Based on our first thought-provoking presentation about leadership in the digital age last year, we will continue with leadership as the theme and look at how best to interface differing approaches, i.e. the demands of the corporate word with that of the demands of the new involving digital economy.
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To explore the corporate and digital mindset and provide solutions to build valid interfaces to collaborate better together.
At heart, I’m an optimist. I believe technology knows no bounds. This year, I’ve been privileged to work in India and Africa, assisting Amnesty International build an Android app. Amnesty is a global movement of more than 3 mil. activists who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. They requested the company I work at, ThoughtWorks, build a mobile app that would allow activists out in the field to safely contact a guardian network during periods of emergencies. I was the experience designer on that project. Using customer journey mapping, user-test driven development & continuous design, we built an app that has now been tested in the field. I want to share the learnings behind building technology for human rights – from the collaborative design process we used in Bangalore to the user testing we conducted in Nairobi to the strategic envisioning we’ve done from London. This is a story about how to create a mobile strategy based on real user empathy & understanding. It’s a global story about how software plays a role in building a better tomorrow.
Questions answered :
What is technology’s role in human rights?
What does it mean to better humanity through software?
How do socially conscious organisations put their expertise to work by collaborating with humanitarian-driven organisations?
How can a corporate consultancy promote social justice?
What is the relationship between individuals and organizations when driving social change?
Why are networks important in driving forward a better tomorrow?
How to succeed converting ideas into real internet products by using several techniques and methodologies proven by years of fine tuning.
Questions answered :
Which are the key aspects you have to take care when launching an Internet application?
What do you have to know in order to select a good provider?
For social change to become inevitable, all kinds of information must be valued and put into the market and the cloud. Enabling information valuation ensures social change behaviour multiplies by actor, audience and funding. Putting boards, staff, volunteers and stakeholders at the center of information valuation quantifies appeal and earnings.
Questions Answered:
How do social groups become ethically effective in valuing the information on social change they create while simultaneously empowering and protecting the community?
Behaviour driven development helps raising the quality of the software we build, but it is also a communication and collaboration tool between technical and non-technical people.
Allows teams to focus on building strictly the features agreed and discard distracting “what-if” scenarios.
Crucially, BDD makes quality the responsibility of the entire team, not only testers and developers.
The talk is particularly aimed at non-tecnical people, all of it explained without technical blabla!
Questions Answered:
The difference between BDD and TDD, what is behaviour driven development and how to apply it, particularly for mobile development where the tools are a lot less mature than for other technologies.
This beginners’ workshop will give you practical skills in developing data-driven websites using HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. During the workshop, participants will learn about the design process and programming required to develop a data-driven, startup prototype website from scratch.
Questions Answered:
How can a startup idea be translated into a design and a website?
How is a data-driven website created?
How can a website be personalised?
