5th anniversary of Salzburg NewMediaLab
Today we celebrated the fifth anniversary of Salzburg NewMediaLab, a so-called industrial competence centre (it was the first competence centre in Salzburg). Peter Reiser principial field technologist of Sun Microsystems gave an excellent key note on community equity. See http://www.slideshare.net/peterreiser/how-to-build-vibrant-communities-presentation?type=powerpoint for the slides.
The key messages I personally took from his talk
- He really believes in sharing vs. ownership of knowledge (sharing is power vs. knowledge is power)
- He argued that there was a shift from “know-how” to “know-how knows how”
- and he believes that IT-support for processes will be less important. Which is probably the only thing in his talk that I would agree with.
BTW: Salzburg Research has a strong relationship wih Sun Microsystems. We hosted a SunTREC, an AAJC, got awarded a Sun Center of Excellence for map-based online participation and we are in the process of establishing a follow-up agreement for a CoE for a “Mobility Lab – A Lab on Engineering of Location-based Systems”.
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