Games for breakthrough thinking

Using games for brainstorming is really great.  Instead of doing a standard meeting, the idea is to set a series of rules, and then play that game.  There is a clear beginning, once the rules have been explained and everybody agrees to play by the rules.  Then when the game is being played, the participants Read More …

Design Thinking at PWN Global

Last month was the annual off-site meeting from PWN Global (Professional Women International where I’m a Board member is the Brussels chapter of this federation of networks).  Almost all the citi-networks were represented plus the Board of the federation and we had even the presence of corporate sponsors. The main objective was to shape the Read More …

Citizen Science hits again with EyeWire

Hear of this crowdsourcing success story at EyeWire:   Crowd-sourced science isn’t just fun and games anymore; it has produced a scientific discovery new and important enough to be published in the journal Nature. The social gaming venture EyeWire lured citizen scientists to follow retinal neurons across multiple two-dimensional photos with the chance to level Read More …

MOOCs: the new learning style

Last week I presented MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at the Professional Women International association in Brussels, Belgium. I had the pleasure of talking to the participants afterwards.  They told me they were so pleased to learn they had such an easy way of taking good quality courses that they were going to check that Read More …

A philosophical view on hyperconnectivity

Last week I had the pleasure to hear Nicole Dewandre talk about Hyperconnectivity at the Rotary club of Waterloo.  Nicole works as advisor for societal issues for the Director General of the DG CONNECT at the European Commission. Her presentation was about the impact hyperconnectivity has on our human condition from a philosophical point of Read More …

As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You

In this article of The New York Times David Sreitfeld is discussing a new service ScribD is beginning to offer. Scribd is a subscription-based library, where you can read books through their interface.  They are now collecting information from their readers, like how long they stay on a page, the pace on specific chapters, do Read More …

The ‘new deal on data’ for personal data protection.

A few days ago I went to Italy, and look what caught my eyes in the airport coming back: So I cannot but get into the ‘new deal on data’ for personal data protection of Alex Pentland that I mentioned on the previous post 🙂 His idea is to treat personal data as an asset, Read More …