Announcing the 2012 TED Prize Winner – The City 2.0

Engagement-driven Narrative Design (or How to Build Discovery and Advocacy into your Transmedia Storytelling) The first diagram in this post presents a virtuous circle for an interactive storyworld that binds the story to social discovery and advocacy. The questions that the narrative designer or transmedia storyteller asks herself are: What social actions and conversations do I want to stimulate?How do I want to engage the audience to produce these social actions?What storyworld knowledge will they need to engage in this way? I’ll now explain how I’ve arrived at this process.. The two key enablers to a successful venture today are discovery and advocacy. Consequently, much of my work this past year has begun with the questions: how will the experience be discovered? These questions have formed the foundations of my transmedia storytelling and pulled me further into the realm of participatory storytelling and persistent storyworlds. Narrative Design One of the key pieces of transmedia storytelling is clearly the narrative design. engagement designnarrative designinteraction design.

Les éco-centres 2.0 : nouvelle approche green du travail ? Après les réseaux intelligents d’électricité (smart grid) et d’eau (smart water), les bâtiments intelligents (smart building) ou encore la mobilité intelligente (covoiturage, autopartage…), voici le travail intelligent ! Face aux enjeux environnementaux, l’organisation du travail dans les villes pourrait être profondément transformée avec l’arrivée des éco-centres 2.0. Cette nouvelle génération de télécentres, également connue sous l’appellation Smart Work Center, repose sur des lieux de travail partagé, proches des bassins d’habitation, offrant un panel de services et d’équipements mutualisés. Connectés au très haut débit, équipés de salles de téléprésence, ces éco-centres 2.0 visent à décongestionner le trafic urbain et à réduire l’empreinte carbone des villes. La France se penche sur les écocentres Développés en réseau, ces nouveaux centres de travail sont l’une des briques de la construction de villes durables. Smart Work Center ? Comment fonctionnent ces fameux Smart Work Centers ?

Simple Gifts "Simple Gifts" is a Shaker song written and composed in 1848 by Elder Joseph Brackett. It has endured many inaccurate descriptions. Though often classified as an anonymous Shaker hymn or as a work song, it is better classified as a dance song.[1] Background and composition[edit] The tune was written by Joseph Brackett (1797–1882) in 1848.[2] Brackett, a lifelong resident of Maine, first joined the Shakers at Gorham, Maine, when his father's farm helped to form the nucleus of a new Shaker settlement.[3] Resurgence and enduring popularity[edit] The song was largely unknown outside Shaker communities until Aaron Copland used its melody for the score of Martha Graham's ballet Appalachian Spring, first performed in 1944. Lyrics[edit] "Simple Gifts" was written by Elder Joseph while he was at the Shaker community in Alfred, Maine. 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, Tune[edit] John P.

TED Prize 2012: Crowdsourcing "City 2.0" | Open Source Cities index ranks ICT-savvy cities by benefit for citizens Ericsson and Arthur D. Little's latest Networked Society City Index ranks cities in terms of their ability to use ICT to benefit their citizens Top-ranking cities Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm show the benefits of engaging a society as a whole London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing complete the top 10 ICT-based applications such as e-government and smart transport can improve citizens' lives, helping to overcome common challenges in urban environments The second edition of Ericsson's (NASDAQ:ERIC) Networked Society City Index ranks 25 of the world's largest cities according to their ability to transform ICT to social, economic and environmental benefits. The top three cities in the index - Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm - have successfully met many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT. Singapore, for example, is aggressively driving innovation in e-health, and is a pioneer in traffic-congestion management.

The Darker Side of Classical Music undefined The Darker Side of Classical Music Classical music is a genre of music that touches on all emotions man is capable of feeling, some of which can only be evoked through the power of music itself. Pettersson Symphonies 6, 7, 8, 9 and 15 Concertos for String Orchestra 1, 2 and 3 Almost everything Pettersson wrote tended to be dark and gloomy. The concertos for string orchestra are some of Pettersson’s lesser-known works, containing much the same darkness found in the symphonies. Sibelius Symphony 4 Lemminkäinen Suite Much of the music Sibelius wrote tends to have a cold and austere tone to it. Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14 String Quartets 3, 5, 6, 8, 13, 15 Piano Trio 2, Violin Concertos 1 and 2, Cello Concerto 2, Two pieces for String Octet Shostakovich is another composer who, like Pettersson, has a name that is often synonymous in peoples minds with dark and grim music. The sixth has a slow, dark first movement with two short, upbeat movements afterwards. Mahler

The Mechanical Turk Blog How Data is Making Rio de Janeiro a Smarter City - TNW Latin America Do you plan to attend 2014 FIFA World Cup or 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro? If so, the city is already getting ready to welcome you. Here is how Rio is using technology and data management to get smarter. Manage information to avoid tragedies In April 2010, the State of Rio de Janeiro was hit by a natural disaster, when floods and mudslides killed over 200 people and made 15,000 homeless. Rio Operations Center, the city’s control room Although its initial focus was floods, the scope of Rio Operations Center expanded considerably. The Center is part of the Smarter Cities initiative that IBM has been promoting since 2007. The Center itself is a paradise for data geeks: the amount of information displayed on its 300 screens is impressive, starting with the images streamed from 200 traffic cameras (soon to be 400). Sharing data with the public through Twitter and apps Although the amount of data that is made publicly available is still fairly limited, this could soon change.

Collaboratively Crowdsourcing Workflows with Turkomatic Anand Kulkarni, UC Berkeley, MobileWorksMatthew Can, StanfordBjoern Hartmann, UC Berkeley A central challenge in crowd computing is the workflow design problem: how can we divide a complex job — for instance, editing a paper or writing a computer program — into a sequence of microtasks that can be solved by a pool of crowd workers on the web? Effective workflow design is a difficult process, requiring careful task design, extensive software development, and iterated testing with a live crowd. What if we could use the crowd to attack the workflow design problem itself? Turkomatic accepts a requester’s specification of a task in natural language, then uses workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to determine how to structure workflows to achieve the objective. We induce the crowd to design and execute workflows on our behalf via a meta-workflow called Price-Divide-Solve (PDS). The Requester Interface. Editing workflows. Standard task templates in Turkomatic.

New York can’t & shouldn’t try to rival Silicon Valley New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, envisions his city wresting the title of “technology capital” of the U.S. from Silicon Valley and has embarked on an ambitious plan to build or expand a science and engineering campus in New York. But in hearing the talk, it sounds like Bloomberg believes he can build his way to Silicon Valley success, which I don’t think is possible. And as others are pointing out, it shouldn’t be the goal, either. A discussion in the New York Times‘ Room for Debate roundtable explores the question of whether New York can rival Silicon Valley, and most of the participants come away saying no. You can’t teach entrepreneurship Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, points out that you can’t expect a campus to build a spirit of entrepreneurship, which she says can’t be taught. Rather than find a way to transplant Mountain View into Manhattan, New York should provide greater support for risk-taking. New York Flavor Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley