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Lift 10: Stories
Lift 10 Session
May 7, 2010 - 11:30Our traditional session dedicated to inspiring stories from people with extraordinary projects and lives.
Presentations
OhMyNews
AnonymousOh Yeon-ho, the founder of OhmyNews, speaks about the organization's genesis and its principle of "every citizen is a reporter." He also addresses address what makes citizen ...
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OhMyNews: the story and future of citizen journalism
Yeon-ho Oh (OhmyNews, South Korea)From its start in February of 2000, OhmyNews was amongst the first citizen journalism organizations in the world, and remains the most successful. With more than 60,000 ...
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Technology and Cultural Difference in China
Basile Zimmermann (University of Geneva, Switzerland)How one can better and faster understand what is going on with technology when it comes to cultural differences? Based on cases studies in China involving search engines and ...
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Technology and Cultural Difference in China
AnonymousHow one can better and faster understand what is going on with technology when it comes to cultural differences? Based on cases studies in China involving search engines and ...
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Wired for Anticipation
Jamais Cascio (Institute for the Future, USA)Contemplating the future is a distinctively human ability. Language isn't unique to humans; neither is tool use. What makes us human is our ability to look ahead and puzzle ...
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Wired for Anticipation
AnonymousJamais talks about foresight from three different perspectives: aspirational foresight as a way of setting challenges and goals for ourselves; evaluative foresight as a way of ...
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Open Stage: A Day in the Life of the tech-nerd-shop that brought us the Arduino
AnonymousAlexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, founder of Tinkerlondon, describes her day in her design studio.
Open Stage: Day in the Life of tinker
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (RIG / designswarm, UK)A Day in the Life of tinker, interactive product design studio based in London.
Demo: Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn
Fabian Hemmert (Germany)Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn
Open Stage: Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn
AnonymousFabian Hemmert, PhD Student at Deutsche Telekom, presents his latest projects in the field of tangible computing.
How to win in digital
Richard Murton (Accenture, UK)Over the last decade, marketing as a discipline has taken steps to become a more strategic and value-added organizational function. It is, after all, the second or third largest ...
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Winning in Digital
AnonymousIn this session Richard Murton from Accenture Interactive, a group focused on helping clients achieve agile intelligent marketing, shares his insights from talking to global ...
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Printing the internet out
Russell Davies (Really Interesting Group, UK)This will be a talk about printing the internet out and about squirting it into things. About print-on-demand experiments (like Newspaper Club) and attempts to make physical ...
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Printing the internet
AnonymousThis is a talk about printing the internet out and about squirting it into things. About print-on-demand experiments (like Newspaper Club) and attempts to make physical products out of social network data (like DataDecs).
MetaReciclagem
AnonymousMetaReciclagem was created in 2002, first as a collective in São Paulo, Brazil, focused on remanufacturing used computers, installing free and open source software and delivering ...
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MetaReciclagem
Felipe Fonseca (MetaReciclagem, Brazil)Once a land with little access to information technology, Brazil has seen a fast growth in the last decade as both commercial internet increased and government “digital ...
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