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What is Fing?
Fing was created in 2000 by a team of entrepreneurs and experts, with the aim of detecting, fostering and promoting innovation in digital services and uses.
Working at the crossroads between technology, business, the arts and social change, Fing is a network, an idea accelerator, a think tank and a resource for innovators.
Play a pivotal role in the emergence of innovative ideas and projects
Mobilize stakeholders around the future technological cycles
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Take part in emerging ethical and societal debates
Facilitate bottom-up innovation and collaboration between users, researchersand entrepreneurs
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Think/do tank. Formulated around future-looking challenges, Fing’s programs mobilize a wide diversity of stakehol-ders and innovators in order to share ideas, explore radically new opportunities and stimulate innovative action.
Open innovation. Fing networks internationally with start-ups, researchers, designers, students and social innovators, as well as with major corporations and public institutions, in order to accelerate innovative projects and facilitate open innovation.
Intelligence and foresight. Fing reports on new ideas, weak signals, emerging innovations, and trends at the crossroads of society, economy and technology.
Fing cooperates with similar initiatives in Europe and throughout the world.
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Action programs
Active identities
«Active Identities» delivers:
Exploring the challenges and opportunities that emerge from
the new uses of digital identities
Digital identity is the pivoting, federative element of most of the
new services and practices that emerge today on the Internet. It is
also, potentially, a powerful empowering tool for individuals and communities. In order to make the
most of this potential, however, we must move from a
defensive paradigm to a strategic paradigm focused on projection as
well as protection.
The «Active Identities» program explores the challenges and
opportunities that emerge when identities are seen as a means for
individuals to master their lives and, for organizations, as a source of
innovation and value creation.
Surveys: Individual tradeoffs around the transmission of personal data; Self-display and choice of «friends» in social networks (Sociogeek); Use of microblogging.
Experimentations: Twittywall, CV 2020, Serious avatars, Skills and competencies Wiki...
Thematic reports: «The Internet of Subjects Manifesto» «Identities in Social Networks»
Public events: Project accelerators, Barcamps, conferences
Website: www.identitesactives.net
Cities 2.0
«Cities 2.0» delivers:
Using technology to improve urban life, and urbanity to transform
technology
Mobility, sustainability, cohesion, competitiveness, ageing,
surveillance, participation... In a more and more urban world,
cities are changing fast. Technologies are the tools and the
catalysts of most of these transformations.
Since 2006, Cities 2.0 investigates the potential of technology to help
build a better city through open urban innovation: drastically
lowering the barriers to innovation, co-creating and
co-producing urban services, reinventing urban space and
proximity, agregating resources…
Creative workshops in major cities in France and elsewhere
Experimentations: the Green Watch/Citypulse CityWall, CityScan (real-time urban data mapping) Open innovation platforms
Books: «The City as Innovation Platform» «Free and Sustainable Mobility» «The Complex and Familiar city» «The 5th Screen»«Technology and Urban Foresight»
Website: www.villes2.fr
Ageing Lab
«Ageing Lab» delivers:
How can technologies change the way we age, and the way our
Societies age? How can active ageing change the way digital
products and services are designed?
The Ageing Lab’s goal is to explore the contribution of digital
technologies and services to quality of life, to social cohesion
and to economic growth in an ageing world.
Today, the encounter between digital technology and ageing
produces limited and sometimes counterproductive results. Ageing Lab aims at broadening the scope
of this encounter; Moving from health-oriented visions to
environments that include health and social services, social links with
friends, neighbours and family, lifestyle, etc.; Moving from «60+»
as a specific segment to intergenerational services; Using
co-design methodologies to inspire innovation...
Thematic projects: Habitat; Cross-generation business organizations Innovation, ageing and territories; Social networks Connected autonomy; Serious gaming.
Creative workshops for service innovation
Thematic reports and events
Website: www.pluslonguelavie.net
The 27th Region «The 27th Region» delivers:
The innovation Lab of the 26 French regional governments
Supported by the Association of French Regions, the European
Commission, Caisse des Dépôts, and incubated by Fing, the «27th Region» aims at fostering creati-
vity, social and digital innovation in regions and localities.
Social experimentation: user-driven projects implemented in schools, rural areas, business parks etc. hosting multidisciplinary teams involving designers, social innovators, architects, researchers, artists (see www.territoiresenresidences.net)
Prospective design: creative regional foresight methodologies
Benchmarking: meetings and seminars with innovators, in France and abroad
Events: creative workshops and barcamps for and with the regions
Website: www.la27eregion.fr
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Experimentation
Crossroad of the Possible
The Crossroad of the Possible ( Carrefour des Possibles) is a series of open events that showcase early-stage pro-jects using ICTs in an innovative way. Each edition presents
10 projects to an audience of 300+ professionals.Its aim is to promote and network the projects and their authors, to stimulate creativity and to help discover new uses of technology.
Beyond the events themselves, the Crossroad of the Possible is an innovator-friendly process that includes: a network of people and organizations in charge of identifying projects, a collective briefing method, training in communication, and networking between projects and professionals willing to help them.Since 2002, more than 600 projects have been presented at the Carrefour des Possibles, in 15 different cities.
Website: www.carrefourdespossibles.org
Mobile Monday
Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from
global markets.
Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, Mobile Monday has grown into the world’s leading mobile community.
Along with Silicon Sentier, Fing has been organizing Mobile Monday France since 2005, as well as taking part in the Mobile Monday network.
Website: www.mobilemondayfrance.org
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Intelligence and
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Internet Actu Internet Actu is Fing’s main online publication. Both a blog and a media, Internet Actu reaches more than 100, 000 regular readers, and more through
collaborations with leading media such as Le Monde and Rue 89 Internet Actu’s motto is «Digital innovation in society; Society in digital innovation».
It focuses on 2 kinds of information:
New ideas, weak signals, powerful concepts emerging from innovators, researchers, artists, activists and visionaries from all over the world; Major trends and issues, particularly around the use of
technology and the link between science, technology and society
Website: www.internetactu.net
Prospectic: New technologies, new ways of thinking?
Written by Jean-Michel Cornu with the help of more than 50 high level researchers and experts, Prospectic is a biennial book, a blog and a series of conferences that synthesize the scientific and technological prospects of the next 5-10 years. The 2008 edition focuses on the «NBIC» revolution, and highlights its possible consequences, not only in industrial and societal terms, but also on the many ways in which
we think, discuss and decide.
Website: www.prospectic.fing.org
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Lift with Fing: A yearly international event on the creative and transformative uses of technology, and the social implications of new technologies. www.liftconference.com
Robotcité: A robotics challenge open to schools and universities, that intends to invent how human, robots and cities will cohabit and collaborate in the future www.robotcite.fr
Correspondants.org: a worldwide network of francophone correspondents sharing their experience of innovative uses of technology in society, particularly in the developing worldwww.correspondants.org
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Who’s who
at Fing?
Fing’s team is made up of 20 outstanding individuals, most of them experts in a specific innovation field, managed by Daniel Kaplan.
Its Board comprises 15 members emanating from the business world, research and education, local authorities and other associations.
As an association, Fing has more than 160 members, including major firms, start-ups, research laboratories, universities, local authorities, administrations, associations.
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Daniel KaplanDaniel Kaplan is the founder and CEO Fing. He is also chairman of the European Institute for e-Learning (EifEL). Since the 1990s, he has been deeply involved in the Internet’s development and evolution, on a French, European and international level. From 2003 to 2006, he sat in the European Commission’s eEurope Expert Chamber. He has written or directed 15 books and public reports on the internet, mobility, e-commerce, e-education, e-inclusion and electronic media.
Jean-Marie BourgogneJean-Marie Bourgogne is the deputy director in charge of administrative and financial issues. He benefits from more than twenty years of professional background in managing projects, developing businesses, engineering and commercial management within important international companies of the ICT area.
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Véronique RoutinAfter several years working with Internet corporations such as Amazon, LaSer and Telemarket, Veronique Routin joined Fing where she is in charge of members and partners. She is also in charge of Fing’s communication.
Pierre OrsatelliPierre Orsatelli worked during four years at the EU Commission in Brussels (1988 – 1990): at the secretary general’s “Relationship with the Council” unit (1988), at the Groupe Lacroix, EC President’s think tank (1989) and eventually at the “Completion of the internal market” unit, DG “Industrial affairs and Internal market” (1989-1990). He produced the first communication from the Commission to the Council on transeuropean networks. He also wrote books and articles on EU integration. Currently, based both in
Paris and Marseille, he is a senior consultant (working part time for Fing) and covers the following areas: strategy consulting, project management, evaluation of public policies (economical, political and sociological aspects), European projects and proposals.
Jean-Michel CornuJean-Michel Cornu, scientific director of Fing, is an international consultant and European expert on New Technologies and the Information Society. His activity combines strategic intelligence and scientific expertise; dissemination of strategic or technical knowledge towards decision-makers; development of communities and cooperation projects at international and local levels.He wrote several books among which “Prospectic, new
technologies, new thinking” (FYP édition 2008) and “Cooperation, new approaches” (Framasoft 2009).
Thierry MarcouThierry Marcou joined Fing in 2004 to lead the territorial community. Today, he is in charge of the action program Cities 2.0, launched late 2006, as well as of a number of innovative experiments such as the green Watch. He started his professional activity as a project officer among different services of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations. For 10 years, he ran the Conjuguer consulting group, where he crea-
ted, developed and led the first collaborative territorial networks of cities.
Charles NépoteCharles Népote joined Fing in 2007 to lead the action programme « Active Identities ». A key actor of the French wikisphere from its very beginning, he co-founded Wikini in 2002, collaborated to several wiki communities and investigated the use of wikis in businesses. He benefits from an important expertise in collaborative tools, management of web content and online social networks. His background in ethnology and comparative sociology enables him to take a
different look at ICTs and networks.
Denis PansuDenis Pansu coordinates the network of the “Carrefour des Possibles”, a concept which he created in 2002 within Fing to provide visibility and networking to digital innovators. As a specialist in spotting innovation and networking digital innovators, he cooperates with many organizations and networks involved in the selection of the projects. He used to work for the Fondation de France during four years on the call for proposals Multimedia directed to NGOs.
Carole-Anne RivièreCarole Anne Rivière joined Fing in 2007 to lead the action program « PlusLongueLaVie.net » (Ageing Lab). She is in charge of stimulating research and innovation projects answering to the new digital challenges, needs and uses regarding the societal challenge of ageing. To do so, she leads a network made of more than 150 people (experts of ageing, public and social sector actors, designers, innovators, businesses) using open cooperation as a working method. She has conducted a thesis on social networks as factor of social change.
She used to work as a researcher on the use of ICTs in France and Asia for Orange Labs.
Stéphane VincentStéphane Vincent launched in March 2008 the project «la 27ème Région», a laboratory aiming at «changing the change» in the 26 French regional governments and in public sector. Through this project, he helps regional/local authorities include social innovation in policymaking, promote a user-driven ap-proach, and use technologies and networks as a means to im-prove their service to citizens. He joined Fing to implement this project after 6 years in the Limousin Regional Council, where he implemented the RISI programs, and 7 years as a consultant and associate director in consulting firm Proposition.
Charlotte RautureauCharlotte Rautureau is in charge of European funding in Fing. She has already dealt with the information society and European funds when she worked for OTeN (French Observatory of Digital Territories). She was in charge of coordinating an INTERREG IVC project named IRIS Europe. She wrote a guide dedicated to the French regional authorities to help them better understand the information society issue in Europe.
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