30-second Ideas from IdeasCamp: "Global-Minded"

Nokia's IdeasCamp in late August 2009 featured an incredible gathering of technology and content innovators, who shared their groundbreaking ideas about everything from social media, corporate and global responsibility, to medical technology and transportation systems. The Big Idea from Nokia Services Executive Vice President Tero Ojanpera is that technology is bringing us closer as a planet by enabling us to participate virtually in events and experiences on the other side of the world. IdeasCamp attendees shared their rapid-fire thoughts on the various ways in which connected communications have facilitated a more global-minded way of thinking:

Twitter Diminishes Political & Social Isolation • Laura Fitton, aka @pistachio, is known for her masterful use of emergent technologies like Twitter, where she is read by thousands of community members, and her tremendous success raising charitable funds through the phenomenon of microgiving. Laura's innovative use of social media has been documented in a number of books and Laura herself has been quoted in such publications as The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The LA Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, NPR, Newsweek.com, Inc.com, CNET, ZDNet, ComputerWorld. She re-launched Pistachio Consulting in September 2008 to connect businesses to new ideas and innovations using all the tools of microsharing.

The Medical Technology Silo Is Being Broken By Consumers • Abbe Don is a product development strategist and user experience designer for Ideo. Her work is informed by her background as an interactive multimedia artist and interface designer specializing in integrating oral storytelling, narrative theory, and information retrieval. Prior to Ideo, she held positions in the design departments at Hewlett-Packard, the Walt Disney Company, and Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group. Abbe holds a master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.

Musical Conductors Provide a Window to Leadership Styles • Conductor Itay Talgam is one of the leading figures in the Israeli music scene and a winner of the prestigious prize for “Best Performance of the Year” for Israeli orchestral music by the National Council for the Arts. In 1987, Itay was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to perform in a special concert with the Orchestre de Paris. He has conducted many orchestras around the globe and is intensely involved in many educational projects, both as a Fellow of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem, and as the creator of the unique ‘Maestro’ leadership programs.

Social Responsibility Is Now a Priority For Businesses • Christopher Meyer is chief executive of Monitor Networks, a unit of the Monitor Group focused on fostering business innovation through designing, growing, and learning from human networks. Chris is best known for pioneering new services. As a consultant to many of the big players during the IT revolution, including Microsoft, Texas Instruments, AT&T, Digital Equipment, NYNEX, he developed strategies that anticipated many of the changes that were to come. Chris writes and speaks about the trends shaping business and economic developments.

Offices Are Becoming More Transparent • Ross Martin is Senior Vice President and Head of Programming for mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, overseeing the development and production of mtvU's Emmy Award winning programming. Martin is a former principal of Plant Film, where he developed and produced feature film and television projects. Prior to Plant Film, he was Vice President of Film & Television at Nerve.com and began his career as a development executive for Spike Lee's 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, where he developed the feature films Summer of Sam, Get On the Bus, He Got Game, The Best Man and 3 A.M.

We Need Filters to Add Credibility to Social Media • Anthony Greenberg is founder and CEO of RampRate Sourcing Advisors, the world's first full cycle IT Decision Hub and sourcing advisor. Organizations including Microsoft, Blizzard, CBS, Goldman Sachs, iFilm, McGraw Hill, Sony, Vodafone, and many others have routed more than $4.5B in IT spending and new business investment through RampRate's advisory process. Prior to RampRate, Greenberg ran the sales and marketing organization at Raindance (RNDC). He also served as the senior vice president of business development and marketing for the Digital Entertainment Network.

GDP Will Be Replaced as a Measure of Productivity • Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist of Ricoh Innovations and has held academic appointments and taught in five departments at Stanford University over the last 20 years. His interests and contributions encompass Physics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Art and Art History. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, has published six books/proceedings volumes, including HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality (MIT), the source of his PBS television documentary.