Month: July 2015

Young vs Old: A glimpse into the technology industry workforce relationships

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Post date 24. July 2015
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Asok is an Indian intern in the famous comic strip Dilbert. He is brilliant and one of the most efficient workers at the office. Despite of his excellent performance, he is never hired as an employee and is often denied the use of company resources.

In these two Dilbert strips from 2006 and 2010, Asoks interaction with older workers can give us an interesting glimpse of the challenges faced by the technology industry.

Is there a real conflict between generations?
Does inter-generational teams affect the work environment?
Is experience still relevant?
Etc…

Source: http://dilbert.com/strip/2010-12-23

Tags ageing, aging, Dilbert, old, older persons, technology

Active Ageing

White House Conference on Aging

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Post date 15. July 2015
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President Obama delivers remarks at the WHCOA

“This year, we mark the 80th anniversary of Social Security. We mark the 50th anniversary of Medicare. We’ve grown so accustomed to these programs being a part of American life – these bedrock, foundation stones of our society – sometimes it’s easy to forget how revolutionary they were at the time. They were hard to get done. When FDR tried to pass Social Security, critics called it “socialism.” When President Kennedy and President Johnson – and the Dingells – worked to create Medicare, cynics raised the alarm about government takeover of health care. And now we’ve got signs saying, “Get your government hands off of my Medicare.” – Barack Obama

Tags age, aging, Barack Obama, Medicare, Obama, WHCOA

Technology

A successful “Hack Aging” initiative could never depart from the typical problem solving perspective

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Post date 11. July 2015
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IBM and HealthXL are supporting a health hackathon to explore options for tackling the challenges of an ageing population. It is an important initiative, but the recurrent focus on the problems of ageing could be a huge mistake and a wrong starting point.

Tags ageing, aging, HealthXL, health_xl, IBM, technology

Active Ageing Technology

Re-thinking Technology for older persons

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Post date 9. July 2015
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Lecture for the HiOA International Summer School on Universal Design of ICT.

The main objective of this presentation is to discuss the political, ideological and ethical implications present on technology design focusing the case of population ageing.