Service Science and “A Smarter Planet”

Last summer’s NNC entry on Service Science, “NextNowNetwork and MediaX explore Service Science with Jim Sphorer,” is still one of the most-read entries.  Clearly, there’s a lot of interest in the topic. To touch back in on Service Science, here are a couple of links Jim Sporher sent to Bill Daul today.  In a speech by IBM Chairman, President, and CEO Sam Palmisano given at the Council on Foreign Relations on the use of technology to infuse intelligence into decision-making both in systems and in individual decision making, Mr. Palmisano mentions the importance of “Services as a Science” in his…

2008 Tech Awards: “Let’s Put Poverty into A Museum” (Yunus)

Thanks to Rob Stephenson for these links covering the 2008 Tech Award events and the work of the Laureates. This article has great photos of the innovations in situ: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10093164-76.html?part=rss&subj=News-CuttingEdge This is a great article with the night’s keynote speaker, Muhammad Yunus: VentureBeat: Interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on Micro Credit’s Long Shadow By Dean Takahashi http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/13/interview-with-nobel-peace-prize-winner-muhammad-yunas-on-micro-credits-long-shadow/ This article has a short video of the morning reception: Mercury News: Tech Museum Awards Honor Low-Tech Solutions to Big Problems By John Boudreau http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10968397?source=rss Mercury News: Tech Awards Celebration Shows True Value of Technology By Mike Cassidy http://www.mercurynews.com/portal/business/ci_10975258?source=rss&_loopback=1 Silicon Valley Watcher: Nobel…

Origo invites NextNow Collab to Meet 2008 Tech Laureates

Thanks to our collab partners Origo Global Business Advisors, NNC was again invited to meet the 25 Laureates of the Tech Awards.  (NextNower Rob Stephenson was also there as the Tech Museum’s Curator of The Virtual Tech). Each year The Tech Museum in San Jose honors 25 Laureates worldwide for their innovative use of technology to benefit humanity. These Laureates are acknowledged for their brilliant accomplishments in addressing some of the most critical issues facing our planet in five categories. This year, instead of a champagne reception (because of Veteran’s Day), it was an 8:30 a.m. “where’s-the-coffee?” event held at…

NextNow’s Zann Gill at Stanford’s Media X

NextNow member Zann Gill will be speaking at NNC partner organization Media X at Stanford on December 4, 2008 with the specific objective of exploring the increasingly significant role Media X can play at the intersection of new media and complex, cross-disciplinary challenges. Please join the conversation, lend us your genius, and learn about raising our collaborative intelligence. Thursday, December 4th, 6 – 7 PM at Media X — Stanford University‘s Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater, Building 160, Room 124 Stanford web event listing here There will be a no-host NextNow dinner following the talk at Jing Jing, 443 Emerson St. in Palo…

Program for the Future: Dec 8 AND 9

We’re all watching the election returns tonight, history in the making.  Thanks for voting! Program for the Future The October 27 post, Engelbart Legacy Foundation: Augmenting Collective IQ, was an invitation to SRI’s 40th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos at Stanford on Dec. 9.  That invitation isn’t complete without including the Tech Museum interactive conference being held Dec. 8.  Together they are part of the Program for the Future, the larger and ongoing effort to accelerate the augmentation of Collective Intelligence represented by Engelbart’s work, created by NextNow members including Bill Daul, Dave Davison, Eileen Clegg, Doug Engelbart, Mei…

Global Footprint Network reports: Africa, China, India

Earlier this year, NNC attended a Global Footprint Network event at Swissnex to celebrate the completion of their recent Global Footprint Africa report.  Since then, they have completed a global footprint report on China and, collaborating with the Confederation of Indian Industry, released a business perspective report on India’s Ecological Footprint.  A critical concept of all these reports is ecological overshoot, which describes a condition where humanity’s demands on the biosphere exceed its capacity to regenerate itself.  Global Footprint Network found that all of these regions are in, or approaching, overshoot.  According to the reports: While Africans per capita consume…