Technology transforming relationship between the elected and the electorate of Europe [eGov monitor]

Europe has celebrated 50 years of peace and political progression, but the next 50 will see massive changes in the relationship between the electorate and politicians thanks to technology. That was the message from the Microsoft Government Leader’s Forum 2007 at the Scottish Parliament. The…

Harvard Business Review features user-centered innovation as breakthrough idea for 2007

The Harvard Business Review has published its annual list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, written out in “twenty essays that will satisfy our demanding readers’ appetite for provocative and important new ideas”. Eric von Hippel wrote the entry entitled “An Emerging Hotbed of User-Centered Innovation“.…

Nokia study on how rural India benefits from mobile communications

Mobile communication is revolutionizing economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services according to a new study by The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) commissioned by Nokia. Mobile communication is revolutionizing economic and…

Innovation and the prosperity of nations [Core77]

“At the recent Competitiveness Summit, the connections between business and innovation were made starkly clear,” writes Nico Macdonald in a Core77 article. In November 2005 the UK Treasury published the Cox Review of Creativity in Business, addressing “a question that is vital to the UK’s…

Interview with Adam Greenfield on the user experience of ubiquitous computing

Régine Debatty (of we-make-money-not-art) and Nicolas Nova (co-organiser of the upcoming LIFT conference) have together interviewed Adam Greenfield in which he focuses on the user experience of ubiquitous computing. Greenfield is the principal of design consultancy Studies and Observations, and author of Everyware: The dawning…