Monday, March 28 2005

International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism, and Security

Here’s a picture outside of the Palacio Municipal de Congresos At the Democracy, Terrorism and the Internet Panel. From Left to Right: Myself, Ethan Zuckerman, and Joichi Ito. Interview by Tatiana Miralles of Radio Francia Internacional.

My Building Business Workshop at IE

Lecture 1 Introduction: An entrepreneur’s life, by Martin Varsavsky Lecture 2 Business Building Project proposals presented by students’ team. Feedback from professor. Lecture 3 Entrepreneurship experiences I: Urban Capital Lecture 4 Entrepreneurship experiences II: Medicorp Lecture 5 Entrepreneurship experiences III: Jazztel Lecture 6 Entrepreneurship experiences IV: Ya.com Lecture 7 Entrepreneurship experiences V: Einsteinet Lecture 8 [...]

Instituto de Empresa

The Instituto de Empresa is one of Europe’s leading business schools. This international business school is oriented to providing top-level training for executives and entrepreneurs. The school offers an extensive portfolio of master’s degree programmes (full-time), executive master’s degrees (part-time) and executive education programmes, designed to equip participants with the management tools and competences that [...]

Monday, March 14 2005

Alexander Schmid´s 11 Rules for Fighting Terrorism

Eleven Rules for Preventing and Combating Terrorism 1. Prevent radical individuals and groups from becoming terrorist extremists, by confronting them with a mix of “carrot and stick” – tactics and search for effective counter-motivation measures. 2. Stimulate and encourage defection and conversion of free and imprisoned terrorists and find ways to alienate the terrorist organization [...]

Saturday, March 12 2005

The Infrastructure of Democracy

While at the Summit, the Internet Group worked for two days producing this document. I was part of the group led by Joichi Ito and Marko Ahtissari. We were around 20 people. Everyone did an amazing job tackling the very difficult issue of what to do or not to do with the internet to reduce [...]

People ask me how is it that I came up with the idea for the Summit

Well, here´s the answer. We lived with it when I was growing up in Argentina. Left and right wing terrorism. My cousin was never found, nor his body. There´s a memorial for him now in Alcobendas: The Polideportivo David Varsavsky Case 2735 – David Horacio VARSAVSKY The IACHR received the following denunciation: David Horacio VARSAVSKY, [...]

The Madrid Agenda

Well, the summit is over. And this is what we have left, the Madrid Agenda.

Thursday, March 10 2005

A Global Strategy for Fighting Terrorism

Here is the link to A Global Strategy for Fighting Terrorism, the fantastic speech given today by Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations.

Wednesday, March 9 2005

Terrorism on the Internet

Continuing with my desire to open up this conference to the press and the public here´s a transcript of everything that was said this morning at the Terrorism in the Internet session.

The Press has been Left Out!

The summit is going great for everyone but the press. The press has been left out! I am very, very concerned about this. How can we claim that the best answer to terrorism is effective democracy and not practice it here?I am sorry, friends of Club de Madrid, we must change this policy. Paradoxically some [...]

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