Here’s one for Don and the Net Generation team to chew on or chew up. Baronness Susan Greenfield, a professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, has warned that the experience of growing up immersed in hyper-stimulating ...

There’s something else missing from recovery.gov altogether (see here): the ability for citizens to have input into which projects get funded in their jurisdictions. Stimuluswatch.org, evidently a work in progress, provides an interesting (albeit imperfect) example of how this might work. Laun...

Some time ago, I reported that Novartis had adopted a wikinomics approach to its diabetes research. After investing millions of dollars trying to unlock the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes, the company released all of its raw data on the Internet, for free. Hardly typical behavior for a pharmaceuti...

Frankly, I’m not 100% sure what to make of this yet, but the founder brought this new virtual financial market to my attention and I found it intriguing enough to share it with our readers.   According to the founder, amuktrade.com’s principal goal is to facilitate quick speculative ass...

I had an interesting chat this morning with a colleague who is trying to get wikinomics infused into the culture and operations of the United Nations and finding it tough going so far. Like many observers of the international scene, I find it frustrating to watch international organizations like the...

Edge.org recently posted a collection of 151 thoughts from leading thinkers on the “game-changing scientific ideas or developments� they think will “change everything� within their lifetimes. Having co-authored a book about how mass collaboration will change everything I was particularly int...

He’s mobilized youth to previously unprecedented levels, shattered fund-raising records with an Internet-enabled army of small-dollar donors, and made many impassioned calls for sweeping changes  in Washington. But can Obama really transform the cynical, self-interested, and frequently factio...