india

We have the pleasure to announce that a delegation of Google Business Development from China, Japan and India will accompany Lift12 speaker Nick Heller. To tap into their extraordinary wealth of knowledge we will organize a "Google Dating" during the Lift Fondue, on the evening of February 22nd.

This is a great chance for start-ups and entrepreneurs to exchange with the Google Venture Team during the Lift Fondue! To participate in the call send us an e-mail with a short description about your project and why you'd like to meet the Google Team to google-fondue@liftconference.com until February 14th.

Good luck!

While China’s Premier Wen Jiabao is visiting India, Huawei announced its plans to invest USD 2 billion into India over the next 5 years in the field of research and manufacturing.

Huawei’s strategy makes a lot of sense. First, it consolidates its presence in one of the world’s center of telecommunication R&D. Second, by locating operations in India, it circumvents potential “Buy India” campaigns. Third, it gets even closer the fastest growing telecommunication market in the world.

Both countries already have deeper ties than one may think. The overall amount of deals to be signed during Wen’s visit ranges between USD 16 and 20 billion - close to the total amount of deals signed between India, France, the UK and the US this year. China is already India’s largest trading partner. So, one can only wonder what could come out of a stengthened partnership between India and China once both governments start to align their interests. Maybe then could the 21st century become the Asian century.

What would a diverse, complex world brain look like? Considering how digital culture and enable a multiplicity of knowledges. Ramesh Srinivasan, an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, speaks about the importance of cultural differences in knowledge production and technology design. Through various stories, he shows the differences in cultural appropriation and the inherent creativity of people in adpating technologies to the uses that benefit them best.

What would a diverse, complex world brain look like? Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledges.
Ramesh Srinivasan, an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, speaks about the importance of cultural differences in knowledge production and technology design. Through various stories, he shows the differences in cultural appropriation and the inherent creativity of people in adpating technologies to the uses that benefit them best.

Sugata Mitra is a Professor of Educational Technology at the Newcastle University. He presents about "Outdoctrination: Society, Children, Technology and Self Organisation in Education" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.