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The First Crowdsourced Whitepaper: The Challenges Of The Digital Nomad

Welcome to our crowdsourced whitepaper on the challenges of the digital nomad.  We're hoping this is a useful tool for many digital nomads and companies that employ digital nomads.  And it's an ongoing process.  We hope you'll join in and help.

For years, Sun famously had the slogan that “the network is the computer,” with the idea being that a disconnected computer lost much of its value. While it took some time for that to become a reality, today it’s difficult to find anyone who denies the multiplicative benefits of connectivity and the power of a network to increase as the number of nodes on that network increase.

However, there’s an interesting corollary to this concept — which is that if the network is the computer, and the computer is what you need to work, then the more that “computer” is available, the more you can work from anywhere. You reach a point where physical location no longer matters. That reality has taken a lot longer to come true — but in the last few years we’ve finally reached the point where “working from anywhere” is a reality. These days, I’ve got an office-in-a-backpack, with a variety of devices and tools that I know mean I can pretty much get online and work from anywhere.

With that in mind, we were excited when we had the chance to tap into our Insight Community to see what the bigger issues are when it comes to this “Digital Nomad” mindset, and to build a crowdsourced whitepaper that could explore the tips, tricks and challenges of digital nomadness in a new and innovative way — pulling from the insight of digital nomads from around the world.

The Digital Nomad crowdsourced whitepaper is an experiment that Dell is running in conjunction with Floor64's Insight Community, to try to put together a whitepaper with multiple viewpoints and insights from a variety of different perspectives, rather than your typical run-of-the-mill PR-produced whitepaper

• Part I: What It Means To Be A Digital Nomad
• Part II: Managing Digital Nomads
• Part III: Digital Nomads ROI