How do we get critical information on health to people who need it?Kendall: We are going to be fast and interactive…parts of the eco system where solutions are coming from to solve the problems of healthcare and how to get it to people who need it. We will focus on solutions. There are an enormous […]
We are living an interesting time in humanity. The planet earth is not unlimited. We actually are approaching a phrase where the population will decrease…..nothing to worry about, but this will change our lives, speaks Dr. Goldschmidt. Planet Earth will become full. Health will become increasingly important. Everyone will need to an advance age. So stay […]
Bert Van Hoof, Director, Microsoft Health Solutions GroupDonald Hones, VP. Qualcomm,Health & Life SciencesEmilio Pardo, Chief Brand Officer, AARPDrant Harrison, VP, Integrated Consumer Experience, HumanaDr. Andrew Wiesenthal, The Permante Federation, Associate Executive Director
The future of Information & Communication Technologies in HealthParticipants: Dr. Pascal GoldschmidtChair: Kendall LockhartKeynote Conversation with Scott Mowbray, Editorial Director, HealthCom
The relationship between professional and amateur journalists is starting eo emerge. Explore how non-professionals connected by social networks and tools influence new models of storytelling and workflow involving eyewitnesses, amateurs and professionals. Session Chair: Louis Ferrara, Managing Editor Sports, Entertainment & Multimedia, The Associated Press With: Michael Tippett, Co-Founder, NowPublic Kate Marymont, Executive Editor, The […]
If UNU mission is “to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are a concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States“. But the budget of 40 million dollars (not from the regular budget of UN), for a think tank of 306 people, developing “the […]
On the technological challenge of making political news easier to digest…(and my attempts to digest everything being said and blog it up) With so much information out there on the political campaigns (nearly every one this year had an official blog; unofficial blogs are even more abundant), how to manage content… Most interesting to me […]
Michael Silberman, EchoDitto “Political campaigns have been having a ot of trouble figuring out how to empower their volunteers to do actual field work.” Amy Schatz, Wall Street Journal “This cycle, news organizations are experimenting… trying Facebook, etc. We’re not sure how much this is helping anybody.” Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation “It has been remarkable […]
After introductions by Jim Kennedy of the AP, Mary Hodder of Dabble describes that the Semantic Systems needed have to have relevence and context. She gives the example of the World Cup – where people care about the “head butt” and not the play by play of the game that media provided. Would media be […]
We’re about to start this panel, located on a floor accessible only by two elevators, so people are coming in in batches of 8. The topic: “Who can you trust in the We Media landscape? Where’s the line between commerce and information? No more is it a question of parsing the biases of individual media […]
This panel, The Power to Change the World – so far I am engaged (at least more so than in the last two) because of Darya Shaikh of OneVoice Movement discussing how so many benefit from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict (choice quote: “if you’re not pissing people off, you’re not doing your job”) and the idea […]
“With the traditional media losing its monopoly on information, opinion and storytelling, all sectors of society now have the power through media and communications to make themselves heard. How can we use this new power to make the world a better place? Session Chair: Andrew Nachison, Co-Founder, iFOCOS” J. Sebastian Traeger, CEO, Razoo Jim Brady, […]
Who are the new players in the industries and will they take all the money out of it (before the existing corporations) are big points as this discussion wraps up. In countries where there is not literary tradition (print) it is oppty to create a whole new form of media consumption. In China the newspaper […]
Richard Sarnoff and William C. Weiss who laugh at being characterized as “the suits.” Digital reading goes on today, and in Japan, for example, the best-sellers are cellphone novels. There is no such thing as a print publisher today vs. digital publisher. Sarnoff: Takes issues with some storytelling comments from previous session. Book industry has […]
Audience member points out that most of the worlds’ population is illiterate. He spoke of the power of image and video as an image magnifier and that is way media is going (to video and image, from print.) What is audience’s involvement with media — world is more and more corporate and that filtered “down […]