An opportunity for digital platforms?Good day to all, wherever you are.
As you may be aware, I was a guest on Episode 54 of the ICT Pulse podcast where I discussed the opportunity for ride-hailing services as an extension to public transport in the Caribbean. At the time I was researching and writing notes for an article I was going to publish on a blog, but I thought it fitted better here.
Long live Digital Transformation?Good morning from Martinique
Sometimes these newsletters practically write themselves. With some effort and editing, I get them in to a state worth publishing and with my ideas fully fleshed out. Other times, I’m struggling to finish the writing and it's almost always for the same reason. My ideas aren’t fully baked yet. This is one of those, so I’m putting it out there for discussion, pushback and to get me to drive this thought forward.
It does have uses in Digital Transformation thoughWith the announcement of Facebook’s proposal for a blockchain-based currency, I thought it would be a good idea to get in to the subject … It’s time. Time to talk about Blockchain, my apologies.
Here’s a couple of articles to get you up to speed:
The Ambitious Plan Behind Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Libra - Wired
Top Democrat calls for Facebook to halt cryptocurrency plans until Congress investigates - The Verge
Using some basic statistical analysis, you can extract value fairly simplyBienvenue/Welcome to all the new subscribers. Thank you so much for signing up. Don’t forget you read all the archives here. Let me know if you have any comments.
On to this Issue.
After the last few issues giving you practical advice on your data’s worth, I thought I’d take a different direction and give you a step-by-step tutorial in basic data manipulation, with the aim to extract value from it.
It’s all about softwareAfter a couple of practical issues, I thought I’d get back to analysis and strategy — kind of the initial reason for this newsletter 😄 Hope you enjoy it.
Onwards with this issue.
Security and Privacy Wars
A long time ago, in Internet terms, we had a war of security between Unix and Windows. Windows, the new shiny up and coming OS was open by default and that openness enabled all sorts advances, but like anything it can be used for good and bad and that openness allowed a lot of bad things to happen, some that we are still dealing with decades later.