I’ve recently published an article in a collective book in French about online influence. I’ve long been curious, researching and working on, with, and for online as well as offline communities, and I felt, as a Frenchman, that this word was not innocent, as it conveys a history of more than 200 years and a…
Month: June 2013
A digital & e-commerce exploration of Jakarta, Indonesia
During Tech in Asia, I had the opportunity to write about tech trends in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, without moving from Singapore. This time, I went to Jakarta for real, and met a dozen entrepreneurs and support services such as Ubifrance to discuss about the opportunities in digital marketing and social media in Indonesia. The…
Are telcos bound to be dumb pipes in the startup economy?
Telecom operators (telcos) have long had a bad reputation of customer (mis)management, abusive prices, overall poor service and rigid mindset. This can be partly explain by their business model. Having invested billions into a fast-changing infrastructure, they want their money back. Be it at the expense of consumers who in any case have little choice…