The e-competencies conference is over –and, by all measures, it seems to be a resounding success! Many, many thanks go to Cristóbal Cobo and Jutta Treviranus for the co-organization of the event. I am particularly grateful for our amazing participants. A few of their presentations are already online: Martín Parselis (Video) [UCA] Guillermo Lutzky (Video) [...]

[Cross-posted from e-rgonomic] Passport of skills for a knowledge worker: Not restricted to a specific age. Highly engaged, creative, innovative, collaborative and motivated. Uses information and develops knowledge in changing workplaces (not tied to an office). Inventive, intuitive, and able to know things and produce ideas. Capable of creating socially constructed meaning and contextually reinvent [...]

Saludos! …to visitors from the UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar! I hope that this blog will serve as good resource for exploring issues surrounding knowledge and innovation societies. There are three easy ways to navigate this site to find the information you’re interested in: Use the search box at the top of this page. Browse the list [...]

I’ve been participating on the Minneapolis Public Schools Technology Planning Steering Committee. The committee has adopted the Leapfrog Paradigm and leapfrog thinking into its planning. Leaping frogs are showing up in presentations, and leapfrog is becoming a metaphor for creativity in the district. The committee’s work has, however, thus far focused on discussion on the [...]

The folks at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies completely redesigned their Web page. Now up-to-date, continuously updated, Blogger-embedded, and visually appealing, it’s a great leap forward among academic sites on futures. Long live Web 2.0!!!