Seedcamp 2008 was fun
Spent a day at London [Seedcamp](http://seedcamp.com/) Week’s [Product and Marketing Day](http://seedcamp.com/pages/weeks_program#2008) again. Hit quite a jackpot on the mentoring group selection lottery and got to spend time with four out of the total seven winners of this year: * Kyko – online multiplayer gaming by the creators of [Babuki](http://www.babuki.com/mainpage/), with a neat angle of tapping [...]
Passime kodus teleka ees, sest see on ohutum
Sel ajal kui ma istusin Pärnus ja kuulasin lugusid Eesti teadmistepõhise visioonidest, saatis sõber sõnumi Emori ürituselt, kus tutvustati hiljutist uuringut Eestlaste väärtushinnangutest: “71% eestlastest oleksid kõige õnnelikumad kui nad istuksid kodus ja ei teeks midagi. Seejuures vaatavad nad päevas 4.5h telekat”. Kui mõelda sellise kambaga luurelemineku võimalustest (ehk kuidas selliselt meelestatud ühiskond võiks innoveerida, [...]
Visioonist Lahendusteni 2008
Mõned juhuslikud märkmed selleaastaselt ITL visioonikonverentsilt. Heido Vitsur: 2000. a tõi iga täiendav välislaenukroon kaasa 2 krooni SKP kasvu. 2007 toodab laenukroon 0.5 krooni SKP-d. Ehk siis laenatud raha tarbitakse kohe ära, mitte ei investeerita. Singapuris on huvitavalt kombineeritud teemad: Informatsiooni, Kommunikatsiooni ja Kunstide ministeerium. Singapuri 2015. a eesmärk on 90% kodudest broadbandiga varustada… aga [...]
President’s Speech on Innovation
Last week’s [Baltic Dynamics 2008](http://www.teaduspark.ee/?q=/eng/BD) conference was opened by an address by the [President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves](http://president.ee/en/), speaking on Innovation. As the full text did not make it to the president.ee website’s [speeches section](http://president.ee/en/duties/speeches.php) yet, I pinged his office and they kindly provided me a full copy in a few hours. Transparent government [...]
Summer – over and out
It is obviously the back-to-school-and-work season now. First: I’m receiving complaints that this blog has seen just 2 posts in last 2 months… In July nor August nobody cared, including myself. If you were one of those worried about silence – I now know that you have not subscribed to the feed. My Flickr feed [...]
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