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Following the economic crash in Iceland in 2008, there was a general demand for reform. This included increased pressure to perform a thorough revision of the Constitution, which had been set when Iceland became an independent... |
Honor Harger is a curator from New Zealand who has a particular interest in artistic uses of technologies. She is currently director of Lighthouse, a digital culture agency in Brighton, UK. Lighthouse works at the... |
In his speech, Philippe Lemoine sum up all sessions that took place at Lift France 11 and brightly concludes by some inspiring take aways. |
Roger Malina brings the first conclusion to Lift France 11 and comes back on some of the most inspiring speeches of the conference. |
Information technologies today interrupt and distract us, dividing our attention across a range of activities and devices. This feels like an inevitable state of affairs, but Alex Soojung-Kim Pang argues in his talk that it is... |
What happens when barriers to use of technology are lowered? What can we learn from the Ushahidi open source community and the technology landscape in Africa about the opportunity and the limits of open innovation? |
In her speech, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino gives an update on the methodology and results employed in the Homesense experiment: a project that rethinks how we design smart homes and investigate how we interact with technologies... |
The present-day approach towards a sustainable society is doomed to fail. The focus on sophisticated technology - electric and hybrid cars, energy-efficient devices, solar panels and wind turbines, for instance - has little or... |
Gabriel shares the experiences of two different initiatives based on open innovation. One from a group of friends that got tired of not having the international concerts they wanted in their city, and decided to produce them by... |
In his speech, Ville Keränen presents the Team Academy, founded in 1993 by Johannes Partanen. The concept is really different from all schools we know: no lectures, no teaching, no exams, no grades, no simulations, but instead:... |

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