Via O’Reilly’s video channel on youtube: The rise of Government 2.0 signals the emergence of IT innovation and the Web as a platform for fostering efficiencies within government and citizen participation. How can we harness these innovations to decrease waste and increase productivity? Gov 2.0 Expo, the IT event for 21st century government, brings stakeholders together to explore transformative technologies and discover new solutions. List of speakers slides and videos can be found on the site and here’s the video.
SeriousGamesMarket informs about the keynote speech by Will Wright at Games Tech 2010. Will Wright is designer of popular games like SimCity, SimEarth, and The Sims. Wright spoke on the intersection of military gaming and commercial gaming technologies.
Games Tech 2010’s primary objective is to promote the use of game technology within the Department of Defense, inviting participation and exchange of Ideas. For more information and some great insightful presentations visit the official Game Tech 2010 conference website
Every enterprise sits at the centre of its own ecosystem, producing new value from its links with others. Open innovation is a new way of strengthening these links, making them more productive, efficient and long-lasting. Stefan Lindegaard (@lindegaard) recently chaired a panel discussion and Open for Business conference hosted by NESTA. The conference was designed to help companies navigate the Corporate Open Innovation process. NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts – an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. NESTA invests in early-stage companies, inform policy, and deliver practical programmes that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future.
The interactive day featured Open Innovation experts, experienced practitioners and NESTA case studies of open innovation from corporates including, Procter and Gamble, Virgin, Oracle, Orange and McLaren.
You can download the pdf of the report here and watch videos on NESTA’s web site. Stefan has also shared some of his reflections from this conference on his blog
Here’s the introduction video by Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chief Executive, NESTA
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