This document discusses using social jams and collaboration to solve business problems related to extending smarter cities technologies to villages in India. It proposes using IT as a cottage industry and grassroots entrepreneurship. Students from various colleges participated in a collaboration jam contest at an event called ASCEND 2010 to address business issues in targeted industries. The document outlines plans to use an online jamming environment and daily virtual office hours to engage participants in identifying high-priority business problems and generating solutions in multiple waves over a scheduled period. The goal is to capitalize on paradigm shifts and develop industry-specific approaches like for smarter healthcare.

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Social Jam
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Extending
Smarter Cities to
Villages
IT as a Cottage Industry
Antony Satyadas
Solution Strategist, IBM Corporation
IEEE Senior Member
KITA Board member
antony_satyadas@us.ibm.com
http://www.satyadas.com
781-953-0902

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Social / Collaboration Jamming
Engages anyone and everyone in an organization—from the intern to the CEO—to speak their
mind, surfacing the kind of ideas that improve business
All set for ASCEND 2010
At Ascend-2010, each participating
college will address business
problems in a particular industry.
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Since 2001, IBM has used jams to
involve its more than 3,00,000
employees around the world in far-
reaching exploration and problem-
solving. The IBM Innovation Jam in
2006 brought together more than
1,50,000 people from across 104
countries and 67 companies, and
resulted in 10 new IBM businesses
with seed investment totaling $100
million
Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010 Techno management fete held
KOTTAYAM: Anil Menon, vice-president, IBM Software
Group, flagged off ASCEND-2010, a techno-management
fest, hosted by Saintgits College of Engineering.
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St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Palai, won the first prize
for the ‘Collaboration Jam Contest' and Rajagiri School of
Engineering and Technology, Kochi, won the second prize.
College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, won the Code
Fixing and System treasure hunt.
Sunday, Aug 01, 2010

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KITA, Kerala - teamkita.ning.com
 Center of Excellence
 Business Incubator, Entrepreneurial workshops
 Jams, Lectures, Networking
 E-Governance – Mass. Govt.
 Analytics and Virtual Desktop Cloud
 Smarter Villages – IT as a Cottage
industry
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Kerala to become a premier global technology hub

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2 questions to focus on
Smarter VillagesQ
● Extend Smarter Cities to Villages?
● Education, govt., health, transportation, safety, energy
● What are the business problems?
● Hub & Spoke
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● IT as a cottage industry?
● Technology Outlook
● Applying it to solve business problems in target industries
● Grass root entreprenurship
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IT as a business
tomorrow
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Opportunity to capitalize on
Paradigm ShiftsO

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Industry Specific
Smarter healthcareI

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Jam in LotusLive
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People and Tools
● IBM, KITA Subject Matter Experts
● Saintgits hosts and facilitators
● Participating team members (students, faculty)
● Judging panel
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● Jamming environment: IBM LotusLive http://lotuslive.com
­ Community, Activities, Forum, e-meeting, Instant Messaging
● KITA Social Network http://teamkita.ning.com
● Electronic Office hours daily – will be notified by Saintgits facilitators
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Jam with Rules
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Jam after Homework
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Jam in 3 Waves
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Jam in Activities
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Schedule
● Jam 1
● Top business problem
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July 8th
2011 – July 10th
2011
● Jam 2
● Solution, Final Deliverables
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July 11th
2011 - July 13th
2011
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● Finalists Present and win
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July 14th