Diogo, Randy and Matt shared their thoughts on the rise of social media and how the wealth of collaborative online services interconnects the world. 

To create a well-working marketplace, trust has to be created in a convenient environment for all different groups, to ensure that everyone is collaborating on equal terms. 

Examples that were discussed were:

The UN led Reseach4Life that MS is heavily involved in for providing leading scientific info to developing country scientists. www.research4life.org

Bayh–Dole Act or University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh-Dole_Act

Dialogue Café a Cisco project that enables face to face conversations between diverse groups of people from around the world so that they can share experiences; learn from each other and work together to make the world a better place. Dialogue Cafes are now open in Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon and Amsterdam. www.dialoguecafe.org

Crowdsourcing - Microsoft Imagine Cup, using the Redfish Media platform

http://www.imaginecup.com/

One of the amazing ideas that came out of ImagineCup

http://thelifelensproject.com/

http://www.redfishmedia.com/

The Comingled Code - Open Source and Economic Development: A great new book on the topic about the hidden issues around open source and proprietary software and monetisation of the innovations that come out of each and both tougher (ie co-mingled). http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12308

Diogo Vasconcelos Distinguished Fellow, Internet Business Solution Group Cisco
 Matt McKenna President, Red Fish Media
Randy Ramusack United Nations Technology Officer, Microsoft
Moderator: Annelie Andersson Marketing Director, Globe Forum