The slow suit experience
A few days ago I was part of a panel at the Biella Chamber of Commerce. Biella is a small city in the North of Italy, that became wealthy because of its textile industry, and is now coming to terms…
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Category Co-creation
Podcast: Hello everybody… Clay Shirky at Demos
Demos, the UK “think tank for everyday democracy”, hosted a conversation with Clay Shirky a few days ago. He was in conversation with Demos Associate and School of Everything CEO Paul Miller, talking around the ideas thrown up by Here…
How users are changing the rules of innovation
NESTA, the UK innovation organisation, has published a research report and policy briefing on how users are changing the rules of innovation. User-led innovation – where users play an active part in the development of new or improved products and…
Changing the Change – a call to action
I just wrote a long article on Core77 on the international three-day Changing the Change conference “on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability”, which just ended here in Turin, Italy.
Co-creation at Nokia
Charlie Schick, editor-in-chief for Nokia Conversations, has posted a story about co-creation at Nokia: “One trend that is growing rapidly here in Nokia is ‘co-creation’, working with users to create and improve products. While on one side it seems cheap…
Demos presents international survey of public service co-design
Today Demos, the UK think tank on everyday democracy, launched a new discussion paper Making the most of collaboration: an international survey of co-design, produced in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Public Sector Research Centre. In 2006 Demos published Journey to the…
Library of Congress lecture series on “digital natives”
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is organising a four-part lecture series on “Digital Natives,” referring to the generation that has been raised with the computer as a natural part of their lives, especially the young…
Danish programme for user-driven innovation
The Danish programme for user-driven innovation (English summary) aims to strengthen the diffusion of methods for user-driven innovation, and to contribute to increased growth in the participating companies, and to increased user satisfaction and/or increased efficiency in participating public institutions.…
Book review: Groundswell
Today I read Groundswell: winning a world transformed by social technologies (alternate site – amazon page) by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff (analysts at Forrester). [I was sent a review copy].   It is a book aimed senior managers in charge…
Clay Shirky’s talk about the cognitive surplus
Clay Shirky, author of the book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations (see also these posts), was one of the presenters at the Web 2.0 conference: Mark Ury, chief experience architect for Blast Radius, was there and…
How Nokia users drive innovation
Business Week reports on how online aps such as Sports Tracker and Nokia Beta Lab, allow the Finnish handset giant to gather customers’ ideas from around the world, and virtually for free. “Sports Tracker is an example of how Nokia…
WorldChanging interviews Clay Shirky
Last week I wrote about Clay Shirky’s new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations. Now WorldChanging has published an extensive interview that Jon Lebkowski did with him: Clay Shirky is an influential writer, consultant, and teacher…
Book: Here Comes Everybody
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations by Clay Shirky is an “examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them,…
The experts vs. the amateurs: a tug of war over the future of media
Knowledge@Wharton reports on a hot controversy: “A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content — including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption — and professional journalists, movie makers…
Is user-generated content out?
Newsweek claims that the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals: Some of the same entrepreneurs that funded the user-generated revolution are paying professionals to edit and produce online content. In short, the expert is…
New green online community for youth, by WWF, IUCN and Nokia
Two of the world’s largest environmental organizations, WWF and IUCN, supported by Nokia, are launching today connect2earth.org for young people to tell the world what they think about the environment. Gland, Switzerland, and Espoo, Finland (IUCN, WWF and Nokia) –…
Putting innovation in the hands of a crowd
If executives are going to rely on the wisdom of the masses for business help, it’s probably time the masses get a little compensation for it. That’s the theory behind Kluster, the newest in a lineup of companies using the…
Book: We Think – mass innovation not mass production
“We Think”, the new book by Charles Leadbeater, a UK-based innovation thinker and spokesman for collective creativity, has just been published. Society is based not on mass consumption now but on mass, innovative participation – as is clear in phenomena…
Yrjö Sotamaa on Helsinki’s new Innovation University
I recently interviewed Prof. Yrjö Sotamaa, President of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Sotamaa is the man behind the initiative to start a new Innovation University in Finland, by bringing together three Finnish top universities: the University of…
Participatory diplomacy in Flanders
The Flemish Government (Flanders is one of Belgium’s regions) is choosing for participatory public diplomacy as a promising avenue for foreign policy development. The region, which has some foreign embassy staff but no foreign embassies, is in the process of…