WEF2008.4 WELCOME WorkSpace session
January 26, 2008 by Chris | permalink
Imagine if you can access anyone at WEF. who would you want to speak to? why? why would they listen? would they? imagine if everyone at WEF could talk to each other......ever more than they do. David Kirkpatrick, from Fortune Magazine, opened the session with this question. It is an interesting one. Here we have arguably two thousand of the world's most powerful people gathered together. There must be a reason for them to be able to communicate more than they already do. This was the debate in a WorkSpace session.
The session was one of the best at WEF2008. it really challenged all of those in the room to consider what will make people want to use the WELCOME community? how could it be more than a platform? what is needed for this community to make a difference in the world?
we were given six roles to play...CEOs, Experts, Social Entr, Politicians, Chief Strategy Officer, The Planet. I happened to be in the CSO group. it was interesting to hear the range of views. I was not sure if anyone would use this system. Others were convinced of its merit. In any case, we all agreed in the end that it was worth trying.
In the room were the brains [and brawn] behind Sun, Wiki, Facebook, AMD, BusinessWeek......
this was the last session on saturday. i almost skipped it as my energy level was scraping along at an all time low. I am so glad that i participated. the energy level of the room keep ramping up thru the afternoon until it reached a crescendo with the final skits.....we had to act out the scenario for the interface.
