René Seifert – Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

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November 15th 2006, René Seifert

Flat World and Web 2.0 coming together

What belongs together, gets together. In the last 18 months I have quite consistently focused on the “Flat World” and “Web 2.0″ in my work and written quite a lot also on this blog here. So it is really exciting to see that these two phenomenons are getting together even on a conference level. Just read on Tim O’Reilly’s blog that there would be a conference on November 30th with O’Reilly on the panel along with Thomas Friedman whom I had seen beginning of this year in Mumbai during the NASSCOM leadership conference.

The topic of the upcoming event runs under “Innovation & Growth in a Flat World”. Now with my experience as an expat-entrepreneur in India I see opportunities galore in this intersection:

- horizontal aggegation of value chains across continents for development, sourcing, marketing etc.
- strong-cross border funding
- use of Web 2.0 tools to enable and facilitate collaboration
- smart and efficient internalionalization/localization of successful Web 2.0 products
- starting a digital business in India, providing proof-of-concept here and rolling out globally

I remember Friedman saying: “We have changed from a culture of download to a culture of upload”. And that’s indeed what both the “Flat World” and “Web 2.0″ are in the essence about.

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Comments

  1. Nina
    November 16th, 2006 | 11:12

    Now now, can you please tell me if you are NOT obsessed with Friedman?? Huh? Go on, tell me the truth?;-))

    The last I heard, there is also such a thing called “Life 2.0″. That is for people who needs to get a new one, with community and interaction as such, when they screwed up at 1.0. Superb huh?;-))

    I know, I should not give up my day job for a stand-up comedy post…

  2. René Seifert
    November 17th, 2006 | 1:48

    Well, well, somehow Friedman is indeed my guiding light. He really brings everything that is for the last 5 years “somehow different in the world”, bluntly speaking, into a coherent framework.

    Life 2.0? Nina, can I interpret that you proposed to me? ;-))

  3. Nina
    November 17th, 2006 | 2:35

    Life 2.0 software programme, just crashed. The ‘proposak trojan’ is fatal. Alles ist kaput.

    Such is life;-)

  4. Nina
    November 17th, 2006 | 3:26

    eh when I saw the headline Friedman died, I thought it was your icon! I thought “oh my GOD! Rene’s world would crumble…it’s the end’…

    then, i realised, it was friedman the monetarism economist…what a relieve! (i know it is mean to say that about him) but can you imagine if the man who is trying to convince everyone that the world is no longer round is dead???

    That would be terrible.

    I am still sad that the other friedman died.