GLOBAL – Nokia and TED are far from strangers when it comes to collaboration, first teaming up around the Pangea Day events back in May 2008. If you’re new to TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design), it’s a fantastic organization that for 25 years has been delivering, in its own words, “Inspired talks by the world’s leading thinkers and doers”. In recent years these talks have gained a global audience of tens of millions thanks to the TED website, which freely hosts these hugely interesting presentations. We’re big fans, so it’s great to discover that Nokia and TED are cracking out an even bigger tube of collaborative glue, working together this year on an ambitious new TED Translated project powered by crowd-sourcing, and the fresh TED Fellows program.
Click through for more details on how Nokia and TED will be working together on TED Translated and TED Fellows.
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SOUTH KOREA, Asia – It’s Jan Chipchase’s job to look into the future, glimpsing how we’ll behave in three to 15 years time. If you’re a regular Conversations reader you’ll be familiar with our fascination with Jan’s work as part of Nokia Design, traveling the globe researching human behaviour, social interaction, trends, and investigating what it all means and how it could mould and help fine-tune Nokia’s approach towards future developments.
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GLOBAL – The nature of being immersed in the realm of mobile technology naturally dictates that we hungrily devour current developments, simultaneously keeping one eye on the telescope firmly fixed on the horizon. Truth is looking backwards isn’t a typical behavioral trait when it comes to our breed, but of course it’s healthy, can be refreshing and is often entertaining, as proved by Symbian Freaks’ A Look Back At Nokia History piece that ran over the weekend.
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HONG KONG, China – Top human behavioural researcher at Nokia Design, Jan Chipchase, has highlighted an interesting conference that he’s be speaking at today dubbed Design & Emotion, the core theme being “Dare to design” and emotions.
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Korea, ASIA – Having earlier posted a piece on Nokia’s Jan Chipchase and his contribution to this week’s “Beyond the Web Browser” themed Lift Asia conference in Korea, it reminded me of an interesting article I came across last month regarding Korean Internet etiquette education, written by no other than Jan’s old partner in design, Younghee Jung.
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JEJU, Korea – Off the back of One Web Day, me and the rest of the Conversations team posted our experiences of the Internet and where we imagine things heading. The future of the Internet and how we interact with it is a hot topic at the moment, and we’re far from the only ones considering this…
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INTERNATIONAL – We’re big fans of the work done by Jan Chipchase, Nokia’s globetrotting human behavioral guru. Studying the mobile habits and cultures in emerging markets and beyond, his keen insights make for interesting reading. And his latest short essay Small Objects Travel Further, Faster is no different, raising an intriguing point:
“As objects become smaller, pocketable is about right – the speed at which they move around the planet significantly increases. The lead time between what is cutting edge in London and Lagos (or vice versa) is closing. Rapidly.” Jan Chipchase
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INTERNATIONAL – How connected are you and to what degree do you want be? In today’s fast paced highly connected mobile world and the breathless evolution of location-based services (LBS) it’s not such a simple question anymore, raising some important social issues along the way.
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