1. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 1 Yes ! You've entered the: “Participation Age” Patrick Crasson Executive Trusted Advisor @ EVTA Strategic Business Development @ Sun Microsystems Managing Partner @ P2C Mgt Consulting Let's Participate, Learn and Win all together! Euracademy Euracademy Keynote Brussels 07 Sept 2007

2. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 2 World transitions to a new Era... This all leads to a transition from... Short Life to Long Life Physical to Virtual Individual to Mass and now Personalized-Mass production Local to Global and from Global to “Globalocalized” Organized to Fuzzy-structured Relational to “Connectional”... We are here.. We are here... Source : © Cibam P2C Mgt Consulting Those paradigms shifts are changing our Needs, Life, Economy, our Earth,...

3. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 3 From Connected... (Web1.0) TCP-IP on phone/isdn lines BBS/Basic Web Browsers WebSites Email File transferts E-learning v1.0 Portals Search Engines Publisher Static Content Home : Banking, Working,...... “The Information Age” We named it : “The Information Age”

4. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 4...to Interconnected (Web 2.0) Affordable broadband Knowledge Grids Wikkies Blogs Communities Localization tools (gps, google earth,..) Online Gaming Pod Casting Dynamic Publishing/Broadcasting OpenSource, Java Egov... The Participation Age Now known as : The Participation Age

5. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 5 Alone ? Maybe... but now Together ! Even less physically Much more friends, relationships,... Meet your next partner Meet your next employer Have your personal coach/trainer Be in Second Life User created content Bridge Digital, Social Divide Start your business everywhere...

6. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 6 New Culture and New Habits... Communication/social Styles : Formal – Structured & Informal – Fuzzy Ubiquitous computing Cross disciplinary learning Self-Organizing networks/Communities Manage (Value and Secure) Knowledge Artificial worlds... Attention : Digital Divide will grow ! At 21 most of the “NetGen's” will have spent : 20K hours on TV 200k Emails 25K SMS 10K hours on their GSM 10K hours playing games And only 5K hours reading books...

7. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 7 Welcome into the Participation age ! From Software 2 Webware... Limited mobility, Accessibility 2 Unlimited Mobility, Accessibility Cost of access 2 free or low cost Desktop computing 2 “The Network is the Computer (© Sun) ” Mass Collaboration Open Classrooms Open Educ. Resources Experience Sharing Learn anywhereanytime - LLL Classroom learning 2 Anywhere learning Shift of Information Nature Participatory –> Conversation Trainable –> Reader-Controlled Collaboratory –> People-Connecting

8. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 8 Our Opportunity towards Lisbon2010 Participation age The Participation age is a : Learning Revolution Social Revolution Economic Revolution (Wikinomics...) That supports the LLL (LifeLong Learning) reality From Local Entrepreneurship to European Intrapreneurship Should be supported by a Personal Learning Network In a sustainable development context this promotes a European “collaborative DNA”......Our eco-system is changing rapidly...If we don't take this opportunity at short term, others will do it for us...

9. © Patrick Crasson – “The Participation Age” - 2007Page : 9 Our common challenge... Thank You ! patrick.crasson@sun.com pcr@p2c.4xs.be +32496708501 Last but not Least : Maybe this is the first challenge you'll need to solve...: “Children believe more and more that “everything is clickable, even their parents.” “... Vinod Khosla, 1 of 4 Sun Microsystems Founders Make broadband available at large scale and at low cost Enable Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship Support actively “mutualization” of essential skills/competencies While securing our IC... Boundary between Public and Private is thin now. “Jericho Principle” (Welborn,Kasten) : dismantling organizational walls Egov : eID, Fiscality, Quality, Quality, Quality... “Globalocalization” is the key for success Keep and build on existing Social values and Culture...