Events

Cologne (GER), August 2011 - An invaluable collection of knowledge on the internet that is easy to access and to which everyone can contribute - ten years ago skeptics mocked the whole idea of the Wikipedia project. But the online encyclopedia has proved its critics wrong: hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped make Wikipedia the largest repository of knowledge known to man; it has revolutionized knowledge creation in the worlds of education and business and in society in general. It is for this achievement that Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales is to be awarded the Leonardo - European Corporate Learning Award. » MORE

Westchester, PA (US), August 2011 - Human Capital Solutions, LLC, has announced the official opening of SocialMediaPlus 2011, a one-and-a-half-day Web 2.0 and social media business summit exploring practical ideas for the use of social media in business. The event, being held on 15-16 November at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, is expected to attract nationally recognized speakers and presenters from the social media industry. » MORE

Vienna (A), August 2011 - The fourth S-ICT Conference "Student Mobility and ICT: Virtual Mobility" will be held on 03-04 November 2011 in Vienna, Austria. The Conference is organised by the VIRQUAL project (Virtual Mobility and European Qualification Framework in HE and CE Institutions) in co-operation with Vienna University of Technology and Maastricht University. » MORE

Paris (FR), July 2011 - The Broadband World Forum 2011 will be held at CNIT La Defense in Paris, France 27-29 September 2011. The program will bring together more than 300 speakers and 10,000 attendees and incorporates over 215 service-provider case studies. » MORE