world café @ itu seventh itu symposium on icts, the environment and climate change
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World Café @ ITU Seventh ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change. 29 May 2012 Montreal, Canada. Saba Imru ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. Image: Nancy Margulies. Innovation & discovery in collaborative conversations. Understand complexity - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
29 May 2012
Committed to Connecting the World
World Café @ ITU Seventh ITU Symposium
on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
29 May 2012Montreal, Canada
Saba ImruITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Image: Nancy Margulies
29 May 2012
Committed to Connecting the World
Innovation & discovery in collaborative conversations• Understand complexity • Explore the views of all stake-holders • Test ideas and assumptions together • Create new knowledge collectively• Generate innovative solutions
Originators of The World Café: Juanita Brown PhD & David Isaacs
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What it looks like
Images: cc theworldcafe; Rae Paladin, TSB
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A change of pace
• Informal, relaxed• Frame-breaking• Highly interactive • All-inclusive• Connects
Images: Rae Paladin, TSB
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Committed to Connecting the World
Goals for this World Café
• Working session of the ITU Seventh ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
• Ensure active involvement of all participants• Facilitate exchanges and networking• Consolidate a community of interest• Connect global minds• Create the foundations for the “future we want”
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Business
• World’s largest producer and exporter of crude oil.
• Over 50,000 employees, 100,000 contractors.
• A first World Café in 2003 on strategic planning for their Engineering and Operations Department
• Over 700 participants
Saudi Aramco
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29 May 2012
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Government & civil society
• Bilbao 2008, A World Café on introducing innovation as a core value in the local communities.
• 770 participants representing many stakeholders: regional government, academia, R&D, business, health, social services, arts.
Basque Agency for Innovation
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Academia
• Strategic insights for academic program development
• Designing curriculum
• World Café as a research system
Fielding Graduate University
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29 May 2012
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International Organizations
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
7 April 2011, Geneva
A World Café on innovation challenges and how to be the best SDO secretariat for the ITU-T membership
Image: Rae Paladin, TSB
29 May 2012
Committed to Connecting the World
World Café @ ITU Green Standards Week
9 September 2011, Rome, Italy
A World Café as last and conclusive session of the
Workshop on Submarine Cables for Ocean/Climate Monitoring and Disaster Warning: Science, Engineering, Business and Law
Result: Joint Task Force ITU, UNESCO/IOC and WMO
29 May 2012
Committed to Connecting the World
World Café @ ICT Innovations19 March 2012, Geneva
A World Café as working session for the ITU Workshop on "ICT Innovations“
To determine the key topics to be studied by the newly created Focus Group on Bridging the Gap: From Innovation to Standards and its working methods.
Image: Kevin Quinto, TSB
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and many more……Academia
•University of California •MIT Organizational Learning•University of Texas•University of Michigan
Businesses
•Nokia•Telia•Ericsson•Intel•Shell Petroleum•Coca Cola•Walt Disney•Chevron•Hewlett-Packard•Agilent
Government and civil society
•Scandinavian Sustainability Forum•European Union•Ministry of Information Singapore•Ministry of Education United Arab Emirates
29 May 2012
Committed to Connecting the World
How it works
• Three conversation rounds, each triggered by a question
• At each round
– Explore questions together
– Reflect & summarize
• At the end of the round, change table and meet new people
Image: Nancy Margulies