Blog Interdependent Thoughts maintained since 2002 by Ton Zijlstra.
European citizen in a networked world. Based in the Netherlands, living in Europe, working globally. There are no Others. There is just me and many of you.

I write about how our digital and networked world changes how we work, learn, decide and organize. I explore the tools and strategies that help us navigate the networked world. I am passionate about increasing people's ability to act (knowledge), and their ability to change (learning). Key-words: open data, open government, fablabs, making, complexity, networked agency, networked learning, ethics by design.

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On this day…

There are 7 posts found on this site published on October 10

October 10, 2020
- Ham Radio As Part Of The Dork Web Ham Radio As Part Of The Dork Web, and if it is a source of agency.
October 10, 2019
- A good presentation by @johndanaher I attended this afternoon at World Summit AI 2019 @WorldSummitAI #wsa19
- Data Ethics Baby Steps Date Ethics Baby Steps: how being there at the start of writing regulation allowed better data collection and less friction, making the ethical thing the most efficient thing. #ethicsbydesign
October 10, 2014
- At the Global e-Gov Forum with the World Bank, in Kazachstan These past days I was in Astana, Kazachstan. Next to enjoying the tremendous hospitality of the Kazachs, and being impressed with their sense of pride and urge to succeed, I spent my time sharing my open government data experiences of the past 6 years. The World Bank asked me to keynote at a roundtable with […]
October 10, 2012
- 60 Euro For 2 T-Shirts And 1 Story Yesterday we went to Malmö in Sweden to have dinner with Olle and Luisa, which is the stuff for other legends. We went a bit earlier to do some “Swedification” of my wardrobe. At some point we found ourselves in a tiny store, called TShirt. The guy running the store (“although it means I don’t […]
October 10, 2005
- Information Strategy: My Routine, Inputs In previous posts I showed how I filter information, and which tools I use. This posting is about the actual routine I have. I will start with the inputs, and keep the processing and output parts for later postings.RSSMost important input is my RSS reader.I follow a bit over 300 RSS feeds at the moment, […]
October 10, 2004
- Announcing BlogWalk Five: Umea, Sweden With pleasure we announce the fifth BlogWalk meeting! Date: November 11th (afternoon) and November 12th (whole day). On Thursday November 11th, all BlogWalk participants are invited to join a seminar by Howard Rheingold, which starts at 15:00 at Umea University. Friday, November 12th will be spent with a BlogWalk meeting. Place: Umea University, Sweden. Stephanie […]

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