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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

50 000 hours of TV-watching

“Someone born in 1960 has watched something like 50 000 hours of TV already.” Clay Shirky and Daniel Pink add this up to 200 billion hours in the US and call this “The Great Cognitive Surplus” in a very interesting Wired interview. This contrasts handily to Nicholas Carr’s rewired brains concerns. One might start up by wondering why the worlds most...

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Rewired brains?

Just when we had learned to yarn for more multitasking, learning quickly just-in-time by doing (instead of just-in-case), not-worrying about information overflow and fragmentation of time etc Nicholas Carr comes out with bad news: - internet shatters our focus and worse – rewires our brain as new habits change its neurons and synapses “the depth

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

3-corner model - a problem on our hands

The report of the Expert Group on e-Invoicing only mild-mannerly pointed out that the 3-corner model can limit choices of suppliers and thus be anticompetitive. The view was that the market will for natural reasons become a normal 4-corner one – allowing any buyer and any seller to use their chosen service providers freely (as long as these live up...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Equal treatment will make e-invoicing easier

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax as regards the rules on invoicing Snippets – emphasis mine: “(8) Since the use of electronic invoicing can help businesses to reduce costs and be more competitive, current VAT requirements on electronic invoicing should be revised to remove existing burdens an...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

B2b e-invoicing transactions growing fast

This case (e-invoices received by SMEs) represents quite well the market trend in Finland. The trend on the e-invoices-sent-by-SMEs has been steeper and the volumes much higher as so many invoice receivers (state sector, most big cities, most large enterprises) have set deadlines for accepting paper or e-mail invoices. Structured data should for a...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Sweden, Denmark,USA,Finland..

Leaders in the Economist digital economy ranking. The survey appears to be very thorough - but I would put more weight on productivity improving innovations starting from the highest and massive volumes - invoices, payments, card transactions, accounting automation, e-banking etc. Also try to measure public-private partnerships aiming at economy o...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

The future of VAT - automatic and real time

http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/future-of-vat-automatically-real-time.html We all know that today’s VAT reporting and payment process is mildly speaking cumbersome and expensive for 24 million enterprises in EU – eating into their global competitiveness. We also know that it is a very costly operation for the tax authorities (waste of tax pay...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

How to fight online card fraud - so obvious

http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-solve-online-card-fraud.html Excellent YouTube presentation by Douwe Lycklama of Innopay.

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Mobile momentum building up

When we established the Mobey Forum 10 years ago (festivites last week) it was with an impressive group of founding members; MERITA BANK PLC, ABN-AMRO BANK,UBS AG, DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, HSBC HOLDINGS PLC, VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION, BANCO SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO,BNP PARIBAS, SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

95 pct of market left to capture

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