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InternationalizationNortheast Ohio International Business Network (NOIBN) Networking ReceptionSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/24/2005 - 09:22.
02/24/2005 - 15:30 Wanted to pass along a notice that the Northeast Ohio International Business Network (NOIBN) will have networking reception. When: Thursday, 2/24 The reception is co-hosted by the US Export Assistance Center, Ohio Department of Development, World Trade Center-Cleveland and NE Ohio international business organizations. There will also be a few speakers including: Regards, Location
Clarion Hotel, Rockside Road, Independence
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How the birthplace of aviation lost that competitive advantageSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 02/24/2005 - 03:06.
I happened to catch the NOVA program "A Daring Flight" onÂ
OpenCourses makes MIT education free for allSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 02/22/2005 - 01:29.
Everyone knows MIT is a remarkable university - now you can learn how, exceptionally. Through their OpenCourseWare site you can access their free, open publication of MIT Course Materials. They invite you to view all the courses available at this time... for example, from their Brain and Cognitive Sciences offerings:Open-Source Practices for BiotechnologySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 02/11/2005 - 07:25.
Open-Source Practices for Biotechnology - New York Times, Researchers from Australia have devised a method of creating genetically modified crops that does not infringe on patents held by big biotechnology companies. The people behind the new technology-sharing initiative, called the Biological Innovation for Open Society, or BIOS, say that patents covering the basic ( categories: )
Physiome is so big and so important that it needs an underlying open source frameworkSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 02/11/2005 - 07:21.
The Doctor Will See Your Prototype Now - Wired, The Physiome Project is assembling digital models of every system and anatomical feature of the human body - from large organs to tiny cellular and molecular functions. Will NEO become a leader of the Medical Information revolution, or die not trying?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 02/07/2005 - 02:10.
At the January 21, 2005 City Club forum, Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove ended his presentation with his vision for the Cleveland Clinic leading the inevitable "socialization" of healthcare in America - he declared the age of private and small medical practices and hospitals has ended and large, efficient world-class healthcare providers like the Clinic will create a universal umbrella of coverage. He is correct, and Cleveland is very fortunate to have a world-leader of this movement here - the Clinic is just as able to be a world-hub of socialized healthcare as any other provider, and Cosgrove is clearly capable of leading NEO to the forefront of this global transition - NEO should be center of global healthcare industry and excellence - read the notes from Cosgrove's presentation to better understand how and why! But the socialized provider aspect of the healthcare revolution is just one opportunity now before NEO - another was surfaced a week later with President Bush's 02.28.05 visit to the Clinic to praise their use of information systems to streamline and automate patient records - featuring before the world the Clinic's successes standardizing how patient records are maintained and communicated. To highlight this transformation, mentioned by Cosgrove the prior week at the City Club, the Clinic was not only able to use excellent medical information management to be the first providers to identify health risks of the pain-killer Vioxx but was then able to notify their 11,000 patients using Vioxx that they must stop taking the medication, literally real-time. Thus, effective medical information systems reduce healthcare problems, saving money and lives. Brazil Makes Move to Open Source Software - can Ohio be far behind?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 02/01/2005 - 03:17.
The pace of adoption of open source software is accelerating at astounding rates, as we see entire nations officially dumping Microsoft and going free. Recently, Venezuela switched to open source, and plan a university to develop programmers... now, read two great postings about Brazil - developing countries are wising up... developing Ohio is wising up too, as you'll see... At City Club 01.21.05: Cleveland Clinic CEO Cosgrove visions future of healthcare and NEOSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 01/23/2005 - 02:07.
There is no experience to compare to hearing a genius present the future of the world's most complex situation, realizing that genius is leading NEO's most important institution, and is a leader of the world's most important industry, and will save our local economy. Cleveland Clinic's incoming CEO Delos Cosgrove M.D. presented a full house at the Cleveland City Club with a clear vision on the current and future state of the healthcare industry that is critical to understanding global quality of life, economic development, and our region's national and global potentials - there will be no more important discussions initiated in this region this year. Bottom line, while it is awesome the Clinic represents over 5% of our area economy, what is remarkable is they are a global leader in the largest and fastest growing industry in the world, and positioned to play a dramatically greater and changing role in our economy and their global industry. They offer much more than their $2.5 billion contribution to the 2004 regional economy, their 29,000 NEO jobs (65,000, with trickle-down), their $310 million in NEO taxes paid, and their $250 million in uncompensated services for area residents in need - the Clinic is our world-class leader in the industry most responsible for improving people's quality of life, and global productivity, at the time when the potentials of the greatest breakthroughs and innovations in the history of healthcare are just becoming apparent, and while more centralized and socialized policy is inevitable. While the fact is the Clinic is a world-class hospital, the true excitement today is not that the Clinic saves lives but that the Clinic is positioned to save the region's life, making Cleveland one of very few true healthcare capitals of the world. Greater Cleveland Roundtable demonstrates connections between diversity and economicsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 01/23/2005 - 01:29.
Those companies with diverse board (of directors) representation benefit from having executives who "get away from group-think" and "challenge the prevailing way of thinking," promotes The Greater Cleveland Roundtable in their weekly e-news on trends in diversity and inclusion. They further quote the CEO of diversity award winner Pitney Bowes as saying diverse directors "pay more attention to moral issues and how the frontline employees feel...They're more challenging of the orthodox ways of thinking." That is the kind of thinking we need in NEO - go to the Roundtable site and subscribe to their eNews for such insight in your box weekly. Neo DiversitySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 01/23/2005 - 00:22.
A Community of Interest committed to the understanding North East Ohio's greatest strength is our cultural diversity, and that is the key to our sustainability as a community, society and economy
UK Linux company chalks up success... how about NEO?Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 01/17/2005 - 19:55.
Who cares about open source? The world's teachers, and countries, for example. Today on ZDNet UK there's a headline that could be about NEO college students, but is not - it's about some students in the UK, who developed an open source Linux operating system package for schools, which is also being embraced by nations and industry (and they're seeking US distributors, if anyone here wants a good second tier opportunity - see http://SchoolLINUX.com. How many open source savvy students are we nurturing here to be such innovators? And how soon will we at least use such open source innovations to transform our schools here, so they may better serve our students, so we'll have effective global innovators in the future. These are the brainpower challenges for our region to become a quality connected place for new economy development in the future. Time for NEO leaders to push these issues to the very top of the agenda to drive economic development here. Read how it's happening beyond our island... US isolationism offers NEO regional opportunity, if we think globalSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 01/16/2005 - 14:52.
There is a fascinating article in the 01/16/05 NY Times on the challenges outstanding international students have finding jobs in the US. Considering the US is an immigrant-based economy and, except for Native Americans, we're all relatively recent transplants, the current "lock the gates" federal policy is probably the most harmful to the US economy of any of the current administration - we are not importing knowledge workers, at a time when the world is eclipsing us in brainpower. As you read on you'll see, there's Ivy League brainpower all over the world and some of it wants to work in America - foolish US policy is keeping it out, driving US companies to send work abroad, as other economies gain competitive advantages over the US. Perhaps smart leaders in NEO can excel as world-experts in bringing global brainpower here, as a unique value of NEO. Tell me, why not! Read on... At City Club 01.07.05: Sherrod Brown for "Fair" Trade - and Gov in '06?!Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/08/2005 - 17:11.
Congressman Sherrod Brown was the speaker at the first Cleveland City Club Friday Forum of 2005, on January 7, where he presented insight from his recently published book on American free trade policy, Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed, and shared personal perspectives on life in Washington, Ohio, and around the world. Appreciative attendees enjoyed the company of an insightful speaker, empowering statesman, and refreshing intellectual – and we may well have been the first to learn Brown is seriously considering a run for Ohio Governor in 2006. Where else but the City Club may we the people of Cleveland get up close and personal to explore the most important issues in the world, with the most insightful people in the world. How eGov? Most of the world's great governments think OpenSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 01/07/2005 - 18:48.
If you for some reason like Microsoft you will not like this news, or the fact the world's progressive governments are mandating or expressing preferences for eGov development with open source applications and technologies - mandates include in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, City Club 01.07.05: Sherrod Brown: Myths of Free TradeSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 01/06/2005 - 06:18.
01/07/2005 - 11:00 Speakers
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The foundation of social computing: Identity ManagementSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 01/02/2005 - 02:31.
The future of the Internet and social networking is being build upon a foundation of a "meta identity standard" - and our identity and lifestyle aggregation guru Marc Canter points out, on his great blog, "creating a meta-identity standard will be 2% technology and 98% politics". He goes on to propose "to nominate Dick Hardt and his Sxip Networks technology ( categories: )
Criticality of Internet in bettering life on EarthSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 13:12.
Over the past year everyone in the interconnected world started waking up to the value of Information Technology for individuals to transform every day life on Earth, for good and bad - a point largely demonstrated by the role the Internet and blogs/wikis now play in social organizations. 2004 saw a new dawning of enlightenment. And, overnight, a tsunami taught us that individual IT empowerment is transforming life on Earth for all, evolving us from isolated people and communities to an interwoven fabric of interconnected humanity sharing one planet with personal familiarity with the quality of life of all others. Development of a European Service for Information on Research and EducationSubmitted by Ted Takacs on Mon, 12/27/2004 - 15:40.
Welcome to the DESIRE Project
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Ethnic Virtual CommnitiesSubmitted by Ted Takacs on Sun, 12/26/2004 - 18:07.
Ethnic Virtual Community links and articles.
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The Middle East Virtual CommunitySubmitted by Ted Takacs on Sun, 12/26/2004 - 17:42.
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International Virtual CommunitiesSubmitted by Ted Takacs on Sun, 12/26/2004 - 17:41.
International Virtual Communities links and articles.
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Supporting immigrant entrepreneursSubmitted by Ed Morrison on Wed, 12/22/2004 - 22:12.
Here's another idea for our region to consider: A pilot program to promote immigrant entrepreneurs. A recent article from Inc magazine outlines SmartStart in Maine. The initiative targets the development of micro-enterprises.
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InternationalizationSubmitted by Ted Takacs on Mon, 12/20/2004 - 11:23.
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“Connect� often referenced as model for REALNEOSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 12/16/2004 - 11:49.
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