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Committed to Connecting the 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 • • • 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 Ph. D & David Isaacs September 2011

What it looks like Images: cc theworldcafe; Rae Paladin, TSB September 2011

A change of pace • • • Informal, relaxed Frame-breaking Highly interactive All-inclusive Connects Images: Rae Paladin, TSB September 2011

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 September 2011

Who uses The World Café ? September 2011

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 Image: cc theworldcafe September 2011

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. Image: cc theworldcafe September 2011

Academia Fielding Graduate University • Strategic insights for academic program development • Designing curriculum • World Café as a research system Image: cc theworldcafe September 2011

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 Image: Rae Paladin, TSB September 2011

and many more…… Businesses • • • Nokia Telia Ericsson Intel Shell Petroleum Coca Cola Walt Disney Chevron Hewlett-Packard Agilent Academia • • University of California MIT Organizational Learning University of Texas University of Michigan Government and civil society • • Scandinavian Sustainability Forum European Union Ministry of Information Singapore Ministry of Education United Arab Emirates September 2011

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 September 2011

The knowledge is in the room Image: Nancy Margulies September 2011

Innovative Thinking Image: Rae Paladin, TSB September 2011

Collaborative Talking Image: Rae Paladin, TSB September 2011

Connect different perspectives Image: Nancy Margulies September 2011

Harvest and share outcome Images: cc theworldcafe; Elizabeth Auzan; Rae Paladin, TSB September 2011

Silos within a system Image: Elizabeth Auzan September 2011

An interconnected system September 2011

See you at the World Café ! September 2011