Today, at around 8, my friend and colleague Matthias and I are welcoming our students to our class in “E-Democracy – Opportunities for Participatory Democracy?“.
We look forward to learning (and so much more …) with them for the next two and a half months, here at Deutsche SchülerAkademie in Brunswick. For me, it’s the mother of all summer schools.
Here’s the teaser with which we’re beginning our teaching tonight.
Learn more about our course here.
This summer, I look forward to going back to Deutschen SchülerAkademie, for me, the mother of all summer schools.
(Imagefilm von Bildung & Begabung e.V. dem Träger der Akademien seit 1988.)
My friend and colleague Matthias Bröcheler and I are offering a course on “E-Democracy – An Opportunity for Participatory Democracy?”. Together with 16 students, we will look into computer science, sociological, mathematical, political science and statistical perspectives on the essential question of how to organize postindustrial, liberal democracy , “unity in diversity”. At the intersection of our interests and academic disciplines, politics and IT, social and computer science, we look forward to taking our students on a transcdisciplinary adventure.
After two months of intensive research, brainstorming and planning, the conceptual groundwork for our business is now completed: Collaboran Systems GbR has today seeded its 80-pages business plan and initial user interface mockup to select partners and investors.
Today, me and four friends and colleagues from Jacobs (and beyond) gathered in Berlin to found our own company, Collaboran Systems GbR. Collaboran is dedicated to the conceptualization and development of next-generation collaborative solutions based on internet technology. With a view to the potential of “Web 2.0”, Collaboran endeavors to facilitate content generation by users on an end-user computing platform.
