Let’s get started

Let’s get started! From building the Great Pyramids to landing on the moon, humanity's greatest endeavors have required thousands of people working together on common goals. That requires intricate project management to pull off.

Project management is what gets you to your goal. We need to break down the project into manageable, repeatable steps, ones that guarantee success even when working with many individuals institutions, communities, villages and companies.

It was a project management system and teamwork that landed man on the moon in the 60's.

What do we want to achieve?

Like any startup, the Digital Villages project management team and participants have to  set their goals, define their mission, get organized and discuss a common strategy. What do we really want to accomplish?

• A learning process
• Technology improvements
• Better business environment
• Attract more tourists
• Construct hotels and improve housing
• Export local goods and services to new markets
• Improve life for the villagers

If we don’t know where we are heading, we might end up somewhere else!

A Digital Villages startup’s success always depends on the three crucial ingredients:

• access to capital 
• access to talent and 
• access to markets

There is a very new world outside your front door

PICTURE: Helge V. Keitel

There’s a very new world waiting for us outside the traditional village. Hyperlocal activities are great but small communities should be in close collaboration with the outside world.

• The innovationtrain 2.0 has been activated today: Veli-Matti Karppinen / Helge V. Keitel
• DISTANCE is still a major mental problem
• Is Open Collaboration a valid solution?

Digital Villages Ecosystem Improved

Take a look at the improved Digital Villages Ecosystem.

Globally, water consumption increases at more than twice the rate of population growth.

There will be a shortage of Water, Money, Oil and Energy in many parts of the world.

A workforce of several hundred millions is waiting for whatever jobs available.

If cheap energy helped fuel the boom in China and India, then a vanishing supply of fresh water will apply the brakes in the near future.

 

Every single step is taking you deeper into the village

You can never step into the same river or room twice.

We learn new things from every single steps we take.

There’s no limits of learning. Learning organizations are not limited to acquiring knowledge from seminars and meetings.

I’m interested in the ability learn from trivial every day events. Unique things are happening every single day.

I’ve seen ET on the Road

I’m still experimenting with Paint.Net and became interested with picture manipulation again.

I’ve Photoshop on the other laptop but the Samsung PC-20 is my on the road laptop.

The above pictures have been taken with Nokia E71 mobile phone camera.

Mobile phones do not produce the best quality pictures but with some layer playing it’s possible to create new things.

Augmented digital reality can be produced with simple tools. Meeting ET on the road is possible for the average person today. I know how to improve the picture at the left, but wanted to show this early creation.  I know how take away the shades but it’s nice to see early bird test works.

Managing business and other processes

We’re great process managers and should take advantage of the national heritage of ultra-rapid industrialization and modernization of the society.

There are billions of people around the world that could take advantage of the silent knowledge of how to make rapid societal changes. Do we understand the potential of what lies behind all this. 

Online Advertising's Great Digital Race

Online Advertising's Great Digital Race: "In the last couple years, digital advertising has looked a little like an ultramodern version of the great race to the west coast.

Helge: Digital Advertising made Google what it is today.

Are there any corners left in the online world where advertisers can plant a flag? In the great digital race to monetize the Web, what will they think of next? Plenty.

Helge: The race will continue 2008?

Although it would be wrong to say that digital advertising is still in its infancy, it is still a young industry. By most accounts, online advertising still represents less than 10 percent of companies' overall corporate ad budgets.

Helge: Are we in the beginning? Less than 10 percent!

Looking ahead to 2008, it is hard to steer clear of the ominous talk of recessions, credit crises and the attendant mortgage fallout. The Fed's been cutting rates and the president has pledged to freeze the rates of hundreds of thousands of subprime borrowers who got swept up in the real estate boom in the first half of the decade. All to forestall a potential recession that some analysts warn is inevitable.

Helge: Credit crisis, mortgage fallout, potential recession...?

The belt-tightening is already underway, according to reports from two of the world's largest advertising groups. Universal McCann and ZenithOptimedia predict that overall ad spending will see only modest growth next year, but that the industry will not enter recession.

Helge: Are companies spending less on advertising?

The outlook may be somber for the ad industry at large, but analysts look for online spending to buck the trend."

Helge: We'll have more of it. It's still the beginning.

Digital Planet BBC

Digital Planet. Description: Find out how the digital revolution is changing our lives. Presenter Gareth Mitchell brings you the latest gadgets, novel uses of technology in the far flung corners of the world and analysis of the hi-tech issues that affect you.

Podcast News Feed: Preview podcasts by clicking the podcast icons below. This will download or open the show MP3 files, depending on your computer's configuration. To use the shows with a podcast client, add the news feed URL above. BBC Digital Planet March 19 2007.

Mobilising protest in Zimbabwe with mobile phones.Behind the scenes of Microsoft research. And DIY tech hackers. Podcast feed details are provided by the individual podcasters.

1. They are blocking out short-wave radio with expertise assistance and training from China
   
2. Blocking might be extended to sending of text messages. The text can be used to an awful lot. There is only 160 letters that can be used. What kind of messages are you sending out? BBC lets people know what is happen. Reporting accurate news.
   

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