Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, founder of Tinkerlondon, describes her day in her design studio. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Aubrey de Grey explains why therapies that can add 30 healthy years to the remaining lifespan of typical 60-year-olds may well arrive within the next few decades, and also why those who benefit from those therapies will very probably continue to benefit from progressively improved therapies indefinitely and will thus avoid debilitation or death from age-related causes at any age. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Oh Yeon-ho, the founder of OhmyNews, speaks about the organization's genesis and its principle of "every citizen is a reporter." He also addresses address what makes citizen journalism a successful model so far in Korea, what barriers it faces in the future, and what the next steps are for OhmyNews, both organizationally and technologically. Distributed by Tubemogul.
In this session Richard Murton from Accenture Interactive, a group focused on helping clients achieve agile intelligent marketing, share his insights from talking to global companies on the challenges that the digital era has brought with it. He offers his 5 point theory on what leading organisations are doing to prepare themselves for the continued evolution in digital, maximize return on investment and ensure they are equipped to be successful. Distributed by Tubemogul.
MetaReciclagem was created in 2002, first as a collective in São Paulo, Brazil, focused on remanufacturing used computers, installing free and open source software and delivering them to social projects. Soon MetaReciclagem became an open network with hundreds of members in all regions of Brazil working with critical appropriation of ICTs. Through a strong emphasis on DIY and low tech, all sorts of used equipment are seen as instrumental, educational and artistic source materials that can be d...
Media, audiovisual content meets the digital universe:The Great Mashup. Panel about the evolution of digital content. Distributed by Tubemogul.
During the Lift conference, a team from frog design (the global innovation firm) has roved amongst attendees, presentations and hallway discussions. Why? They acted like anthropologists, studying the Lift attendees in their “natural habitat” to find ways of improving the future Lift Experience. Frog used a number of methods to gather insights, and looked for some volunteers to self-document their conference experience. These volunteers participated in a special brainstorming workshop. Results ...
How and why are the current generation staying connected? Money restricts the tools we choose to stay connected. Yet it cannot keep us away from the internet. We are connected all of the time to a worldwide web that does not sleep or take breaks, the spread of information is instantaneous. Social networks have absorbed an overwhelming proportion of the young population, which has thoroughly incorporated this new and constantly evolving connectivity into their everyday lives. What is really goi...
Jamais talks about foresight from three different perspectives: aspirational foresight as a way of setting challenges and goals for ourselves; evaluative foresight as a way of testing our strategies; and anticipatory foresight as a kind of civilizational immune system, sensitizing ourselves to the disruptive changes ahead. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Mobiles in Democratic Participation, debunking hype and assessing reality. Katrin talks about how the proliferation of mobile phones has influenced how people participate in the politics of their countries. She will discuss the so-called 'twitter revolutions", how mobiles have helped (or not) in mobilization and elections, and she will dissect the many forms of political participation via the most ubiquitous communication device in human history in countries ranging from Ghana to Zimbabwe. Dis...
