Reimagining Networks For Innovation And Impact
Friday, April 16, 2010
Session Description
In a world where everyone is a co-creator, witness, reporter or educator, social networks have become more powerful than ever. With advancements in open sourced technology platforms, these exploding online networks can be used to fuel innovation, foster serendipity, give voice to beneficiaries, and collaborate with kindred thinkers. Join experts as they discuss the roles, barriers and future opportunities for networking to facilitate collaboration, heighten programmatic impact, and foster accountability and transparency.
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:30, Friday, April 16, 2010
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
Columnist & Public Speaker, monaeltahawy.com
Mona Eltahawy is a New York-based award-winning columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She is a columnist for Qatar’s Al Arab newspaper, Israel’s Jerusalem Report, Denmark’s Politiken and Metro Canada and she has been published frequently in The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. Before moving to the U.S. in 2000, Mona was a reporter in the Middle East. Mona was born in Egypt and has lived in the U.K, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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CEO & Co-Founder, Xindanwei
Liu Yan is the CEO and event curator of Xindanwei, the first collaborative workspace and community for creatives and start ups in China. Since 2004, she has been advocating cross-culture and inter-disciplinary connection and collaboration between Europe and China through events like PICNIC and Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF). She is also the chairwoman of 3S ReUnion in Shanghai, an event for people from arts, technology and academic fields to meet and share their knowledge.
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Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joichi Ito is the Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the former CEO of Creative Commons. He has created numerous internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Twitter, Six Apart, Wikia, Flickr, SocialText, Dopplr, Last.fm, Rupture and other internet companies.
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Global Curator, TED Conferences Europe
Bruno Giussani is the Global Curator of TED, the organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDTalks (ted.com), and lead organizer of TED's climate initiative, Countdown (countdown.ted.com), which identifies and champions solutions to the climate crisis. Since joining TED in 2005, he has curated hundreds of TEDTalks, including two by HH Pope Francis. Prior to joining TED Giussani was the Head of Online Strategy at the World Economic Forum; a Knight Fellow at the University of Stanford; and an Internet columnist for the New York Times. He has written for numerous media outlets in Switzerland and abroad, co-founded three Internet companies, is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Swiss software house Tinext (tinext.com) and advises a number of companies and non-profits. He lives in Switzerland, where he is also the Chairman of the Geneva International Film Festival on Human Rights (fifdh.org).
