LIFT Conference 2009

Where has the future gone? This is what Lift09 explored during three sunny days on February 2009 in Geneva. Many things have changed in the past decades, even if we don’t ride flying cars nor have smart fridges ordering our carrots. Ask yourself this: are you sure you want your neighbor – the one who [...]

Best Practice Award 2008

During ECDL Foundation CEO Summit in Vienna which was held during 23-25 October 2008, a special award was granted to trajnimi.com national portal, which has adopted ECDL as a standard for ICT education and as a means to increase employability in Kosovo.
Award was given from Jim Friars, Chairman of ECDL Foundation to Kushtrim Xhakli representative [...]

Business Startup Center Kosova: E-Business Course Week 2 ideas

Week 2 of e-business course held from 19-23 May 2008 produced various discussions, tactics and ideas for doing e-business in Kosovo. Also during the second week, Kosovo students had the unique opportunity to hear two days guest lecture from Prof. Jonathan Briggs, E-Commerce professor in Kingston University, London. Mr. Briggs engaged the students with activities [...]

Business Startup Center Kosova: E-Business Course Week 1 ideas

From the e-business course that I am lecturing, last week students came with four e-business ideas:
Growing People Kosova
Website which provides information on pregnancy, baby, birth, child care, kindergartens and includes the part where you can exchange ideas, discuss articles & reviews, ask questions, and contact directly to the doctor also having an opportunity to book [...]

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

I had the unique opportunity this year to visit CERN’s Large Hadron Collider a day after LIFT Conference 2008, an experience which helped me to understand better CERN and its innovation. I was in a group together with Bruce Sterling, Ben Segal, Robert Scoble (who did the video below), Aral Balkan and others. Below is [...]

LIFT08 pulse

Social, Presence, Conversation and Network

I’m going to LIFT Conference 2008 with set of tools to create, share and present. I will create network possibly by increasing my Linkedin connections, I will share conversation and a presence during LIFT08 with Twitter, and will get much social with Facebook (physical contacts only).
Here is the trend graph of recent months popularity [...]

LIFT Conference 2008

LIFT Conference is about to start soon, this time richer with program attached with preliminary network using social media softwares. As last year main discussion during the breaks was Twitter, this year it Facebook will dominate the field. The recent report provided by Glen O’Neil on Network Mapping shows the increase of network among participants, [...]

LIFT07 – A conference about technology in our society

I came back from LIFT Conference 2007, Geneva 7-9 February 2007. I had an opportunity to meet new people, new idea, new challenges and new technologies. Wasn’t it what is LIFT about? Yes.
I will post some more lift notes in following days, also i have to copy paste stories from Berlin and Copenhagen this [...]

Ipko Institute, a success story, and its role in education management

Some weeks ago Olof Palme International Center in cooperation with IPKO Institute organized for Western Balkan partners the Project Management Training in Skopje (15 – 17 June 2006) where I gave a presentation about:
Ipko Institute, a success story, and its role in education management
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Following this event was Regional Network Meeting (18-20 June [...]