The set up at Krems here in Austria is very professional with a great cast of speakers. After my keynote I did a panel with Secretary Andreas Schieder, the State Secretary for Civil Service and Administrative reform. We talked about government 2.0 and how wikinomics has implications for other institutions in society like education. Austria is doing some interesting things and he really gets it. In one example he did a comparison of the internal intranet and the public web site for his ministry and found that the information was pretty much identical. Conclusion — we need to be more open, but we default to opacity.

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Here at the Talk of the Future Conference in Krems Austria, I was delighted to meet Bret Swanson, a Senior Fellow and Director, at the Center for Global Innovation. He has some mind boggling data in the growth of bandwidth requirements for the internet. Consider this – a single Cisco Telepresence uses as much bandwidth as the entire internet of 1990.