Blog - LivingLabs@Work

"Personal EU" Panelist @ Bled eCollaboration Conference - You?

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:48:03 +0100

I've asked to make a proposal for arranging a "Personal EU" panel discussion as a part of the Bled eCollaboration Conference in Bled, Slovenia, June 15-18th.

I've sent my proposal. Today's challence however is that the panelists must be participants of the conference - and represent more than one country.

Mr. Bror Salmelin (Policy Advisor, European Commission) has accepted my invitation to be the chair of the panel.

Is Living "Lab" a good name?

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:25:07 +0100

Is Living Lab a good name for this activity when we are involving human being?
The activity is clear enough but who wants to be participant in a lab? Understanding for participant the object under study.
Living Lab activity consider citizen as part of the innovation process as a participant and not as a "object under study".
The idea behind this comment is that we all, as coordinators of Living Labs, must be careful when talking about that to citizens.
So, will they understand that they are participants of a Lab instead of an object of study?

Your role towards a Personal EU era

Sun, 06 May 2007 08:07:06 +0200

Every member of every Living Lab has 4 essential roles in developing the European future:

1) Role as professional expert of something
2) Role as individual: an unique base unit of life and challenges
3) Role as private person with national citizenship and point of view
4) Role as citizen of the future European union.

I'd like to participate every EU-wide event to tell this and to try make every project itself to a good example towards a "Personal EU era". Unfortunately I don't have resources to do that. You who know the Personal EU initiative and like it: Your next presentation or comment in your next EU collaboration event could be essential support for new and better practices.

You are the key to a human-faced European union

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:20:29 +0200

Citizen-centricity is popular in today's European eloquence. The commission speaks about it. The parliament speaks about it. Seminar and conference themes and summarys speak about it. Proposals and projects speak about it. Headlines of regional, national and union-wide information society programmes speak about it.

But what has every time until now happened to it when it's time to make the speaches come true? The paragraphs and hierarchic organizations somehow just roll over the human-faced ideas: speaking as humans in decision making suddenly isn't fashion any more.

Questions about Requirements for Collaboration Platform

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:15:58 +0200

In the process of trying to figure out the existing functionalities of the collaboration platform, and collecting ideas for required functionalities, a few questions come to my mind:

Who are the expected users of the collaboration platform?
1. Only LL leaders / operators?
2. Or everybody?
Should there be different networks for personal vs. professional use? (I expect there should)

Introductions

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:45:25 +0200

Hello,

My name is Michal Jacovi and I belong to the Collaboration Technologies department in IBM Haifa Research Lab. My academic background is in Computer Science (MSc, 1993), but my personal interest and my professional expertise focus on the human aspects of interaction with technology, and specifically on collaboration through technology. A list of my publications may be found here, and as you can see there, I deal with community-building and diffusion of technologies. In my current role I'm involved in quite a few of the projects of my group, which deal with: presence, social networks, and capturing of experiences.

Good Morning European Living Labs

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:10:26 +0100

We are talking with Kurt Linderoos about the means to connect those persons who can't participate in the many meetings going on in relationship to LivingLabs@Work and other communities.

A chat funtion might be a good idea or an integration of skype to this platform to enhance group meetings.

* To improve the interactivity
* Real time commenting
* How about podcasts to get a voice to the community?

Living in the Innovation Labs

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:51:27 +0100

The Apple iPod is said to be an innvoative product. I learned a few days ago that the MP3 format and WAW originated at the Frauenhof Institute in Germany.

It would be nice to get more details about this.

Skype was Invented here on the old continent but eBay decided to make it to a part of its money machine.

EU is good on innovation but we need to think more in terms of applications and business innovations.

About orchestrating a Personal EU era

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:10:36 +0100

I wish I could be in the Living Labs workshop today. Just to see from your faces that you all are live persons, unique Living Labs.

In speaking about Living Labs I hope we don't forget, that we ourselves as citizensand professionals are the base unit of EU's success.

Naturally we have to work wonders, but nobody else will do it for us personnally.

That's why all 500 000 000 EU citizens have (the pleasure) to be essential on union level.

Personal EU now "at home": www.personaleu.eu

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:29:01 +0100

Until now you've found it on
www.personaleu.net - but to point out that I really want us all together to make the Personal EU era come true, I brought it home to .eu

Innovative Interactivity!

Kurt

Living Labs and Services Science

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:54:53 +0100

Interesting article on IEEE Spectrum: IBM Takes the Guesswork Out of Services Consulting, which may have some barring on the Living Labs approach and in particular on our attempt to describe the "Open Innovation Services of the Living Labs". Although as with the Living Labs definition there is some way to go before the services science has a clear charter.

Services Science:
Curricula, training, and research programs that are designed to teach individuals to apply scientific, engineering, and management disciplines that integrate elements of computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, business strategy, management sciences, and social and legal sciences, in order to encourage innovation in how organizations create value for customers and shareholders that could not be achieved through such disciplines working in isolation.

Living Lab:
Environment for building a future economy in which user-centric innovation will be the normal creation technique for new products and services.

This vision is moving the goal posts from a position where the user is seen as the research object and consumer of industry lead innovations, to a position where the user and user communities are contributors and co-creators of product and service innovations.

The first step is being taken, Network of Living Labs is launched today

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:08:10 +0100

We have all worked hard and are finally here, the launch day of the Living Lab network

It has taken some organisation by the European Commission, the Finnish government, and CoreLabs , but the community website is ready at www.openlivinglabs.eu, the event is in a lovely location in Helsinki and has high participation, you couldn't ask for more.

It was an early start, 8.00am to start the network session, a couple of pictures were taken and I have uploaded these to a flickr account.

It was interesting to see and hear some similar and some diverse Living Labs from across Europe. Well the doors are open we are all ready to collaborate!

Get active, more practical

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:39:01 +0200

I have a feeling that we need to get down to some very practical , down to earth work, or we will continue to search for the best collaboration models for years.

- Collaboration
- Engineering
- Knowledge
- Leadership
- LivingLabs
- Logistics
- Media
- Mobility
- Rural
- SEEM
- Well-being-Services

What could be the first practical thing?

Expression of Interest for Living Labs

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:52:16 +0200

An expression of interest for Living Labs has been launched recently by the CORELABS and COMIST projects (see the home page).

My personal vision for the European Network of Living Labs in 2010 is the following:

Having a lot of networked local, regional and global (virtual or on-line) living labs all over the EU operating as integrated open co-creation labs or centres where all EU citizens could have a chance to express their creativity in contributing to societal, organisational and technological innovations according to their main motivations and interests.

Participate in Living Labs session at IST 2006 (Helsinki, Finland)

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:23:01 +0200

With the Finnish launch on November 20th, 2006 of a European Network of Living Labs, this IST Event 2006 European Network of Living Labs session is an important close relation to the event.