Participative Innovation in the Workplace: emerging technologies and the future of work
University of Geneva
Session 289
ICTs for SDGs: Scaling Awareness and Education
This Workshop is an opportunity to end the era of being Lost in Translation. You might ask what the issue of translation has in common with the concept of innovation and the Future of Work. In our view, more than anyone would expect!
We roll our sleeves up and dive into our a methodology to teach way to navigate across jargon-to-you topic spaces, as the Fourth Industrial Revolution appears to require of us all. We focus the training on providing a structured framework that allows innovators in one vertical to chart a course to navigate through silos to deliver the innovation to its appropriate impact. We’ll train dancers to talk with scientists, engineers with sociologists, environmentalists with diplomats and what is even more important- to understand one another and to launch efficient cooperation—not once, but as a skill to bridge silos going forward into the future. We practice what we preach: the workshop will be led by an interpretive VR student of dance and cinema and a Harvard PhD scientist of quantum-scale nanomaterials.
Would you join us in taking your workplace to the next level with our premise that a Future of Work is intertextual?
Moderator
Jennah Kriebel
Speakers/Panellists
Jennah Kriebel, Executive and thought leader in tech & strategy. Speaker. BCG alum. NASA microgravity alum. h-index 11 & Whitesides PhD., Harvard University, USA.
Maria Magdalena Mruk, University of Geneva/ Tsinghua University, Poland.
Session's link to WSIS Action Lines
- C2. Information and communication infrastructure
- C3. Access to information and knowledge
- C6. Enabling environment
- C7. ICT Applications: E-business
- C7. ICT Applications: E-learning
- C7. ICT Applications: E-environment
- C11. International and regional cooperation
The link between our session and the selected WSIS action lines might be found in its primary purpose which aims to make people closer and well acquainted with new technologies appearing in workplaces and improve ways of communication between various fields of work.
Session's link to Sustainable Development Process
- Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
- Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
- Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
The session is focused on finding intertextualities among economic, social and environmental fields and detecting their points of cohesion to influence the improvement of achieving sustainable development goals.