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Comments on the Strategy of the
Federal Council for an Information Society in Switzerland
29 April 2015 | Laurent Haug | hello@laurenthaug.com
3. © Laurent Haug 2015
Yet challenges remain
Approximate word count on Strategy of the Federal
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risks (x18)
crime/cybercrime (x6)
danger (x5)
potential (x4)
gains (x3)
opportunity (x3)
innovative (x3)
advantage (x1)
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What can I tell you in 20m that would be useful?
Suggestions from my partial, subjective experience
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4 axis
Create a religion of innovation
Foster entrepreneurship
Improve hard and soft infrastructure
Better politics
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Detect and discuss upcoming shifts
before they happen
Change is an opportunity if you anticipate it, a threat if you don’t
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Detect the emerging
industries of the future
Drones, artificial intelligence, biotech, medtech, gene
therapies, big data, wearables, blockchain, etc.
Invest in and develop those
verticals
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Develop a culture of
anticipation instead of reaction
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In my experience, innovation watch
is the only way to change a culture!
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My recipe to change the culture of large organizations:
Daily inputs on trends
Weekly summaries
Quarterly presentations
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People only see the threats
(often imaginary)
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Phaedrus, c. 370 B.C.
”If we depend on writing, we will lose the ability
to remember anything”
Seneca (4-65 A.D.)
“distringit librorum multitudo”
(The abundance of books is a distraction.)
Barnaby Rich (1580-1613)
One of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of
books; they doth so overcharge the world that tit is
not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that
is every day hatched and brought forth into the
world. (1613)
"Superficial, sudden, unsifted, too fast for the truth, must be all telegraphic intelligence. Does it not render the
popular mind too fast for the truth? Ten days bring us the mails from Europe. What need is there for the scraps of
news in ten minutes? How trivial and paltry is the telegraphic column?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/in-1858-people-said-the-telegraph-was-too-fast-for-the-truth/375171/
In the early days of the telephone, people were told that the
device was creating a "race of left-eared people—that is, of
people who hear better with the left than with the right
ear,”
The radio, in 1924, was debatably a nuisance that produced
"loud and unnecessary noise."
Then came television, which was dangerous because it was
too spellbinding. Oh, and because, as the Times reported in
1937, people reported being spied on through their TV sets.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/in-1858-
people-said-the-telegraph-was-too-fast-for-the-truth/375171/
17. © Laurent Haug 2015 43http://qz.com/383109/the-music-industry-has-hit-its-rock-bottom/
Small players became big in < 10y
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Always possible to disrupt established players
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“The business plans of the next 10,000 startups
are easy to forecast: take anything and add AI.”
Kevin Kelly
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/
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We (barely) teach our kids how to use technology.
We should teach them how to master technology.
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What we should be teaching kids:
Coding / how machines think
Design (visual, information, UX)
Data analytics
Digital communication
Information research
Networking / collaboration
Lean startup / business model generation
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From one shot education to
continuous education.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
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Why? Because entrepreneurs
invent the future
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No candle-maker has become a bulb manufacturer.
No carriage-maker has become a car producer.
The post office did not invent email
Marc Giget
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Why? Because entrepreneurs
create long term leadership
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We need a better ecosystem (mentors,
investors, buyers, incubators, conferences,
media) so that startups don’t leave the country
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We need better core services (zenefits,
zenpayroll, expensify, harvest, indinero, xero)
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Swiss safety net applies to those who
take less risks (employees), not those
who take risks (entrepreneurs)
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Closing a company still a nightmare
(and you have to keep the files for 10y!)
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System designed for the worst
case scenarios, not the best ones
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Create a venture capital
fund with the state’s money
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Concentrate more resources
on good projects
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It’s not about quantity.
We only need one Swiss unicorn.
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No landmark projects.
We need big, crazy, exciting projects
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Every organization should
have an API by 2016.
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All basic govt services online (and automated),
ready to be built on
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Just look at what Apple did with the iPhone
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I was trained at UNIL and kicked out of the country.
I paid 560/semester for my studies.
The government way paying 120’000/y for me.
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Give an automatic work permit to foreign students
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Create work permit for exited entrepreneurs
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Create “magic words” that equal work permit:
Facebook, Google, Amazon, “Data analyst”,
regardless of country of origin
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Give Swiss citizenship to anyone who created 5+ jobs
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Linear 20th-century corporations will be
supplanted by small, nimble teams that can
impact a billion people in a dematerialised,
demonetised, information-driven world.
Peter Diamandis, Singularity University
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Mojang (Minecraft): 47 employees, 100M+ players
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Give fiscal incentive to those lean
21st century organizations
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/ 4 axis
Create a religion of innovation
Foster entrepreneurship
Improve hard and soft infrastructure
Better politics
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1 missing point in current strategy
Sovereignty (hard / soft / data)
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Policy-makers have to choose between
protecting the past from the future, or
protecting the future from the past.
Tim O’Reilly
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