The new Cybergeography or How Communities can Benefit your Company
15-Apr-04
There are examples on how new interrelationships form new collaborative paradigms, enabled by rapid technical development in connectivity and content as well as context management. Monica Miranda, who was the first trainee in the 2003 established unit “New Working Environments” in DG Information Society at the European Commission, prepared this report. The unit is focused on technology development for new collaborative work paradigms, understanding and strengthening the technical drivers towards enhanced productivity in the knowledge economy as stated in the Lisbon objectives for 2010.
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- Author:
- Paul Hearn
- Publisher:
- KnowledgeBoard
- Date:
- 15-Apr-04
- Categories:
- Communities and Collaboration, European Commission, CoPs
- Sections:
- News
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thanks for this gift- are paul, miranda joining in this time?
I love the SEEM section on page 15:
The objective of SEEM is to achieve a network-centred market environment that is:
• open, allowing any entity to come into and leave without barriers, and ensuring the possibility of
integrated value chains in which companies, organizations and individuals from different Member
States can be linked without experiencing any access or interoperability problems
• network-centric, bringing together available resources and competencies scattered throughout Europe
so as to allow collaborative value creation relationships
• without constraints imposed by IT vendors or any other technological barrier that could hinder
collaboration and relationships between entities
• sustainable, being aware of the limited available resources and the need to combine them in the most
cost-effective way.
Is there a 2-pager summary of what to do next with this knowledge. I will plough through. In fact, as my father's editorial at The Economist were first to coin the word telecommuting, I had to chuckle at the cases on teleworkers
An extract from the networking vision of 20 years ago http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
For a region's people to succeed in the Telecommuting Age there are four main requirements - satisfied in places as far apart ad Guam and Queensland and Cape Province and California and Penang and Scotland. First , as the prophet John Naisbitt said in 1982, 'the languages needed for the immediate future are computer and English'. Second, the area has to be a nice one in which to live. Third, it is important that all income earners should adapt happily to a 'cafeteria of compensation' schemes. These allow the individual employee to decide what mix (s)he wants of salary, job objectives, career aims, flexitime, job sharing, long or short holidays, fringe benefits or fringe nuisances. Fourth, there needs to be a competitive and quickly changing telecommunications system. The TC age is making understanding of these requirements increasingly transparent among human beings worldwide.
Chris Macrae
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Nice text
Well researched, well written divulgation piece :-), IMHO.
The last part, about Knowledgeboard and EKMF, its history, future and governance, are actually new and quite interesting... and open even more questions :-D.
The only thing I miss is more focus on the topic of how communities can benefit a company, in practice, with new examples.
Best regards,
Miguel