By DIONNE SEARCEY
They’re the everyday fixtures of the Internet experience: pop-up stock quotes on a website, suggestions for related reading near a news article, videos along the side of your screen.
Now, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen says he owns the technology behind all these ideas, and he’s demanding that some of the world’s top Web [...]
Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, Ltd., explains how inverting the management pyramid leads to superior organizational performance. He is the author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down.
Source: http://blogs.hbr.org
Dr. Rosling and Ms. Noveck, two influential thinkers on the power of Open Data, information visualization, and innovation in governance and development, shared their ideas on how the Bank’s new Open Data policy is helping transform the world in “The Changing World – A New Mindset for a Multipolar World”.
Hans Rosling is Professor of International [...]
The World Bank Group said today it will offer free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers.
The decision-part of a larger effort to increase access to information at the World Bank-means that researchers, journalists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), entrepreneurs and school [...]
Summary
Some of the same technologies, such as cloud computing and semantic search, that make the most popular social networking applications possible are now being applied to development, education and healthcare delivery.
How can these readily available technologies be best leveraged to address complex issues?
Source: Fora.tv
By Gov 2.0 Summit and O’Reilly Media
Summary
At the Gov 2.0 Summit, Vinton Cerf of Google, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, and Facebook’s Tim Sparapani discuss how their respective Internet companies provide an open platform on which independent developers can create value online through innovative products and services.
Source: Foratv.com
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