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World Café @ ITU Seventh ITU Symposium
on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
29 May 2012
Montreal, Canada
Saba Imru
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Image: Nancy Margulies
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Innovation & discovery
in collaborative conversations
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Understand complexity
Explore the views of all stake-holders
Test ideas and assumptions together
Create 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
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Informal, relaxed
Frame-breaking
Highly interactive
All-inclusive
Connects
Images: Rae Paladin, TSB
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Goals for this World Café
• Working session of the ITU Seventh ITU Symposium
on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
• Ensure active involvement of all participants
• Facilitate exchanges and networking
• Consolidate a community of interest
• Connect global minds
• Create the foundations for the “future we want”
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Who
uses The World Café?
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Business
Saudi Aramco
• World’s largest producer
and exporter of crude oil.
• Over 50,000 employees,
100,000 contractors.
• A first World Café in 2003
on strategic planning for
their Engineering and
Operations Department
• Over 700 participants
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Government & civil society
Basque Agency for Innovation
• Bilbao 2008, A World Café on
introducing innovation as a
core value in the local
communities.
• 770 participants representing
many stakeholders: regional
government, academia, R&D,
business, health, social
services, arts.
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Academia
Fielding Graduate
University
• Strategic insights for
academic program
development
• Designing curriculum
• World Café as a
research system
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International Organizations
ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
7 April 2011, Geneva
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: Joint Task Force ITU,
UNESCO/IOC and WMO
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World Café @ ICT Innovations
19 March 2012, Geneva
A World Café as working session for
the ITU Workshop on "ICT
Innovations“
To determine the key topics to be
studied by the newly created
Focus Group on Bridging the Gap:
From Innovation to Standards and
its working methods.
Image: Kevin Quinto, TSB
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and many more……
Businesses
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Nokia
Telia
Ericsson
Intel
Shell Petroleum
Coca Cola
Walt Disney
Chevron
Hewlett-Packard
Agilent
Academia
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University of California
MIT Organizational Learning
University of Texas
University of Michigan
Government and civil society
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Scandinavian Sustainability Forum
European Union
Ministry of Information Singapore
Ministry of Education United Arab
Emirates
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How it works
• Three 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
Image: Nancy Margulies
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The knowledge is in the room
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Innovative Thinking
Image: Rae Paladin, TSB
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Collaborative Talking
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Connect different perspectives
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Harvest and share outcome
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See you at the World Café !
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