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Introduction to GNKS Consult

Introduction to GNKS Consult. Vision.

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Introduction to GNKS Consult

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  1. Introduction toGNKS Consult Confidential

  2. Vision • Vision: the world is changing, rapidly, into a Global Networked Knowledge Society (GNKS). Understanding this is crucial for policy makers and strategists, as their aim is to take decisions that will impact the future. In order to better understand in what ways that future might develop and how to develop policies and strategies with sustainable impact, insight in the concepts underlying GNKS is key. • Mission: Inform policy makers and strategists by addressing specific challenges building on the insights that come with the understanding of GNKS • Why work with GNKS Consult: • Build on excellence in understanding the issues GNKS • Have a home market in DG INFSO that allows further development of that excellence Confidential

  3. GNKS: • Global • Location of production and markets • Access to information and communication • Networked • Social and economic networks • Communication networks • Knowledge • Increasing amount of information on line • Growing ability to access and process it • Society • It’s all about people, stupid! • Sustainability from social, economic and environmental perspective Confidential

  4. The organisation • GNKS Consult is an independent private company, registered under number 24396166 at the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce since May 2006 • GNKS is conducting research and consultancy on its own, and in partnership with appropriate partners, depending on the challenge. It has partnership arrangements with the Danish Technology Institute (Aarhus, DK) and RAND Europe (Cambridge, UK) • Maarten Botterman is currently the sole employee. He is associated with a set of world class policy researchers, including those explicitly listed on the website Confidential

  5. Associates • James Kahan: behavioural scientist, psychologist with more than 20 years experience as policy analyst and policy evaluation, foresight, living in Oregon • Jonathan Cave: economist, game theorist, policy analyst with more than 20 years experience, also professor at Warwick University and a long track record in GNKS issues • Tora Bikson: behavioural scientist, and multidisciplinairy researcher with a 20 year + global track record and a home in Santa Monica. Expert in GNKS issues, in particular related to education, but also to ethics, health, etc • Stephen Simmons: expert in evaluation, in SME issues and eWork, based in Cornwall • Howard Schmidt: internationally reknowned expert in information security Confidential

  6. Core competences • Technology impact assessment, including foresight, scenario based analysis, etc • IS policy preparation through foresight, ex ante and ex post evaluation • Information Security: Trust, privacy, identity, CIP • eInclusion • eGovernment • Sustainable development • Global governance issues Confidential

  7. The networks • GNKS has clients in Brussels, UK and the Netherlands • GNKS has access to client- and research networks in Europe and the United States • GNKS has experience with Information Society policy work in Europe, USA and the Middle East Confidential

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