Fanny Klett |
Isidro Laso Scientific Officer - Networked Media Systems Unit |
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PROSPECTS AND RISKS OF WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS Fanny Klett Director German Workforce ADL Partnership Lab, Germany | |
[Abstract] Gartner, Inc. annually examines the maturity of emerging technologies, trends and already established technological developments in a variety of technology, topic, and industry areas. These findings become published in the Gartner’s "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies" According to the 2009 Hype Cycle, Web 2.0 and Social Media technologies will be entirely accepted during the following two years; moreover, Cloud Computing, and Service-Oriented Architectures will hit the mainstream in five years. Further, the analysis points out that Web 2.0 technologies, such as Twitter, have tipped over the peak and will soon experience disillusionment among enterprise users followed by a broad penetration of corporate blogging and wikis. | |
[Biography] Dr. Fanny Klett assumed the Directorship of the German Workforce Advanced Distributed Learning Partnership Laboratory, which is run in cooperation with the US Government, in 2009. She established the Business Area Data Representation and Interfaces at the Fraunhofer Institute Digital Media Technology. Fanny Klett earned her Ph.D. in Electronic Media Technology from Ilmenau University of Technology. She was a visiting scientist at the Graz University of Technology. Dr. Klett's research and development interests are on advanced technologies in the area of information, data and content management, enterprise knowledge management, competency and job performance management, e-assessment, collaborative systems as well as metadata, repositories, data fusion and interoperability. She is regularly invited as a visiting lecturer at universities across Europe and Asia. Fanny Klett actively works in standardization bodies such as the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee, the IEEE Standards Association, the US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, the Learning Education and Training Systems Interoperability Association, the ISO SC36 for learning, education and training. She is CEN WS-LT LTSO expert. Dr. Klett chaired and served on more than 20 conference planning and program committees of UNESCO, IEEE, APSCE, etc. She is associated editor of the IEEE Education Society and ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Division joint publication “The Interface” and serves on the peer-reviewer board of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and the IEEE Educational Technology and Society Journal. She was Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal in 2010. In addition, Fanny Klett assists the European Commission, and various governmental and industrial research funding organizations in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Cyprus, the US, etc. as an independent expert. Dr. Klett is IEEE Fellow. She is actively involved in the IEEE Computer Society Member and Geographic Activities Board by representing Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and the IEEE Educational Activities Board. She is also Member of the Sponsor Executive Committee and Secretary of the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee chartered by the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activity Board, and Member of the Council and the Academic Board of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering. Dr. Klett has published more than 80 technical and invited papers, white papers and book chapters, and has organized numerous Special Sessions and Workshops on digital information, knowledge sharing and standardization themes at leading international conferences worldwide. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Isidro Laso-Ballesteros Scientific Officer - Networked Media Systems Unit. D.G. Information Society and Media. European Commission. | |
[Biography] Isidro Laso-Ballesteros is a Scientific Officer at the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission where he is in charge of the long term research activities and strategy activities, and is now dealing with the FutureInternet initiative. He has recently being appointed as coordinator of one of the actions of the "Digital Agenda for Europe" initiative. In addition, he teaches as lecturer in several universities and currently keeps permanent teaching slots in several postgraduate courses of the Virtual School of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid-CEPADE and University of Burgos. He holds a degree on civil engineering and postgraduate studies on computational engineering and systems/networking engineering. Isidro has authored various books on the topic of Internet: "Internet y Comercio Electronico", "Internet, Comercio Colaborativo y mComercio". He has also published chapters in Japanese, English and Spanish in reviewed books edited by IOS press and Kluwer Academic publ. He has also authored three publications on Collaborative technologies, innovation, collaborative work environments and innovation published by the Official Publication Office of the European Communities (OPOCE). He is member of scientific boards of several IEEE and international conferences on ICT. He is regularly invited as keynote speaker on research institutions and conferences to talk about long term ICT research. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |