In March 2009, I was called for being nominated as the Coordination Director of the Basque Government. I started working as a Director (independent politician) attempting to change the Coordination Direction into the Research Direction. After one year, I decided to quit after leaving an...
This article is a forward looking view in the field of the Basque language enhancement. More particularly, this is the Strategic Framework called Basque 2.0 that I outlined and tried to apply in my two-years policy making and advising contribution as the Director of the...
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....
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....
Maybe Mikel Laboa is not very popular for those that have not grown up being Basques. For those who I share my feelings with, they may understand what I felt when on the 1st December 2008 Mikel Laboa passed away. At that time, I was...
On 2nd December 2008, I gave a Faculty Seminar at the Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno NV (USA). I introduced the preliminary ideas of my work-in-progress PhD dissertation on the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria....
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...
There was a huge noise outside where I lived, Twin Peaks in San Francisco. I left my home, started walking and ended up in a crowd which was cheering and shouting: It seemed to be the beginning of the Obama era. Nevertheless, was it a...
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...
