Joost Van Nispen @ Jornada EUROECOM 08

Posted by cataspanglish in Catalonia, Implantació web 2.0, economy, local government, politics, web 2.0 on 11 27th, 2008 | no responses

L’Anella have posted a video of Joost Van Nispen speaking at the Jornada Euroecam08.
Click here to watch (in Spanish)

21st Century Deception

Posted by cataspanglish in Catalonia, health, iPhone, local government, mobile, technology, web 2.0 on 11 26th, 2008 | no responses

When I was a kid I believed the future would be a tech paradise….
Standing in chaotic queue at the hospital, everybody crammed into a small space to keep their place while the seats are empty becuse there is no turn system
Why can’t the doc do this - he’s sending me to another doctor -why can’t he do the appointment from his computer instead of sending me to the disorganised queue for appointments
Holding 3 copies of the same paper - paperless office anyone? The paper has a sticker with a bar code…
Health centre and hospiital computers not linked so my old address appears from Barcelona - trivial but what about records in an emegency situation?

Please, please, please let Google organise the health adminstration because clearly the administrators now DO NOT KNOW HOW TO…

notes for a post, written on the iPhone from the Hospital Arnau in Lleida

Web 2.0 in local government

Posted by cataspanglish in Catalan, Implantació web 2.0, Spanish, ana, cataspanglish, local government, news, web 2.0 on 08 20th, 2008 | no responses

Ana is working on a project to bring web 2.0 tools and ideas to local government - an easy task, eh?

She is documenting this project on a trilingual blog and also producing versions in Catalan, Spanish and English! The woman is crazy…