Just finished my previously mentioned presentation on Icelandic energy data. Some 250-300 people showed up – mostly to listen to John Perkins obviously.
Interesting audience to say the least, but a lot of fun!
My DataMarket piece went well – and putting it together at least helped me put some things in perspective. The slides are included [...]
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Iceland & Energy – presentation w. John Perkins
Posted in Næsta Ísland, data, datamarket, english, opin gögn, tagged data, datamarket, economy, energy, iceland, icelandic economy, John Perkins, presentation, speaking on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Iceland & Energy: Upcoming presentation
Posted in Næsta Ísland, data, datamarket, english, opin gögn, tagged datamarket, economic hit man, economy, electricity, energy, iceland, icelandic economy, John Perkins, renewable energy on March 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I have been invited – on behalf of DataMarket – to give a presentation at the University of Iceland on April 6th.
The occasion is a small conference due to the visit of “Economic Hit Man” John Perkins to Iceland. Perkins is here to attend the premiere of “Dreamland“, a documentary on the effects that large-scale [...]
Icesave and Icelandic deposits
Posted in data, datamarket, english, opin gögn, tagged data, economy, iceland, icelandic economy, icesave, kaupthing edge on January 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
As DataMarket’s Money:Tech gig (see previous entry) approaches, we’re starting to see all sorts of interesting data coming together to form our “DataMarket on the Icelandic Economy”.
Some graphs just speak for themselves. Here’s one that caught my eye today:
The numbers are millions ISK.
Note that these are only deposits in Icelandic banks and their immediate branch [...]
DataMarket at Money:Tech 2009
Posted in data, datamarket, english on December 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My company – DataMarket – will be doing a presentation at O’Reilly’s Money:Tech conference in New York in February.
I attended the first Money:Tech conference earlier this year, and I must say it’s one of my favorite conferences ever, so I’m greatly honored to be speaking there.
The topic of my presentation is “What an Economic Collapse [...]
Hans Rosling strikes again
Posted in data, english, opin gögn, tagged data, gögn, myndrit, open data, opin gögn on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m a big fan of Hans Rosling. He’s really the guy that opened up the eyes of the world to the importance of availability of and open access to data.
His latest presentation, from Google’s Zeitgeist08 conference, is now available on YouTube. It is not as stunning as his original TED eye-opener, but still among the [...]
DataMarket launched
Posted in Ideas, data, datamarket, english, tagged data, datamarket, market research, statistics, structured data on November 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m pleased to announce the launch of DataMarket’s new website.
As the name implies, DataMarket is about creating a marketplace for data – structured data to be more specific. This means all sorts of statistics and tabular data, including but not limited to: market research, exchange rates, various financial information, economic indicators, weather data, sports results, [...]
Presentation on Innovation (IceWeb 2008)
Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, english, tagged bubbles, crisis, economy, iceland, innovation on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ever since the banking crisis struck Iceland a few weeks ago, I’ve been running out and about to advocate for innovation as the way to rebuild the economy.
Yesterday, I was privileged to give a presentation on the topic at the IceWeb conference. The title of my talk was “The Innovation Renaissance” and the slides can [...]
Þegar hugmynd fær fólk…
Posted in english on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fyrir fimm vikum síðan mætti ég á “kick-off” fund í námskeiði sem kallast Business Innovation Lab. Námskeiðið er samstarfsverkefni Listaháskóla Íslands og Háskólans í Reykjavík og er ætlað að koma saman viðskiptafræðinemum í HR og hönnunarnemum í hinum ýmsu greinum í LHÍ og nýta kraft og kunnáttu hvors um sig til að koma fram með [...]
Hagkerfi stór og smá
Posted in english on October 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Í einum af uppsveitum Borgarfjarðar býr rútubílstjóri á leigulóð.
Fyrir nokkrum árum skuldaði hann landeigandanum leigu – sagan segir 50.000 krónur. Fyrir skuldinni skrifaði hann ávísun og afhenti landeigandanum. Landeigandinn taldi ólíklegt að innistæða væri fyrir ávísuninni, en lét gott heita.
Skömmu síðar var komið að því að landeigandinn stæði skil á útsvari til sveitarinnar. Sem hluta [...]
Sprota og -þekkingarfyrirtæki
Posted in english on October 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Uppfært 29. október, 2008: Söfnun þessarra upplýsinga hefur verið flutt á vefinn Nýsköpun.org. Færslan var uppfærð m.t.t. þess.
Við erum hérna nokkur að reyna að koma saman lista yfir helstu sprota- og þekkingarfyrirtæki landsins. Þetta er gert í því skyni að geta sýnt að þetta sé raunverulega til og eitthvað sem getur vaxið upp úr rústum [...]
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