I’ve been interviewed by Dario Salvelli for Wired Magazine about Finland and the recent announcement (1st of July 2010) of the legal right for every Finnish citizen to have access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.

What should we do with the drunken soldier?  I’m talking with a number of my friends about the future of Internet. There is the danger for a strictly controlled environment with little understanding for the real life. Finns are trying to think how to move ideas and concepts from the written paper to realities.

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“I can’t because no one hasn’t done this never before.” Can you still push this sentence a bit more to the negative?
“I dare not, because I may fail.” Yes, most likely you will. Just get up after that, and fail again. Eventually you will succeed, and fail.

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Westley Field: Emerging technologies – How They Affect Future Schooling and the Skills We Should Be Developing

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I’m speaking about the Finnish blogospehere at the Tallinn BlogFest 2010.

Figuring out the Future Store Concept started according to this picture 1999 and is still an idea that we’ve been talking about in small groups until this year. It’s time to open and start to speak about the Future Store in public. The FSC idea is much older. It started to grow as a brain child already 1987 when we were working with RFID for public transport.

This is a part of a discussion that started in Qaiku yesterday. @hypocrisy @personaleu @oldpolitics @hyvaelama I see several important things in this thread. We've a cross-border discussion about politics and upcoming election issues in Sweden and Finland. I also agree that it's not the media but the message that counts.

Are Nordic countries particularly entrepreneurial? How do our societies perceive entrepreneurship as a career choice?

There’s been talk about the Innovationtrain 2.0 with destination to The World Expo in Shanghai. We had some talk about flying mission in Qaiku. It could take place after the summer. The intention would be to make an extensive export – import drive during the mission.

All successful projects build communities of supportive engaged activists who identify with the project and keep it productive and useful. The best seminars are about the other people you meet during lunch or the coffee breaks. Traditional congresses don’t give participants a great deal of freedom to participate and engage in the development.

The innovationtrain was the most important event of January 13, 2010. We’re now working with the next steps. iTraining is a concept that was tested during the Helsinki – Oulu – Helsinki one day journey. The next step will take place at the Flexible Services Seminar in Espoo 4.2.2010.

COP 15 was a disappointment to many and there is now certainly a risk that policymakers leave the building, metaphorically speaking, leaving markets to take over and solve the environmental problems the best they can. Can they and should they?
Cleantech Scandinavia recently attempted to analyze Nordic cleantech patent application levels. The European Patent Office and OECD’s environmental directorate did a similar attempt analyzing cleantech patent application levels worldwide.

The Finnish nature is 2010 more black and white than fifty years ago. The climate change powerpoints are not representing the reality outside your living room window. I was visiting my friends in Ruotsinpyhtaa and here 550 km’s south of Sotkamo the nature is just as beautiful and cold as most of us can remember from post-war childhood memories.

We ask you kindly to participate in a Finnish-language survey concerning the Social Media Use in the Innovation Process of Finnish Companies. The purpose of the study is to enable the improvement of the open innovation capabilities of Finnish organizations, as well as to increase and enhance customer and user driven innovation by means of Social Media. URL: https://www.webropol.com/P.aspx?id=394464&cid=101438247

Mobile physical services Social media expanding the customer experience Digitalized user experience Modernization of communication structures Broad service offering Integration to mobile devices Nokia Ovi and Maps could have a role Easy to use platforms We've to start from the users