Lead: Sriyan de Silva Wijeyeratne -Country Manager, Microsoft-

1. The Role of Technology inThe Role of Technology in
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2. Ten forces that flattened the world

3. The global platform of the world!
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4. A “Triple Reset” in the areas of:
1. Economic
2. Social
3. Political

5. Social
The way government services are consumed is changing:
Citizen skills, habits and expectations are very different
A mobile society – Displaced people, overseas citizens and some
always connected
Societies’ need to learn and relearn is more frequent
Less about where you are born; more what you know during your
entire lifetime
Screens everywhere, starting with mobiles
Increased Tech based Social Networking

6. Economic
Banking Crisis
Global Competition
More countries playing in the world economy than what was
predicted 2 years ago (e.g. not only China/India in Asia)
Green Agenda

7. Political
New ways of connecting with citizens
New ways of providing feedback/criticizing
Harder to determine “the truth”

9. Societies and entities that fail to
adopt will go through great upheaval
and dislocation
The new promise of collaboration is
to harness human skill more
efficiently and effectively
We will need to be conscious of the
new business models, the impact on
our funding recipients, and the
opportunities and challenges they
face

12. Within R &D
Our People
Groups for
Problem Solving
Learning Circles
( Role, Issue ,
People based)
Peer Communities
Worldwide
(Role Based)

13. Calendaring
Presence and OFF status
Instant Messaging
Communicator
Simplified creation of private email groups,
Sharepoint sites,

14. Live Meetings
Linking up with FB, Twitter
Understand the “person”

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16. Culture
Timing
Cause
Passion
Leadership