Entries Tagged as 'iFest'08'
8th September 2008
Ashoka
“In the social arena nothing new is encouraged, only what has been tried and tested.. Part of our mission is to inject innovation in this field”
“We had to invent the concept ‘social entrepreneur’. Just five years ago people did not understand how these two words could go together”.
“We are a great partner for business. Social […]
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7th September 2008
Lalalab.org
Our focus at lalalab is to turn around the public space and how such spaces can be transformed by new technologies.During recent years, it has produced a process of migration from physical public spaces towards digital spaces. Our intention is to rehabilitate physical places through the adoption of new technologies creating hybrid spaces.
Our latest project […]
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1st September 2008
Peter Watson en La Contra de La VanguardiaLa Vanguardia. 1 de setiembre de 2008
El festival de la innovaciónEmprendedores. 1 de agosto de 2008
“El empresario también tiene derecho a despedir si quiere”La Vanguardia. 29 de julio de 2008
Entrevista a Hervé Lebret, inversor i escriptor: “Mai no hi haurà un Silicon Valley a Europa”
www.3cat24.cat. 22 […]
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1st August 2008
Yahoo!
-Search engines are not about searching anymore. They are means to achieve web-mediated goals.
-Computation is merely the basis for rational and behavioral interactions.
-Upper bound on typed content reaches 700 TB. But content consumption is fragmenting: nobody owns more than 10% of the Web page views.
-Access is fragmenting as well. For example, in Facebook, you can […]
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1st August 2008
CAF
Our life is base on trust. Many of the things we do require it.
We can better our lives if we improve our trust in those around us. I want to challenge people to be more willing to confide with one other. For this reason, I am dedicated to create networks of trust.
One thing that can […]
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1st August 2008
Mercè Boada
Understanding Alzheimer
Fundación ACE
- Half of the people here in this room will suffer from a type of Alzheimer´s when we reach 85 years old. Often when faced with such prospects, we rather think about what types of public transpotation we want to use or what type of glasses we would like to wear than […]
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1st August 2008
Economist & researcher at the London School of Economics, author of Terror Inc,. Tracing the Money behind Global Terrorism and Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality.
“The war on terror has not prevented terrorism at all.”
“Money laundering was made in dollars and therefore contributed to the strength of this currency. After The PATRIOT Act, which […]
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1st August 2008
National Public Radio
www.thisibelieve.org
-Somebody wrote that “the shortest distance between two people is a story”. And stories are what the American National Public Radio airs through the media project This I Believe.
-People write, share and discuss the core values and beliefs than guide their daily lives. The main goal is to “inspire people to live a […]
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1st August 2008
Philosopher and theologian
“We as a species are characterized by our capacity to distinguish the necessity of reality from our own reality. It is our flexibility, which we must give thanks to how we came to dominate this earth.”
Marià Corbí explains how our double experience of reality and our flexibility are qualities that fuel our capacity […]
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28th July 2008
Marc Bonavia
SIT Mobile
-”It’s important to connect with people´s feelings at the right moment.”
-”Nowadays, we are almost forced to find an emotional connection with consumers.”
-”We have an incredible tool to do personalised sales: the mobile phone, which is emotionally perceived by consumers as an extension of themselves.”
-”Mobile marketing allows personal and emotional commercial relations with consumers. […]
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