ISCRAM summerschool sparks up blog writing

It has been quite a while since I posted anything at all in this blog. There were servel reasons for that. One was, that I simply could'nt decide which direction to take. I've decided to split up my blogs into a private one for the family, an open one on general topics, and a special one on more work-related topics. I'ts difficult to draw the boundaries. That is also true for the other channels: facebook, linkedin, twitter, Hyves an what have you.

I suppose the start to get started again has been the ISCRAM summerschool in Tilburg last week. Simply having the many conversations with a diverse group of people was really stimulating. All the thems that I have been interested in during the past years were touched on:

• the problem of innovation and cooperation between goverments, practioners, businesses and researchers (in the context of Information systems for crisis response and managemnet - ISCRAM)
• the dillmea's of open source software versus proprietary software
• the use of social media in crisis management - but also in research and development
• the emergence of "combined systems" where many human beings and many intelligent artificial agents interact

There is much to be said about all topics. I tend to do so in conversations, meetings, reports, proposals and so on, but never in publically accesible publications. That's not a good thing. So maybe mainting a blog is a first step in taking a more public approach.

Links: www.iscram.org; www.combinedsystems.nl