From a privileged few to a participating many   An included, involved and participating smart citizen will be at the heart of every smarter city. Demographics if at all provide a very limited view of citizens in any country. At best they are a very approximate snapshot of the recent past. The data collected is [...]

The promise of the Internet of things This is not a Maosian paraphrase but rather a commentary on a new kind of revolution that is being enabled by the ubiquity of the internet, the ingenuity of people, the intelligence of technologies and the pervasiveness of devices The internet of things is here. Social collaboration is [...]

The growth conundrum    From the smallest start-up doing 18 hour days in a garage, to the largest behemoths in the software industry, the need to scale is critical. Growth is the quintessential elixir of any business. Growth drives everything else. And yet time and again, the smaller product companies seem to spend a lot [...]