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There will be people within your organization who will fight against the use of social media and even against the very notion of open innovation. As I wrote in my first book, The Open Innovation Revolution: Essentials, Roadblocks, and Leadership Skills: "Change is frightening to many elements inside the typical organization. Change threatens people's power, their status, their egos, and, in some situations, even their jobs. Change can make someone's expertise obsolete and thereby make them obsolete as well. Because people are afraid of change, innovation efforts often cause the eruption of corporate antibodies that fight to kill innovation and maintain the status quo."

"Bienvenue sur la plateforme du RQIS! Cette plateforme est un carrefour permettant aux acteurs de l'innovation sociale : De mieux comprendre l'innovation sociale en pratique et en théorie  D'avoir accès aux ressources facilitant l'innovation sociale  D'intéragir et de développer des partenariats Plusieurs acteurs de l'innovation sociale travaillent avec nous afin d'alimenter cette plateforme en ajoutant des informations, des nouvelles et des outils. De jour en jour, vous pourrez constater les transformations apportées. N'hésitez pas à communiquer avec nous si vous souhaitez y apporter votre contribution. "

A l'occasion d'un voyage d'études organisé par la 27e Région, nous sommes allés à la découverte de l'innovation sociale britannique, en rencontrant la plupart des cabinets de design et les principaux acteurs qui participent à redéfinir le rôle des usagers dans les services publics. Comment l'innovation s'inscrit-elle concrètement dans la vie des gens ? Peut-on faire de l'innovation sans technologie ? L'innovation sert-elle à faire de la politique ? Immersion.

In a few short years, social technologies have given social interactions the speed and scale of the Internet. Whether discussing consumer products or organizing political movements, people around the world constantly use social-media platforms to seek and share information. Companies use them to reach consumers in new ways too; by tapping into these conversations, organizations can generate richer insights and create precisely targeted messages and offers.

"You can thank Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Williams and others for turning America's legendary productivity into wasteful social media "screensucking." While social media may be engaging, it does not always help us accomplish what really needs to get done. It's time to refocus America's software ingenuity on making productivity software as delightful to use as social networking."

Blind Dog Cafe is part of an entrepreneurial movement in the local food scene that is ushering in new restaurant concepts, from food trucks to underground supper clubs, that stray from the traditional model. These entrepreneurs are readily using social media and mobile technology to market their businesses as they go head to head with established restaurants. That such a spurt of innovation is transforming the restaurant industry should come as no surprise. Pushing a food cart or opening a carryout have always been one of the gateways to entrepreneurship because of the universal demand for food.

hat if your cell phone could detect cancer cells circulating in your blood or warn you of an imminent heart attack? Mobile wireless digital devices, including smartphones and tablets with seemingly limitless functionality, have brought about radical changes in our lives, providing hyper-connectivity to social networks and cloud computing. But the digital world has hardly pierced the medical cocoon.  Until now. Beyond reading email and surfing the Web, we will soon be checking our vital signs on our phone. We can already continuously monitor our heart rhythm, blood glucose levels, and brain waves while we sleep. Miniature ultrasound imaging devices are replacing the icon of medicine-the stethoscope. DNA sequencing, Facebook, and the Watson supercomputer have already saved lives. For the first time we can capture all the relevant data from each individual to enable precision therapy, prevent major side effects of medications, and ultimately to prevent many diseases from ever occurring. And yet many of these digital medical innovations lie unused because of the medical community's profound resistance to change.   In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Eric Topol-one of the nation's top physicians and a leading voice on the digital revolution in medicine-argues that radical innovation and a true democratization of medical care are within reach, but only if we consumers demand it. We can force medicine to undergo its biggest shakeup in history. This book shows us the stakes-and how to win them.

2022 is a long way off, but key digital developments are already in hand. The current explosion of mobile connectivity will surely exert an influence 10 years from now. Desktops and laptops -- even tablets -- may be hardware of the past, as we access the information stream using voice, gesture, and retinal displays. Immersion in this all-enveloping data field will change the way we work and think. The displacement of information from devices will be reflected in the displacement of the worker from the workplace. Accessing the collaborative environment anywhere, anytime, a nomadic workforce will expect IT to manage the streamlining of data through virtual platforms. As for social media, we're not going too far out on that unpredictable limb. Will Facebook (or perhaps a successor) swallow the Internet whole, locking us into a fully socialized online experience? Or will an adverse reaction set in, driving users back into isolated silos? Of course, what 2022 looks like will be governed in large part by the political and technological foundations of connectivity. Big changes are looming, but innovations in the basic architecture of the Internet -- like software-defined networking -- could be overtaken by diplomatic developments. Member states of the ITU, meeting in Dubai this December, are capable of throwing international network traffic, and even the domain name system, into utter confusion.

"What happens in Vegas, no longer stays in Vegas - soon it will be all over the Internet. The 24/7 casino mentality that you only used to find along the Vegas Strip is coming to a social network near you. Within the UK, Facebook is already hard at work, making sure that online gambling will become a staple of your online social networking experience, alongside other virtual time sinks like FarmVille. Instead of spending your virtual cash on FarmVille farm animals, why not drop some real cash on Bingo Friendzy and meet some new friends within Facebook's new online Bingo Hall?"

PopTech brings together a global community of innovators from many fields to share insights and work together to create lasting change. Our Fellows programs for social innovators and scientists identify and train some of the world's most promising talent. Our Labs bring together curated and diverse experts to work together on areas of critical significance. Our Initiatives incubate high-impact, collaborative and new approaches to some of the world's toughest problems. Our annual conferences and events are among the highest rated in the United States.

es villes sont aujourd'hui de plus en plus confrontées à des enjeux mondiaux qu'elles ne peuvent plus ignorer et qui les obligent à évoluer. La mondialisation intensifie la compétition entre les villes et les acteurs.Le changement climatique et la menace de l'épuisement des ressources ne permettent plus de produire et de consommer de manière illimitée et non raisonnée. L'urbanisation croissante et les problèmes démographiques poussent les villes à repenser leur mode de développement et leur stratégie urbaine. Les problématiques de cohésion sociale et le « vivre ensemble » interpellent chaque jour les quartiers de la ville. L'utilisation croissante des réseaux sociaux, think tanks et pôles de compétitivité amènent les acteurs à travailler de manière plus concertée et partagée… L'ensemble de ces challenges liés aux nouveaux usages et innovations technologiques poussent à (re)construire et (re)penser les villes de manière plus durable, plus intelligente (« smart »), plus créative…

A l'invitation de la 27e Région pour son second voyage d'étude dans l'innovation sociale européenne (après la Grande-Bretagne l'année dernière), nous nous sommes intéressés cette année à l'innovation sociale scandinave, avec un voyage d'études à Copenhague et Malmö.

Et si Facebook et ses impacts négatifs commençaient à toucher les 14-24 ans? C'est en tout cas la conclusion d'une enquête de l'agence Conquest qui révèle que les jeunes ne seraient plus aussi amoureux du média social…

The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We bring a combination of tools, methodologies, and a deep understanding of emerging trends and discontinuities to our work with companies, foundations, and government agencies. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as: Work and daily life Technology and society Health and health care Global business trends Changing consumer society The Institute is based in California's Silicon Valley, in a community at the crossroads of technological innovation, social experimentation, and global interchange. Founded in 1968 by a group of former RAND Corporation researchers with a grant from the Ford Foundation to take leading-edge research methodologies into the public and business sectors, the IFTF is committed to building the future by understanding it deeply.

The Open Data Institute (ODI) will be a global first: a collaboration between our leading businesses and entrepreneurs, universities and researchers, government and civil society to unlock enterprise and social value from the vast amount of Open Government Data now being made accessible. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has put Open Data at the heart of his agenda for government and in his Autumn Statement last November Chancellor George Osborne announced the intention to launch the ODI to stimulate innovation and enterprise. The ODI, an independent organisation led by Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, will be formally opened in October.

Exclusion et e-Exclusion: analyses, méthodes et outils pour maîtriser  le changement et promouvoir l'innovation sociale  et technologique

"The milkman. Thomas Guides. Dial-up. AOL. Bank deposit slips. NOT unlimited texting. Floppy disks. Yellowbook. Furbies. All of these things have either gone the way of the dinosaur or are on their way out. The digital and social age, unless you are cryogenically frozen and your fingers are too stiff to tweet, has completely inundated our lifestyles. The innovations of my childhood are the expectations of the aptly named "Generation Always On" of which my little sister is a product of. Little does she know, she's entering her teen years on the precipice of an unbelievable shift in the way people compute, work, interact, experience, consume. And no one has their finger on the pulse of this digital evolution quite like Google, who have been crafting the frontier of the cloud into… well, anything but a frontier for kids like my sister."

The underlying technologies that will remake healthcare should be increasingly familiar.  It is the holy alliance of three profound macro trends:  a) smart sensors that are radically effective and cheap, b) anytime everywhere wireless broadband, and c) the Cloud.   All can be realized in the form of a Tricorder-like appliance in consumers' hands that is linked to massive medical data and expertise in the Cloud.  Today any of us can access more compute power than what was available to secret military programs using dedicated supercomputers just two decades ago.

HealthyShare propose un jeu sur Facebook avec des défis de célébrités et des récompenses lorsqu'on soutien ses amis. L'application gratuite utilise le graphe social pour encourager un changement de mode de vie pour une amélioration durable de la santé.

I nternational leaders face an era of unprecedented change. The recession and  financial crisis that ended in 2009 caused a seismic shift that has reshaped  the global business landscape. The world economy is now characterized  by sluggish growth in the West, a shift in power to the East, and value-driven  customers and rising risks everywhere. At the same time, the downturn has  hastened the adoption of key technologies-mobility, cloud computing, business  intelligence and social media-that are transforming businesses and sparking a  new wave of wealth creation, particularly in the emerging world. Economic growth and technology are inextricably linked. Current economic  conditions are fostering investment in technology as emerging markets ramp up  their demand for technology to fuel growth, and advanced markets seek new  ways to cut costs and drive innovation. This becomes a virtuous circle as digital  technologies drive consumer income and demand, education and training, and  efficient use of capital and resources-leading to increased economic growth,  particularly in emerging markets.