The Bdigital Global Congress closes its tenth edition today in Barcelona

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Have been able to visit the bdigital (thank you,  Claudio ) and I have met old acquaintances interested like me in the new possibilities that the digital environment is opening up, especially this year when the tenth edition of the event is being held, which brings together more than 2,500 experts in Barcelona. During 10 years many things have happened: dotcom boom and crisis, new ideas in the form of startups, consolidation of web 2.0 and social networks... That is why now the event organized by the Barcelona Digital Foundation (you always have to be attentive to its agenda) is called this year Bdigital Global Congress (a nod to Barcelona and being digital, much better than the 'old' Internet Global Congress). BDigital Global Congress And there is life outside the Internet (Google says that only 15% of the cataloged information is on the Internet.

It is the digital phenomenon that explains many of the new variables: the organization responds to this same scheme and has been divided into three large blocks (business, technology and society) that are complemented by 5 plenary sessions. I had the opportunity to attend what the president of Mozilla Europe, Tristan Nitot, gave, a lesson about intelligent crowds and the (new) ability to manage projects where users participate, create Industry Email List and debate. Despite this possibility, I found it very revealing that Tristan himself stressed that Mozilla "is not a democracy, it is a meritocracy." A firm defender of open source and a free Internet - a strategy from which the 175 million people who use Firefox benefit - the company's head of Europe explained how software development works. The ratio of workers to users already gives an idea of ​​where things are going: 150 employees per million users; and up to 37% of the code comes from the community.



At the same time, its open nature allows Firefox to be available in 47 languages ​​and there are thousands of program extensions. The conference had a lot of interest, but for personal reasons I missed figures such as Amparo Moraleda, president of IBM Spain, Marisa Guijarro, director of Business Development at Telefónica Spain, Steve Bratt, the CEO of the World Wide Web Consurtium, Bernardo Hernández, the Google's main Spanish executive who is in charge of the Google Maps and Google Earth project. And I was also very interested in seeing  Jonas Ridderstrale , co-author of Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism. Value proposition for Spanish companies Another point that bdigital was going to analyze and which I was not able to attend was a conference on what is considered an answer to the growing infoxication of the Internet, a platform marked by immediacy and the capacity for democratic dissemination.