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 6 posts found on this site published on May 28

May 28, 2018
- GDPR as QA Today I was at a session at the Ministry for Interior Affairs in The Hague on the GDPR, organised by the center of expertise on open government. It made me realise how I actually approach the GDPR, and how I see all the overblown reactions to it, like sending all of us a heap of […]
May 28, 2010
- My Guest Blogging at EU PSI Platform / EU PSI Events 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 government data. The EPSI platform does a good job of tracking relevant developments in the […]
May 28, 2007
- BlogWalk: Space, Speed and Scale Taking Bohemianism to be a mindset more than a (forced or chosen) lifestyle, as described in the previous BlogWalk posting, I’ll now have a look at the things I took out of the meeting. Speed, Space and Scale were the three words that sum BlogWalk up for me. Space Space is about physical, temporal and […]
- Facebook Applications Last Thursday Facebook announced a major step in their growth strategy. It is now possible for others (both companies and Facebook-users) to build so-called applications that can be integrated in your Facebook profile. this is way more than just making widgets possible. Facebook now gives API access to their core functionality, like replacing their well […]
May 28, 2006
- Diversity Session at Reboot About two months ago I wrote here about how to celebrate diversity. I mused whether such a discussion might find a place at Reboot. Well it did and it does. Together with Lee Bryant and Martin Roell, the three of us will be hosting an open conversation session on diversity. We will try to keep […]
May 28, 2003
- Blogging Forecast In the coming week expect light blogging, or no blogging at all. I will be enjoying a short vacation, travelling with the Drents Symphonic Orchestra to Vaduz (Liechtenstein), in which my partner plays as a stand-in. We’ll be attending a meet-up of European amateur symphonic orchestras. It is also a chance to meet with some […]