BPN 1621: WSA Mobile content (1)

 SATURDAY, FEB 2ND

 

19:30 Welcome Reception hosted by the Austrian Embassy in Abu Dhabi

Get2Gether and Lightning Talks - Short Presentation Shots by WSA-mobile Winners

H.E. Rashed Lahej Al Mansoori, Director General, Abu Dhabi Systems & Info Centre (ADSIC)

Abdul Karim Al Raeesi, Director of Strategy & Planning, ADSIC

H.E. Peter Elsner-Mackay, Austrian Ambassador to Abu Dhabi

Dr. Wolfgang Penzias, Commercial Counsellor at Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, UAE

Prof. Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the World Summit Award Board of Directors

 

SUNDAY, FEB 3RD

09:00 Official Opening: WSA-mobile Winners´Events 2013

H.E. Rashed Lahej Al Mansoori, Director General, Abu Dhabi Systems & Info Centre (ADSIC)

Abdul Karim Al Raeesi, Director of Strategy & Planning, ADSIC

Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the World Summit Award Board of Directors

10:00 Opening of the Exhibition :: Best in Mobile Content

11:00 Mobile Innovation Session 1 :: Scenarios

Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue

Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA-mobile Chairman

Shot Talks:

Tomi Ahonen, Mobile visionary and author, consultant and motivational speaker, Hong Kong / Singapore “The Near Future of Mobile: Content in the Age of Augmented Reality”

Rich Ling, Professor, IT University of Copenhagen / Telenor Research Institute Oslo, Denmark / Norway “The Future Past of Mobile: Looking back on society from 2030”

Panellists:

Anya Sverdlov, Managing Director, Actis Wunderman, Russian Federation

12:00 Mobile Innovation Session 2 :: INTERSCREEN & DESIGN

Shot Talks:

Janine Warner, Media Executive Creator of DigitalFamily.com, USA “Mobile Design: Multiple strategies for multiple screens “

Gary Schwartz, President & CEO, ImpactMobile, Canada “MultiScreen: Designing interaction with Mobile as the driver “

Panellists:

Maya Makanjee, Chief Officer Corporate Affairs, Vodacom Group Limited, South Africa

Darius Bagdziunas, Director GAUMINA JSC, Lithuania

James Norwood, Associate Professor, Erhvervs Akademiet Lillebælt, Denmark

12:45 Excellence Presentation 1 :: Next Generation Mobile Experience :: Getting your hands on Blackberry+10 presentation by Research in Motion

Moderator: Boris Nemsic, Executive Partner, Delta Partners

Presentation: Lewa Abukhait, Senior Alliance Manager, MEA, Research in Motion

13:00 Blackberry Luncheon

14:00 WSA-mobile Winners´ Presentations -

Meet excellence in mobile content I.

Grand Jury voting for WSA mobile global champions

 

m-Business & Commerce

Streetspotr, Streetspotr GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Keapo, Keapo, Paraguay

iButterfly, Cherrypicks and Media Palette Hong Kong, China | MobiCash, Ithmaar Bank, Bahrain

 

m-Environment & Health

Positive Technology, Instituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy

Prognosis: Your Diagnosis, Medical Joyworks, Sri Lanka

Social Diabetes, Spain

Hormoncheck, The Consumer Council of Norway, Norway

Life with Cancer, Danish Cancer Society, Denmark

m-Entertainment & Lifestyle

Oz Book, Slypoz, Lithuania

DerManDar, DerManDar SAL, Lebanon

Qtom TV, QTom GmbH, Germany |

m-Government & Participation:

i-Police, Complustech Ltd., Nigeria

Roadroid, Roadroid, Sweden

Towngas,The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, China

Digital Library, NLB, Singapore

MyFunCity, MyFunCity, Brazil

16:30 Social Business –Mobile Activism

Workshop: Social entrepreneurs using wireless technologies

Shot Talks:

Katrin Verclas, Exec. Director, MobileActive, USA “Smart Swarms: Mobile content for social change “

Russel Southwood, CEO, Balancing Act, South Africa “Sustaining Mobile Content: Strategies for free and paid apps in Africa and beyond”

Panelists:

Niki Ernst, TEDx Ambassador, Austria

Mathias Haas, CEO & Founder, Findia, Austria

17:30 Thanks God it´s Monday: Emerging trends in Mobile innovation

Mobile Monday Workshop: Arabic and Global Views!

Shot Talks:

Jari Tammisto, President, Mobile Monday, Finland

Madanmohan Rao, Chief Researcher Mobile Monday, India

Nagwa Zahran, Mobile Monday Egypt Project Manager

19:30 Dinner and Cultural Program Emirati Delights and Arab Imagination

 

MONDAY, FEB 4TH

09:00 Mobile Innovation Session 3 :: FANS

Shot Talks:

Catherine Warren, President, FanTrust Entertainment Strategies, Canada “Your Mobile Fans: Best Friends, Taskmasters and Critics”

Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting, UK “The Mobile Consumer: The Center of the mobile Universe?“

Phil Hendrix, Founder and Director, immr, USA “Mobile, Social, Local: Value creation through connecting, contextualising, amplifying”

Panellists:

Alexander Felsenberg, CEO Felsenberg Consulting, Germany

Milind Pathak, Global Head of New Business of One97 Communications, India

Feras Jaffar Ahmed, Director Service Delivery & Channel Enhancement, eGovernment Authority, Bahrain

10:30 Networking Coffee

10:45 Mobile Innovation Session 4 :: EDUCATION

Shot Talks:

Badr Ward, CEO, Erti “Mobile Edutainment: Smart Playgrounds for Preschoolers”

Jon Mason, e-Learning Director, Centre for School Leadership & Learning Development, Charles Darwin University, Australia “m-Education: cognitive engagements and small devices”

Panellists:

Jak Boumans, Managing Director Electronic Media Reporting, Netherlands

Dorothy Gordon, DG, Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT & Development, Ghana

Madanmohan Rao, Chief Researcher Mobile Monday

12:00 Excellence Presentation 2 ::

Mobility & Enterprise – unwiring business by SAP

Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue

Moderator: François Morin, CEO WCIT 2012 & President , M2m Digital

13:00 SAP Luncheon

14:00 WSA-mobile Winners´ Presentations - Meet excellence in mobile content II.

Grand Jury voting for WSA mobile global champions

m-Inclusion & Empowerment:

Blanco y Negro, Ecuador|AlzNav, Fraunhofer, Portugal

Magic Reader, GimmiQ, Japan WheelMap, Sozialhelden, Germany

Hand Talk, Hand Talk, Brazil

m-Media & News:

News 360, News360, Russian Federation/United States

Scoopshot, P25 Media Group, Finland

TrafficMate, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
Bambuser, Bambuser, Sweden
Maestro Digital Publishing Suite, Pulse Mediatech Limited, China

m-Tourism & Culture:

map2app, GreenBit SNC di Petro Ferraris e C., Italy

Tripwolf, tripwolf GmbH, Austria

TaxiPal, TaxiPal Ltd., Estonia

Harpoen, Harpoen Pte Ltd & PT Kreasi Daya Luhur, Indonesia

Dérive app, Uganda

m-Learning & Education:

Back in Time, LANDKA, Portugal | WildChords, Ovelin Ltd., Finland

The Math Mage, RGH Games, Jordan

KnowledgePulse, KnowledgeFox GmbH, Austria

Project Noah, Canada

16:30 Growing up Mobile: The Future here, the World now!

Workshop: From representing reality, to doing life! Meet the most mobile YA- Winners!

Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman,

Respondent: H.E. Ambassador Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General, UN

Panellists:
Nathan Masyuko, Haki Game, Kenya,
Bistra Kumbaroska, Mladiinfo, Slovenia,
Matt Clark, Fair Play Anti-Corruption Youth Voices, Belgium,
Eba’a El-Tamami HarassMap, Egypt,
Mathias Haas, Findia, Austria,
Amr Sobhy & Abbas Adel MorsiMeter, Egypt

17:45 Mobile Battles: Who owns what in the Mobile Space?

User generated content, data privacy and the demise of publishers

Shot Talks:

Karim Taga & Clemens Schwaiger, Arthur D. Little, Tunisia / Austria “Making Money from m-Content: The battle for ARPUs, AdRevs and SubPay”

Boris Nemsic, Executive Partner, Delta Partners “Value Add Services: How do Telcos strategize Content?”

Panellists:

George Sharkov, Director of ESI Center Eastern Europe, Bulgaria

Amr Kamel, Founder & Chairman - Global Technologies Online, Egypt

Jeremy Foster, Head of Marketing, Government & Industry Relations, Ericsson MEA

18:30 Explore Abu Dhabi

Grand Jury Voting on WSA-mobile Global Champions - for Jury Members only

TUESDAY, FEB 5TH

09:00 The Power of Mobile Sound

Dolby Mobile present

Presentation: Tarif Sayed, Regional Director, Middle East & Africa, DOLBY Inc

09:30 Mobile Innovation Session 5 :: ENTERTAINMENT

Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue

Shot Talks:

Ralph Simon, Chairman Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum-Americas, UK

“Latest trends in mobile entertainment

Harri Koponen, COO Rovio, Finland "The Story of Birds. From an angry idea to global intercultural pleasure”

Panellists:

Eric Idiahi, CEO Spinlet, Nigeria

Yiannis Doxaras, CEO & Founder, Warp.ly, Greece

Niall Austin, CEO OmniMotion, Ireland

10:30 Networking Coffee

10:45 Mobile Innovation Session 6 :: INTERSERVICE | GOVERNMENT

Innovation Shots by international experts and interactive dialogue

Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman

Shot Talks:

Paul Kukubo, CEO, Kenya ICT Board, Kenya “Between Safaricom and Silicon Savannah: The role of government in creating a viable ecoystem for local Content”

Marta Tomovska, Deputy Minister Ministry of Information Society and Administration, Government of the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia

Panellists:

Rodrigo Assumpcao, President of the Social Security Data Processing Company (Dataprev), Brazil

Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum, Luxembourg

Elizabeth Quat, Legislative Council Member, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

12:00 Excellence Presentation 3: The Next World in Mobile by QUALCOMM

m-Content and Next-generation Wireless Technologies

Moderator: Boris Nemsic, Executive Partner, Delta Partners

13:00 Lunch by Qualcomm

14:00 Smart Scripting, Hidden Storylines: the Angry Birds Workshop

Workshop on Becoming World Class in Fun and Games: Heroes, Adventures, Skills, and Infinity

Workshop Leader: Harri Koponen, COO Rovio, Finland

15:30 Changing the World with Mobile: m-Content for Development

Fishbowl Session on UN Millennium Development Goals and the power of ICT4D

Moderator: Prof. Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman

Shot Talk:

Osama Manzar, Founder and Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation, India “Voice as m-Content: Literacy and the diversity of local content”

Panellists:

H.E. Amb. Dr. Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations, New York

Reshan Dewapura, CEO ICTA, Sri Lanka

Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org, USA

17-17:30 Winners SumUp

Reflections on the past event and future steps

19:30 EXCELLENCE IN MOBILE CONTENT 2.0

Abu Dhabi hosts the WSA-mobile Award Gala

Award Ceremony with announcement of 8 WSA-mobile global Champions 2013 and ADSIC Dinner

 

 

 

My dear friend Christy Dena has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to make the finish possible for the iPAD app Authentic in all caps. It has a special page to make it easy: http://bitly.com/authenticshare  

 

VOTE VOTE VOTE for your mobile favourite: #WSAm seeks Global Champion http://bit.ly/11ucIth

BPN 1620: Dutch e-book publishers: from Adobe DRM to watermarking

Today the Dutch add an new aspect to their speciality of water management: watermarking e-book.  Today 8426 e-books with Adobe DRM will be converted to watermark. It will be easier to the 20.000 available e-books to the Dutch readers.

Most of the e-books in the Netherlands are distributed by CB, the former book media distributor Centraal Boekhuis (Central Book House), which recently turned into a multi-product logistics operator. So far CB has offered e-books with three types of rights management: Adobe DRM, watermarking or no right management at all. The type of rights management is indicated by the publisher and recorded by the Bureau ISBN, the book number institute. Once the type of rights management has been recorded it cannot be changed.

Many publishers like to change Adobe DRM as the rights management is consumer unfriendly. In order to suit the publishers CB has pushed the international ISBN organisation to convert titles with Adobe DRM to watermarking. It is only a one time conversion.

Before the conversion no less than 66 per cent of the e-books were Adobe DRM protected. After the conversion the percentage will drop to 26 per cent. The majority of the Dutch publishers has chosen for watermarking; only a minority of DRM protected e-books will remain available.

This watermarking change in the Netherlands does not mean that e-books will become DRM free, as retailers such Apple and Kobo still can use their own security measures.

 

From today onwards, of e-books in EPUB format, 57 per cent of the total amount of deliverable e-books will be watermarked, 20 per cent with Adobe DRM and 6 per cent will have no rights management. Of the e-books in PDF format, only 1 per cent of the total amount of deliverable e-books will bear a watermark and 5 per cent will be secured by Adobe DRM, while 10 per cent will have no security at all. Of course the percentage watermarked EPUB e-books will increase, when publishers see the watermarked e-books sell better.

Although the Dutch e-book publishers have been rather liberal so far by using Adobe DRM which allowed the buyer to copy the e-book to four different platforms (PC/sun notebook, e-reader, smart phone, iPAD/tablet), they are still seeing resistance to the DRM limitation. By introducing watermarking as a norm, they expect to sell e-books easier. 

The turn-over of e-books in the Netherlands is now almost 2,2 per cent of the total book market. This market has a turn-over of  557 million euro, earned with 44,7 million copies.

 

Personal note: on august 18, 2008 I wrote the blog posting # 1191: e-Books can not be secured.

BPN 1619: Leonardo goes crossmedia

While in Milano, our host took us to Leonardo 3, a small creative company, which produces crossmedia products on the basis of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Ralph Simon and myself were flabbergasted. Here is a company of some five people, who produce exhibitions, books, games, video and (wooden) models. And not just obligatory products, but very exciting ones for young and old. In fact the products feed the curiosity for how technology works.

The producers or better craftsmen base all their work on the writings and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Of course Leonardo is mostly known for the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. But he has left so much more. In fact he painted the Last Supper for money to continue his search into mechanics. The producers have a collection of facsimile works. They are quick to note that, yes, Bill Gates has bought some of Leonardo’s writings and drawings, but he has only 16 pages. Leonardo 3 has facsimiles going back more than a century.

In the meantime the producers of Leonardo 3 have built up an impressive track record. They have organized several successful interactive exhibition in the States. Kids can see how technology works from wooden models, but also by touchscreens. The producers present the kids and parents with a screen showing a lot of parts of a wooden model, e.g. the lion. By touching on the parts, without and guidance, they will have to build the wooden lion and show that they understood how motion is set to work; if they do not understand the principle, they will create a non-functioning fantasy model.

With their knowledge of Leonardo da Vinci, they have also put together an exhibition for the Emir of Qatar, based on The Book of Secrets by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi, an early Arab scientists, showing amogst others how water clocks work.

They publish also books. Yes they do it themselves. They have been maltreated by a large publisher with a very successful popular book, so they have started for themselves and have built up a nice library with publications on Leonardo’s workshop and on the Codex on Flight. These books look very professionally done. In the meantime the books have become a regular source of income to the producers.

 

 

 

 

They are also moving into the business of games. They have models of Leonardo’s multi gunship, paddle boat, mechanical lion and self-propelling cart in plastic part. In this way kids can discover the mechanics. But the producers are now also moving in games. They have a prototype of an app, which is a game of putting Leonardo’s mechanics together. But they are also looking into the gamification of mechanics, so bringing hard core mechanics and for example 3D software together. Also this part of the company is a regular source of income.

The producers also regularly shoot video’s. Once they have developed a new model they produce a video of these marvelous machines. And they use the videos in their exhibitions, CD/DVD publications and for promotion on YouTube.

For all their work sucha as exhibitions, photographs in a book, on CD/DVD, on video, they need models. They usually make them of wood in such a way that they can work mechanically and be taken apart for break-out purposes. From the wooden models they produce again the plastic paddle boats and other puzzles.

What is the secret of their success. The producers look very cocky about that. They put it clearly that many so called experts on Leonardo da Vinci hardly understand the mechanical principles by this genius. Having studied and still studying the facsimiles of Leonardo da Vinci, have given the producers a lot of insight of what Leonardo was after. Using his principles, they can develop products in a crossmedia way.

The producers have 100 ideas, but still five people. And you wonder why. All those 100 ideas will take more than 100 years. In order to realise all their 100 ideas they need more funding in order to train people and produce the ideas. In fact they need a mecenas who is crazy about mechanics and see the link with IT, 3D software and publishing opportunities. One of their 100 dreams is a theme park on Leonardo’s mechanics. The plans are ready for it. And they do not just want the theme park a commercial venture. They want to put their workshop right in a type of an aquarium in such a way that the visitors can watch what they are doing.

The session with the producers of Leonardo 3 was short, but intense. Their enthusiasm, skills, and vision are contagious. You really wish them a mecenas, who provides them the opportunity to realize their 100 dreams in their lifetime.

 

BPN 1618: e-Content Award Italy

Last week I was invited to be present at the award ceremony of the eContent Award Italy in Milano. It was a great time. Milano at Christmas time was surprising. Around the Duomo was a Christmas market with many stalls, filled mostly with regional food products.

Out of the many submissions winners have been selected and the received their awards. The organizer, dottore Alfredo Ronchi, secretary general to the MEDICI framework, had put together a program with national and international speakers.

The organiser Alfredo Ronchi and Jak Boumans

"Initiatives such as the World Summit Award are a concrete testimony to the commitment that is  increasingly given to innovative and creative products and services,” said John Paul Del Nero, commissioner for economic development, job training and the Province of Milan. “The explosion of digital content facilitates the transfer of knowledge, experiences and best practices in all areas, from health to science, from politics to the economy, until you get to culture and entertainment. This access and use of applications targets everyday use."

"Innovation is the strategic element on which to base the present and the future of economic development and society as a whole,” said Cristina Tajani Assessor to work, economic development, universities and research of the Municipality of Milan. “The Milan City Council has identified the areas of creativity and dissemination of innovation for central and sustainable development and this should catch in particular the attention of the younger generations. Initiatives as the WSA contribute actively to spread the creativity and innovation of citizens, businesses and even institutions, both at a national and at an international level. It is in a concrete way an enriching “confrontation" with more than 170 nations."

"This initiative dedicated to companies and institutions,” said Giorgio Rapari, director of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, “demonstrates for all local institutions, that innovation is crucial to overcome the crisis and improve the competitiveness of our economic system."

Pierpaolo Saporito, a high level advisor of GAID, president and founder Infopoverty Occam program & conference, said in his speech: "This award is unique in the UN, and important because it not only enhances the creativity of companies and individuals, but stimulates new generations to see the opportunities that the digital revolution is opening, thus counteracting the wave of pessimism that pervades the current ruling class, who sees off the old world born during the industrial revolution.”

Ralph Simon with Madalina Tomita

 

Ralph Simon, chief executive officer of Mobilium Global and the founder of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) started out with some light notes, mentioning that many people were fast becoming ‘screenagers’ as they have become addicted to their smartphones and tablets. But he also indicated that this mobile movement will offer new opportunities never dreamt of. Apps can be produced in a short time and enhance the experience of an environment. And we have only started as smartphones can be part of eHealth, measuring blood pressure and detecting illnesses.

Photographs movies of the ceremony are available:

-        Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=532816076731334&set=a.532815726731369.124632.182258035120475&type=1&theater

     -        YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QymnCw438N4

BPN 1617: The social University (2)

Fireworks were promised by the conference organisers oand fireworks the conference delegates got. The first speaker was Mr Adam Montandon, a UK citizen working in Denmark. He is not completely unknown in this circle of people as he won the Europrix overall award in 2004 with an applied multimedia project for a practical problem. For a man who was absolutely colourblind, he and his team thought up a cyborg, a camera linked to a microcomputer, which translated colours into sounds. The camera has been refined and is now part of a pair of glasses. So in 2004 he already was able to look at the world in a different way for solutions. And in fact he still does, but now he is an assistant professor and teaches students in Denmark creativity or how do I tackle problems from different angles.

In his presentation he summed up a series of projects he had started at the IAL school. All these projects carried the same slogan: Look at things in a different way and just play! And playing they do. In order to learn code and object, they play human table football. Having played the game and understood the objective, the students will never forget what code is and how object can be recognized. An absolute racket is playing the game of space invaders by humans. Opponents are charging right at you and try to get through line of humans. Interesting was the assignment to build QR codes with Lego (what else in Denmark). Participants will never forget how precise they have to be in constructing the QR code. Misplacing a piece of Lego will produce a wrong QR code or even a non-code.

The assignments are intellectual and physical. Believing in yourself can be tested by using techniques from Taekwondo. Slashing a piece of wood really makes your day; for some people slashing an iPad would make their week! But what about business skills. Students get stuck with plastic swans and have to turn the lot into a business opportunity. And some students did it. They produced ice-swans and sold them. A business group of students had to produce a rap about business ideas and also composed a rap about business ideas.

Crazy ideas, but where do they lead to? At least students experience a very unconventional assignment, but will often remember it. The coding assignment will stay grafted in their memory and having completed the QR assignment, they will never be sloppy about a precision assignment. And all these crazy ideas even lead to new start-ups such as Free Hugs, a company to cheer up people in the street. The business model still has to be worked out, but paid advertisement and free publicity should be able to cover costs.

The man bubbles with ideas and is a master in unexpected social interruptions. And he loves it. One of his sayings is: there might be a credit crisis, but there is no creative crisis. And another is really sharp: don’t look for a job, but for an occupation; something that might interest you for a long time, businesswise but also personal.

Adam made also the observation that all teachers want to be different, but they all have the students use the same book. And this is funny for him to say, as he is finishing up a book called The Awesome Department, which is book on creativity and contains many suggestions for assignments. The book is due to be published shortly (in English, of course), but you can pre-order and follow the title blog..

BPN 1616: The Social University (2)

The University of Graz was today the host of the Academic Network Conference organized by the network European Academy of Digital Media (EADiM), a foundation legally incorporated in The Netherlands. The conference usually attracts professors and lecturers from universities and colleges throughout Europe. This time the following countries were represented: Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, UK, including Wales, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Cyprus.

This year’s theme The Social University sounded very interesting. The organizing committee wrote on the theme: “ Today’s students are intense users of ICTs and multimedia and have taken charge of creating content. Intellectual and cultural production in general have been democratized radically through social media. The new technologies deliver smart phones and tablets in everybody’s hand, and social media and PCs are ubiquitous in higher education environments”.

EADiM’ chairman Peter Bruck extrapolated the statement at the start of the conference. Students, besides creating content, learn by creating content and generate knowledge in the process of creating content. Students even share content faster than professors can speak, Professor Petre Bruck said.

No longer can you speak of an info transfer between the professor and the student as the student breathes Google in and out. That is the way he learns, basically out of poverty. And learning is relational. Relations count and are decisive for the education of the student. It is formed by social structures, altered by technologies and access to them. In this way the intellectual production is democratized radically and the web and social media are the channels.

A new culture is emerging thanks to the new media platforms and the convergent media environment. New skills and new lietarcies are acquired and need to be passed on. Try and learn, explore and study, live and reflect are the main ways of growing up as a student and staying up2dateas teacher/instructor.

The basic question to Institutions of Higher Education/Universities are maintaining currency in this shifting media environment and engaging students as producers and partners in practicing new paradigm of learning and research.

With such a theme there should be some fireworks coming from the lectures and discussions. And it did on the first day.      

BPN 1615: Program EADiM Conference 2012

 

Program, of the EADiM Academic Network Conference 2012

Location: Resowi, Geidorfgürtel  or Universitätsstraße15, 8010 Graz
Room G2, SZ 15.22, Second Floor

Moderation

Richard Vickers, University of Lincoln, UK
Cai Melakoski, TAMK School of Art, Music and Media, FI

 

 

Thursday 22nd Nov

10:00-10:20 Welcome Note

Wolfgang Rauch, Dean, Faculty of Social & Economic Sciences, Univ. of Graz, AT
Peter A. Bruck, Chairman EADiM Board, Honorary President ICNM, University of Salzburg, AT

10:20-11:00 Collaborative learning in interactive learning environments

Play Is More Important Than the Bottom Line
Adam Montandon, Erhvervsakademiet Lillebælt, DK

Experiences on collaborative online learning

Cai Melakoski, TAMK School of Art, Music and Media, FI

Leadership in education

Niki Ernst, Planetsisa GmbH, AT

11:00-12:00 Teaching research in action/ Learning practice as research: Academics present projects and works.  Part 1

Combining courses with real life projects

Ari Närhi, TAMK School of Art, Music and Media, FI
 
The use of digital media in the creation of a safety culture
Kostas Gouliamos, European University, CY

Develop This - Educating science doing research as education

Geert de Haan, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, NL

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:00 Teaching research in action/ Learning practice as research: Academics present projects and works.  Part 2

Toward student teacher research

James Norwood, Erhvervsakademiet Lillebælt, DK

Teacher or/and eLearning producer

Vladimir Burcik, Comenius University, SK
Jozef Hvorecký, City University of Seattle, Bratislava, SK
Robert J. Skovira, Robert Morris University, Moon Township/Pittsburgh, USA

Some examples for archaeological education and on the evolution of social media

Katharina Holzinger, TU Graz, Student, AT

16:00 EADiM joins EYA Festival: Departure for the Design Walk!

UNESCO City of Design, Walking tour around Graz
16:30-17:45 Meeting point: Hauptplatz

Digital Disruptions and “Designing MDGs”, Opening of EYA 2012 Festival
Lightning Talks and Vernissage of Exhibition
18:00-19:45 City Hall Graz, Hauptplatz 1

Graz Twittering and Styrian Supper

Find friends, network for the evening
20:00-21:00, City Hall Graz, same location

Friday 23rd Nov.

Location: Zentrum f. Weiterbildung, Harrachgasse 23, Room SR 38.21 

10:00-11:00 The new economy of education: the more you share, the more you have

Findia as best practice of Student and Youth Project
Mathias Haas, SuperSocial, AT

Transformatlab - an intensive multiplatform progression for creative industry graduates
Hannah Raybould, Media Academy Wales, UK

Pleasure of Participation

Albert van der Kooij,  Hanze University, NL
& Gyorgy Retfalfi, BKF, HU

11:00-13:00 The paradigm shift in universities: new media teaching that is student entered, learning focused

UX as a critical success factor for participatory projects: Enhancing the user experience to encourage participation.
Richard Vickers, University of Lincoln, UK

Leading the change or missing the challenge? A proactive approach to the natural evolution of the educational domain

Alfredo Ronchi, MEDICI Framework, Politecnico di Milano, IT

Science is to test ideas - Engineering is to put ideas into practice On Experiences with Research Based Teaching

Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Research Unit Human-Computer, AT

Serious Game Design Summer School

Maja Pivec, FH Joanneum, AT

UVIC_Lab, an innovative concept of digital content laboratory at the University of Vic

Arnau Gifreu Castells, University of Vic, ES
 

13:00 Conclusion & EADIM Next Steps

EADiM Publication: SPRINGER (Gabler), Serie "Smart Media and Application Research”

Jak Boumans, EADiM, NL

13:15 EADiM joins EYA Festival for lunch!

 

 

BPN 1614: The India tablet at 32 euro

The version of low-cost tablet Aakash, coined the India tablet, was launched in New Delhi on Sunday by President Pranab Mukherjee. Coming at a price tag of Rs.1,130 (32 euro) for students, the version which will be made available to students of engineering colleges and universities to begin with, is now powered by a processor running at 1 gigahertz (GHz), has a 512 MB, a 7 inch capacitive touch screen and a battery working for three hours of normal operations. It has been developed under the aegis of IIT Bombay with the active support of THE Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.

Photograph: PTI

Canada-based firm Datawind is rolling out the device. “The price is Rs.2,263 at which the government purchases the device from us. The government subsidizes it by 50% and it will be distributed to students at Rs.1,130,” said Datawind chief executive officer Suneet Tuli. He said the government is also trying to encourage the state governments to chip in by subsidizing it further so that the device can eventually be available to students free of cost.

The first 100,000 devices will be provided to students of engineering colleges and universities and subsequently these will be distributed to others. About 220 million students will get the device across the country in the next five-six years.

By Livemint.com through the Digital Empowerment Foundation