From the report: "Governments all
over the world have discovered the world of social media, for better or for
worse. Whereas some of them are making every effort to prevent the
unhierarchical and therefore uncontrollable (dissident) opinion-forming process
in Web 2.0, others are looking for ways of putting the potentialities of this
new opening-up of communication to use. One approach that is increasingly being
tried out is opening up innovation processes in government.
However, this opening-up of innovation processes is anything but trivial. It
requires a thoroughly thought-out strategy and thus confronts government
systems with extensive challenges if it is not to suffer the same fate as other
unsuccessful attempts at reform in the past. In our essay, we reflect on the
consequences of these challenges for public managers." Read more
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
U.S. Government Will Launch a Dynamic Airwave-Sharing Scheme
From the article: "Aiming to boost wireless bandwidth and innovation, the U.S.
Federal Communications Commission is poised to recommend the biggest regulatory
change in decades: one that allows a newly available chunk of wireless spectrum
to be leased by different companies at different times and places, rather than
being auctioned off to one high bidder…. Cisco Systems estimates that mobile
data traffic will grow by a factor of 18 by 2016, and Bell Labs predicts it
will increase by a factor of 25. Many more airwaves could eventually be shared
with the help of cognitive radios, which sense available frequencies and shift
between them." Read more
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Five Forces Shaping the 21st Century
Ranadive, Vivek. "The Five Forces Shaping the 21st Century." Forbes, November 27, 2012.
The 21st century didn’t start in the year 2000. It started in 2010, the same way the 20th century began in 1908 with the advent of the automobile. It became the century of highways and freeways, the century of the auto—the American century. Similarly, if you look at what happened a couple of years ago, there were all kinds of crossover points that happened around the same time: more cell phones than landlines, more laptops than desktops, more debit cards than credit cards, more farmed fish than wild fish, more girls in college than boys.
I am dedicated to the belief that if you get the right information to the right place at the right time and in the right context, you can make the world a better place. This is something I call the two-second advantage. In order to achieve that, you need to understand five forces shaping the 21st century.
The 21st century didn’t start in the year 2000. It started in 2010, the same way the 20th century began in 1908 with the advent of the automobile. It became the century of highways and freeways, the century of the auto—the American century. Similarly, if you look at what happened a couple of years ago, there were all kinds of crossover points that happened around the same time: more cell phones than landlines, more laptops than desktops, more debit cards than credit cards, more farmed fish than wild fish, more girls in college than boys.
I am dedicated to the belief that if you get the right information to the right place at the right time and in the right context, you can make the world a better place. This is something I call the two-second advantage. In order to achieve that, you need to understand five forces shaping the 21st century.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality
If you pick up a book, do you see a biography of its author, an analysis of the chemical composition of its paper, or the share price for its publisher? Do you see a list of your friends who've read it or a selection of its best passages or a map of its locations or its resale price or nothing? The problem for Google's brains, as it is for all brains, is choosing where to focus attention and computational power. As a Google-structured augmented reality comes closer to becoming a product-service combination you can buy, the particulars of how it will actually merge the offline and online are starting to matter." Read more
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Charity Creates World's First Citizen Science Project to Speed Up Cancer Research
"Charity Creates World's First Citizen Science Project to Speed Up Cancer Research." Cancer Research UK, October 24, 2012.
From the article: "Cancer Research UK has launched the first ever interactive website - www.clicktocure.net - that will allow the public to
delve into real-life cancer data from research archives and speed up lifesaving
research, outside of the laboratory.
At the moment, cancer samples are given special stains that highlight certain molecules as part of research. These molecules could reveal how a patient will respond to treatment. But this process is slow and analysis is mostly done by trained pathologists, who are often also cancer researchers." Read more
At the moment, cancer samples are given special stains that highlight certain molecules as part of research. These molecules could reveal how a patient will respond to treatment. But this process is slow and analysis is mostly done by trained pathologists, who are often also cancer researchers." Read more