Mini Trip Report: South Korea

The former head of Information Technology at the UN in New York with whom I discussed creating a collective intelligence for the Secretary-General of the UN several years ago (the idea got lost in politics), is now the head of future strategy for the new President of Korea. I met with him at the Blue House (Office of the President) about future collaboration with MP.

http://www.indaily.co.kr/client/news/newsView.asp?Bcate=F1002&nMcate=M1005&nScate=&nIdx=17047&cpage=1&nType=1

MoneyToday Media and its K.E.Y Platform conference brought me to Korea to give the closing planetary address on the next big technologies.

http://www.mt.co.kr/view/mtview.php?type=1&no=2013061912511200827&outlink=1 I also keynoted a special session of the new Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning on emerging technologies and the “Creative Economy” (the new thrust of Korean policy). Television coverage – I start about 2 minutes into the TV reporting at: http://www.channelit.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=361791

Youngsook Park, Chairwoman of The Millennium Project Korean Node put together an excellent series of meetings, and talks with universities in Busan http://news20.busan.com/controller/newsController.jsp?newsId=20130622000062 and Daejun http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=101&oid=003&aid=000521984 as well as a workshop with the Korean Node and its Social Network Services Forum with its new outreach with twitterians, youth programs, and friendship ambassadors to the media word.

http://www.indaily.co.kr/client/news/newsView.asp?nBcate=F1002&nMcate=M1003&nScate=&nIdx=17098&cpage=1&nType=1 Youngsook said there were some 30 articles appeared about the visit to South Korea. The Millennium Project continues a high profile in South Korea.