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World Café @Innovation
19 March 2012
Saba Imru
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Head, Administration & HR Services
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Innovation & discovery in collaborative conversations
• Understand complexity
• Explore the views of all stake-holders
• Test ideas and assumptions together
• Build new knowledge collectively
• Generate innovative solutions
Originators of The World Café: Juanita Brown PhD & David Isaacs
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What it looks like
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A change of pace
• Informal, relaxed
• Frame-breaking
• Highly interactive
• All-inclusive
• Connects
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Goals for this World Café
• Working session of the Workshop on ICT Innovations
• Ensure active involvement of all participants
• Facilitate networking, connection and exchanges
• Consolidate a community of interests
• Create the foundations for future work
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Businesses
Saudi Aramco
• World’s largest producer and exporter of crude oil.
• Over 50,000 employees,
100,000 contractors.
• A first World Café in 2003 for Engineering and
Operations Department, for strategic planning
• Over 700 participants
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Government & civil society
Basque Agency for Innovation
• Bilbao 2008, A World Café on renewal and innovation in local communities.
• 770 participants representing many stakeholders: education, health, business,
R&D, regional government, social services, arts.
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Fielding Graduate
University
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Academia
• Strategic insights for academic program development
• Designing curriculum
• World Café as a research system
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International Organizations
ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
A World Café on innovation challenges and how to be the best
SDO secretariat for the
ITU-T membership
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World Café @ ITU Green Standards Week
9 September 2011, Rome, Italy
A World Café as last and conclusive session of the
Workshop on Submarine Cables for Ocean/Climate Monitoring and Disaster Warning:
Science, Engineering, Business and Law
Result: Call for Action
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Committed to Connecting the World and many more……
Businesses
• Nokia
• Telia
• Ericsson
• Intel
• Shell Petroleum
• Coca Cola
• Walt Disney
• Chevron
• Hewlett-Packard
• Agilent
Academia
• University of California
• MIT Organizational Learning
• University of Texas
• University of Michigan
Government and civil society
• Scandinavian Sustainability Forum
• European Union
• Ministry of Information Singapore
• Ministry of Education United Arab
Emirates
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How it works
• Four conversation rounds, each triggered by a question
• At each round
– Explore questions together
– Reflect & summarize
• At the end of the round, change table and meet new people
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The knowledge is in the room
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Innovative Thinking
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Collaborative Talking
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Connect different perspectives
Image: Nancy Marguiles
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Harvest and share outcome
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