© Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 1 Yes ! You've entered the: “Participation Age” Patrick Crasson Executive Trusted Advisor @ EVTA.

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Yes ! You've entered the:Yes ! You've entered the: “Participation Age”“Participation Age”

Patrick CrassonPatrick CrassonExecutive Trusted Advisor @ EVTAStrategic Business Development @ Sun MicrosystemsManaging Partner @ P2C Mgt Consulting

Let's Participate, Learn and Win all

together!EurEuracademyacademy Keynote Brussels 07 Sept 2007

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World transitions to a new Era...

This all leads to a transition from ...Short Life to Long LifePhysical to VirtualIndividual to Mass and now Personalized-Mass productionLocal to Global and from Global to “Globalocalized”Organized to Fuzzy-structuredRelational to “Connectional”...

We are here..We are here...

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Those paradigms shifts are changing our Needs, Life, Economy, our Earth, ...

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From Connected...(Web1.0)

TCP-IP on phone/isdn linesBBS/Basic Web BrowsersWebSitesEmailFile transfertsE-learning v1.0PortalsSearch EnginesPublisher Static ContentHome : Banking, Working, ......

We named it : “ “The Information Age”The Information Age”

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...to Interconnected (Web 2.0)

Affordable broadbandKnowledge GridsWikkiesBlogsCommunitiesLocalization tools (gps, google earth, ..)

Online GamingPod CastingDynamic Publishing/BroadcastingOpenSource, JavaEgov...

Now known as :The Participation AgeThe Participation Age

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Alone ? Maybe... but now Together !

Even less physically Much more friends, relationships,...Meet your next partnerMeet your next employerHave your personal coach/trainerBe in Second LifeUser created contentBridge Digital, Social DivideStart your business everywhere...

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New Culture and New Habits...

Communication/social Styles : Formal – Structured & Informal – Fuzzy

Ubiquitous computingCross disciplinary learningSelf-Organizing networks/CommunitiesManage (Value and Secure) KnowledgeArtificial worlds...Attention : Digital Divide will grow !

At 21 most of the “NetGen's” will have spent :20K hours on TV200k Emails25K SMS10K hours on their GSM10K hours playing gamesAnd only 5K hours reading books...

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Welcome into the Participation age !

From Software 2 Webware ...Limited mobility, Accessibility 2 Unlimited Mobility, AccessibilityCost of access 2 free or low costDesktop computing 2 “The Network is the Computer (© Sun)”

Mass CollaborationOpen ClassroomsOpen Educ. ResourcesExperience Sharing

Learn anywhereanytime - LLLClassroom learning 2 Anywhere learning

Shift of Information NatureParticipatory –> ConversationTrainable –> Reader-ControlledCollaboratory –> People-Connecting

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Our Opportunity towards Lisbon2010

The Participation ageParticipation age is a :Learning RevolutionSocial RevolutionEconomic Revolution (Wikinomics...)

That supports the LLL (LifeLong Learning) realityFrom Local Entrepreneurship to European IntrapreneurshipShould be supported by a Personal Learning NetworkIn a sustainable development contextthis promotes a European “collaborative DNA”...

...Our eco-system is changing rapidly ...If we don't take ...Our eco-system is changing rapidly ...If we don't take this opportunity at short term, others will do it for us ...this opportunity at short term, others will do it for us ...

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Our common challenge...

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Last but not Least : Maybe this is the first challenge you'll need to solve ...: “Children believe more and more that “everything is clickable, even their parents.” “... Vinod Khosla, 1 of 4 Sun Microsystems Founders

Make broadband available at large scale and at low costEnable Entrepreneurship / IntrapreneurshipSupport actively “mutualization” of essential skills/competenciesWhile securing our IC...Boundary between Public and Private is thin now.“Jericho Principle” (Welborn,Kasten) : dismantling organizational wallsEgov : eID, Fiscality, Quality, Quality, Quality ...“Globalocalization” is the key for successKeep and build on existing Social values and Culture ...