, de los nuevos contenidos para los que estamos contactando autores y de las presentaciones de los diferentes libros. En definitiva de todo lo referente a <strong>nuestra actividad para contribuir a que los 52 libros que se publicarán entre 2010 y 2011 en la serie POCKET INNOVA</strong> sean un éxito y sobre todo ayuden a promover el conocimiento en todas las disciplinas relacionadas con la innovación. Por supuesto, <strong>si tenéis alguna sugerencia o propuesta que pueda encajar dentro de las características de la colección, no dudéis en contactar con Juan Vicente o conmigo en <a href="mailto:pocket.innova@openeconomy.net">pocket.innova@openeconomy.net</a></strong>Editoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18156846819385060384noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-10313912006172881232010-04-03T16:23:00.000+02:002010-04-03T17:09:30.956+02:00Open Data Movement: Free our Data<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/S7dU1sGoWWI/AAAAAAAAAZg/ElhAk13RYt0/s1600/open-data-catalogues.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 290px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/S7dU1sGoWWI/AAAAAAAAAZg/ElhAk13RYt0/s400/open-data-catalogues.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455922754931415394" border="0" /></a>It has been several months since I wanted to talk you about the <em>Open Data Movement</em>, specially after <a href="http://en.blog.euroalert.net/search/label/FICOD%202009">my participation in November in FICOD 09 representing Euroalert.net</a>, in the roundtable about <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/11/al-ficod09-para-hablar-sobre.html">creating value through the reuse of public sector information</a>.<br /><br />During the past few months we have been living kind of an <span style="font-style: italic;">Open Data Rush</span> that started with <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/">Obama's promise of government transparency</a>, which in terms of data openness ended, among others, in <a href="http://www.data.gov/">Data.gov</a> pioneering initiative. Since then several countries, mainly English speaking ones, have launched their own initiatives. You can check, <a href="http://cat.open.org.nz/">New Zeeland Open Data Catalogue</a>, or <a href="http://data.australia.gov.au/">Australia Catalogue</a>, and also individual cities like <a href="http://www.toronto.ca/open/">Open Toronto</a> or <a href="http://nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/data/data.shtml">New York City open data</a> websites. There is a good repository of governments that are opening up their data vaults around the world at <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/gallery/2010/jan/20/official-government-data-sites">The Guardian Open Data Platform</a> or at <a href="http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/index.html.en">Fundacion CTIC website</a><br /><br />In the European Union since 2003 we have the <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/psi_library/reports/european_directive_on_the_re_use_of_public_sector_information_psi/directive_2003_98_ec">Directive 2003/98/EC on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (<acronym title="Public Sector Information">PSI</acronym>)</a> that has already been <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/psi_library/reports/member_state_eea_efta_transpositions">transposed into all the members national laws</a>. That means, in simple words, that <strong>the EU27 Member States are enforced by law to promote open data</strong>, although to date only United Kingdom seems to be doing a significant effort. Prime Minister <a href="http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20595">Gordon Brown, who is being advised by Sir Tim Berners Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt</a>, has talked in several speeches about his aim of turning <acronym title="United Kingdom">UK</acronym> into a world leader in making government data more accessible to the public. This commitment to Open Data Community, considered as an important element of <a title="Building Britain's Future" href="http://www.hmg.gov.uk/buildingbritainsfuture" target="_self">Building Britain’s Future</a>, has led to <a href="http://data.gov.uk/">Data.gov.uk</a> website for the promotion of the reuse of UK public data or the <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-03/22/gordon-brown-announces-institute-of-web-science.aspx">announcement of the creation of "The Institute of Web Science"</a> initially funded with £30M.<br /><br /><strong>In Spain, we are quite far from leading anything in the web</strong>, although it is remarkable the effort done by <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/07/el-proyecto-aporta-transparencia-y.html">Proyecto Aporta, a small initiative at the Ministry of Industry with very scarce resources, that I presented you a few months ago</a>. For example, in March 2010 <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/catalogo-de-informacion-publica">Proyecto Aporta launched a beta version of a catalogue of public information in Spain</a>, which sadly contains very little raw data available, and thus, useful for reuse by companies or individuals.<br /><br />There is not a strong political support from Spanish authorities, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Spain</span><em> is going to loose another opportunity to improve its performance in digital innovation and to participate in the major changes in economy and society we are living</em>. I cannot not understand why an initiative that would have such a huge positive impact on innovation it is not being pushed firmly in our country. <strong>Open Data is a very <span style="font-style: italic;">cheap</span> investment for a Government</strong> and the main reasons that are pushing forward these initiatives around the world are purely economic. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/what_is_psi/index_en.htm">The European Commission estimated in 2006 that the overall market size for the reuse of Public Sector Information in the EU is 27.000 million Euros</a> (0.25% of the total aggregated <acronym title="Gross Domestic Product">GDP</acronym> for the EU)<br /><br />In order to be up to date, I recommend the <a href="http://www.epsiplatform.eu/">EPSIPlatform</a>, Europe's One-Stop Shop on Public Sector Information (PSI) Re-use, where you will find, among other useful resources, <strong>the best tracking I know of all news, announcements and moves in the Open Data World</strong>. You can also <a href="http://twitter.com/epsiplatform">follow EPSIplatform in Twitter</a>. If you want to get involved I suggest you to follow <a href="http://www.okfn.org/">The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)</a> projects around any kind of information that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed.<br /><br />Open Data might be a drop in the ocean of economy, but it is a really cheap move, it is easy for public authorities, there are not major shortcomings, it does not hurt any industry and there is a lot of political return, apart from the economic as transparency is a hot topic for citizens. <strong>So please move on!. Companies need raw data for developing new and innovative products! Free our data!</strong>Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-28939225023901813402010-02-21T10:57:00.045+01:002010-02-21T21:58:25.616+01:00In Dublin speaking about the web as a way to improve market intelligence in the Open Economy<a href="http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437296459169606082" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ankzno_7xnM/S3UoUlNLKcI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/Po-wWoLvf7I/s400/enterprise-ireland.png" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 105px;" border="0" /></a>Tomorrow I will be flying to <strong>Dublin, where I will be speaking at the "SMART CONSTRUCTION - DOING BUSINESS IN THE NETHERLANDS" seminar</strong>, organized by <a href="http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/">Enterprise Ireland</a>, the Government's agency for the development and promotion of Irish business sector.<br /><br />The seminar will take place at <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113991004929264043419.000460d3102215d31cd0b&ll=53.357928,-6.225386&spn=0.008964,0.018239&z=15&source=embed">Enterprise Ireland <abbr title="Headquarters">HQ</abbr> in Dublin</a>, next Tuesday February 23rd 2010, from 08.45, where the registration starts, to 15:30, where the pre-booked one-to-one meetings are expected to end. This event is one of the activities organized for the <a href="http://www.ireland-construct.com/">Ireland Construct community</a>, created with the objective to help <strong>Irish construction companies achieve strong positions in global market, and in this case will focus on the Dutch Construction industry</strong>.<br /><br />I have been kindly invited by <acronym title="Enterprise Ireland">EI</acronym> in my position of <acronym title="Chief Executive Officer">CEO</acronym> at <a href="http://gateway-scs.es/en/">Gateway <acronym title="Strategic Consultancy Services">SCS</acronym></a> which as you know owns the internet property <strong><a href="http://euroalert.net/en/">Euroalert.net</a>, a well know brand in Europe in the public procurement information services field</strong>.<br /><br />I will be speaking around noon and I will share the morning panel with several experts in the Netherlands building environment sector:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/bas-van-der-veen/2/313/260">Bas van der Veen,</a> Professor at Innovative Entrepreneurship in Construction at <a href="http://www.saxion.edu/">Saxion University</a> who will present "<em>The future of the Construction Industry in the Netherlands</em>"</li><li><a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/pieter-van-boom/1/821/23">Pieter van Boom</a>, Managing Director at <a href="http://www.bartels.nl/">Bartels consulting engineers</a>,who will speak about "<em>Partnering opportunities – the realities in the Dutch market</em>"<br /></li><li><a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/petervandenboogaard">Peter van de Boogaard</a>, owner of NewCon Vastgoed bv, who will share "<em>The expectations of a Dutch buyer in the Construction industry</em>", and<br /></li><li><a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/martinbourgonje">Martin Bourgonje</a>, from <a href="http://www.synergie-management.nl/">Synergy Management</a>, who will contribute with "<em>Doing Business in the Netherlands – the small print</em>"<br /></li></ul><a href="http://en.blog.euroalert.net/search/label/10ders%20observatory" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422861001525282018" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ankzno_7xnM/S0HfWW47xOI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Jwqw0OdUet0/s320/10ders-logo.png" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 115px;" border="0" /></a>I will try to contribute with <strong>Euroalert.net expertise in helping individual <acronym title="Small and Medium-sized Enterprise">SME</acronym>s </strong><strong>across the European Union, to compete with biggest companies, by <a href="http://euroalert.net/en/contractsindex.aspx">providing more accurate, and fastest information on tenders in Europe</a> or with <a href="http://en.blog.euroalert.net/search/label/10ders%20observatory">market intelligence tools on public procurement opportunities like 10ders Observatory</a></strong><br /><br />In my presentation "Digging business leads out of the internet", I will mix the concepts of <em>public procurement as an affordable way to export for SMEs, and the levelling factor of the web that brings more cost-effective tools to market intelligence on public procurement</em>. The web is reshaping every aspect of our life and businesses have the opportunity to perform better in this <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/03/open-economy.html">Open Economy</a>, by using improved tools to do old tasks. I hope Euroalert's modest contribution will help with useful tips in this <span style="font-style: italic;">at-the-gate-of-recovery</span> scenery. Please, feel free to review and comment on the full presentation:<br /><a title="View Digging business leads out of the internet on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/27197924/Digging-business-leads-out-of-the-internet" style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Digging business leads out of the internet</a> <object id="doc_516879528024256" name="doc_516879528024256" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" style="outline-color: -moz-use-text-color; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium;" height="600" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=27197924&access_key=key-ni0vbw195h7ix0okndo&page=1&viewMode=slideshow"> <embed id="doc_516879528024256" name="doc_516879528024256" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=27197924&access_key=key-ni0vbw195h7ix0okndo&page=1&viewMode=slideshow" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" height="600" width="100%"></embed> </object><br /><br />If you are in Dublin these days, please contact me, so perhaps we can share a pint of Guinness in the evening ;-)Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-43721155567935662722010-01-18T14:05:00.005+01:002010-01-18T14:16:49.465+01:00Google to fix our mobile experience?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.google.com/phone/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 40px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/S1ENHMKSpfI/AAAAAAAAAZE/iWKRagmmjyQ/s400/v2-logo_nexus_one.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427133443132794354" border="0" /></a>First <strong>they fixed search</strong>. (<span style="font-style: italic;">Don't you remember searching for document in the late 90s as a painful experience?</span>) And <a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG">as soon as they started to make good money out of selling ads they went public</a>.<br /><br />Then they put a lot of that money on <strong>developing (or buying) astonishing tools</strong> that improved our global internet experience (<a href="http://mail.google.com/">Gmail</a>, <a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a>, <a href="http://news.google.com/">Google News</a> or <a href="http://books.google.com/">Google Books</a>) (<span style="font-style: italic;">Don't you remember managing your email with </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://hotmail.com/">Hotmail</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> as a nightmare?</span>). And <a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG&fstype=ii">they are making every year huge money with and incredible financial perfomance</a>.<br /><br />They are still <strong><a href="http://www.googlelabs.com/">investing on building more of that tools</a></strong>. Some of them will be great and perhaps any of them will change our way of interacting with [<span style="font-style: italic;">... whatever...</span>]. Surely they will go on making good money for a while.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/S1RdWCZIsUI/AAAAAAAAAZM/ozYJR7ejRX4/s1600-h/nexus-one.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/S1RdWCZIsUI/AAAAAAAAAZM/ozYJR7ejRX4/s320/nexus-one.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428066084069093698" border="0" /></a>All of that has been happening in the PC because, to be honest, we have been using our expensive smartphones (which many of us renew every year) to make phone calls (and lately photos). <span style="font-weight: bold;">We have been spending 400€ on mobile devices to make [<span style="font-style: italic;">very expensive</span>] phone calls</span>. The <span style="font-style: italic;">ever connected</span> <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/">Apple iPhone</a> started to change the landscape and this week <a href="http://www.google.com/phone">they are starting to sell their own device, the Nexus One</a>, which uses their <a href="http://www.android.com/">Android open source mobile operating system</a> and is manufactured by <a href="http://www.htc.com/">HTC Corporation</a><br /><br />As they have successfully done many times, they aim to <em>boost a new era in user's experience while interacting with the internet, now through mobile devices</em>. The simple three-word-motto is quite clear "web meets phone"<br /><br />But this time there is remarkable difference: <strong>it is so weird to see Google selling hardware to consumers</strong>, and <a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/01/11/android-the-wild-west-of-the-smartphone-space/">they are not used to this not-so-digital-business in which they have to deal with customers (real people)</a>. So I think <strong>there is a chance Google can fail</strong>, and that is news, isn't it? At least, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/186796/google_nexus_ones_first_week_of_sales_were_weak_report_says.html">sales started weak...</a>Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-46250781790194668912009-12-17T09:03:00.001+01:002009-12-17T09:44:35.602+01:00Be serious: The Internet it is not just about "their culture"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8183326555608474228&postID=4625078179019466891#"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SylbdPX5XxI/AAAAAAAAAY8/OvghRcqVIaE/s320/Save-the-Internet.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415960584790826770" border="0" /></a>I was not keen to participate in the debate started a couple of weeks ago around <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/12/aprender-internet-en-un-par-de-tardes.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sustainability-Economy-Act-hidden-reforms</span> affecting the internet in Spain</a>. (Have a quick look at <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23manifiesto"><span style="font-style: italic;">#manifiesto debate</span> in Twitter</a>, search <a href="http://blogsearch.google.es/blogsearch?hl=es&scoring=d&ie=UTF-8&q=manifiesto+defensa+derechos+fundamentales+internet&btnG=Buscar+blogs&lr=">Blogs</a>, browse the group in <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=186879394498">Facebook</a>, etc). But <strong>the Ministry of Culture went too far, trying to skip some basic rules that citizens expect from their governments in democracy</strong> (listening to all interested parties, explaining the real extension of the reforms, ...) <span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span><strong>hey did not even communicate the existence of the amendment!!!!</strong> Thanks to the malicious way they are intending to change the law, <a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/12/02/spanish-activists-is.html">the controversy even reached Boing Boing</a>, and <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/04/038259/Spains-Proposed-Internet-Law-Sparks-Protest-Change">Slashdot</a>, two very remarkable hits considering the insignificant relevance of our country in the internet.<br /><br />Just in case you do not want to go further reading this post, <em>I am not going to write about freedom of speech, nor about fundamental rights</em>. Perhaps only a little bit about Intellectual Property, but in a broader sense than these <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Coalici%C3%B3n_de_Creadores_e_Industrias_de_Contenidos"><span style="font-style: italic;">interested-guys-of-the-culture</span></a> try to <span style="font-style: italic;">define</span> the concept (as if they were the only creators...) If you are expecting that, you should follow A-list bloggers like <a href="http://www.escolar.net/MT/archives/category/copyfight">Escolar</a>, <a href="http://www.merodeando.com/tag/manifiesto">Julio Alonso</a>, <a href="http://www.enriquedans.com/tag/manifesto">Enrique Dans</a>, and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=186879394498">most of the other 150K "<span style="font-style: italic;">activists</span>"</a>.<br /><br />Of course it does not matter at all if Escolar, Dans and the others who were generously <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/12/03/navegante/1259828378.html">spending (or wasting) their precious time at the Ministry</a> represent the internet community or not. <span style="font-style: italic;">Where was I when such a thing was founded</span>? Fortunately they must be intelligent enough not to worry about that meaningless debate.<br /><br />What everybody seems to be forgetting about is that we are <strong>wasting the energies that we need to build a real knowledge-based economy, founded on innovative, competitive and productive industries</strong>. Instead of that we are increasing <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/06/spain-building-new-economic-model-brick.html"> the gap with truly non-bricked based economies</a>, and trying to <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/12/aprender-internet-en-un-par-de-tardes.html">enforce the shift in our economy by law</a>. What kind of future do we deserve?<br /><br />What I have really missed in all the <a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&source=hp&btnG=Google+Search#hl=en&source=hp&q=Manifiesto+%E2%80%9CEn+defensa+de+los+derechos+fundamentales+en+internet%E2%80%9D&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=1&cad=b"><span style="font-style: italic;">manifiesto mess</span></a> is a strong voice coming from the Ministry of Industry saying something like: <strong>Please <span style="font-style: italic;">kids of the culture</span>, leave the internet alone. We are not going to let you kill our weak <span style="font-style: italic;">internet-based-innovation</span> in the name of your more than questionable interests</strong>.<br /><br />Do they really think that people do not go to the cinema to watch <a href="http://www.libertaddigital.com/sociedad/las-subvenciones-al-cine-espanol-superan-la-recaudacion-en-las-taquillas-1276353363/">over-subsidized-spanish movies</a> because of <acronym title="Peer to peer">P2P</acronym>?. Juas!. As everybody knows since ever, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT3ah4ygklI">The Internet is for porn</a>, not for downloading their second-class products.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/anos/desaparece/habra/canciones/musica/elpepucul/20091201elpepucul_4/Tes">Music will not disappear in 5 years</a>. It will be a stronger industry because <strong>innovators will figure out more ways of making money in the new and global economic scenario, powered by the internet</strong>. Of course business models based on the selling of overcharged dvds will disappear. But this kind of transformations happen in every other activity sector when a crisis overcomes or a disruptive change happens. And <strong>change and crisis have always happened</strong> and <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/03/innovar-o-innovar-esta-es-la-cuestin.html">the only way to survive is innovation</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SylbRotIgDI/AAAAAAAAAY0/9Y38HE_FsnA/s1600-h/Hands-Off-Internet.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 113px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SylbRotIgDI/AAAAAAAAAY0/9Y38HE_FsnA/s320/Hands-Off-Internet.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415960385432354866" border="0" /></a><strong>And yes, I am really upset. Please keep your hands off the internet!!!!!</strong>. You are going to kill our little opportunity to reach developed economies. <strong>Yes, <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/03/crear-en-tiempos-revueltos.html">Intellectual Property needs to be redefined</a>, but this is not the way</strong>. All the creators should have something to say because it is not only a matter of <span style="font-style: italic;">culture</span>. And surely <strong><acronym title="Intellectual Property">IP</acronym> must be transformed in something else, apart from giving a right to sue people or closing websites</strong>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-55526221318269601712009-12-03T15:31:00.002+01:002009-12-03T16:14:47.022+01:00"Aprender internet" en un par de tardes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/Sxb3K7Oh6LI/AAAAAAAAAXg/osp_NyxgazE/s1600-h/online-orders-companies-europe.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/Sxb3K7Oh6LI/AAAAAAAAAXg/osp_NyxgazE/s320/online-orders-companies-europe.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410783769401616562" border="0" /></a>¿No hay algún ministro que pueda dedicar un par de tardes a explicar al presidente y al resto de sus colegas <strong>de qué va esto de internet</strong>?<br /><br />Está claro que <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/papel/2003/09/25/economia/1481902.html">las dos tardes de economía</a> de hace unos años <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/mundodinero/2009/11/13/economia/1258100702.html">no nos están llevando por el buen camino</a>. <strong>Esta última ocurrencia de <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/economia/Gobierno/deja/lado/grandes/reformas/Ley/Economia/Sostenible/elpepieco/20091128elpepieco_2/Tes">cambiar el modelo productivo por ley (de economía sostenible)</a> , ya es bastante cómica en sí misma como para entrar a discutir unas u otras reformas</strong>.<br /><br />Lo que no resulta tan cómico es que sin avisar, se incluyan <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Nace/policia/cultural/Internet/elpeputec/20091202elpepicul_2/Tes">medidas que afectan a los usuarios de Internet</a> y que, sobre todo, <strong>nada tienen que ver con el objetivo de la Ley</strong>. Como mínimo está bastante feo y como mínimo es ciertamente cuestionable el espíritu democrático que demuestra un gobierno (socialista para más inri) que actúa así.<br /><br /><strong>En España no tenemos futuro digital</strong>. Es mucho más fácil que intenten generar una nueva <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/06/spain-building-new-economic-model-brick.html">burbuja inmobiliaria</a> que una <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/03/open-economy.html">economía basada en la innovación</a>. A lo mejor así salimos antes de la crisis y además la gente corriente vuelve a ser feliz contando a los vecinos y familiares "<span style="font-style: italic;">cuánto ha subido su piso</span>".Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-3484778556457099052009-11-14T23:00:00.000+01:002009-11-14T23:12:55.589+01:00Al FICOD09 para hablar sobre Euroalert.netCuando el año pasado os comenté que <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/11/chris-anderson-estar-en-el-ficod-2008.html"> mi interés por el <acronym title="Foro Internacional de Contenidos Digitales">FICOD</acronym> 08 se debía fundamentalmente a mi trabajo en Euroalert.net</a>, no podía imaginarme que sólo un año después iba a volver al <a href="http://www.ficod2009.es/">FICOD 09</a>, pero esta vez como ponente invitado a una mesa redonda sobre Open Government, precisamente para hablar de <a href="http://euroalert.net/">Euroalert</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.euroalert.net/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 52px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/Sv7J-iQTXcI/AAAAAAAAAXY/O_O2OK2sfHc/s320/euroalert-550x90-72ppp.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403978679075429826" border="0" /></a>En este último año Euroalert.net ha crecido para consolidarse como una autoridad en <strong>información sobre la <acronym title="Unión Europea">UE</acronym></strong> y hoy cuenta con una amplia red de suscriptores a los que suministra contenidos en varios países. En muchos casos se trata de organizaciones de referencia que van desde la <a href="http://www.yorkshire-forward.com/">Agencia de Desarrollo del Gobierno de Yorkshire</a>, la <a href="http://www.londonchamber.co.uk/">Cámara de Comercio e Industria de Londres</a> o el <a href="http://www.ccir.ro/">Consejo Superior de Cámaras de Comercio de Rumanía</a> que <strong>aprecian la propuesta de valor que ofrece Euroalert partir de contenidos de información públicos como son las <a href="http://euroalert.net/callsindex.aspx">oportunidades de financiación en la UE</a> o las <a href="http://euroalert.net/contractsindex.aspx">licitaciones públicas de todos los países de la Unión</a></strong>.<br /><br />Probablemente por ello <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/blogs_ing/-/blogs/72588?_33_redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fblogs_ing">Red.es, como organizadora del FICOD y que conocía Euroalert a través del proyecto Aporta</a>, ha considerado interesante que estuviese presente como ponente en la mesa redonda <em>"<a href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/ponencia/1981">O-gov: generando valor a través de la reutilización de la información del sector público</a>"</em>, para contribuir con nuestra visión de las oportunidades que representa un mercado que sólo en la UE se estima entre 26 y 47 millones de euros.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ficod.es/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 70px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SvhaxSkQFcI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/-Pv_cDOdFJ0/s320/ficod2009.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402167555874887106" border="0" /></a>La mesa redonda tendrá lugar el día<span style="font-weight: bold;"> 19 de noviembre a las 15.30 en la sala 2</span>, estará moderada por David Cierco Jiménez de Parga, Director General para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información y voy a tener el provilegio de compartir mesa con:<br /><ul><li>Juan Pelegrín - Unidad de Acceso a la Información de la <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/index_en.htm">Dirección General de la Sociedad de la Información</a> de la Comisión Europea<br /></li><li>Carlos Alonso - Presidente de <a href="http://www.asedie.es/">ASEDIE</a></li><li><a href="http://www.mdrpartners.com/index.php?q=team/chris-corbin">D. Chris Corbin</a> - Analista Financiero en <a href="http://www.epsiplus.net/"><acronym title="Public Sector Information">PSI Platform</acronym></a></li><li><a href="http://www.fundacionctic.org/web/contenidos/es/personal/personal_0016.html">Carlos de la Fuente</a> - Director del Área de Tecnología de <a href="http://www.fundacionctic.org/">Fundación CTIC</a> y representante en el <a href="http://www.w3c.org/">W3C</a> advisory Comitee<br /></li><li><a href="http://jaime.gomezobregon.com/">Jaime Gómez Obregón</a> responsable de <a href="http://www.elpreciodelagasolina.com/">El Precio de la Gasolina</a></li><li>Ángel Maldonado Elvira - Fundador de <a href="http://www.legalsolo.com/">Legalsolo.com</a><br /></li></ul><a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/02/web-20-business-model.html">El año pasado tuve la oportunidad de documentar el modelo de negocio de Euroalert</a> en el capítulo "Doing Business by selling free services" del libro "<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0387858946?ie=UTF8&tag=jlm-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0387858946">Web 2.0: The Business model</a>", junto con Jose Emilio Labra, y en el FICOD espero que la experiencia de Euroalert.net resulte una contribución interesante para el objetivo de la mesa redonda. Aunque <a href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/es/ponencia/1849">seguro que no tendrá el glamour de la ponencia de Kevin Spacey</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://es.blog.euroalert.net/search/label/FICOD%202009">En el blog de Euroalert tenéis más información sobre mi participación en el FICOD 2009</a>. La <a href="http://www.ficod.es/ficod/inscription">inscripción</a> puede realizarse online de forma gratuita y también está disponible el <a href="http://www.ficod2009.es/ficod/programa">programa completo</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nos vemos el miércoles 19 en el FICOD 09</span>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-38778601430698125662009-08-22T09:50:00.002+02:002009-08-22T09:51:29.889+02:00Competing globaly with (poor) local resources<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Map#Atlas_index_of_entries"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 250px; float: right; height: 129px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372367915589660834" alt="WikiMedia Commons Atlas" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/So58J7ttcKI/AAAAAAAAAXA/1T9UcgXdab8/s320/250px-BlankMap-World-alt.png" border="0" /></a><strong>Companies use resources (inputs) to produce products and services (outputs) that they sell to other companies or individuals (market) with the aim of obtaining a profit</strong>. Some of the resources used as inputs by companies are called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity"><strong>commodities</strong></a> because anyone can easily be supplied with them at the same price, quality, etc. <span style="font-style: italic;">Nothing new here (I am not getting a tenure for this).</span><br /><br />Other resources can not be taken for granted, they are the base of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_advantage">competitive advantage</a> of the company. These are for example, resources you manage to be supplied with and that your competitors can not get in the same conditions as you could. Your customers like this, (your great services) and that is the reason why the market lets you survive. <span style="font-style: italic;">Nothing new here either (Definitely I am not getting a </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/">Nobel in Economics</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> for this)</span>.<br /><br />Theoretically, <strong>commodities do not make a difference for a company</strong>, even less in the digital economy but the point is that, sadly, the <strong>place where a company is based can be a big threat for its competitiveness</strong>. The <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/03/open-economy.html">Open Economy</a> lets competitors interact regardless their location, but reality is that companies are not competing in the same conditions when we look at what they call commodities at their locations.<br /><br />Lets look at a few examples in the digitally-developed-world like <acronym title="United Kingdom">UK</acronym>, Germany or <acronym title="United States of America">USA</acronym>, that are a big deal for companies in <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/06/spain-building-new-economic-model-brick.html">countries with a brick-based-economy like Spain</a>:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bandwidth</span> is the more obvious one. Cloud computing advances and its amazing possibilities are based on the assumption that Mbits are free (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre#.22Free_as_in_beer.22_vs_.22Free_as_in_speech.22"><span style="font-style: italic;">as in beer, not as in speech</span></a>), or at least, <span style="font-style: italic;">too cheap to meter</span>. Sadly <acronym title="Infraestructure as a Service">IaaS</acronym> services will not take off in countries like Spain where traditional datacenter services never reached competitive scales.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brilliant engineers</span> are also near to be a commodity in some locations, but as there are not many <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford">Stanford</a>s and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley">Silicon Valley</a>s</span>, <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/09/alguien-quiere-ser-ingeniero.html">innovative people tend to migrate to that places</a>. Again, the breach will be deeper for companies located in small or medium cities like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid">Valladolid</a>.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ubiquitous network access</span>: if you go a few Km away from the city and it is not possible to get a decent Internet connection then <strong>Information Society will not speak Spanish for decades</strong>. Of course your possibilities for working in mobility are really short as you can not be out of the office. (disclaimer: <span style="font-style: italic;">this post has been written over a <acronym title="General packet radio service">GPRS</acronym> connection with a lot of pain.</span>)<br /></li></ul>From my point of view some of these barriers could be easily mitigated with a <span style="font-style: italic;">good offering at the local airports</span>. But if you have a look at the <a href="http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?Language=ES_ES&SiteName=VuelosTiempoReal&accion=coincidente&c=Page&cid=1048607593385&mov=S&pagename=Herramientas%2FVTR%2FVuelosTiempoReal&accion=coincidente">poor flight offering of an <span style="font-style: italic;">international airport</span> like Valladolid</a> with 3 or 4 flights (of course not daily) you will never consider that remote place to base your company if you plan to interact with customers, providers and staff in other parts of the world.<br /><br />Most of <strong>these resources are not very complex (not even expensive) to develop at a regional level and the impact in the local digital economy is huge</strong>. Some regions are understanding this and in a few years their companies will be nearer to be competitive in the global digital scenery. <span style="font-style: italic;">Unfortunately <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_and_Le%C3%B3n">the region</a> where I live and my company is based will not</span>.<br /><br />Until Spanish governments, no matter national or regional, get a better understanding of the Open Economy, reality is that good engineers will migrate, innovative companies will look for a better place to base their headquarters and <strong>innovation and internationalization will be only the buzz words in speeches during the global crisis</strong>.</div>Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-33397922912065588072009-07-13T09:37:00.004+02:002009-07-13T11:26:02.757+02:00El Proyecto Aporta: transparencia y reutilización de la información del sector público<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aporta.es/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357104143424675986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 249px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 96px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SlhB1dWZ4JI/AAAAAAAAAW4/ofUo4rBTgGc/s320/proyecto-aporta.png" border="0" /></a>El <a href="http://www.aporta.es/">proyecto Aporta</a> es una de esas iniciativas de la administración pública que no salen en los grandes medios de comunicación. No abre telediarios ni tiene un hueco en las parrillas informativas de la gran actualidad del <a href="http://www.mityc.es/">Ministerio de Industria</a> como el <a href="http://www.mityc.es/es-ES/GabinetePrensa/NotasPrensa/Paginas/bombillas070709.aspx">programa de reparto de bombillas de bajo consumo</a> o el <a href="http://www.mityc.es/es-ES/GabinetePrensa/NotasPrensa/Paginas/MotoE030709.aspx">plan de ayudas a la compra de motocicletas</a>. De hecho apenas ha tenido repercusión en la blogosfera tecnológica...<br /><br />Su objetivo es aparentemente simple, quizá incluso obvio: <strong>el proyecto Aporta nace con el objetivo de fomentar la reutilización de la información generada por el sector público por parte de empresas y ciudadanos</strong>. Sin embargo, promover la cultura de reutilización de la información en el ámbito de la Administración pública y concienciar de la importancia y el valor que tiene para el sector privado tener esta información a su disposición, <strong>es un objetivo que de gran impacto para la economía digital, para la <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/03/open-economy.html">Open Economy</a></strong>.<br /><br />Entre otras actuaciones, el Proyecto Aporta ha editado la <a href="http://www.aporta.es/web/guest/form_descarga">Guía Aporta sobre reutilización de la información del sector público</a>. La guía es un documento práctico que recorre todos los <em>aspectos a considerar por los responsables de la gestión de contenidos de los organismos públicos para la implementación de iniciativas de puesta a disposición de contenidos para su reutilización</em>.<br /><br />El proyecto, financiado por el <a href="http://www.planavanza.es/">Plan Avanza 2</a> y desarrollado por la <a href="http://www.mityc.es/telecomunicaciones/es-ES/SecretariaDeEstado/Paginas/Secretar%C3%ADadeEstado.aspx"><acronym title="Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información">SETSI</acronym></a> a través de la <a href="http://red.es/">entidad pública empresarial Red.es</a>, <strong>finaliza en septiembre, con sus modestos objetivos iniciales ampliamente cumplidos aunque con mucho trabajo por delante si se desea apostar decididamente por la reutilización de la información del sector público</strong>.<br /><br />Y eso es lo que parecía cuando se afirmaba entre los objetivos iniciales que se pretendía <font style="FONT-STYLE: italic">situarnos en la vanguardia europea en materia de reutilización de la información del sector público</font> y <font style="FONT-STYLE: italic">contribuir a la recuperación económica de nuestro país</font>. Sin embargo, dejando a un lado las muy comprometidas iniciativas como la de la <a href="http://www.catastro.meh.es/">Dirección General del Catastro</a>, el <a href="http://www.ine.es/"><acronym title="Instituto Nacional de Estadística">INE</acronym></a> o el <a href="http://www.cnig.es/">Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica</a> <strong>en España actualmente es prácticamente imposible obtener información del sector público en un formato en el que pueda ser reutilizado</strong>.<br /><br />Esperemos que con la finalización del proyecto Aporta, sus objetivos no caigan de nuevo en el olvido y que se <strong>dote de presupuesto y continuidad a la iniciativa a través de nuevos proyectos, o quizá mediante la creación de una agencia especializada</strong> como la <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/"><acronym title="Office of Public Sector Information">OPSI</acronym> del Gobierno de Reino Unido</a>, encargada de desarrollar todas las políticas de gestión de la información del sector público.<br /><br />El instrumento es lo de menos, lo importante es que se <strong>impulse decididamente la exposición a los ciudadanos y a las empresas de la información del sector público a través de <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2007/05/estndares-abiertos-sencillamente-porque.html">estándares abiertos</a> que sean reutilizables y que nos permitan interoperar localizando, utilizando, compartiendo e incluso comercializando esta información</strong>. Toda la inversión que se realice tendrá un gran impacto sobre esa <font style="FONT-STYLE: italic">economía a la que se dice que hay que cambiar el modelo productivo</font> y no sólo para el sector de los contenidos digitales o las empresas infomediarias. </div>Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-91606588732426277072009-05-31T18:00:00.000+02:002009-05-31T18:02:18.053+02:00Tanenbaun was right about the limits of bandwidth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 93px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SiKjVZOwv4I/AAAAAAAAAWI/yDgBPNC3Vlk/s320/aws-import-export.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342011695960211330" border="0" /></a>It is a well known joke between the internet geeks that <strong>there is no faster and more reliable way of delivering data than storing on a external device at origin and then take the car and go to destination to load them</strong>. No ADSLs (2 or 2+), not even optical fibre to the home, just the biggest mass storage system you have and traditional transport.<br /><br />When I first read that comparison was in a text book (written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum">Andrew S. Tanenbaun</a>) titled "<i>Computer Networks" (ISBN 0-13-066102-3) </i>. I was a freshman engineering student and state-of-the-art modems where then 9600 bps in Spain. I think the Megabyte had not yet been invented and it was sort of a mythological concept. In those dark times (1993), it was indeed true and even exchanging floppy disks was faster than the internet but we all thought that it was just a matter of time.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://aws.amazon.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 96px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SiKjVGqUvwI/AAAAAAAAAWA/1EohkWUwdo8/s320/aws.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342011690975543042" border="0" /></a>Well, again I could not have been more mistaken. This <span style="font-style: italic;">joke</span>, has recently become a business. Amazon launched (still in beta) a new service called <strong><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/"><acronym title="Amazon Web Services">AWS</acronym> Import/Export</a> which basically implements the delivering of big amounts of data onto or off the cloud bypassing the Internet</strong>. That is to say, using the postal system!!!<br /><br />Amazon argues that for significant data sets, <span class="caps">AWS</span> Import/Export is faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading connectivity. In my opinion <strong>Amazon's new service says a lot about the state of the network and about what can be expected from its improvement in the near future</strong>.<br /><br />Sadly, Tanenbaun was right about bandwidth, and <em>postal service has officially become a new network operator</em> with this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering">peering</a> agreement with Amazon. :)Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-22357713494797251582009-03-14T09:24:00.026+01:002009-03-15T21:59:51.404+01:00When the web was backed up on a floppy diskOn Friday afternoon, <a href="http://www.cern.ch/"><acronym title="Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire">CERN</acronym></a> celebrated the 20th anniversary of the moment were the web was born. The document "<a href="http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html">Information Management: a Proposal</a>" that sir <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a> handed to his boss in March 1989, and his approval to go forward with his <span style="font-style: italic;">vague but exciting proposal</span>, triggered <strong>the development of one of the most successful inventions of the human history</strong>.<br /><br /><a title="March 2009: a celebration of 20 years of the web" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://info.cern.ch/www20/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 33px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/Sbtx8KBo32I/AAAAAAAAAV4/aarv1fXeALE/s320/www20_ad.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312965463710949218" border="0" /></a><br />The decision of making <strong>web technologies available free of charge as open standards</strong> through <a href="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Consortium</a> has probably been the most important factor impacting success and global adoption of the Web. I hope that all those, who are trying to lock nets, protocols and user's rights, or applying unfair taxes to its free use, take a comprehensive look back at history and ever understand the damage they are causing to all of us.<br /><br />I'd like to post the video with the celebration that the CERN webcasted on Friday but I'm afraid it is not still available or at least I have not been able to find it, except as a pay service at euronews.net.<br /><br />You can find there curiosities like the <a href="http://info.cern.ch/images/0108006.jpg">original computer used as the first web server, browser and editor</a> (they even connected it to a projector!!!), their first thoughts on things like <a href="http://info.cern.ch/NextBrowser1.html">the first browser address bar</a>, (which they did not thought it would be useful), or the opinions of the original team about the unfortunate name they gave to the <acronym title="World Wide Web">WWW</acronym> (they are still regretting it)<br /><br />And my favorite one. They explained <strong>how Tim Berners-Lee usually stored the whole world wide web on a floppy disk</strong> because he was not confident of corporate back ups.<br /><br />The video contains several funny pearls especially for all those, like myself that have been passionate about the Web this last 20 years; and perhaps tried to contribute a bit to the development of this <strong>extraordinary vehicle for innovation, communication and collaboration that is even changing some principles of world economy and business models</strong> ... bringing us the so-called <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/">open economy</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Happy 20th birthday World Wide Web!!!!!</strong> ...Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-12956772344339033892009-02-18T10:59:00.000+01:002009-02-18T11:00:03.453+01:00Web 2.0: The business model<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0387858946?ie=UTF8&tag=jlm-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0387858946"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3xgUJ2UxK-Q/SZgACpbv4WI/AAAAAAAACD4/oP-TCaWdUfI/s320/web-20-business-model.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302988606710735202" border="0" /></a>Hace casi un año escribí junto con <a href="http://www.di.uniovi.es/%7Elabra/">Jose Emilio Labra Gayo</a> un capítulo para un libro acerca de los nuevos modelos de negocio que están surgiendo en la era Web 2.0. El libro lo ha publicado la editorial estadounidense <a href="http://www.springer.com/">Springer</a> con el título <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0387858946?ie=UTF8&tag=jlm-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0387858946">Web 2.0: The Business Model</a>, y en él se incluyen aportaciones de investigadores que desarrollan sus carreras profesionales en universidades y compañías de todo el mundo, desde Australia a los Estados Unidos, pasando por China, Portugal, Países Bajos, Dinamarca o España. La compleja labor editorial de coordinar varias decenas de autores dispersos por todo el mundo ha sido posible gracias al gran trabajo realizado por personas de la experiencia de <a href="http://www.miltiadislytras.net/">Miltiadis D. Lytras</a> , <a href="http://olaf.crema.unimi.it/">Ernesto Damiani</a> y <a href="http://directo.uniovi.es/catalogo/DetalleProfesor.asp?idprofesor=29313">Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos</a>.<br /><br />Labra y yo aportamos el capítulo "<a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/x58wq3703537j480/">Doing business by selling free services</a>", construido a partir de la ponencia "<a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/05/y-sin-saberlo-celebramos-la-opennessde.html">Hacer negocios vendiendo servicios a 0 €</a>" que hice en mayo en el <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/04/en-globaltech-08-hablando-sobre-modelos.html">Globaltech 08 de León</a>, donde coincidimos y en la que se gestó esta colaboración. En él hacemos un <strong>análisis de los modelos de negocio de la gran variedad de servicios que se han popularizado en internet bajo la tendencia Web 2.0 y que se ofrecen de forma gratuita para el usuario</strong>.<br /><br />Hemos caracterizado en cuatro modelos de negocio, que no tienen por qué ser excluyentes, la forma en que estos servicios obtienen sus ingresos para subsidiar su uso gratuito por el usuario final: la venta de publicidad, el intercambio de trabajo, la colaboración en masa y el bien conocido "<a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2006/03/my_favorite_bus.html">freemium</a>". El capítulo termina con un caso de estudio, <a href="http://euroalert.net/">Euroalert.net</a>, que en mayor o menor medida combina todos los modelos de negocio que describimos y el cuál conozco particularmente bien por ser un servicio de la compañía en la que trabajo.<br /><br />Escribir con Labra y compartir publicación con otros investigadores de todo el mundo es una gran satisfacción para mí por el reconocimiento profesional que supone, pero sobre todo porque mi actividad principal, aunque muy centrada en la innovación, está en principio alejada de la investigación académica. Quizá la <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2009/01/lo-llamamos-bolonia-o-como-ustedes.html">colaboración Universidad empresa, que busca la reforma de Bolonia en sus postulados y que describía Juan Vicente hace unas semanas</a> sí que sea posible y quizá desde las empresas tengamos algo que aportar a las Universidades ...Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-64130522471701670242008-12-30T06:46:00.001+01:002008-12-30T06:50:22.881+01:00Como convertir la firma electronica en un instrumento inútil<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SVXun1C-EVI/AAAAAAAAAVo/9tDJMBRDTq8/s1600-h/autoridades-certificacion.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 185px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SVXun1C-EVI/AAAAAAAAAVo/9tDJMBRDTq8/s320/autoridades-certificacion.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284392105810989394" border="0" /></a>Una de las consecuencias más valiosas de un buen desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información debería ser una mayor <span style="font-style: italic;">productividad en nuestras actividades personales y por supuesto en nuestro trabajo dentro de nuestras organizaciones</span>.<br /><br />Tanto los ciudadanos como las empresas realizamos multitud de trámites con los poderes públicos, ya sean locales, autonómicos o estatales, en el cumplimiento de nuestras múltiples obligaciones. Por ello, el soporte telemático a todos estos procedimientos, es decir <strong>la administración electrónica o e-administración, parece un buen punto sobre el que invertir para conseguir un gran impacto mejorando la competitividad colectiva</strong>. La firma electrónica es una herramienta fundamental para la mejora de la seguridad de la información y la generación de confianza en las comunicaciones telemáticas, dado que permite efectuar una comprobación de la identidad del origen y de la integridad de la información intercambiada en estas operaciones.<br /><br />Obtener esta firma es un proceso relativamente sencillo para todos los ciudadanos españoles ya que la <a href="http://www.fnmt.es/">Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre</a> como entidad certificadora se encargada de emitir certificados de usuario de forma gratuita a través del <a href="http://www.cert.fnmt.es/">proyecto <acronym title="CERtificación ESpañola">CERES</acronym></a>. Además <a href="https://www11.mityc.es/prestadores/resultadoBusqueda.jsp?PAG_RETORNO=busquedaPrestadores.jsp%3FCOD_PRESTADOR%3Dninguno%26CATEGORIA_SERVICIO%3D&ID_PRESTADOR=ninguno&CATEGORIA_SERVICIO=">en España existen un buen número de prestadores de servicios de certificación</a> que van desde organizaciones profesionales, empresas privadas o administraciones públicas de distinto rango que prestan este servicio a sus respectivos colectivos con distintas condiciones y costes. Esto sería estupendo si en la mayor parte de los casos estas autoridades de certificación no se hubiesen constituido en islas que no interoperan entre sí. Nos encontramos con que <strong>la aceptación de unas u otras firmas electrónicas es completamente arbitraria en las aplicaciones que reconocen la identidad electrónica certificada por otros</strong>.<br /><br />Esto hace que se den situaciones como que para hacer un trámite con la <a href="http://www.ladipu.com/">Diputación de Alicante</a>, no sea válida una firma emitida por la <acronym title="Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre">FNMT</acronym> y que para presentar la declaración de la renta la <a href="http://www.aeat.es/">Agencia Tributaria</a> no acepte la firma que el mismo usuario se ha tenido que sacar ante la <a href="http://www.gva.es/">Generalitat Valenciana</a> para hacer el trámite anterior. Es decir, si vivo en una localidad de la provincia de Alicante necesito al menos dos firmas electrónicas para hacer trámites básicos. ¿Cuántas necesitaré en total si realmente quiero ser un ciudadano digital? <span style="font-weight: bold;">No parece una forma razonable de generar confianza y mucho menos de mejorar la competividad</span>.<br /><br />Si la desconfianza sobre las transacciones electrónicas se presenta habitualmente como el principal escollo hoy en día para el despegue de la Sociedad de la Información parece obvio que <strong>no sirve de mucho tener sistemas de firma electrónica aislados e incompatibles que nos obliguen a tener una firma diferente para cada operación que tenemos que realizar</strong>. La interoperabilidad es principio tan fundamental para construir cualquier servicio en internet que no debería ser necesario repetirlo tantas veces en Open Economy, mucho menos si hablamos de servicios prestados por organismos públicos.<br /><br />Y por supuesto .... Feliz fiestas a todos!!!! con los mejores deseos de Open Economy para 2009.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-79981284645845469502008-12-10T00:08:00.004+01:002008-12-10T00:14:04.358+01:00Chris Anderson no llenó el auditorio en la inauguración del FICOD 08<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/openeconomy.net/FICOD2008"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float:none; cursor: pointer;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SS0BVyBflEI/AAAAAAAAAUo/OffYCrO0kAA/s400/IMG_3740.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267757787200825890" border="0" /></a> <br />Volví tan decepcionado del <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.ficod2008.es/"><acronym title="Foro Internacional de Contenidos Digitales">FICOD 2008</acronym></a> que no he tenido ni ganas de contarlo (ya han pasado dos semanas). Aunque <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/11/chris-anderson-estar-en-el-ficod-2008.html">el programa no era muy alentador, salvo la apertura por parte de Chris Anderson</a>, siempre piensas que la cosa va a ser mejor de que lo esperas. Sin embargo, empecé a verlo claro cuando después de la inauguración oficial por parte de las autoridades (ministros, secretarios de estado, realeza y demás séquito, ...) la sala se quedó prácticamente vacía. ¿Quien se molesta en desplazarse sólo para esto? No lo entiendo.<br /><br />La ponencia de Chris Anderson como os digo no consiguió llenar el Auditorio del Palacio de Congresos, lo cuál es normal teniendo en cuenta que <strong>describe una realidad que no gusta a la mayor parte de los que participaban en el evento</strong>. Esta conferencia fue más bien una <strong>anomalía que afortunadamente se coló en el programa</strong>. En el web de FICOD podéis encontrar los videos de las conferencias si dáis con la configuración de tecnologías adecuada. Yo no lo he conseguido, <a href="http://mirror.ficod2008.es/fase1/webtv/interior2.html">pero parece que están ahí</a>. Seguimos empeñados en hacer cosas con tecnologías que no comprendemos o para las que no tenemos presupuesto, pero es un mal tan común que no vale la pena comentarlo. Si tenéis suerte y vuestro ordenador es exactamente igual que el del que lo hizo, podréis verlo. :(<br /><br />Después estuve en la sala donde se hablaba de modelos de negocio en la industria de la música... Ya sabéis, los usuarios somos unos ladrones, hay que regular/controlar/prohibir todo lo circula por internet, la cultura se muere porque todos robamos su trabajo, internet es un nido de piratas y/o cosas peores, etc. Blah, blah, blah. Cansino y decadente. Ya he perdido la esperanza y hasta el interés por este debate. Parece que no quieren enterarse de que <strong>el mundo cambia</strong>.... y eso nos afecta a todos, por muy cómoda que sea nuestra situación actual.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://dotsub.com/media/f3f91861-f623-4614-8c1e-c24a9a53b4cf/e/m" frameborder="0" height="347" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/openeconomy.net/FICOD2008"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240633826789072530" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SS0BXcfJgLI/AAAAAAAAAVA/xMJ6PDIMWN8/s400/IMG_3738.JPG" border="0" /></a>A falta de mejor incentivo, ni de otras cosas interesantes que contaros os dejo el detalle frívolo de <strong>los Príncipes de Asturias asistiendo a la conferencia de Chris Anderson</strong>, tan sólo unas filas por delante de mi asiento. Me gustó mucho el detalle. Ya sabéis que normalmente después de <span style="font-style: italic;">inaugurar el pantano</span> las autoridades suelen salir corriendo (supongo que a otro evento). Creo que hay que <strong>valorar que mostrasen interés por la economía digital como para dedicar una hora de su tiempo</strong>. Y además obligar al resto de autoridades a quedarse... Si fuese un gesto habitual quizá las personas que toman decisiones <a href="http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/player/346292.html">tendrían un poco más de criterio y nos insultarían menos con su ignorancia</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/openeconomy.net/FICOD2008"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SS0Bq7j9OnI/AAAAAAAAAVk/ZachZADBa4I/s288/IMG_3751.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267757787200825890" border="0" /></a> Por cierto, siguiendo esta línea frívola, os comentaré que también <strong>me traje el autógrafo de Chris Anderson en mi ejemplar de The Long Tail</strong>. Me crucé con él por casualidad en la salida, cuando salía caminando como un asistente más, aunque no tuve oportunidad de charlar un rato con él ya que según me dijo se iba directamente al aeropuerto.<br /><br />En definitiva, volví bastante decepcionado. La organización era excelente, pero creo que <strong>no se ha conseguido atraer a la parte <span style="font-style: italic;">viva</span> del sector los contenidos digitales</strong>. Además, apenas hubo oportunidad para el <span style="font-style: italic;">networking</span> aunque fue un placer volver a coincidir con <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5pGgnpuLuo">Carolina Grau</a>, ahora al frente del <a href="http://www.cenatic.es/"><acronym title="Centro Nacional de Referencia de Aplicación de las TIC basadas en fuentes abiertas">CENATIC</acronym></a>, peleando por el software Open Source o predicando en muchos desiertos según me temo... Vaya nuestro modesto apoyo desde Open Economy a la necesaria labor del centro.<br /><br />Y un anuncio que llevábamos postponiendo un tiempo, sobre todo por pereza, pero después de hablarlo con Juan Vicente, comenzaremos a <span style="font-style: italic;">postear </span>alternativamente en Inglés y en Español, según sea la temática, aunque me temo que <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/05/realmente-vale-la-pena-iniciar-un.html">no tardaremos en hacerlo sólo en inglés</a>.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-46439513927815399932008-11-14T07:23:00.000+01:002008-11-14T07:45:09.718+01:00Chris Anderson estará en el FICOD 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SRrVzDTnKiI/AAAAAAAAAUE/PIzycmxbLE4/s1600-h/ficod2008.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 60px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s9ShPiF-u-c/SRrVzDTnKiI/AAAAAAAAAUE/PIzycmxbLE4/s320/ficod2008.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267757787200825890" border="0" /></a>El día 25 asistiré al <a href="http://www.ficod2008.es/"><acronym title="Foro Internacional de Contenidos Digitales">FICOD</acronym> 2008</a>, que es el evento que se celebra en Madrid del 25 al 27 de Noviembre en torno a la industria de los contenidos digitales. En el foro se pretende aglutinar a profesionales de mundos tan diversos como la televisión, la publicidad, el cine, la música, los videojuegos, las publicaciones digitales, la formación online e incluso los contenidos generados por los usuarios.<br /><br />El abanico de lo que se suele llamarse <strong>sector de los contenidos digitales</strong> es tan amplio que parece un cajón de sastre en el que a mí me cuesta mucho ver qué tienen en común sectores tan diversos. Pero claro, como <span style="font-style: italic;">no soy gurú</span> supongo que será mi problema. Si añadimos que no soy muy amigo de las ferias patrias aunque lleven el <span style="font-style: italic;">apellido "</span>internacional" y menos si tienen una esponsorización pública tan fuerte como es el caso, os preguntaréis que hago hablado de este evento.<br /><br />El caso es que esta edición tiene un gran atractivo para mí, y es la <a href="http://www.ficod2008.es/fase1/10_programa.html">presencia de Chris Anderson en el <span style="font-style: italic;">keynote</span> de apertura</a>. Como sabéis la mayor parte de los artículos de Open Economy giran en torno a la <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/search/label/propiedad%20intelectual">propiedad intelectual del software y los contenidos digitales</a> y los <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/search/label/modelos%20de%20negocio">nuevos modelos de negocio en internet</a> así que como es lógico soy lector habitual del <a href="http://www.thelongtail.com/">blog de Chris Anderson</a>, devoré hace unos años su ahora <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401302378?tag=openeconomy-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1401302378&adid=0N89JWQWKT2CQRHRPBZX&">archiconocido libro The Long Tail</a> y espero con expectación <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/03/free-o-cmo-funcionan-los-nuevos-modelos.html">la salida de Free!, sobre el que ya adelanté hace unos meses un pequeño artículo</a>. Hasta me he permitido en alguna ocasión dar <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/05/y-sin-saberlo-celebramos-la-opennessde.html">conferencias acerca de los nuevos modelos de negocio en internet</a>.<br /><br />Además uno de los proyectos más interesantes (y en los que más ilusión he depositado personalmente) de los que estamos desarrollando en <a href="http://gateway-scs.es/">Gateway S.C.S.</a> tiene que ver con el <strong>aprovisionamiento y distribución de contenidos digitales a escala global a través de internet</strong>, pero de <a href="http://condelway.com/"><acronym title="Content Delivery Gateway">Condelway</acronym></a> y <a href="http://euroalert.net/">Euroalert</a> os hablaré otro día. Si unimos curiosidad personal e interés profesional, debería estar presente en la mayoría de los talleres que van a tener lugar en esos tres días. Lamentablemente, sólo me puedo permitir asistir durante la mañana del día 25 así que el resto <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=41873539904&ref=mf">lo tendré que seguir a través de facebook</a> y de la emisión que han prometido a través de internet.<br /><br />Lástima no poder asistir a la <a href="http://www.conferenciapropiedadintelectual.es/">conferencia internacional sobre los derechos de la propiedad intelectual en el entorno digital</a>, aunque echando un vistazo a los ponentes <a href="http://www.conferenciapropiedadintelectual.es/02_programa.html">me temo que no iba estar en absoluto de acuerdo con la visión restrictiva y parcial que seguramenente van a ofrecer del problema</a> en la mayor parte de las sesiones. Estaré atento a ver si hay suerte y me equivoco... estaré encantado de rectificar. Nos vemos en el FICOD 2008.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8183326555608474228.post-11895288125378602222008-09-12T15:46:00.004+02:002008-09-12T16:03:56.227+02:00Los coches de Google Street View en Valladolid<strong>Los coches que sacan las imágenes que después vemos en la herramienta <a href="http://http//maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/">Google Street View</a> de <a href="http://maps.google.es/">Google Maps</a>, están recorriendo las calles de Valladolid</strong>. Además, parece que dos personas que trabajan conmigo en <a href="http://gateway-scs.es/">Gateway <acronym title="Strategic Consultancy Services">S.C.S.</acronym></a> han quedado inmortalizados a pie de calle.<br /><br />Mi hermano <a href="http://www.openeconomy.net/2008/03/hoopshype-es-adquirido-por-fantasy.html">Ángel, que ya era <span style="font-style: italic;">famoso</span> por HoopsHype</a> y <a href="http://euroalert.net/">Mai, del equipo de Euroalert.net</a> podrían salir retratados en primer plano. No voy a dar más detalles acerca de la ubicación exacta para proteger su privacidad. :)<br /><br />Desde luego, es una oportunidad única para saber si el <a href="http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/281120/0/mapas/google/borrosos/">software que difumina los rostros para proteger la privacidad de las personas</a> funciona correctamente.Jose L. Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01173188789175543399noreply@blogger.com2