The fourth edition of State of Power 2015 Report, coinciding with the international meeting in Switzerland of what Susan George calls “the Davos class”. This series seeks to examine different dimensions of power, unmask the key holders of power in our globalised world, and identify sources of transformative counter-power. Chapters of State of Power 2015…
The 2015 edition of the Global Risks report completes a decade of highlighting the most significant long-term risks worldwide, drawing on the perspectives of experts and global decision-makers. A global risk is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, can cause significant negative impact for several countries or industries within the next 10…
Mayıs ayında Strazburg‘da gerçekleşen Avrupa Birliği Genç Liderler Zirvesi‘ne davet edilişimizin öyküsünü ve ziyaretimiz sırasında yaptığımız çalışmalardan daha önce bahsetmiştim. Bu ziyaretimiz öncesinde ve ziyaretimiz sırasında, hem sıkça bahsedilen Avrupa Birliği’nin değerleri ve müktesebatını yakından tanıma, hem de Avrupa Birliği yöneticilerinin konuya nasıl baktıklarını ilk ağızdan inceleme fırsatım oldu. Strazburg ziyaretimiz sırasında katıldığımız toplantılarda ve…
A characteristic of the Internet, which has allowed it to grow so quickly and made it sustainable, is that it is open – both for users to access and innovate, and for all stakeholders to participate in its development and governance. These two aspects of openness did not arise separately, but rather are closely linked,…
Gartner’s Top Predictions till 2020, focus on disruptions brought about by digital business, the Internet of Things, smart machines and the onset of the Digital Industrial Revolution. IT leaders face a new set of realities in a much larger context. 1. The New Industrial Revolution a. By 2018, 3D printing will result in the loss…
Data have always had strategic value, but with the magnitude of data available today—and our capability to process them—they have become a new form of asset class. In a very real sense, data are now the equivalent of oil or gold. And today we are seeing a data boom rivaling the Texas oil boom of…
Citizens are and must be at the heart of European integration. To underscore this, the EU institutions made 2013 the European Year of Citizens to give new impetus to EU citizenship and to the citizens’ dimension of the European project. At a time when the EU is taking major steps towards a deep and genuine…
The microblogging site Twitter is now one of the most popular Web destinations. Due to the relative ease of data access, there has been significant research based on Twitter data, ranging from measuring the spread of ideas through society to predicting the behavior of real world phenomena such as the stock market. Unfortunately, relatively little…
Son dönemde Twitter’ın da kapatılmasıyla daha fazla gündeme gelen “hem vergi vermiyorlar, hem de..” söylemi aslında sadece ülkemizin değil, dünyanın birçok ülkesinin yaşadığı bir soruna işaret etmekte; Yeni Dijital Dünya’nın Doğru Vergilendirilebilmesi Bu konuda daha önce yaptığım bir değerlendirme şu şekilde; “Teknolojinin gelişimi ve değişimi ile yeni nesil iş yapma yöntemleri ve yeni nesil servisler…
According to latest Forrester’s research, barely one-half of marketers are satisfied with their social relationship marketing programs. Most still face a long list of challenges, from measurement to content creation to staffing. But the social relationship platforms those marketers have hired to solve these problems are failing them: Most marketers wouldn’t recommend their SRP to…
