A networked society contributing to positive change

Guest Lecturer: Marcus Nyberg

Content: The lecture will introduce a vision of a Networked Society and how that could transform activities through, for example, collaboration, resource sharing, awareness and dematerialization. It will present a more decentralized, less administrative and most importantly people-centric perspective for how societies can benefit from ICT. Along the way, a number of relevant ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) trends and concrete examples will illustrate possible contributions to more sustainable practices.

About: Marcus Nyberg is a senior researcher at User Experience Lab at Ericsson Research. He has worked within the field of user experience for more than 10 years with emphasis on transforming exploratory user research into ideas, concepts, tangible visions of the future, and sometimes patents. The role of the UX Lab is to concretize and conceptualize how Ericsson's technologies can be relevant in the future, and how they may interplay with societal developments.

More about the networked society: http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society
Some concrete explorations at UX Lab: http://www.ericsson.com/uxblog/   

Literature:

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-smart-city-a-call-for-smart-citizens-instead.html

M. Weiser, "The computer for the 21st century". Scientific american, 1991. Vol: 265 No: 3: p. 94-104.