September 2011 Blog Posts (4)

As collaboration continues to enhance itself through improved skills and understandings, so too collaborative values are changing attitudes - the 'firm-wiring' of power, ownership and independence is weakening in favour of closer working and sharing.  'The whole' of collaboration - what it can mean, could do, is and perhaps must do - is becoming enlightened, both dramatically and quietly.



I have contacted a number of fellows who wish to support this area as a project 'Project…

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Speaking at the RSA , author Mischa Gleeny highlighted key arguments and examples from his book 'Dark Market: Cyber thieves, cyber cops and you'. Highly entertaining and sobering - it's not often that the personalities and faces behind cybercrime are shown as human, not just money grabbing monsters.



The sheer scale and audacity of cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage has exploded over the past decades - and identifying and prosectuing the perpetrators is… Continue

Covering three diverse areas as I do, I get to attend three different AGMs over the course of the year.  My trilogy kicked off last night in Newcastle with the 2011 AGM for RSA NE, and I am delighted to say that it was an incredibly positive, inspiring and quite frankly enjoyable night to attend.

 

As we all know, AGMs can often be bureaucratic necessities, exercises in governance which lack a wider appeal for those not concerned with sexy things like minutes and motions. …

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You should have received the Notice for the AGM to be held on Wednesday 5 October 2011. There are important resolutions that have been put forward by the Board of Trustees and Fellows this year.

If you are attending the AGM we encourage you to register. If you are unable to attend please nominate a proxy and cast your…

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