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Social Strategy Talk: eParticipation and Open Data

Date: October 27, 2009 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 0

Social Strategy Talk PresentatieThis monday I attended the fifth edition of Social Strategy Talk on eParticipation and Open Data. Different Dutch projects presented their work and findings. Even some eParticipation and Open Data projects from the UK presented their cases.

One of the biggest eParticipation projects in The Netherlands is AiAmsterdam which was formed in a response to the local government that then had prohibited drinking while standing in Amsterdam. The online and offline movement has more members than many politicle parties in our country, showing the power of the social web as a ‘shortcut to democracy’. Currently they are planning their next big secret project.

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News as a Service startup concept

Date: October 23, 2009 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 0

startup challengeThe Amsterdam Antwerp Challenge is a local business plan competition which’s main goal is to stimulate innovation and international entrepreneurship in this region. By submitting a 100 word startup idea you can win some of the price money or even the possibility to pitch at the finals.  I’ve used this opportunity to put one of the news service concepts I’ve been thinking about on paper:

Currently newspapers struggle with innovation, many seems only to focus on digitalizing their news product while not offering real new value to the readers.
I believe newspaper should add services to their product instead of just digitalizing their product.

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Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing papers

Date: October 21, 2009 • By Antonio Thonis • Comments 0

The past 1,5 month I had a great time following the Business Intelligence course at my university which was given in collaboration with Deloitte. We even attended a BI/recruitment session at the headquarters of IBM Netherlands. BI seems like a great field for business students with technical capabilities.

Interested in Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems, Data Warehousing and Data Mining? Here follows an overview of all the academic papers on Business Intelligence that we had to read for our exam:

  • A framework for the development of Decision Support Systems, R.H. Sprague, MIS Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 4 (Dec. 1980).
  • The science, not art, of business intelligence, M.C. O’Guin, et al.,  CompetitiveIntelligence Review vol 12(4) 15-24 (2001).
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