English presentation of Fing

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www.fing.org / www.internetactu.net

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4. Fing was created in 2000 by a team of entrepreneurs and
experts, with the aim of detecting, fostering and
promoting innovation in digital services and uses.
Working at the crossroads between technology,
business, the arts and social change, Fing is a network, an
idea accelerator, a think tank and a resource for innovators.

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Play a pivotal role in the
emergence of innovative ideas
and projects
Mobilize stakeholders around
the future technological cycles
Take part in emerging ethical
and societal debates
Facilitate bottom-up
innovation and collaboration
between users, researchers
and entrepreneurs

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Think/do tank. Formulated around future-looking
challenges, Fing’s programs mobilize a wide diversity of stakehol-
ders and innovators in order to share ideas, explore radically new
opportunities and stimulate innovative action.
Open innovation. Fing networks internationally with start-ups,
researchers, designers, students and social innovators, as well
as with major corporations and public institutions, in order to
accelerate innovative projects and facilitate open innovation.
Intelligence and foresight. Fing reports on new ideas, weak
signals, emerging innovations, and trends at the crossroads of
society, economy and technology.
Fing cooperates with similar initiatives in Europe and throughout
the world.

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9. Active identities
Exploring the challenges and
opportunities that emerge from
the new uses of digital identities
Digital identity is the pivoting, «Active Identities» delivers:
federative element of most of the
new services and practices that Surveys:
emerge today on the Internet. It is
Individual tradeoffs around the transmission of
also, potentially, a powerful
empowering tool for individuals and
personal data; Self-display and choice of «friends»
communities. In order to make the in social networks (Sociogeek); Use of microblogging.
most of this potential,
however, we must move from a Experimentations:
defensive paradigm to a strategic Twittywall, CV 2020, Serious avatars, Skills and
paradigm focused on projection as competencies Wiki...
well as protection.
The «Active Identities» program
Thematic reports:
explores the challenges and «The Internet of Subjects Manifesto»
opportunities that emerge when «Identities in Social Networks»
identities are seen as a means for
individuals to master their lives and, Public events:
for organizations, as a source of Project accelerators, Barcamps, conferences
innovation and value creation.
Website:
www.identitesactives.net

11. Cities 2.0
Using technology to improve urban
life, and urbanity to transform
technology
Mobility, sustainability, cohesion, «Cities 2.0» delivers:
competitiveness, ageing,
surveillance, participation...
In a more and more urban world, Creative workshops
cities are changing fast. in major cities in France and elsewhere
Technologies are the tools and the
catalysts of most of these Experimentations:
transformations. the Green Watch/Citypulse
CityWall, CityScan (real-time urban data mapping)
Since 2006, Cities 2.0 investigates
the potential of technology to help Open innovation platforms
build a better city through open
urban innovation: drastically Books:
lowering the barriers to «The City as Innovation Platform»
innovation, co-creating and «Free and Sustainable Mobility»
co-producing urban services, «The Complex and Familiar city»
reinventing urban space and «The 5th Screen»
proximity, agregating resources…
«Technology and Urban Foresight»
Website:
www.villes2.fr

13. Ageing Lab
How can technologies change the
way we age, and the way our
Societies age? How can active
ageing change the way digital
products and services
are designed?
The Ageing Lab’s goal is to explore «Ageing Lab» delivers:
the contribution of digital
technologies and services to
quality of life, to social cohesion Thematic projects:
and to economic growth in an Habitat; Cross-generation business organizations
ageing world. Innovation, ageing and territories; Social networks
Today, the encounter between Connected autonomy; Serious gaming.
digital technology and ageing
produces limited and sometimes Creative workshops for service innovation
counterproductive results. Ageing
Lab aims at broadening the scope
of this encounter; Moving from Thematic reports and events
health-oriented visions to
environments that include health Website:
and social services, social links with www.pluslonguelavie.net
friends, neighbours and family,
lifestyle, etc.; Moving from «60+»
as a specific segment to
intergenerational services; Using
co-design methodologies to inspire
innovation...

15. The 27th Region
«The 27th Region» delivers:
Social experimentation:
user-driven projects implemented in schools,
rural areas, business parks etc. hosting
multidisciplinary teams involving designers,
social innovators, architects, researchers,
artists (see www.territoiresenresidences.net)
The innovation Lab of the 26
French regional governments Prospective design:
creative regional foresight methodologies
Supported by the Association of
French Regions, the European
Commission, Caisse des Dépôts, Benchmarking:
and incubated by Fing, the «27th meetings and seminars with
Region» aims at fostering creati- innovators, in France and abroad
vity, social and digital innovation in
regions and localities. Events:
creative workshops and barcamps
for and with the regions
Website:
www.la27eregion.fr

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20. Crossroads of
Possibilities
The Carrefour des Possibles is a series of open events that
showcase early-stage projects using ICTs in an innovative way.
Each edition presents 10 projects to an audience of 300+
professionals.
Its aim is to promote and network the
projects and their authors, to stimulate
creativity and to help discover new uses of
technology.
Beyond the events themselves, the Carrefour des Possibles
is an innovator-friendly process that includes: a network of
people and organizations in charge of identifying projects, a
collective briefing method, training in communication, and
networking between projects and professionals willing to help
them.
Since 2002, more than 600 projects have been presented at the
Carrefour des Possibles, in 15 different cities.
Website:
www.carrefourdespossibles.org

21. Mobile Monday
Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry
visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation
and cross-border business development through virtual and live
networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from
global markets.
Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year
2000, Mobile Monday has grown into the
world’s leading mobile community.
Along with Silicon Sentier, Fing has been organizing Mobile
Monday France since 2005, as well as taking part in the Mobile
Monday network.
Website:
www.mobilemondayfrance.org

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25. Internet Actu
Internet Actu is Fing’s main online
publication. Both a blog and a media,
Internet Actu reaches more than
100, 000 regular readers, and more through
collaborations with leading media such as Le Monde and Rue
89 Internet Actu’s motto is «Digital innovation in society;
Society in digital innovation».
It focuses on 2 kinds of information:
New ideas, weak signals, powerful concepts emerging from
innovators, researchers, artists, activists and visionaries from all
over the world;
Major trends and issues, particularly around the use of
technology and the link between science, technology
and society
Website:
www.internetactu.net

26. Prospectic:
New technologies,
new ways of thinking?
Written by Jean-Michel Cornu with the help
of more than 50 high level researchers and
experts, Prospectic is a biennial book, a blog and a
series of conferences that synthesize the
scientific and technological prospects of the next
5-10 years.
The 2008 edition focuses on the «NBIC»
revolution, and highlights its possible
consequences, not only in industrial and
societal terms, but also on the many ways in which
we think, discuss and decide.
Website:
www.prospectic.fing.org

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30. Lift with Fing:
A yearly international event on the
creative and transformative uses of
technology, and the social
implications of new technologies.
www.liftconference.com
Robotcité:
A robotics challenge open to schools and
universities, that intends to invent how
human, robots and cities will cohabit and
collaborate in the future
www.robotcite.fr
Correspondants.org:
a worldwide network of francophone
correspondents sharing their experience
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world
www.correspondants.org

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33. Fing’s team is made up of 20 outstanding individuals,
most of them experts in a specific innovation field,
managed by Daniel Kaplan.
Its Board comprises 15 members emanating from the
business world, research and education, local authorities
and other associations.
As an association, Fing has more than 160 members,
including major firms, start-ups, research laboratories,
universities, local authorities, administrations,
associations.

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Daniel Kaplan
Daniel Kaplan is the founder and CEO Fing. He is also
chairman of the European Institute for e-Learning (EifEL).
Since the 1990s, he has been deeply involved in the Internet’s
development and evolution, on a French, European and
international level. From 2003 to 2006, he sat in the
European Commission’s eEurope Expert Chamber.
He has written or directed 15 books and public reports on the
internet, mobility, e-commerce, e-education, e-inclusion and
electronic media.
Jean-Marie Bourgogne
Jean-Marie Bourgogne is the deputy director in charge of
administrative and financial issues. He benefits from more
than twenty years of professional background in managing
projects, developing businesses, engineering and commercial
management within important international companies of the
ICT area.

37. Jean-Michel Cornu
Jean-Michel Cornu, scientific director of Fing, is an
international consultant and European expert on New Technologies
and the Information Society.
His activity combines strategic intelligence and scientific
expertise; dissemination of strategic or technical
knowledge towards decision-makers; development of
communities and cooperation projects at international and local
levels.He wrote several books among which “Prospectic, new
technologies, new thinking” (FYP édition 2008) and “Cooperation, new
approaches” (Framasoft 2009).
Véronique Routin
After several years working with Internet corporations such as
Amazon, LaSer and Telemarket, Veronique Routin joined Fing where
she is in charge of members and partners. She is also in charge of
Fing’s communication.
Pierre Orsatelli
Pierre Orsatelli worked during four years at the EU
Commission in Brussels (1988 – 1990): at the secretary general’s
“Relationship with the Council” unit (1988), at the Groupe Lacroix, EC
President’s think tank (1989) and eventually at the “Completion
of the internal market” unit, DG “Industrial affairs and Internal
market” (1989-1990). He produced the first communication from
the Commission to the Council on transeuropean networks. He also
wrote books and articles on EU integration. Currently, based both in
Paris and Marseille, he is a senior consultant (working part time for Fing) and covers the
following areas: strategy consulting, project management, evaluation of public policies
(economical, political and sociological aspects), European projects and proposals.

38. Denis Pansu
Denis Pansu coordinates the network of the “Carrefour des
Possibles”, a concept which he created in 2002 within Fing
to provide visibility and networking to digital innovators. As
a specialist in spotting innovation and networking digital
innovators, he cooperates with many organizations and
networks involved in the selection of the projects. He used to
work for the Fondation de France during four years on the call
for proposals Multimedia directed to NGOs.
Thierry Marcou
Thierry Marcou joined Fing in 2004 to lead the territorial
community. Today, he is in charge of the action program
Cities 2.0, launched late 2006, as well as of a number of
innovative experiments such as the green Watch. He started his
professional activity as a project officer among different
services of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations. For 10
years, he ran the Conjuguer consulting group, where he crea-
ted, developed and led the first collaborative territorial networks of cities.
Charles Népote
Charles Népote joined Fing in 2007 to lead the action
programme « Active Identities ». A key actor of the
French wikisphere from its very beginning, he co-founded
Wikini in 2002, collaborated to several wiki communities and
investigated the use of wikis in businesses. He benefits from
an important expertise in collaborative tools, management of
web content and online social networks. His background in
ethnology and comparative sociology enables him to take a
different look at ICTs and networks.

39. Carole-Anne Rivière
Carole Anne Rivière joined Fing in 2007 to lead the action
program « PlusLongueLaVie.net » (Ageing Lab). She is in
charge of stimulating research and innovation projects
answering to the new digital challenges, needs and uses
regarding the societal challenge of ageing. To do so, she leads
a network made of more than 150 people (experts of ageing,
public and social sector actors, designers, innovators,
businesses) using open cooperation as a working method. She has
conducted a thesis on social networks as factor of social change.
She used to work as a researcher on the use of ICTs in France and Asia for Orange Labs.
Stéphane Vincent
Stéphane Vincent launched in March 2008 the project «la
27ème Région», a laboratory aiming at «changing the change»
in the 26 French regional governments and in public sector.
Through this project, he helps regional/local authorities include
social innovation in policymaking, promote a user-driven ap-
proach, and use technologies and networks as a means to im-
prove their service to citizens. He joined Fing to implement this
project after 6 years in the Limousin Regional Council, where
he implemented the RISI programs, and 7 years as a consultant
and associate director in consulting firm Proposition.
Charlotte Rautureau
Charlotte Rautureau is in charge of European funding in
Fing. She has already dealt with the information society and
European funds when she worked for OTeN (French
Observatory of Digital Territories). She was in charge of
coordinating an INTERREG IVC project named IRIS Europe. She
wrote a guide dedicated to the French regional authorities to
help them better understand the information society issue in
Europe.

40. FING - The Next Generation Internet Foundation
Marseille CMCI
2 rue Henri Barbusse 13001 Marseille - France
+33 (0)4 91 52 88 26
Paris La Cantine
151 rue Montmartre 75002 Paris - France
+33 (0)1 40 13 64 46
infos@fing.org
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