It’s amazing how many people believe this and how many law suits are running in the world prosecuting people who are copying bits. I often ask myself if this kind of Lawsuits are going to finish one day?
that introduces some interesting new ideas to this topic. Beside stating his beliefs he refers to what means being Internet Business ready. He also is ready to state in public that “…I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”
The key issue to me is that these prosecutions are fighting open science and free knowledge and art exchange.
Musicians don’t want lawsuits (see Canadian Musicians hate Canadian DMCA) they make more business if the can get people to their performances and concerts. Just have a look at the blogs in MySpace offering free music.
This is probably a debate that will continue for long, but I hope that reason will prevail.
I was invited by a friend to join Supercool School on Facebook and he sent a pamphlet about the goals and the reasons of this project. The document explains in a logical and teleological way what they understand for free learning.
In it there’s a message that I mostly liked: “Creativity always builds on the past” which is also a message form a video promotion for creative Commons in YouTube. The idea and the video both say something we have always known. We can not escape from the past, and project our future from it.
When the anti-copy fighters are forcing governments all over the world to prosecute peer-to-peer like criminal actions, it seems to me that some people believe to be so powerful that they don’t owe nothing to the past and everyone owes them everything for their geniality. And that’s false.
Supercool School is based on creative commons and free knowledge exchange but also on letting everyone to grow and evolve with selfesteem at the pace they like.
Today, May, 21 in ESADE there will be the 17th edition of the International Tourism and Leisure Simposium. The topic of thie syear will be: “Public and private challenges for tourism management”.
There will be speaker from the government but from the industry as well and from the academic.
In parallel there will run the 6th Doctoral Colloquium where I will present an intriductory part to my PhD research that I’m following now: “New Innovation Networks in destination 2.0″.
With contributions from leading global experts both from the industry and academia, each case follows a rigid structure with features such as bulleted summaries and review questions, as well as each section having its own thorough introduction and conclusion written by the editors highlighting the key issues and theories. Cases covered include: Intercontinental Hotel Group and online intermediaries, Expedia.de, Amadeus, VisitBritain, Enterprise Rent-a-car, Lufthansa systems and many more.
Divided into the following sections, the case studies are used to illustrate the theory and issues to finally present a big picture of innovative and successful ICT usage in the tourism sector:
# Hospitality
# Intermediaries
# Destinations
# Transportation
# IT-Systems in Tourism
# Mobile Systems and Services
Book - Gestión de Oficinas de Turismo
Gestión de Oficinas de Turismo (Managing Tourist Offices) by Oriol Miralbell
This book intends to explain the new role that tourism offices are assuming in tourism destinations, and it also intends to break the belief that tourism offices work only to welcome and give information to the tourist.
