Mindtrek Day 2

The morning was filled with two major presentation for all those present:

• Cloud Computing
• The dilemmas of public national broadcasting (radio, TV, internet)
  

In the afternoon there were various workshops and you could also opt for a big game / ICT trade fair.


The lecture on Cloud Computing was done by a Canadian in such a way that we all seemed excited and could understand why people can get from Cloud Computing (CC). He explained that you can look at three levels:


SaaS = Software as a Service
PaaS = Platform as a Service
IaaS = Interface as a Service

He showed the benefits of CC (cost, boring work falls away, you always have access to your software and data) and the risk. With his great way of telling the story he made us very enthusiast. Perhaps because at this moment people aims to: share, collaborations,  openness and trust,  more accent on software than on hardware and to solve problems together.
ICT professionals seem fun enthusiastic people with such passion for their profession, which really surprised us. They are always busy making life for the people easier and more pleasant or better, they don’t do it for themselves, but always look for others: what brings the world a bit further, what makes the world a little better? As Philips had a motto: Let `s make things better," they have the motto: `let` s make the world better".

We had the same feeling during the presentation about public TV / radio / internet broadcaster. The public broadcaster feels responsible for the promotion of values such as equality, religious freedom, democracy and unity. They search for a way to find or create matching program describing this values described above. Maybe in the Netherlands our broadcasters have also such values but you don’t notice it.

Finland is the only European country that is entirely independent of politics or advertising programs for public broadcasts. In Finland only 30% of Finnish households have a PC with Internet. One must therefore take this into account when creating programs to reach every audience. To make good programming is difficult because the differences are large.

In the afternoon the groups fell apart. The colleagues who went to the ICT fair saw the newest yet to be released games and electronics. E.g. the Samsung Galaxy TAB (an android based tablet ), we already hold and tried it out. The tablet will be available at the end of the month. We also had exclusive access to a fantastic party with three bands, delicious food and free drinks that night,  in a country where a glass of wine cost 8.40  and a beer 6.80!

Others followed workshops in various fields:

• Android Ecosystem: Hype and Reality
• Opportunities with Symbian
• The evolution of the iOS story

In the evening they where invited by the mayor (a voluntary, unpaid work in Finland!) at the City Hall followed by a Mindtrek Award Party with drinks and foods at café Bricks.

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