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  • Hans Rosling's talk at the 2007 it@cork conference

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    Hans Rosling gave the opening address at the 2007 it@cork Technology in Business Conference. His talk was incredibly eye opening as the Trendalyzer software he developed shows how the world is “double inversely logarithmically unjust”. Watch and enjoy!

  • CO2 emissions vs income

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    I generated this graph on Prof Hans Rosling’s Gapminder.org site. The data shows, somewhat surprisingly that the increase in carbon emissions in countries like Ireland and the US from 1975 to 2002 are not in any way mirrored by any increases in China or India. In the recent Bali talks (and the Kyoto talks before…

  • Le Web3 2007 – a big hit!

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    After last year’s Le Web3 experience, my expectations for this year’s Le Web3 were very low! However, Loic, the conference’s organiser obviously took all of the criticisms of last year’s conference on board and delivered a fantastic conference this time out. The talks were great, the venue was perfect, the food was delicious, and the…

  • "Education only hampers learning"

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    Last Wednesday I had the very great pleasure of collecting Prof. Hans Rosling from the airport to bring him to the it@cork conference (where he kicked off the day with an inspirational presentation). In the car, on the way to the conference though Prof Rosling made a comment which I thought was extremely unusual for…

  • it@cork conference program announced

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    As Chair of the organising committee for this year’s it@cork Technology in Business Conference, I’m delighted to announce that the program has been announced and registrations are now open. The conference is on the 28th of November in the Radisson, Little Island. This year’s theme is Connect and Innovate and we have a spectacular line-up…