What will the small town or village look like in 2020 - 2030? We're predicting a breakthrough of
- CleanTech
- GreenTech
- Knowledge Based and Intelligent Resources Managment
- Community, hyperlocality combined with global partnerships
- Old traditions, co-creation, innovation, re-vitalization of good and fighting the evil
- Natural Food and short distance distribution
- Safety of people, species and environment
- Caring and humanistic culture: total quality of life approach to development
- The traditional small town re-engineered, modernized and connected
- Small scale high-tech production to manage sustainable supply chain
- Less traffic, more networking, knowledge based production
- Less is more attitude
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Andrea Vascellari, I agree, yesterdays discussions included artists, political and cultural thinkers.
The technology issue was there. We spoke about an institute for future village development and the global innovation and networking element is essential.
Tried to vision 2020 - 2030 and used 1830 as a starting point.
The global village is a reality today but we are still slow in applying the tools for real life issues.
Second life is great simulation. The villages are waiting for our voices.
You are doing a good job!
You see, the interesting thing is that technology is one of the key factors that enable us to make the innovation sustainable.
Indeed talking about technology we can space in different fields and not just about communication...but also e-health etc.
Second Life is a good 'sandbox' for experimentation and we both know that more will come in future too...
The topics you are working on are interesting, it's always a pleasure to exchange thoughts and ideas with you
Andrea
Andrea Vascellari, You bring Mediterranean social intelligence to the more quite and less talkative Nordic Peripheries.
We need a new idea about how to develop Finland from a first stage digital culture to a more life enhancing and socially responsible bundle of networking global villages.
This is becoming an interesting conversation Helge,
Finland is the second information society cluster after US but often Finnish people don't seam to realize it.
It's like a hidden potential.
I face this same scenario everyday on my job. One of the main problems is that there still are too many roadblocks to innovation, like for example cultural roadblocks...but this is where our professional skills of innovators start to play and important role.
"We need a new idea about how to develop Finland from a first stage digital culture to a more life enhancing and socially responsible bundle of networking global villages"...I agree
Now I'm planning future steps & projects so I'm taking in consideration the possibility of cooperations together.
Andrea
We speak a lot about innovations. Finnish government authorities, TE-keskus, Tekes, Sitra and regional business development people preach about it.
They use the word, but still think that a real company has to produce goods, hardware or at least work as a programmer sub-supplier to Nokia.
When it comes to social media, web 2.0 and rich media, there isn't a big crowd understanding it.
Traditional companies still live in a e-post age. The advantages of open global innovation is not clear to the mainstream.
Advantages of Virtual Organizations aren't known. Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, etc. are for kids. Not places to hung out in and to do business.
Online business is to have a static web site. Cost effective selling is to jump into your car and drive to a meeting to the next town or village.
Collaboration is to go to traditional meetings with coffee and sandwiches and to listen boring over-head and powerpoint presentations. The crowd is quiet and doesn't say a word.
Just to mention a few. We still have a long way to go. There is a visible minority in the blogosphere and jaikusphere but that crowd isn't big in numbers.
The educational community is grasping it. Some high-tech companies realize the advantages and live as they say. The wisdom of the crowd hasn't been tapped yet.
I can't add a word to what you just said...it's like the mirror of my thoughts
I couldn't agree more.
Andrea
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