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Connecting, Sharing, GrowingKeith Lyons

Australian Institute of Sport

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The importance of a connected society for our

sporting future.

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The significance of information and communications

technology (ICT) for the sport industry.

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Three Principles

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High speed communication transforms our worlds.

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There is enormous benefit in capturing information once and using it many times.

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We can work together and share experience in this digital age.

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Community of Practice

A new breed of technology is evolving from the principles of collective intelligence, which emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals.

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Connecting

Sharing

Growing

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1 Billion Users of the Internet in 15 Years

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Digital Natives

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“Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago

to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.”

Bill Gates (2007)

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In 2007 the amount of information created and replicated (255 exabytes) will surpass, for the first time, the storage capacity available (246 exabytes).

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Fish don’t know they are in water.

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A 21 year-old male entering the US workforce today:

5000 hours of video game playing250,000 emails, text messages10,000 hours of cell phone use3500 hours of time on-line

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Australian Households 2006

92% own a mobile device86% own a DVD player

69% own a mobile camera33% own an MP3 player23% own a DVD recorder

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Tectonic shifts in society

Learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity.

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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

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Digital Asset Repository

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Metadata

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Always ...

OnAvailableConnected

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SimplePersonal

Does what you want it to do

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Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits, contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted volunteers.

Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo Huberman (2007)

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Personalise

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Know-how and know-what is being supplemented with know-where (the understanding of where to find knowledge)

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High TechHigh Touch

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Strong Leadership

Training

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High speed communication transforms our worlds.

There is enormous benefit in capturing information once and using it many times.

We need to work together and share experience and expertise in this digital age.

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