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 5 posts found on this site published on June 20

June 20, 2019
- Open Data for Integrity and Anti Corruption This week I provided a training session on how open data can play a role in public governance integrity and in fighting corruption. The Hague Academy is hosting a group of 11 participants from a wide variety of countries (Nepal, Uganda, Nigeria, Colombia, Northern Iraq, Northern Macedonia, Jordania, Indonesia) for a two week training course. […]
- Unconference Ripples Spreading Outwards Nine years ago, during/after Pedro’s SHiFT conference, we were ‘stuck’ in Portugal due to the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud. Lane Becker was one of the other speakers attending and Elmine told him about our birthday unconference and how we were planning a new edition that spring. Two years later, in the fall of 2012, we […]
June 20, 2006
- SocialText Going Open Source I have been watching, and sometimes using SocialText ever since Ross Mayfield and his group started it. In the beginning I was enthusiastic about the wiki, and feeding back experiences and needs and wants in terms of functionality. I may not have been following quite close enough, but over time it felt like SocialText didn’t […]
June 20, 2005
- Scoble is Pushing the Membrane Robert Scoble was one of the key note speakers at the Reboot conference last week in Copenhagen. Like some 1500 of his colleagues at Microsoft he blogs frequently and openly on issues that are work related. Not always does what he blogs fit well with his company, he can be very critical of his employer, […]
June 20, 2003
- A ja! After a longer period of time of blogsilence, meanwhile probably being terribly busy, Andrea Janssen returns to posting to her blog. It’s good to see you posting again, Andrea!