The end of the day has already come… So it’s time for the presentation of the results!

The labs in Cape Town, Nairobi, Buea, Ramallah, Cairo, Kampala and London have worked a full day on questions from different organizations in The Netherlands, and people in Amsterdam have worked on questions the labs have asked to them, and vice versa.. Understand?

An example of a question: The lab in Cairo is involved in a independent public initiative to write the new Egyptian constitution. They asked: How to make this a ‘real’ public thing, and not just for the (online) elite? The solution from the Dutch team: ‘KISS’: Keep It Short and Simple! Link it to popular things like: the national football team! Go to a football match and ask people there what they want for their children. Gather these answers and use them to co-write the constitution. A big tasks… But hey!

Lastly there was the announcement of the Accenture Skills to Succeed Award of €3000: Pepper Ladies in Liberia!

Unfortunately the day has ended already! See you next year!?

And of course the event ends with THE song from Black Eyed Peas! I gotta feeling that tonight is going to be a good night!

For the first time a 3D printer has made a fully functioning hybrid car

“People are as loyal as their next mouse click”, says Alexander Klöpping when asked about the future of the Dutch company Hyves. He finds it a pity that Hyves has become something laughable as if it is only for the little people. We should be proud of our national company. They are a lot more trustworthy than Facebook.”

The 24 year old student who transformed from a student in a new media expert shows the public the implications of new inventions. The first one he shows is the first world printed car by a 3D printer (see image above). “Can you imagine in the future, you have lost something from say Ikea and you just print it? And it is mainstream because tomorrow de 3D printer is going on sale at the Dutch warehouse Bijenkorf. There are groups already now printing out cathedrals together

The future of this is quite interesting as well because what is happening with the outsourcing in the future? If you can print your Iphone cover what will that do to outsourcing?”

“Now another example is this little white thing.” Klöpping shows a little plastic square thing to be attached to the Iphone. “You plug it to your phone and change it to a credit card terminal. This thing cost 20 cents. You take a picture of your transaction and then draw a signature on your phone. Where credit cards are a pain and expensive for small shops, this is easy.”

“Another interesting thing a journalist from the Guardian wrote about is Facebook credits. Take for example Farmville. People pay with real money to buy stuff on Farmville. Now what if your Facebook friends start paying your beer with Facebook money and take it one step further yet. What if you loan money from the Facebook bank? These guys know everything about you! They know when you are ill, misbehave, how much you drink etcetera. This means that in theory you have to make sure your kids behave on Facebook otherwise they won’t get a mortgage.”

The last example of how technical inventions change our lives is Uber Cab. It is an app used in San Fransisco, where you press a button and the nearest can will stop for you. You pay them through the app and you give the taxi driver stars for service. Imagine what that would do in Amsterdam!