Who we are Who we are Who are we ell?

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  Who we are  | Ideas for Action | History | Open Source | Digital Learning | Web 2.0 to Mobile Phones | Personal EU   

| Social Intelligence | Project Consen | FP 7 Straegies for Leadership | Helsinki IST 2006 Contacts

| eHealth and Care | Web 2.0 Mobile |

InnoStars 

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FROM AN EUROPEAN ("EUnal") PERSPECTIVE

This is an collaborative project initiated by Kurt and Helge after IST 2006 Helsinki. We are inviting innovative brains from Europe, EU countries and globally to work on this collaborative document. Being here should be a global an essential collaboration experience, a free and creative experiment to every InnoStar team member. Ahmed Razib joined the team 3 Dec 2006.

• Nice to have you here Ahmed Razib. Feel free to add, edit and comment. This is a EU / Global experiment (Helge)
• This is a workin platform. It can be published as well, but this should be considered as a draft and work in progress
  

Who are we

We're welcoming Ferran Cabrer i Vilagut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain to this discussion and would like to have your opinions on the first headlines here but commenting on everything in this document. And all the other new members that have been invited. All the new members can give insights to all the points. Participants have to rearrange the topics. We can also build links to new pages. But I think this one is not too long yet. Bookmarks can be used to make it easier to move within the document.

Ideas for Action

Ideas for action	Community	Information Society	IST 2006	Get Connected
Community Intelligence	Local EU Global	European	The Next Step	Mobile and Web 2.0

Open Source Methodology

• Write about CONSEN and it's role in EU, FP7, etc.
• Finland is a small country with a population smaller than one promille of the global population
• Added value can only come through innovative global collaboration
• Networking
  

There was a time, in the distant past, when technology mainly took the form of simple tools, each used for a particular purpose. But technology gets more complicated as it advances. The simple tools become more elaborate, and they begin to merge into ever more complex systems. Today, a lot of the products that companies produce are components of much larger systems, and the success of those products can hinge as much on the other components of the systems as on their own particular qualities. Making sense of the systems and, in particular, how they're likely to evolve can give a company a big advantage over less insightful competitors. But making sense of technological systems is hard.

Social Intelligence

• The Nordic facts and technology centred approach to problems and opportunities can sometimes be cold and distancing (It might work well in b-to-b but we need a new approach to engage the masses, grass-roots and consumers)
• The Mediterranean Cafe culture is contributing  to the Social Collaboration
• All successful User Generated Content models (USG) have succeeded in attracting big crowds of grass-roots collaborators
  
• How can we avoid to get boxed in a geeks and specialists speech and language trap?
  

Knowledge Management

• Drupal - the open source platform
• The ACAAL, CONSEN and other community and technology platforms
• What kind of corporate and community users are using Drupal?
• Wiki is the next generation collaboration tool if we consider the email as the web 1.0 collaboration application
  

FP 7 Strategies for Leadership

The IST 2006 Conference Programme looks at one of the central questions facing European competitiveness today from two different angles. IST 2006 is being held as the Commission launches FP7, its Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (see the EU's IST research programmes), so one of the main themes of the event will be FP7's ICT objectives and procedures.

• What are the goals? "Creating a virtuous cycle between ICT research innovation and socio-economic benefits"
• What kind of participants and contributors are we looking for?
  
• Kurt and Helge can mobilize the Baltic and Nordic people to this collaboration within the FP7 framework
• Vivianne Reding - The home page

1. Climate change
2. Energy Security
3. Agening Population
4. Industrial Research and Innovation
5. New Products and Services
   

The EU has responded to the increased need for coordinated and focussed research with the Seventh Research Framework Programme, due to be voted by the European Parliament on 30 November, for final adoption by the Council of Ministers on 5 December. The European Commission is making available information to help guide the press through this comprehensive programme, the biggest yet at European level.

European Research 2007 - 2013

In today's EU, however, ICT research does not take place in isolation. Reflecting the central importance ICTs play in stimulating innovation and competitiveness in all areas of industry, the conference programme will also contribute to the creation of a virtuous cycle between ICT research innovation and socio-economic benefits.

• Purely scientific and technical subjects, on the other hand, will be addressed in the networking and workshop sessions.

True collaboration:

1. I can see that we are heading towards true real-time multilateral collaboration
2. Here we could install a RSS news feed window (not too big) using our essential key words. Is it possible?
3. Helge: About RSS. We have to test it, how to install it.

This is the Kurt and Helge initiated" Innovation Society" strategy paper, an online collaboration effort, a work in progress, we're updating the content on a continuous basis. This is an open document and we will ask for more collaborators to participate when we start to get some structure to our approach. 29 November 2006: "This looks like a very functional platform. We're updating the content on a continuous basis and there is a feeling that this is really going to add some value to collaboration," writes Helge Keitel.

History

• Kurt and Helge started to Collaborate 2002?
• Our first meeting was at a eWork seminar at the Technical High School in Otaniemi, Finland (Dipoli)
  
• Helge presented the Digital Villages concept, a local community development project (1999 - 2005)
• Kurt presented his personal EU model at the eWork seminar at Dipoli, Otaniemi, Finland
• Kurt was active in the national Duuni network as an online moderator and also active in various Finnish Information Society forums
• Helge and Kurt used to discuss in the national business and information technology forums
  
• Helge came to Kurre's office with a buss full of VIPs from Itä-Uusimaa (Southeastern Finland) and Kurt was profiled as a prototype distance worker and online collaborator that had been using modern tools ICT tools since early 70's
• Helge has introduced and expanded the use of Collaborative tools in numerous micro companies and there is an emerging infrastructure of micro companies expanding their marketing and collaboration reach with the help of low-cost and easy to use communication tools
• Collaboration isn't a quick fix: it takes a team with the right mindset to get started and to achieve results
  
• We've acquired quite a lot of experience about the time it takes for users to become active collaborators
• It's important to take out the complexity from collaboration
• The individual working alone on his/her desktop or laptop is still a prevailing working style (metaphor) in most organizations

Our Common Strategy
Let's develop and chrystallize this to be exact and still an essential part of our personal strategies:

• Digital Villages is a historical process that now has a 2nd life on a global scale
• Digital Villages started from a hyper-local perspective: Wirby the Global Village TV-program 1999 as starting point and Helge's ("Wiirilä Werkossa Wiikottain" was a blog before blogs about a small village in Southeastern Finland and was started late 1996)
• We're now expanding the collaboration into an European / Global perspective
• We believe that international interaction grows the perspective of all its participants
• We think individuals don't always need their feet, they can use their heads together
• The Open Source Collaboration Methodology is bringing a new dimension to our work
• We are moving from a Desktop Publishing and individualistic work style to a collaborative working mode

Our personal projects

The Personal EU (by Kurre)

• My vision Personal EU is a "new organization level of the European Union" 

• It enlarges a single citizen's value into an union-wide level
• Each Personal EU team consists of one person from (up to) every EU country
• In every EU country there is someone like you - and they all should have the pleasure to innovate together
• The Personal EU Finder chooses the team: persons with equal challenge profile, one per country
• The nature of Personal EU is "life-long, union-wide, challenge-high"
• To ensure a rich communication culture, Personal EU uses (as soon as possible) any language-to-any language online translation and interpretation
• The collaboration is pleasant because of various team tools, such as:
• The Voter, allows voting about any subject and shows an illustration of the team's election results
• The Comparer, grows a local fact to a list of parallel information from each member state (good ground for innovation)
• The Projecter collects the member resources to a business prototype and describes the roles and challenges of each member in it
• The Buyer/Seller manages money flows between team members and in banking
• The Elevator takes the best common suggestions f.ex. to the Commission's floor
• The Personal EU Academy serves all Personal EU teams virtually and face-to-face - helping the clumsy hierarchic society turn into an innovative human centric "EUnal" society.
• A good "official" Personal EU pilot system could easily become 100 EU10 user teams within a couple of months, 5000 user teams within one year and 100 000 user teams within 5 years. The development speed of the online translation tool is a critical factor for reaching f.ex. one million Personal EU teams and more. One million Personal EU25 teams cover just 5 % of the EU population - tomorrows lifestyle and a fascinating tool like Personal EU could easily grow the percentage to 30-50. 
• Inviting individuals from different EU countries to develop this collaborative document would turn it into an union-wide "living lab" and "projectable test bed" towards a Personal EU era. 
• "This is what I've always said about the 'Personal EU'"  (after page 4 mostly in English)
• ...to be continued (the interactive "Personal EU" Wiki)

Local WiFi Community Building Example

FON, the largest WiFi community in the world, is powered by the belief that the Internet should be everywhere there are people. Building a network from the ground up, FON members willingly share their wireless access at home.  In return, they enjoy free WiFi and VOIP wherever they find another member's access point.  In this example, entrepreneur Ejovi Nuwere explains the energy behind the FON movement for "everyone, everywhere" Internet access, driven by the explosion of ubiquitous bandwidth and WiFi-enabled devices.

• The mash up and convergence of Internet, Web 2.0, wireless, mobile, Wi-Fi, WiMax, Bluetooth
• And connecting objects and machines with RFID and optical IDs
• Mobility is the big differentiating factor for Europe compared with US
• Innovation is the differentiating factor in relationship to emerging new economies in Asia
• Europe has to struggle in becoming competitive with new production strategies
• Unemployment and ageing is a big issue for EU

Project C (by Ferran):

Describe your challenges here

Project D (by Catherine):

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Project E (by Samppa): 
Describe your challenges here

Project F (by Razib):
Describe your challenges here

Project G (by Gerd):

Describe your challenges here

Project H (by Vladislav):

Describe your challenges here

Project I (by        ):

 Describe your challenges here

Project J (by        ):

Describe your challenges here

Project K (by Helge):

Describe your challenges here

1. I'm curious about the evolution of this project and what the time-span from idea to action will be
2. The word Collaboration takes one second to write, but starting to Collaborate can take years
3. The quality of innovations created in collaboration is a very intriquing question
4. This work is inspiring new ideas: It's a kind of time shifted structured talk in the cyber universe

The Helsinki IST 2006 contacts and themes

Take a look at the Insert features of this document. Kurre, write your own contacts and themes here - Helge Keitel 11/30/06, 9:00am

FP7 and CONSEN

CONSEN : With its strengths in communication equipment, devices, networks and eServices, Europe is well placed in the world-wide race to define and develop the network and service infrastructures of the future. These will generate new innovative products, business models and economic opportunities with new integrated applications, whilst reducing operational expenditures.

The challenge is to deliver the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service infrastructures for communication, computing and media. This entails overcoming the scalability, flexibility, dependability and security bottlenecks,  as today’s network and service architectures are primarily static and able to support only a limited number of devices, service features and limited confidence.

Such new infrastructures will permit the emergence of a large variety of business models using dynamic and seamless end-to-end composability of resources across a multiplicity of devices, networks, providers and service domains.

IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership

This year's edition of the most important European event in the field of Information Society Technologies coincides with the launch of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development. What's Next?

• See you in Köln for the ICT Proposers Day (1 February): IST 2006 Participants can register and transfer their IST 2006 profile to Köln 2007 in one click! Just log in
• Come back to this site for more presentations, photos and videos, plus the post-event survey
• Don't Forget: visit the new ICTs in FP7 site on CORDIS

IST 2006 included a high-level conference conference, an Exhibition of cutting edge research results from across Europe and a programme of networking sessions and workshops, with the exhibition and networking programmes defined by participants via this website.

The Conference Programme opened with a first day devoted to high-level policy discussions on what governments and public policy can do to help ICT contribute to an innovative Europe, with Days Two and Three are devoted to the Seventh Framework Programme and other topics surrounding European research and innovation. The Exhibition and Networking Programmes, meanwhile, were defined following proposals by companies, research institutions and other organisations from across Europe via this website.

Web 2.0 to Mobile 2.0 Phones

• Nokia's CEO at shareholder meeting in Netherlands
• User generated content
• Why do everyone speak about iPods and new gaming consoles while the mobile phone's business is decades bigger?
• Are mobile phones becoming commodities?
• The mobile culture isn't as exciting as before
• What new could we bring to the table?

Web 2.0 features to Mobile 2.0

• Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is visioning that the next big step is to get and generate more money with mobile phones by integrating Web 2.0 collaborative features into mobile phones
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• What could be our role as an European wide Open Source Methodology developer in expanding and transforming Web 2.0 features to Mobile 2.0 where collaboration and user generated content have a central role? 
• What can we bring to the table?
• Opinion, thought, and observations about customer experiences and the impact they have on business.

"During 2006, a National Knowledge Society Strategy for 2007-2015 has been drafted as part of the implementation of Finnish Government's Information Society Programme. The Strategy outlines a national vision and strategic intent concerning the kind of information society we want in Finland. In addition to the current state of the Finnish information society, the strategy describes changes in the national and international operating environment. The Strategy includes a concrete implementation programme extending to the next Government􀂶s term of office and several proposals for measures, including possible responsible parties. The Strategy has been drafted to support the emergence of a Finland phenomenon, in other words, the transformation of Finland into an internationally attractive, human-centric and competitive knowledge and service society. Development of skills and creativity, bold renewal of structures and operating models, and efficient utilisation of technology will make this possible, even under conditions of increasing global competition."

On a more practical level:

1. Consumer oriented
2. Office in your pocket
3. The mobile learning environment
4. Mobile solutions for elderly people
5. Rich content
6. User Generated content
7. Community building and open source methodology
   

Digital Leraning Environments

Digital learning environments can benefit from the wide experience of modern computer games by providing holistic learning experience – since pure information does not become knowledge until it is imparted within a context and can therewith be experienced. However, the mystery of these games is closely related to learning: it is essential to meet a challenge and a task, to solve problems, to improve and of course to be awarded. One plays a game in order to win. This is precisely how the human brain can be motivated to learn: We want to understand ourselves, explore and understand the world around us and raise the challenge – if we succeed, we obtain comprehension and self-confidence. And we want to discover and know even more.

"Everybody experiences far more than they understand. Yet it is experience rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

MARSHAL MCLUHAN

eHealth and the care of elderly people will be an area of growth

(27 November 2006) IEE Proceedings Communications invites contributions on the above subject, which is part of an ongoing series of special issues in communications technology and innovation. Recently, telemedicine and e-health activities have seen a large number of successful applications in health care delivery through different communication technologies.

1. Mobile, wireless and fixed communication networks have pushed the deployment of new e-health services, being a very useful and real test bed for the R&D activities applied to communication-based services.
   
   
2. Additionally, the use of nano and micro devices (within personal and body-area networks), the new wireless standards and the space telemedicine and satellite applications are requesting new innovative, efficient, interoperable and scalable solutions to make affordable the deployment of e-health systems on a massive scale. It is envisaged that papers accepted for this special issue could be invited to publish their research as part of a new book series.