Ericsson and Boston University on March 28-29 will gather 64 MBA students from around the world who will partake in a case study competition designed to map where multimedia and mobile technologies are headed. Some $47,500 in prize money is up for grabs.
Ericsson calls the students “digital natives,” that is, people age 19-34 who have grown up living with and exploiting Web and mobile technologies. They include students from 18 countries and 16 business schools, but the students aren’t necessarily from the countries in which those schools exist.
Track the competition at this blog .
Speaking of Digital Natives, the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress has launched a series of lectures on the topic:
* Monday, April 7: Distinguished scholar and child-development expert Edith Ackerman will present “The Anthropology of Digital Natives”
Monday, May 12: “Internet, the Private Mind?” by Steven Berlin Johnson, author of “Everything Bad is Good for You.”
Monday, June 23: “The Anthropology of YouTube” by Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University.
Monday, June 30: “Screenology” by Douglas Rushkoff, author of “Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids.”
All lectures will take place at at 4 p.m. in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.
