towards a new enlightenment - openess and the future of technology in science and education
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The slides for my invited talk at the Open Science and Research Forum, Helsinki, November 2014. In this talk I say a little about what Jisc is about and recent notable successes, introduce our Technology Foresight process, and explore whether we are headed for a Digital Dark Age or a New Age of Enlightenment. All this, and how to dye sheep different colours in Minecraft. Find out more about Jisc's Technology Foresight activity at http://foresight.jiscinvolve.orgTRANSCRIPT
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and EducationOpen Science and Research Forum, Helsinki, November 2014
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user quinn
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton
1. About Jisc2. Technology Foresight3. A Digital Dark Age4. … or a New Enlightenment?5. Closure
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and Education
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user thalamus
1. About Jisc2. Technology Foresight3. A Digital Dark Age4. … or a New Enlightenment?5. Closure
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and Education
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user thalamus
:: About Jisc :: What we do
» Registered charity championing the use of digital technologies in
research and education
» Range of shared services for UK Universities and Colleges, e.g.
- Janet, world leading research network
- eduroam global wireless roaming
- Groundbreaking content deals with publishers
- Cloud brokerage with Amazon, Google, Microsoft
» Complementing UK research councils and Innovate UK/Catapults
- Open Educational Resources, Open Access and Open Data
- Just launched asset sharing initiative
:: About Jisc :: UK Further/Higher education
:: About Jisc :: The Janet network
:: About Jisc :: Efficiency gains
Generating £260m savings per annum
e.g. KnowledgeBase+ - £4.5m
:: About Jisc :: Efficiency gains
Generating £260m savings per annum
e.g. DigiMap - £40m
1. About Jisc2. Technology Foresight3. A Digital Dark Age4. … or a New Enlightenment?5. Closure
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and Education
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user thalamus
:: Technology Foresight ::
» Technology Foresight
– Our Horizon scanning and sense making activity
– Identifying future strategic themes and asking
“how do we get there from here?”
› Website just launched
– http://foresight.jiscinvolve.org
› Coming soon:
– Horizon Scan synthesis
– Think Tank for “wicked problems”
– Targetted pilots, testbeds and prototypes
“He sees you when you’re sleeping.
He knows when you’re awake.
He knows if you’ve been bad or good.
So be good for goodness sake”
– from Santa Claus is Coming to Town,
by Haven Gillespie / J. Fred Coots
:: Technology Foresight ::Google Knows What Makes Your Heart Beat Faster
See http://foresight.jiscinvolve.org
» What is the IT function “for” now?
– Collaboration and storage are free
– Commoditization of compute (AWS,
Azure, Google Compute Engine etc)
– Amazon AppStream, Azure
RemoteApp “app as a service”
› Innovation in Technology?
:: Technology Foresight :: The Day of Forever,
Infinite Storage & the Future of Corporate IT
See http://foresight.jiscinvolve.org
‘Never memorize something that you can look up’ – Albert Einstein.
» Impact on teaching and learning
– But do we control the technology, or
are we controlled by it?
– Who needs what digital skills?
› “Web we want”, Unhosted, ind.ie
:: Technology Foresight ::
Amazon Echo, and the End of Remembering
See http://foresight.jiscinvolve.org
1. About Jisc2. Technology Foresight3. A Digital Dark Age4. … or a New Enlightenment?5. Closure
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and Education
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user thalamus
:: A Digital Dark Age :: The End of History?
:: A Digital Dark Age :: The End of History?
:: A Digital Dark Age :: The End of History?
:: A Digital Dark Age :: The End of History?
:: A Digital Dark Age :: The End of History?
1. About Jisc2. Technology Foresight3. A Digital Dark Age4. … or a New Enlightenment?5. Closure
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and Education
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user thalamus
:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
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:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
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:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
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:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
:: A New Enlightenment :: Open by Default
:: A New Enlightenment :: Goodbye to Berlin
:: A New Enlightenment :: Goodbye to Berlin
:: A New Enlightenment :: Get the Data
» Schema.org – Datasets, Learning Resources (LRMI) etc
:: A New Enlightenment :: Get the Data
» Schema.org – Datasets, Learning Resources (LRMI) etc
:: A New Enlightenment :: Get the Data
» Schema.org – Datasets, Learning Resources (LRMI) etc
:: A New Enlightenment :: Asset sharing
:: A New Enlightenment :: Asset sharing
» Leveraging public investment in the Janet network
– Connecting industry: http://www.ja.net/janet-reach
– Where next - e.g. 10Gbit/s links to Science Parks?
– Testbeds for new technologies, e.g. UHD streaming from Tokyo
Olympics, Surrey 5G testbed, Catapult centres
» Where else can we add value?
– Exploit our cost sharing group (256 institutions, 93% of Universities)
– Research clusters, e.g. Jisc shared data centre with Sanger, Crick, UCL,
King’s College, QMUL, LSE etc: http://www.ja.net/data-centre
– Anticipating Austerity 2.0 efficiency savings
See http://www.jisc.ac.uk/research/projects/equipment-sharing
:: A New Enlightenment ::Frictionless supercomputing
Image credit: CC BY-NC-ND HPC Midlands
» Brokering access to £60m public investment in HPC
1. About Jisc2. Technology Foresight3. A Digital Dark Age4. … or a New Enlightenment?5. Closure
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and Education
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user thalamus
:: Closure :: School of the future
:: Closure :: School of the future
:: Closure :: School of the future
:: Closure :: School of the future
Towards a New Enlightenment:Openness and the Future of Technology in Science and EducationOpen Science and Research Forum, Helsinki, November 2014
Photo credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Flickr user quinn
Martin Hamilton [email protected]
Futurist @martin_hamilton