http://www.zylstra.org/blog/ en-us 2010-08-03T09:25:26+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/08/open_government_3.html Streetfilms have made a great video making the case for opening up (US) public transit data. It nicely illustrates what can be done if private people have access to public information in a reusable way. (what is reusable public service... Effectivity Ton 2010-08-03T09:25:26+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/08/european_cognit.html Last Friday I found myself in Luton, right next to the airport, for a day of interaction with ten fellow Cognitive Edge practitioners. On the invitation of Tony Quinlan and the entire Narrate crew, this was hopefully the first... communities Ton 2010-08-02T10:44:25+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/07/announcing_open.html Together with several civil servants of my home city we've been busy getting open government data on the agenda locally. We did a session during last month's Open Innovation Festival, and are now trying to move it forward with a... misc Ton 2010-07-16T13:53:34+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/07/fablab_arnhem_b.html Today the FabLab Arnhem officially opened. FabLab Arnhem is housed at the HAN, university for applied sciences in Arnhem. With great enthusiasm a large group of people at the HAN worked to make it happen, and today that effort came... technology Ton 2010-07-09T08:34:01+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/07/public_transpor.html In a regular week I travel quite a bit within the Netherlands. Thanks to the extensive rail network, I do most of that by train (using the car maybe once per 2 months). For some of my destinations I can... misc Ton 2010-07-04T21:45:51+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/06/ec_psi_work_gro.html Yesterday I was in Luxembourg to participate in the EC's PSI Work Group meeting. The current state of open PSI and open government data was discussed, with some 16 of the EU member states present. It seems Denmark, UK, Spain,... conferences Ton 2010-06-25T22:16:57+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/05/my_guest_bloggi.html Guest blogging about Open PSI in the EU In the past weeks I have been writing a few articles as guest blogger at the EU's EPSI platform, dedicated to European efforts to open up public service information (PSI) and open... misc Ton 2010-05-28T15:07:15+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/05/help_shape_a_du.html Government data catalogues are an impulse for Open Data The call for a Dutch catalogue of open government data is getting louder. Not surprising with the examples already available from the USA, UK, Australia, Spain, and Worldbank. At the same... Innovation Ton 2010-05-26T16:48:31+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/05/empathic_civili.html Great little video I found in the blog of Viv McWaters (go have a look at her blog as well!) The story line follows much of what I've been writing a good while back about how the interconnectedness internet and... social networking Ton 2010-05-22T11:39:12+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/05/working_on_stuf.html This posting is based on, and an extension of, my opening remarks from last Friday, when my 40th birthday unconference took place. The theme was 'Working on Stuff that Matters' What is stuff that matters? The question 'am I working... conferences Ton 2010-05-19T22:30:32+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/05/looking_back_on.html What a great week it was last week! Looking back, I feel we really celebrated. First on Friday with the unconference 'Working on Stuff that Matters', and then the BBQ party on Saturday. My head is still spinning from everything... conferences Ton 2010-05-19T15:07:30+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/05/shaping_my_birt.html On May 12th I will turn 40. As already announced Elmine and I will celebrate my birthday in two ways. On May 14th we organize an unconference around the theme 'Working on Stuff that Matters', and on May 15th we... Ton 2010-05-03T22:50:02+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/05/share_your_proj.html At the end of this month the WCIT 2010 world congress on IT will take place. I heard it describe as 'the Olymp of IT worldwide', and this is the 17th edition, but I never heard of it before. This... conferences Ton 2010-05-03T18:39:56+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/04/fablab_document.html There was a large FabLab presence at the SHiFT conference in Lisbon last week. Part of that was a documentary about FabLab. This 14 minute film was made by Elmine Wijnia, based on 2 days of filming in 2 FabLabs,... conferences Ton 2010-04-21T17:32:32+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/04/shift_2010_make.html My talk 'Maker Households' was the closing key-note of the SHiFT conference last Saturday. This posting gives you the slides (with text) and the video of my talk (made by Siert Wijnia with his iPhone. Thanks!). The video starts about... conferences Ton 2010-04-20T18:19:06+01:00