Comments on: Rising from in the Ashes http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/archives/161 Žiga Turk, professor, ex-minister and secretary general of the Reflection Group writes about Lisbon strategy, sustainable development, creativity, technology and other topics related to his work. Thu, 09 May 2013 09:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Carla Caprioli http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/archives/161#comment-483 Carla Caprioli Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:44:46 +0000 http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/?p=161#comment-483 Thanks for your statement "Massive replacement of person-person meetings with videoconferencing could also result in a happier European politics". Several Commission services are already using high-quality live webcast services with advanced CMS, interactive features etc thanks to an initiative by DG SCIC, the EC webcast portal http://webcast.ec.europa.eu .This allowed some DGs to create specific portlets, like http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dgenttv/portal/ (a project I launched in 2008) and http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dgtrentv/portal/ . DG SCIC describes these services at http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/services/web_streaming/index_en.htm . Thanks for your statement “Massive replacement of person-person meetings with videoconferencing could also result in a happier European politics”. Several Commission services are already using high-quality live webcast services with advanced CMS, interactive features etc thanks to an initiative by DG SCIC, the EC webcast portal http://webcast.ec.europa.eu .This allowed some DGs to create specific portlets, like http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dgenttv/portal/ (a project I launched in 2008) and http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dgtrentv/portal/ . DG SCIC describes these services at http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/services/web_streaming/index_en.htm .

]]> By: mathew http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/archives/161#comment-482 mathew Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:26:35 +0000 http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/?p=161#comment-482 Are you suggesting that the EU Institutions adopt modern online communications technologies? Good luck! ;-) Are you suggesting that the EU Institutions adopt modern online communications technologies? Good luck! ;-)

]]> By: Pete Kercher http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/archives/161#comment-481 Pete Kercher Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:58 +0000 http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/?p=161#comment-481 "They bring their sleep deprived grumpiness to the tables of European decision making and all they can look forward to are the incredible queues at the Brussels airport security controls in the evening." Am I one of the few who realise that sleep-deprived grumpiness is a major block to useful collaboration? I always make a point of arriving in Brussels the evening before any meeting: it's the only way to be positively collaborative. But it means that meetings cost even more. As usual, the answer is out there ready to be applied with a spot of lateral thinking... and it looks to me as though you are doing that rather well, Ziga. I wish you every success! “They bring their sleep deprived grumpiness to the tables of European decision making and all they can look forward to are the incredible queues at the Brussels airport security controls in the evening.”

Am I one of the few who realise that sleep-deprived grumpiness is a major block to useful collaboration? I always make a point of arriving in Brussels the evening before any meeting: it’s the only way to be positively collaborative. But it means that meetings cost even more.

As usual, the answer is out there ready to be applied with a spot of lateral thinking… and it looks to me as though you are doing that rather well, Ziga. I wish you every success!

]]> By: Stuart Langridge http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/archives/161#comment-480 Stuart Langridge Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:10:51 +0000 http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/?p=161#comment-480 Ziga, you make an excellent point. It seems that there is a new precedent for this as reported by this <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ptech/04/16/volcano.ash.norway.ipad/index.html?hpt=Sbin" rel="nofollow">CNN story</a>. Good luck in changing things! Ziga, you make an excellent point. It seems that there is a new precedent for this as reported by this CNN story. Good luck in changing things!

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