BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Citizen Cyberscience Lectures - 1) Mobile phones and Africa: a success story 2) Citizen Problem Solving DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091026T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091026T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130526T054207Z UID:indico-event-71188@cern.ch DESCRIPTION:Mobile phones and Africa: a success story\nDr. Mo Ibrahim\, Mo Ibrahim Foundation\n\nCitizen Problem Solving\nDr. Alpheus Bingham\, Inno Centive\n\nThe Citizen Cyberscience Lectures are hosted by the partners of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre\, CERN\, The UN Institute of Training and Research and the University of Geneva. The goal of the Lectures is to pro vide an inspirational forum for participants from the various internationa l organizations and academic institutions in Geneva to explore how informa tion technology is enabling greater citizen participation in tackling glob al development challenges as well as global scientific research.\n\nThe fi rst Citizen Cyberscience Lectures will welcome two speakers who have both made major innovative contributions in this area. Dr. Mo Ibrahim\, founder of Celtel International\, one of Africa’s most successful mobile networ k operators\, will talk about “Mobile phones and Africa: a success story ”. Dr. Alpheus Bingham\, founder of InnoCentive\, a Web-based community that solves industrial R&D challenges\, will discuss “Citizen Problem So lving”.\n\nThe Citizen Cyberscience Lectures are open and free of charge . Participants from outside CERN must register by sending an email to Yase min.Hauser@cern.ch BEFORE the 23rd october to be able to access CERN.\n\nT HE LECTURES\n\nMobile phones and Africa: a success story\nDr. Mo Ibrahim\, Mo Ibrahim Foundation\n\nAbstract\nThe introduction of mobile phones into Africa changed the continent\, enabling business and the commercial secto r\, creating directly and indirectly\, millions of jobs. It enriched the social lives of many people. Surprisingly\, it supported the emerging civi l society and advanced the course of democracy\n\nBio\nDr Mo Ibrahim is a global expert in mobile communications with a distinguished academic and b usiness career. \n\nIn 1998\, Dr Ibrahim founded Celtel International to b uild and operate mobile networks in Africa. Celtel became one of Africa’ s most successful companies with operations in 15 countries\, covering mor e than a third of the continent’s population and investing more than US$ 750 million in Africa. The company was sold to MTC Kuwait in 2005 for $3. 4billion. \n\nIn 2006 Dr Ibrahim established the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to support great African leadership. The Foundation focuses on two major init iatives to stimulate debate around\, and improve the quality of\, governan ce in Africa. The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership reco gnises and celebrates excellence\; and the Ibrahim Index of African Govern ance provides civil society with a comprehensive and quantifiable tool to promote government accountability. \n\nDr Ibrahim is also Founding Chairm an of Satya Capital Ltd\, an investment company focused on opportunities i n Africa.\n\nDr Ibrahim has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Univ ersity of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies\, the Universi ty of Birmingham and De Montfort University\, Leicester as well as an Hono rary Fellowship Award from the London Business School. He has also receive d the Chairman’s Award for Lifetime Achievement from the GSM Association in 2007 and the Economists Innovation Award 2007 for Social & Economic In novation. In 2008 Dr Ibrahim was presented with the BNP Paribas Prize for Philanthropy\, and also listed by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most inf luential people in the world. \n\n\n \nCitizen Problem Solving\nDr. Alphe us Bingham\, InnoCentive\n\nAbstract\nAmerican playwright Damien Runyon (G uys and Dolls) once remarked\, "the race is not always to the swift\, nor the victory to the strong -- but that IS how you bet." Not only does a sy stem of race handicapping follow from this logic\, but the whole notion of expertise and technical qualifications. Such 'credentials' allow one to 'bet' on who might most likely solve a difficult challenge\, whether as co nsultant\, contractor or employee. Of course\, the approach would differ if one were allowed to bet AFTER the race. When such systems came into br oad use\, i.e.\, chat rooms\, usenets\, innocentive\, etc.\, and were subs equently studied\, it was often found that the greatest probability of sol ution lies in the "long tail" of the function rather than in the head repr esenting formally vetted 'experts.' Insight into a problem is often the i ntersection of training\, experience\, metaphor and provocation (think Arc himedes). Examples of "citizens" outside a targeted field of expertise pr oviding uniques solutions will illustrate the principles involved. \n\nBi o\nDr. Alph Bingham is a pioneer in the field of open innovation and an ad vocate of collaborative approaches to research and development. He is co- founder\, and former president and chief executive officer of InnoCentive Inc.\, a Web-based community that matches companies facing R&D challenges with scientists who propose solutions. Through InnoCentive\, a platform t hat leverages the ability to connect to a whole planet of people through t he Internet\, organizations can access individuals – problem solvers – who might never have been found.\n\nAlph spent more than 25 years with El i Lilly and Company\, and offers deep experience in pharmaceutical researc h and development\, research acquisitions and collaborations\, and R&D str ategic planning. During his career he was instrumental in creating and dev eloping Eli Lilly's portfolio management process as well as establishing t he divisions of Research Acquisitions\, the Office of Alliance Management and e.Lilly\, a business innovation unit\, from which various other ventur es were spun out that create the advantages of open and networked organiza tional structures\, including: InnoCentive\, YourEncore\, Inc.\, Coalesix\ , Inc.\, Maaguzi\, Inc.\, Indigo Biosystems\, Seriosity\, Chorus and Colla borative Drug Discovery\, Inc.\n\nHe currently serves on the Board of Dire ctors of InnoCentive\, Inc.\, and Collaborative Drug Discovery\, Inc.\; th e advisory boards of the Center for Collective Intelligence (MIT)\, and th e Business Innovation Factory\, as well as a member of the board of truste es of the Bankinter Foundation for Innovation in Madrid.\n\nHe has lecture d extensively at both national and international events and serves as a Vi siting Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at th e University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is also the former chairm an of the Board of Editors of the Research Technology Management Journal. Dr. Bingham was the recipient of the Economist's Fourth Annual Innovation Summit "Business Process Award" for InnoCentive. He was also named as one of Project Management Institute's "Power 50" leaders in October 2005.\n\nD r. Bingham received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Stanford University. \n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=71188 LOCATION:CERN Main Auditorium URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=71188 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR