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Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign: Emerging Implications

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Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign: Emerging Implications

Official webpage : http://tinyurl.com/2bheesj

Editors:

Prof (Dr) Ndubuisi Ekekwe, African Institution of Technology, USA & Babcock University, Nigeria
Dr. Nazrul Islam, Aberystwyth University, UK

Call for Chapters:

Proposals Submission Deadline: January 11, 2011
Full Chapters Due: March 11, 2011
Submission Date: June 30, 2011


IntroductionIn the last few years, most parts of the world have morphed into an electronically interdependent economic unit where a disruption in one marketplace affects the others. New technologies have emerged, transforming the ways we do business and, consequently, redesigning the world. Innovation in disruptive technologies pushes new and more agile firms to set new benchmarks, and forces established companies to incorporate evolving breakthroughs into their models or re-invent themselves to stay competitive.

 

Innovation thus remains a key driver in wealth creation, but the way it happens is changing as a result of new technologies, processes and tools. As social media networks advance, outsourcing ideas to the crowd has become common, while inter-company R&D that pools resources together is a new normal. From agriculture to print media, finance to mortgage and across sectors, industries, and disciplines, the world is being redesigned. The emerging implications are enormous—less energy for processing natural resources, less waste in processed raw materials—and these translate to positive effects on the environment. Yet, few research works exist about these developments, despite the exponential growth rate of new technologies with the potential to massively impact business and society.

 

Objective of the book

Accordingly, this project will assemble an edited collection of chapters on disruptive technologies, innovation, and the overall global redesign. The main objective of the book is to provide comprehensive evidence of research, case studies, practical and theoretical papers on the issues surrounding disruptive technologies, innovation, global redesign and their implications. The book will serve as a valuable resource on emerging and disruptive technologies, innovation and general global redesign.

 

Target Audience

This book will be a useful reference for academics, students, policy-makers and professionals in the fields of emerging and disruptive technologies, innovation, economic planning, technology and society, technology transfer, and general technology management.

 

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  • Different areas of global redesign: political, economic, institutional, etc as a result of new technologies and innovation
  • Different types of emerging technologies
  • Overview of disruptive technologies and their impacts
  • The patterns of modern innovation: open innovation, crowdsourcing, etc
  • Global overview of emerging innovations
  • Technology clustering and transfer
  • Innovation and government policies
  • Relevant topics on innovation, technologies and global redesign
  • Technology mapping
  • Social network analysis
  • Promise and pitfalls of process and production technologies, process economics
  • Infrastructures (education, research and industry) as they relate to new technologies
  • Models on technology transfer and diffusion trajectories
  • Technology as drivers for knowledge economy (KE) in developing and emerging nations
  • Case studies on global new technology programs
  • Management of disruptive technologies
  • Disruptive technology roadmapping
  • Legislative frameworks and legal issues on technology transfer
  • Environment and climate issues associated with disruptive technologies
  • Disruptive technology forecasting
  • Indicators for new technology assessment
  • Emerging diffusion paradigm of disruptive technologies
  • Virtual education, collaboration and technology flow from developed nations
  • Development and funding models from continental and global institutions like IMF, World Bank, IFC, ADB, AfDB, NEPAD, African Union, European Union, etc for technology and innovation
  • Disruptive innovations in NGO and intergovernmental organizations?
  • Legal, climate change, policy, etc issues on emerging technologies
  • Technology clusters and incubation centers
  • Entrepreneurship in disruptive technologies
  • Sustainability of programs focusing disruptive technologies in developed, developing and emerging nations
  • Roles and national technology policies as they pertain to adoption and diffusion

Submission Information

Academics, researchers, policymakers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 11, 2011 a 2-3 page manuscript proposal detailing the background, motivations and structure of the proposed chapter by clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposal.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 31, 2011 on the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines.

Full chapters are due by March 11, 2011 and should range from 7,000-8,000 words in length. All submitted chapters will be peer-reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

 

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.


Important Dates

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 11, 2010
Notification of Acceptance by January 31, 2011
Full Chapter Submission: March 11, 2011
Review Result Returned: 31 May 2011
Revised Chapter Submission: 30 June 2011
Final Notification of Acceptance: 30 July 2011

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Prof (Dr) Ndubuisi Ekekwe
African Institution of Technology, USA & Babcock University, Nigeria
E-Mail: info@afrit.org or nekekwe1@jhu.edu

Or

Dr. Nazrul Islam
Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Email: drnazrul201@gmail.com or mni@aber.ac.uk

Direct link to this page:
http://tinyurl.com/2bheesj

Goodluck Jonathan Will Win Nigeria’s Presidency – Tekedia Prediction

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This is our prediction. Jonathan will win this election by 55-60%. This is what our polls gave us and it seems to confirm Thisday’s.

 

Congratulations – Mr President. Goodluck Jonathan, now the country needs a fresh air.

 

Yet, make sure to vote.

With All The Talks About Debt and Retirement – Why Not Try Technology?

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Daily, we have become accustomed to reading about the many challenges America faces as a nation. It has unemployment problems, runaway federal deficit, real estate depression, health care crises and senior citizens that live longer. Yes, many see people living longer as a problem because we still operate industrial age economics with its archaic retirement system for a knowledge century.

 

Accordingly, when we look at what it will take to care for retirees over long stretch, economists get worried. From Germany to Japan, managing human longevity in the developed world has taken a central role in governments. On Sept 7, 2010, millions of people demonstrated in France over the government’s plan to change the unemployment age from 60 to 62.

 

But are these people really retiring, technically?

 

People retire at sixty years and then spend six hours a day on social media. These hours could have actually been redesigned to become work, if the system has mastered the constructs of the knowledge economy. When someone retires from running a small website and spends the number of hours we put on the social media, it simply shows our system is broken.

 

We fail to understand that in the knowledge era, someone could work far beyond seventy years. Yes, that old economic model of factory and farm economy that depended on physical energy is ending. Accordingly, the retirement age it produced should be replaced. I see no reason why a webmaster that maintains a website should retire from it and then spend 6 hours a day as a retiree on social media.

 

What the world needs is a new system that defines retirement based on the industry. In other words, we have to develop industry-based retirement system that looks at what it takes someone to do its job. While it makes sense for a farmer to retire at a younger age because of the physical requirements to work, it is not really important for someone whose work resolves around the web to do the same. So, we could say that the factory and farm workers could retire two years earlier than the knowledge workers.

 

Though it is bound to create challenges in the system, we can make do by finding ways to ensure that those knowledge workers that put so much time in the social media can invest some of the time in creative activities and government will pay them. So they might have retired, but government will put them through a transition stage through which they can technically work for the government via the web.

 

As more jobs move to the web, senior citizens can still provide opportunities than going into retirements immediately. It is possible that we can extend the years by creating a program where as they socialize on the web, we can develop work they can do. It is building a system that seamlessly blends into their retirement experiences.

 

The developed world needs a solution to meet obligations to the future and it is imperative that we use new opportunities technologies have provided. And associated human habits they have helped create.  Nations need to quantify and understand how some government works could be done via the web and distributed to senior citizens who even during their retirements can help. Doing that means having a process that is structured to be in sync with their social media experiences.

 

Take for instance data collection and web surveys. Such activities can be assigned to senior citizens under a partnership through which they can be asked to help. It is important that private companies can be encouraged to develop a model where they can tap the enormous hours people invest on social media, especially the  senior citizens, and use that to save costs. They could work remotely from their homes under flexible work schedules.

 

For a nation like Japan that has 23% of its population over the age of 65 and fertility rate of 1.34, about 0.7 below the acceptable minimum for a developed nation to maintain a constant population, it must think deep into new models for retirement. This will require more thoughts than what some of its provincial governments are doing- running dating sites for singles to boost procreation.

 

 

The developed world needs a system that evaluates the new nature of work. As work moves towards knowledge, requiring lesser physical energy, we have to find ways to extend the time people retire without obstructing how they have viewed their post-work lives. By using technology to build productive works into their retiree’s experiences, America and indeed the whole developed world could discover ways to continue to tap their senior’s experiences while balancing the nations’ budgets.

Technology Will Make All The Difference – A Message To National Assembly

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Group Photo with S&T Subcommittees of the National Assembly, Nigeria.

 

Fasmicro Founder (2nd from left/ 2nd Row) , Prof N Ekekwe, addressed them and envisioned a roadmap for technology readiness in Nigeria. Front row (4th from Right) is Senate Chairman of S&T Committee. The counterpart in the House of Representatives is Front Row (3rd person). Front Row (2nd from left) is DVC OAU Ile-Ife. Others are DGs of many govt agencies, experts, senators and house members.

Photo credit: National Centre for Technology Management, Nigeria

With This Gadget, Your Monitor Is Transformed Into A Computer

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Visit our Owerri  office to see SynQ  – the simple thin client that converts your monitor into a computer.  Available from May.

=======Original press release======

Feb 21, 2011, Lagos – Fasmicro today unveiled two versions of network computers – SynQ and SynQ Pro. These products are also called zero clients, thin clients, PC stations, and are designed for organizations like libraries, banks, schools, cyber cafes, factories, training centers, companies, government departments, etc, where multiple people use computers. It is poised to eliminate standard PC for something affordable, better and durable. With these two solutions, customers can save up to 90% in equipment acquisition, 90% on electricity and 90% lesser electronic waste.

A thin client (sometimes also called a lean or slim client) is a computer or a computer program which depends heavily on some other computer (its server) to fulfill its traditional computational roles. This stands in contrast to the traditional fat client, a computer designed to take on these roles by itself. The exact roles assumed by the server may vary, from providing data persistence (for example, for diskless nodes) to actual information processing on the client’s behalf. (Source: Wikipedia)

As computers have become more powerful, processing power has been left redundant as average PC use about 5% of its capacity. So what SynQ and SynQ Pro do is to utilize this extra capacity of the PC, over adding more hardware. That means we reduce the footprint in the office, reduce the energy consumption and offer an environmental-friendly solution.

SynQ and SynQ Pro are terminals with no CPU, memory, RAM but have the capacity to synchronize very function of the host PC (the server which can be a regular PC), allocates processing power, dynamically. With software running on the host PC, each user with a monitor can work on the host PC as though it has an individual computer. There is no latency because we have an inbuilt cache system that eliminates that. It is affordable, durable, cheap and very rugged.

SynQ and SynQ can support up to 30 shared resources simultaneously. All the customer needs is one standard PC, 30 units of either SynQ or SynQ Pro, and 30 monitors (plus mouse and keyboards). With that, the customer will get 30 people working as they have 30 different units of standard PCs.

SynQ Pro is more powerful than SynQ. Besides all the regular features of SynQ, SynQ Pro has a USB that supports USB disk, printer, and barcode scanner. The good thing about SynQ and SynQ Pro is that the computational powers of the terminals are roughly equivalents to the power of the server. So, if you have a very strong server, you have got a server in your terminals.

Key Features:

  • This technology enables many users to share one standard PC simultaneously, reducing cost. The connection to the host PC can be done via internet, HUB, Switch hub, or Router. In other words, if the person takes the SynQ or SynQ Pro home, connection to the host PC can be done via the Internet.
  • Supports Window 7, VISTA, Windows 2008, Windows XP PRO, Windows Server 2003, Linux
  • Share one PC with up to 30 users.
  • Video, audio,  mouse, Keyboard, barcode scanner, high resolutions, etc
  • Extensive compatibility, free to maintain (you just maintain the server), high security (all data on the host PC), energy efficiency, low noise work place (few PCs), zero interference among users.

Cost

SynQ  – N9,900

SynQ Pro – N13,900

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