ESPOO, Finland – We’re in Nokia HQ for this year’s future-looking event, The Way We Live Next. Running for the third time, the second at Nokia House, we have an exciting line up of speakers this morning. Mary McDowell, Nokia’s chief development officer is kicking things off and giving an overview of what’s happening on a global level.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Nokia is involved in a number of initiatives to help develop and support the ambitions of young people (such as YouthActionNet), and similarly raise awareness for crucial global concerns such as sustainability (see Dreams Workshop). This week our attention was drawn to a program that Nokia has been supporting since 2007, started by the European Commission with a view to addressing the lack of women in IT careers. To tackle this problem, Nokia joined the ’shadowing days’ scheme, which sees girls visit Nokia and shadow the women working there to get a much greater understanding of the life and careers of women working in this area, and as the EU Commission puts it, prove that technology is not “strictly for geeks!”.
Recently a 13 year-old girl called Rosemarie Hartman, with ambitions to study Maths, Science and Technology, visited Nokia headquarters to do exactly that, and created a video diary of her day shadowing women within the company, from meetings about Comes With Music to teleconferences about recycling and a visit to the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki. It’s a great little video, that gives a candid insight into how the ’shadowing day’ program works as well as a peek behind the scenes at Nokia House. Click to watch the full video.
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GLOBAL – The Nokia Wormhole doesn’t enable you to take a neat sci-fi shortcut through space and time, hopping between galaxies, as the name might loosely suggest. That is of course unless you believe that webcam technology performs this function (granted it’s not perhaps cutting edge a concept, yet it remains smart technology). See, the Nokia Wormhole (pictured) is a new remote communication initiative that Nokia has launched within the company, creating an informal long distance face-to-face meeting place (via webcam) in the same vein as Nokia’s advanced Halo suites – the purpose being that it further enables employees to communicate better yet travel less, in turn helping Nokia employees reduce the environmental impact of the company via air travel and alike.
Read on to find out more about the Nokia Wormhole.
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ESPOO, Finland – We’re here at Nokia HQ for The Way We Live Next 2008, where the great and the good from Nokia Research Center gather to explain what they’re up to, and how they’re doing it. We’ve already seen some really cool stuff and we’re assured there’s plenty more to come. Keep an eye on this page for the latest updates as they happen.
ESPOO, Finland – We were poking around Nokia House (what we call our headquarters here in Espoo, Finland), looking for stories to uncover and we saw this cool board that shows an estimate of the number of mobile subscribers globally.
EVERYWHERE, Planet Earth – Something monumentally cool is scheduled to happen at 8pm on March 29.
Simply dubbed Earth Hour, this global event will see 24 major cities across the world participate in turning off the lights for an entire hour to help highlight the need to combat global warming.
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