Today we reached another milestone with the launch of our, Ericsson’s, 20th Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Report, documenting our efforts and performance for 2012, but also setting our vision for the coming years.
Today, in conjunction with our Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, our CEO Hans Vestberg said throughout [...]
By: Monika Bylehn
11 December, 2012
Society , Technology
50 billion connections,
applications,
connected devices,
Connectivity,
ICT,
innovation,
mobile broadband,
Networked Society,
Smart cities,
Technology for Good,
urban life
The inefficiency of people’s daily commute regularly features as one of the major issues facing cities worldwide. Traffic congestion and commuting inefficiencies not only cause environmental, social and economic problems; on a personal level it is also one of the most unpleasant urban experiences and a key source of stress.
By: Monika Bylehn
3 December, 2012
Society , Technology
applications,
ICT,
innovation,
mobility,
Networked Society,
Smart cities,
Sustainable Cities,
Technology for Good,
urban life
Would you give up your car and instead subscribe to a car sharing service? I got this question a few months ago from a friend living in Paris. My initial reaction was no. I like the fact that my car is my own and that it is accessible where, and when, I want it. But [...]
Economists, strategists and visionaries are calling for capitalism to be redefined for the 21st century. They are demanding capitalism that creates fair societal ties; capitalism that no longer divides, exploits and creates economic disasters. The open-ended consumption model we have today is no longer sustainable. Fortunately, the change has already started; let me introduce to [...]
I’m at the Business Innovation Forum in São Paulo, Brazil. Brazil is a country in which the information and communication technology (ICT) industry is bringing about rapid changes, and everything from busses to schools have been connected to mobile broadband networks to improve citizens’ quality of life. And with the country set to host the [...]
In the newly released Networked Society City Index report, produced in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics and Improvement Labs, we continue to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple-bottom-line development.
Which city will become Europe’s Silicon Valley? Is it Berlin, London, Paris? Perhaps Stockholm, Barcelona or Istanbul? Where do we find the most vital and vibrant local ecosystems, with clusters of startups, beginning to make themselves known to the world?
When I met Professor Stephen Heppell in London last month, he raised interesting ideas about measuring the learning process. He said that in the future, we will start to measure our learning in the same manner as many of us today have started to measure our health or our sports activities.
Smartphones and mobile broadband networks can’t protect us against natural disasters – like Hurricane Sandy, which battered the East Coast of the US on Monday night – but it can help prepare us, making citizens as informed as possible before, during and after a crisis situation. Here are a few innovative examples of how these [...]
By: Mikael Eriksson Björling
24 October, 2012
News , Society , Technology
connected learning,
connected schools,
Connectivity,
education,
ICT,
mobile broadband,
Networked Society,
Smartphones,
Technology for Good
All around the world, a lively debate is taking place on the subjects of learning and education. At the 2011 Networked Society Forum in Hong Kong, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes proclaimed that the textbook is dead. In a recent interview, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, Sugata Mitra says that we don’t need institutional [...]
