OPINION
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Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media and the Coordinator of Information and Communications Technology at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Canada. Alec works with undergraduate and graduate students to develop their understanding and competencies in working with technology and media in K12 environments. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as open education, social & networked learning, instructional design, digital citizenship and critical media literacy.
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Rhubarb Radio is a surprising web 2.0 experiment clever enough to convert an online radio into a social media community with more than 25,000 fans in the UK city of Birmingham. More than 340 volunteers see to all of its daily information needs, often broadcasting live the content that they as local people want to hear, connected by local bloggers who follow the music scene and diverse local arts projects.
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"Living Labs gives people the opportunity of unleashing its potential for innovation and creativity"Roberto Santoro has played a leading role in the establishment of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and is currently responsible for the Governance Task Force in the establishment of an innovative ENoLL organizational structure. He is directly involved in the development of Concurrent Open Innovation and Living Labs paradigms and in their actual adoption by european industry and by government and regional agencies.
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Stéphane Ducasse represents for the world of Information Technology what his namesake does for international cuisine. Both are French, perfectionists to the extent that they personally take care of the smallest detail and have both set the bar so high to lead the way in the field. In the case of this University dean of computer engineering, research in Smalltalk is his great project, a computer language with great development potential taught at Citilab right from basics.
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Quim Gil is a technology veteran who has always known how to connect with both users on the street and techfanatics. It’s now been almost a decade since he headed for Finland to work with Nokia and is currently the firebrand leader of development communities at Maemo, their open-source operating system. Quim was the "life & soul of the fiesta" during the long 4 th – 6th december when artisans of the code from all around the invaded Citilab in order to exchange knowledge and “join non-virtual hands”.
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Dave Harte, enterprising British interest in the "new media", is now director of the Master in Social Media, a new qualification developed by the Birmingham City University. Previously he led by the city council of where he live the Digital Birmingham project, destined to expand the participation of citizens through digital technologies. He has also worked as an audiovisual technician, photographer and director of print productions. Harte was one of the speakers who participated in the Urban Labs 2009, held at the Citilab-Cornellà on last October.
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"The big challenge for Citilab is not to get people involved on a one-by-one basis, but to bring in groups that already exist"
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With a little luck next year Amelia Anderstotter will become the first female "pirate" to have a seat in the European Parliament.
This 21 year old Swedish economics student came from the small university town of Lund to Citilab to speak about a world in which property will not be a universal right. She leafed through a novel about cyber-shamens which had won the UPC science-fiction prize while confessing that in politics it's not easy to try to see the future.
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Morten Levin is an expert in Labor Organization and professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Recently met with Unions of Baix Llobregat to share learning methodologies and practices to convert participatory dynamics in processes that lead to effective actionWhat opportunities can bring collaborative systems for economic development in a traditionally industrial area like the Baix Llobregat? What role play citizenship in this process?
You can tkink about citizens as an important resource for innovation.
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Sebastián Muriel is director-general of red.es
In your opinion, is a society really 2.0 still far off?
