Coming off an incredible start to the New Year, I still am inspired about living during this point in time that we do. Technology, for all its pros and cons, is truly exploring and closing the gap between how we live our lives and connecting the meaning we share together as people.
Really, think about it…what started over 50 years ago as a network of machines (the internet), to a network of things, is today just screaming to become a real network of data. What started with connecting infrastructure securely, has become a tangled (proprietary) web of devices and protocols that is not freeing us for better collaboration. What I want to see up and running, is a system that lets me access and control my data autonomously and with a strong degree personalization. But I digress…
Rafael the other day pointed out how the battle now being fought–between the ‘fab-5 giants’ of internet computing, retail commerce, social media, search+ and software–is more of a distraction than a disruption. The true and honest fight, is the one not being fought for intelligently connecting how our data –personal and professional– works together across a secure exchange that protects (not exploits) individual freedom while at the same time promotes connected creativity.
Freedom for anyone and everyone to engage interactively in new forms of participation and patterns of value creation is what the internet promises. And the digital structure change we are now going through is accompanied by a shift in power towards citizen and consumer sovereignty, which supports movements like Open Source Software, Open Government and Open Innovation just to name a few.
And it is in this age of web-based software consuming and delivering all things, that we are extremely encouraged to play our part and see the rejection of old, business models set out for one thing only: Control and power over people. Freedom’s power and innovation in the digital sphere is based on open processes and people actively engaged in relatively non-hierarchical communication to drive participation by free will (not participation coerced by cleverly disguised “privacy” policies).
At Open-Xchange, that is exactly why we do what we do: lead a movement that provides access to one’s data freely and open, exactly how and when individuals and business need it. We have developed our flagship product specifically to address this need. We call it OX App Suite. And in 2013, the year of OX App Suite, we cannot wait for you to experience this groundbreaking innovation.
Yours.
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