13. März 2017

Working in education, we are bound to see the potential rather than what could go wrong. We see room for improvements and not the political battles to get there. We do not understand why anything that could enhance the pedagogical interaction would be too pricy. In a word, we are idealists as we should be. And idealism is needed more than anything right now. Especially in education. There are a lot of trends and new features which could and should be integrated in class and every respectable...

06. September 2016

They are considered to be the oil of the 21st century. The tons of data that we voluntarily give big data corporations for free. Google or Facebook have access to personal data that even dictatorships tend to get jealous of. If data is indeed the oil of the 21st century, then privacy regulations are like laws for environmental protection. We all know that there is a huge discrepancy between big data and privacy. In the following piece I would like to reflect on basic terms and the current...

12. Juni 2015

In dieser Ausgabe von „Wo gibt’s was?“ befasste ich mich eingehend mit dem ODS-Portal (Open Discovery Space). Politisch ist dieses Portal als Schwesternportal zu Scientix positioniert und versucht eine sehr ähnliche Zielsetzung zu verfolgen, indem alle möglichen Inhalte auf einem Portal zu finden sind. Ist die Verantwortung für Scientix bei einer Organisation in Brüssel angesiedelt, hat ODS eine Organisation in Griechenland zu verantworten. Mit über 15 Millionen Euro ist dieses auch...