Bologna

Bologna, Italy

Bologna Multimedia Barcamp Collaboration Complexity Connectivity Sharing Phyusal e-Collaboration

Romagna Camp

• We visited Bologna in May 2006
• Several new ideas about future shopping emerged
• Big Screen Digital Signage
• Today, three years later, we've a team working with the Future Store Concept

Multimedia

• A large multimedia project was taking place in Bologna
• I have a podcast somewhere about this
• We didn't have time to work on the Bologna Multimedia
• Need to consult the podcast: I recorded it 2007 or 2008 at Helsinki Science Park

Barcamp

• Femcamp

Collaboration

In the global economy, collaboration within groups of geographically dispersed knowledge workers is quickly becoming the locus of creativity and innovation.

Year 2009 all this is still very true. Not much has changed in three years.

Advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that enable e-Collaboration enhance group work, especially when teams must share information and make decisions across business and national boundaries.

Sharing is becoming increasingly important.

Complexity

These e-Collaboration technologies within multidisciplinary and technologically complex work groups are paving the way towards collaborative environments involving both human and artificial artefacts.

2009: That sounds a little complicated!

Collaborative environments will orchestrate interaction within networks of workers, partners and customers to boost creativity and innovation.

2009: The world has changed in three years.

Connectivity

E-collaboration technologies will supply seamless connectivity to allow work anywhere and anytime. Moreover, they will help to manage the complexity derived from the diversity of workers, knowledge and other resources that must coordinate effort on a collective creative task.

2009: Mobility is becoming exceedingly important!

E-Collaboration technologies will ensure access to contextualised services (such as shared digital images) and will assure easy interaction among team members.

2009: We've to become much more "down to earth".

Sharing

Environments endowed by e-Collaboration technologies will provide access to expanded, shared experience and knowledge and facilitate meetings among team members to deliver more creative ideas. More participants can be involved in the innovation process, qualified by knowledge and not by proximity.

Phyusal

User friendly "physual" (i.e., combining physical and virtual) collaborative environments will support the participation of previously unavailable expertise (e.g., from the elderly) into the creation of new innovative products.

e-Collaboration

We welcome submissions that address issues associated with e-collaboration involving creativity and innovation processes. Contributions might focus on the design of e-collaboration technologies, their impact on team composition and outcomes, or the collaborative processes the teams adopt to address their creativity and innovation needs.

2009: Collaboration has to become less complex. What is the theory of driving a car? Social Media should become just as easy and natural.