Interview with ZeroFootprint from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4 1/2-minute video interview with Deborah Kaplan, executive director of Zerofootprint.net, an amazing organization based in Toronto and devoted to help organizations, cities and individuals recognize their carbon footprint and take specific measures to help reduce climate change. The interview was conducted at the Stanford […]
International
Back from Sweden
My keynote Sunday at Växjö University’s Participatory Academy went well, with quite a bit of interaction with the students and educators in the audience. I’ve posted a Flickr set of photos here. Another highlight was the time I spent with Pernilla Severson and Lars Mogensen at Malmö, particularly the hourlong meeting with Pernilla’s students about […]
Mobile phone service connects buyers, sellers
Here at the Aspen Institute one of the folks I’ve spent a lot of time with is Kamal Quadir from Bangladesh, founder of Cellbazaar. As Textually put it: Bangladesh’s top mobile phone operator GrameenPhone, and USA-based CellBazaar have introduced a service connecting buyers and sellers in an electronic marketplace over the mobile phone. “It’s like […]
Interviewed by Argentina’s La Nacion
I was interviewed by La Nacion, Argentina’s second largest newspaper, about the personal media revolution. It’s here: “La información será creada por millones de personas, no por una elite.” J.D. Lasica, un referente mundial en nuevos medios, habló con LANACION.com sobre la generación digital y los cambios que se vienen. In case you don’t read […]
Le pouvoir passe aux mains des créateurs de contenus
The French newspaper Les Echos just published a Q&A I did with a reporter there about the personal media revolution. It’s not online, but I persuaded them to send me a PDF of the page, and I uploaded it to Ourmedia. I can’t read French, but for those of you who can, have at it. […]