06 May Social Networks
In this article, the author captures the current moment of the Social Networks trend, being critical with some techno-deterministic statements and wondering about the real social impact of these tools....
15 Apr Interview in the Public Basque TV (coming back from the USA) > Elkarrizketa ETB1 Kalifornia
In the Basque Public TV, EiTB, I was interviewed sharing perceptions and connections (as I always like to call them), about the current diagnosis of the Basque Country. Topics that were mentioned in the interview: Google, participation, politics, governance, identity, globalization, among others....
14 Jan Society, Creativity, Innovation & Management (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)
In 2009, I travelled over the Atlantic from the West of the USA, in order to give some lectures in a Master degree about the importance of creativity and innovation in our societal challenges and in some micro level organizational issues....
08 Nov GOOGLE > is an iceberg
This article aims to explain what I saw in Google, Palo Alto in San Francisco. My summary was that Google was simply an massive iceberg where the we could notice just the 20% on the surface, but actually not easily observed the rest of the...
21 Oct Basque language from the USA Diaspore in Boise > Euskara 2.0
This presentation was given from a Hotel in Boise (Idaho). The initial idea of the activity was suggested by the Machine-Tool Institute that every year organizes an event where Basque language avant-garde research is treated. The title of my presentation was Basque 2.0 and this...
25 Sep DSS2016EU > European Cultural Capital City 2016
This is the presentation made in St. Sebastian as the first event to announce the city as the Candidate for the Cultural Capital City 2016. Two notions are mixed into: the Creative City and Connected City, and their implementation strategies....
13 Sep Ciudades “Auténticas”
In this article, after having reflected on Burning Man and started living in Twin Peaks neighbourhood in San Francisco, the author connects the Creative City mindset (referencing authors such as Jacobs, Florida and Landry) to the newly promoted European Capital Cultural City process that his...
25 May (Euskal) HIRItarrok 2.0.
This article aims to describe the basque complex diversity of the Basque citizenship that I titled, Basque Citizenship 2.0. Towards the political changes in the social dynamics, technology is using new technological tools. However, they do not directly transform the civilian fabric automatically....
25 May Política-mente in-correcto
Shortly before the 2008 crisis, the continental European countries and regions such as the Basque Country started facing an incredible paradox: while public policies encouraged youngsters and the unemployed to run an entrepreneurial idea, politicians, civil servants and fixed employees did not favour it...