I recently gave a talk at Google's Bangalore office titled, "The Power of Collaborative Innovation." This 60 minute talk is now archived at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks#p/u/24/Wye5rh9roh0
The abstract of the talk is given below for your reference.
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Abstract of the talk ====================
The power of collaborative innovation.
The Internet and the growth of the open source movement have lead to a fundamental change in the way knowledge is created and distributed. Older generation networks are either one-to-one networks (phones, faxes etc) or one-to-many networks (TV, Radio etc), while the Internet is a many-to-many network. As we move to an interconnected world, the balance of power is shifting from old, proprietary models of knowledge creation to the open source model that emphasizes collaboration, community and the shared ownership of knowledge. From management gurus to consulting firms to leading business schools, everyone is taking note of this new phenomenon that goes by various names like ‘Collaborative Innovation,’ ‘Open Innovation,’ or ‘Distributed Co-creation.’
This session will examine the impact of these trends on our collective future and how they can be harnessed for social and economic development. In particular, we will take a closer look at the growing global knowledge commons and its impact on current issues like open standards and software patents.
About the speaker =================
Venkatesh Hariharan is Corporate Affairs Director (Asia-Pacific) for Red Hat. In this role, he works with industry, academia, government and the open source community to accelerate the growth of the global open source movement. In 2006, he was awarded the "Indian Open Source Personality of the Year" by the organizers of Linux Asia 2006.
Hariharan is a former Executive Editor of Express Computer and the first Indian to be selected for the prestigious Knight Science Journalism Fellowship (1998-99) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a Knight Fellow, Hariharan spent a year looking at cutting edge technologies that can be deployed for bridging the digital divide.
During his stint at Express Computer, he imparted a dynamic news orientation to the magazine. He has interviewed some of the leading figures in the world of technology including Microsoft's Bill Gates, John Gage of Sun Microsystems, Stan Shih of the Acer Group and many others. He has written for leading Indian and international publications including MIT Technology Review, Upside, Slashdot, Economic Times, Times of India and many others.
After his stint at MIT, Hariharan co-founded of IndLinux.org, one of the leading localization groups in the India subcontinent. IndLinux.org has localized the GNOME and KDE interface of Linux to Hindi. The organization has helped localization groups in India, Bhutan, Nepal and other countries localize Linux and other open source software to their native languages. He has delivered talks on open source at leading academic institutions across the country, including IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati, IIIT-Bangalore and many others.
Hariharan believes that open source and free software are powerful tools to empower emerging economies with the benefits of information technology. He has advocated the adoption of open source and open standards in emerging economies for political, cultural and economic reasons through his writing and his speeches. He is currently setting up the Open Source Foundation of India.
His long term interest is in the area of technology and public policy. He maintains a blog on open source and open standards at www.osindia.blogspot.com.
Hariharan is a member of the Bureau of Indian Standards committee for data management, which recently reviewed and voted against OOXML.
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