Today and tomorrow, there are 300+ changemakers, technologists and innovators collaborating together at N2Y4. The morning kicked off with a presentation from Cisco System's IS Director, Marisa Chancellor: Web 2.0 Collaboration in the Enterprise. 

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Opportunities and using technology to power the network....where does the real power come from?

Mike Yutrzenka, Executive Director of Cisco Foundation, speaks on the level playing field, quoting Tom Freedman and others on the state of global networks and what we come together to do. He speaks on the move of "global knowledge work" away from silicon valley and out into the villages and communities of leaders in every corner of the world.

There's great potential for new collaborations here and some of that is happening on the N2Y2 backchannel on Meebo: http://www.meebo.com/room/netsquared/

Welcome to San Jose! It's great to see so many innovators in one room with an interest in bringing new resources and new players together.

So what are we doing here? To connect, resource, share, learn, collaborate, brainstorm, challenge, encourage and vote!

For the next two days I will be blogging here at Cisco for the feedback focus sessions and will do my best to keep the conversations alive here on NetSquared.

Daniel's at the podium now setting the stage for the event, asking us all to keep brevity at a premium as we seek to go through 21 great projects in a matter of hours. The hat person chooses Nabuur first as the projects begin their five minute introduction to present their work to the community.

Best wishes to all of the presenting innovation networks!

Yes, a childhood memory of a favourite TV show.

 Now it's time to reveal that Cisco, actually helped me too. 

 It came in the persons of Piotr Skirski and Michal Kraut who offered their advice on a configuration for village networking aiding our research on pro-poor ICT strategy.

So, to our sponsors - thanks guys you're doing a good job.