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Committed to Connecting the World
World Café @ ITU Green Standards Week
9 September 2011
Workshop on Submarine Cables for Ocean/Climate Monitoring and Disaster Warning:
Science, Engineering, Business and Law
Saba Imru
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Head, Administration & HR Services
September 2011
Innovation & discovery
in collaborative conversations
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Understand complexity
Explore the views of all stake-holders
Test ideas and assumptions together
Build new knowledge collectively
Generate innovative solutions
Originators of The World Café: Juanita Brown PhD & David
Isaacs
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What it looks like
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A change of pace
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Informal, relaxed
Frame-breaking
Highly interactive
All-inclusive
Connects
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Goals for this World Café
• Ensure active involvement of all participants
• Facilitate networking, connection and exchanges
• Stimulate new perspectives
• Trigger initiatives
• Consolidate a community of interests
• Generate input for output document
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Who
uses The World Café ?
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Businesses
Saudi Aramco
• World’s largest producer
and exporter of crude oil.
• Over 50,000 employees,
100,000 contractors.
• A first World Café in 2003
for Engineering and
Operations Department,
for strategic planning
• Over 700 participants
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Government & civil society
Basque Agency for Innovation
• Bilbao 2008, A World Café on
renewal and innovation in
local communities.
• 770 participants representing
many stakeholders:
education, health, business,
R&D, regional government,
social services, arts.
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Academia
Fielding Graduate
University
• Strategic insights for
academic program
development
• Designing curriculum
• World Café as a
research system
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International Organizations
ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
A World Café on
innovation challenges
and how to be the best
SDO secretariat for the
ITU-T membership
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and many more……
Businesses
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Nokia
Telia
Ericsson
Intel
Shell Petroleum
Coca Cola
Walt Disney
Chevron
Hewlett-Packard
Agilent
Academia
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University of California
MIT Organizational Learning
University of Texas
University of Michigan
Government and civil society
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Scandinavian Sustainability Forum
European Union
Ministry of Information Singapore
Ministry of Education United Arab
Emirates
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How it works
• Three conversation rounds, each
triggered by a question
• At each round
– Explore questions together
– Reflect & summarize
• At the end of the round, change
table and meet new people
Image: Nancy Margulies
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The knowledge is in the room
Image: Nancy Margulies
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Innovative Thinking
Image: Rae Paladin, TSB
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Collaborative Talking
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Connect different perspectives
Image: Nancy Margulies
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Harvest and share outcome
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Silos
within a system
Image: Elizabeth Auzan
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An interconnected
system
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See you at the World Café !
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