http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/ WCIT Latest Blog Updates Thu, 9 Sep 2010 04:31:08 GMT wcit2010.nvolve.com http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/38 Numerous of challenges lay in front of us, this clip shows you how Computing is going to evolve. Computing Curricula 2005 defined computing: In a general way, we can define computing to mean any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide range of purposes; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific studies using co... eInclusion Thu, Nov 26th 2009, 22:04 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/38 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/39 For far too long, we have seen governments as a vending machine - we put in taxes, and get out services. We get hospitals, police protection, roads, traffic lights and what other things. OReilly, an advocate of openening up governments, states that our idea of citizen engagement has somehow been reduced to what he calls a shaking of the vending machine. By that he means when something is wrong, people protest. But, with a dawning of an era that is so focused on information, the way informat... eGovernment Thu, Nov 26th 2009, 23:11 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/39 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/41 California Stimilus Map* The state of California is one of the front runners when it comes to making data beter accesible for it's citizens. The American state made it possebile for it's citizens to see which projects are getting investments. This data visualization made by Stamen shows each project and it's location precisely. Good example how e-Government could or should be? * American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) funding is disseminated by the federal governmen... eGovernment Thu, Nov 26th 2009, 23:21 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/41 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/42 Times are changing rapidly in the mobile industry. About ten years ago we only used our phone to make calls and for a quick text every now and then. But now we send e-mails, browse the internet, create shopping lists, play games and surf our countless social networks. So in only a short period of time a lot has happened and it makes sense that there is a lot still to happen in the area of mobile communication. The futuristic video below is made by Mocom2020, a non-profit think tank for mobil... eInclusion Thu, Nov 26th 2009, 23:48 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/42 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/43 We live in exciting times. Very exciting times. In the western world, we live in an age of material abundance, having the luxury of the ability to focus on longer-term issues than daily survival. The rules of a lot of games are changing. For a long time, material scarcity was one of the key pillars of our economy. People were trying to make a buck, in order to fulfill their material needs. In the western world, this is no longer necessary true. Now that we can afford most of the things w... eGovernment Tue, Dec 1st 2009, 12:21 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/43 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/45 Dr Craig Barrett Former CEO of Intel Dr Craig Barrett's keynote at WCIT 2008 entitled Intel, Grameen announced joint business ventures to fuel social and economic development opportunities empowered by technology. The keynote highlights the following: •Foundation for economic development •Enhancing Education •Connecting the World •Evolving Healthcare •Public/Private Collaboration eInclusion,eGovernment Wed, Dec 2nd 2009, 00:16 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/45 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/46 1. In 2010 the Netherlands will host the World Congress on Information Technology. What is your expectation? I am proud that ICT-Office, with the city of Amsterdam and the Ministry of Economic Affairs host the biennial World Congress on Information Technology, WCIT 2010, May next year. These are the Olympic Games in the field of ICT. WCIT is the leading international IT forum in the world and a meeting place for world leaders from business, government and science. The organ... Creative Industries,eHealth,Mobility,Cyber Security & Safety,eInclusion,Sharing Space,eGovernment,Energy,Water Tue, Dec 8th 2009, 15:43 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/46 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/47 Cloud computing the new poster child of Green IT. Large scale computing in the cloud is more energy efficient then decentralized local computing. In a large computing facility it's a lot easier to optimize the hardware, run the processors at a slightly lower frequency to reduce heat or just let them run a little hotter than you normally would to reduce cooling costs. It's possible to fine tune the life expectation versus the energy consumption during the lifespan. All this tweaking and tun... Energy Tue, Dec 8th 2009, 16:18 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/47 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/48 A hospital is no place to be sick, Samuel Goldwyn (from MGM) once said. And he was right. Because ultimately nobody wants to be in the hospital. But we cannot deny the fact that everyone will be a patient sooner or later. Maybe short and only irregular if you're lucky - or for long periods and often, if you are the not so lucky. Healthcare is an industry. An industry that affects billions and employs millions. An industry means a business. And businesses are there to help their cus... eHealth Mon, Dec 14th 2009, 12:31 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/48 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/49 By planting the WCIT 2010 flag on the Antarctic continent, Antarctica is the 7th and last continent to be involved with WCIT 2010. WCIT employee Ivo Nederpelt planted the flag in the ice near Paradise Bay on November 24 2009. He travelled to the white continent as participant in the International Antarctic Treaty Expedition 2009 lead by polar explorer, thought leader and environmentalist, Robert Swan OBE. The expedition was joined by an international team of 47 participants from 16 nations to... Creative Industries,eGovernment,Energy Tue, Dec 15th 2009, 14:46 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/49 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/51 Throughout media history the BBC has always been hated or loved by many media professionals.It's business model is always a point of discussion both in British politics as in British pubs. But it is undeniable that the BBC has been one of the leading companies in developing media technology. Two out of many inventions coming from the BBC R&D department are teletext and stereo sound, which are still heavily utilized technologies today. The same BBC department is now working on a ground... eInclusion Sun, Dec 20th 2009, 22:57 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/51 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/52 The visualisation in this video, showcases the global traffic to the website of the nytimes.com. That particulary day the news of Michael Jackson's death came out. You will notice that the traffic in the US explodes around 5:20 AM, which was 1 minute and 10 seconds after TMZ (gossip orientated website) published the news. People went directly to the nytimes.com website to verify the credibility of the news. In other words, in a world where all people can publish their own news via blogs and t... eInclusion Wed, Dec 23rd 2009, 16:14 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/52 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/53 A beautiful example on how to mobilise a country to do the unthinkable. Estonia forests were for as long as anyone could remember flooded with garbage. People used to take the stuff they didn't want anymore and dumped it in the places where it didn't belong. A small group of people started a movement with a shared goal, to clean up the Estonia forests in one day. With the use of social media, mobile phones and location based search engines they were able to do the unthink... Sharing Space Thu, Jan 7th 2010, 14:56 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/53 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/55 Imagine getting up in the morning, putting on your clothes and immediately stepping into your car. While you start driving off to work you make yourself some breakfast, check your e-mail, read up on the daily news, and make some last minute changes to the presentation you are about to give that morning. Just when youve finished your second cup of coffee, your car pulls to a halt, for you have arrived at the office. While this may sound very futuristic and Jetsons-like, autonomous driving ... Mobility Tue, Jan 19th 2010, 11:36 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/55 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/57 This image gives us an interesting look into the global use of internet. The focus is on who exactly uses the internet and how often people use the internet. Also visible in the image is gender, age, income level, and nationality. Furthermore it serves up average broadband speeds for both landline and mobile users. Source www.focus.com eInclusion Thu, Feb 4th 2010, 11:06 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/57 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/58 Take a look into the future of media use Creative Industries,Mobility,eInclusion Thu, Feb 4th 2010, 12:45 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/58 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/60 Ever wonder how big businesses are leveraging social media? Burson-Martseller recently released a report highlighting the Fortune Global 100 companies and how they were using social platforms including: Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Ethan Bloch from Flowtown (flowtown.com) has complied a graphic illustrating the most interesting of their findings. Here we can refer to a digital inclusion for the benefit of an inclusive information system within corporations and businesses... Creative Industries,eInclusion Mon, Mar 15th 2010, 15:30 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/60 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/61 Tim Berners-Lee with an update on open data If people put data on the Web - government data, scientific data, community data - whatever it is, it will be used by other people to do wonderful things in ways they never could have imagined. Tim Berners-Lee, TED, February 2010 Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, comes back to TED for open, structured data with a quick update. Spoiler alert: things are looking good - and they're only going to get a lot better.... Mobility,Cyber Security & Safety Wed, Mar 17th 2010, 23:32 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/61 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/63 Cyber Security & Safety,eGovernment Thu, Mar 18th 2010, 16:08 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/63 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/64 eHealth Thu, Mar 18th 2010, 16:26 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/64 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/65 Minor-students of INHolland University of Applied Sciences are working hard on their project for WCIT 2010. In ten weeks time 'Mobile Applications' students design, build and program websites and mobile applications for the international delegates of WCIT 2010. Moodboard Before weve build the design weve created a mood board for the websites, student Bas ten Broeke says. You can clearly see our picture we have in mind about an ideal WCIT event. We would like to connect Amsterdam to the ... Creative Industries Fri, Mar 19th 2010, 18:26 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/65 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/66 Barcelona has installed a wireless system to manage city infrastructure. The system utilizes LED lights with a video sesor to detect presence of people on the streets. The city can thus control the amount of light needed and has reduced its power consumption by 30%. The idea is to manage the city in a sustainable way, good job Barcelona! Mobility,eGovernment,Energy Sun, Mar 21st 2010, 14:21 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/66 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/68 The extreme growth of the world industry in the past century can be attributed mainly to the fast improvement in ease and efficiency of the transportation of products and people over increasing distances. This high degree of mobility made us independent from the location of certain activities. We eat fresh grapes from Argentina without reflecting on its supply chain and we take it for granted to be able to be back in Amsterdam the morning after a business meeting in Copenhagen. Increasing mob... Mobility Tue, Mar 30th 2010, 18:23 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/68 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/69 Do you know how we can change the world by using IT? Share Ur Challenge, win a trip to Amsterdam and Grab the Tulip!! Everyone has an opinion about global and personal challenges of change. In many cases, information & technology can be part of the solution! This is why the leaders of the IT-world are looking at your challenges of change. So Share UR Challenge and you might change the world! The Share Ur Challenge contest is organized by WITSAs 17th World Congress on Information ... Creative Industries,eHealth,Mobility,Cyber Security & Safety,eInclusion,Sharing Space,eGovernment,Energy,Water Tue, Apr 6th 2010, 16:32 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/69 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/70 The perspective on Department of the Future offers a framework incorporating techniques that are succeeding in commerce and industry, as well as in government around the world. It will help government departments to transform themselves in a structured, manageable and cost-effective way. The name “Department of the Future” reflects the fact that action can be initiated within an individual department. However, the impact of the action reaches beyond the boundaries of any one d... eGovernment Thu, Apr 8th 2010, 13:01 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/70 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/71 The tickets are booked. Rabiëlla Samuel, Marsha Waaldijk and Cinne Noordpool are ready for their big trip to China. For six weeks the INHolland students will be on mission for a research project, not solely for their differentiation minor Expedition InChina, but also for the WCIT congress, the international congress on the ICT- domain, which is going to take place end of May at Amsterdam RAI. The focus lays on the theme e-Inclusion; what role does the internet play in life of Chines... eInclusion Fri, Apr 16th 2010, 15:41 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/71 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/72 The diffusion of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and their impact on the transformation of our society and economy it is something which anyone can see in their daily lives. in Europe 56% of all households have broadband connection and even more persons rely on ICT for their daily jobs and the pervasiveness of ICT it is not only limited to the ICT sector, but it goes well beyond as we all deal in one way or another with ICT and ICT applications. A recent IDC Report highlighted th... eInclusion Mon, Apr 19th 2010, 15:30 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/72 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/74 An important outcome of the WCIT 2010 will be the adoption by the participants of the Declaration of Amsterdam. With the title The Digital Road to Recovery this statement will spell out our commitments to direct the intelligent use and application of ICT to stimulate sustainable economic growth and address key societal challenges such as climate change, healthcare, ageing and inclusion. In other words to move to a global society which is smarter, greener and inclusive! The Declaration calls f... Creative Industries,eHealth,Mobility,Cyber Security & Safety,eInclusion,Sharing Space,eGovernment,Energy,Water Tue, Apr 20th 2010, 17:58 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/74 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/75 The trend towards new-style self-sufficiency refers to new initiatives by local communities that are aiming to be self-sufficient, but also to political visions for the future at local level with a view to achieving sustainability and energy self-sufficiency. People do not want to be dependent, and are seeking ways to organise things for themselves. ICT is creating new opportunities in this context. Important goals in new-style self-sufficiency are cost-effectiveness, individual responsibilit... Energy Thu, Apr 22nd 2010, 17:00 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/75 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/76 WCIT has launched a discussion site to gather input for an eGovernment vision in the weeks before and during the conference. This Virtual Space is a place where international thought leaders debate eGovernment themes like trust, open data, e-democracy, ownership of data. The public can react on the different blogs and vote for dreams of thought leaders. Join the discussion here. eGovernment Fri, Apr 23rd 2010, 15:53 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/76 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/80 Too little youngsters choose higher education programmes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This is not nearly enough to support todays knowledge driven society; after all, finding answers to questions arising from sustainable energy, climate change, health and welfare, an ageing population and our ever-increasing desire for mobility will require innovative and invigorating insights from new generations of scientist. The Platform Bèta Techniek has been ... eInclusion Mon, May 3rd 2010, 15:27 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/80 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/81 Creative Industries,eHealth,Mobility,Cyber Security & Safety,eInclusion,Sharing Space,eGovernment,Energy,Water Tue, May 4th 2010, 14:08 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/81 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/82 Steven Luitjens has been director of the digital government service Logius since June 2006. This is a committee of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Logius offers public service providers a connected ICT infrastructure, so that citizens and companies can do business with them quickly, easily and reliably. Logius supplies products for access, data exchange, information security and standardization. Luitjens has been active in the government innovation and IT ... eGovernment Tue, May 4th 2010, 15:31 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/82 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/83 Transformation to a low carbon economy is one key sustainability priority that needs to be set within the wider context of achieving a sustainable balance across People, Planet and Profit. What is the best way the IT sector can contribute? Logica and Logius, the sponsors of the Green Me Up Scotty session in the e-Government track, believe corporations and their business ecosystems must aim for triple-win results. Business for all participants, gains for society and benefits for the Earth.... eGovernment Tue, May 4th 2010, 15:48 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/83 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/84 Setting the scene for new ways of measuring Since 2001, the European Commissions annual eGovernment benchmark has grown into Europes number one flagship ranking. It is a strong, widely accepted brand, and has unchallenged political impact at the top level of government as a policy accelerator. It focuses on todays most pressing government service delivery issues. The continuous methodological updates of the benchmark respond to major policy concerns so it remains a top reference politicall... eGovernment Wed, May 5th 2010, 00:00 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/84 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/86 In the ICT sector at the Base of the Pyramid, in year 2007, there were only two million fixed broadband subscribers in whole Africa where the population is about 1 billion. Especially, the penetration in Sub-Saharan regions is very low due to the lack of required telecommunication infrastructure, low gross domestic product per capita or the lack of reliable energy source. Nevertheless, the trend in the growth of Internet services is very promising especially whe... Energy Wed, May 12th 2010, 19:13 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/86 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/87 ZiekenhuisMedia is a show case in the E-health Pavilion at WCIT 2010. ZiekenhuisMedia, KPNs patient entertainment and information, is leading the way in integrated bedside ICT. A dual-purpose solution – ZiekenhuisMedia enables secure bedside access to electronic patient data and clinical applications; whilst in turn, patients can access a range of digital entertainment, education and communications services. The ZiekenhuisMedia terminal allows medical staff to securely call and re... eHealth Sun, May 23rd 2010, 13:15 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/87 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/88 Videoconferencing is a show case in the showcase area of WCIT 2010. Visual communications, or videoconferencing, is about getting closer, more focused, and more effective. It is also about reducing costs, travel and environmental impact. In short, it is about better business and a better world. Video meetings • reduce time-consuming commuting and expensive business trips, which saves costs • It also allows employees to plan their working days more efficiently •... Creative Industries,eHealth,Mobility,Cyber Security & Safety,eInclusion,Sharing Space,eGovernment,Energy,Water Sun, May 23rd 2010, 13:47 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/88 http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/89 Read more about Theo Camp's (Chairman of the Board, Berenschot) WCIT 2010 speech 'Overcoming difficulties in Public Private Partnerships in Europe: research results' in the paper: Quantum Leaps in IT Infrastructure - Striking a Balance between Economic Policy and Competition Law. Mobility,eGovernment Wed, Jun 23rd 2010, 16:56 GMT http://wcit2010.nvolve.com/blog/view/89