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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. Overhype is an understatement.

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

In 2001, she founded Sally Ride Science , a non-profit which continues to promote STEM literacy, with a particular focus on getting girls interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. In 1954, he was found dead due to a reported cyanide-based suicide. Her duty was to operate the robotic arm on the Challenger SPAS-1.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities.

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How best to use innovation to fight corruption: 2 Case Studies

Idea to Value

Some initiatives like the Whistleblowing Helpline in South Africa and TRIMS app in Nigeria (to map transport blockades asking for bribes) are already having an effect, and using technology with a centralised database allows people to quickly report and track offenses. Case Study 1: Afghanistan Police being paid to their mobile phone.

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The Advantages of a Four Day Workweek

Tullio Siragusa

This has been the work culture since the end of the great depression, but today, with technological advancement, many companies have recognized a lesser need for an in the office workforce. Depression leads to $51 billion in costs due to absenteeism and $26 billion in treatment costs. Increase in Employment Engagement.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Similar innovation strategies can be noted within all fields of industry; from the technology sector to the entertainment industry. ” The end result was a 6.5

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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