Having worked with some of the biggest names in the IT-industry, such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, IT-expert Kris Singh has spend the last years focuses on driving digital innovation initiatives. But how does he plan to ensure digital economy innovation for ALL 7.5 billion people around the world, and not just the 2.5 billion people benefiting from the digital economy today?
Name and age: Kris Singh (54)
Position: President & CEO at SRII
3 favorite apps: Google map, Skype, Google Hangouts
Describe yourself in 5 words: Humanitarian, Visionary, Passionate, Aggressive, Paranoid
How do you relax during spring?: I love playing tennis and exercise. I also love spending time with my family.
My passion is to drive digital innovation initiatives for major sectors of global economy and for a better world. This why I created and lead the global organization, SRII which include key leaders from industry, academia, research and government organizations from around the world.
Working with bright people and key organizations to help grow global economy and improve quality of life for all people.
Building team work and partnership with innovative organizations and key leaders from different sectors globally.
By 2020 SRII plans to have well established a digital economy innovation roadmap for all the major countries and regions around the world, including the Nordic countries.
Information Technology (IT) has been the major driving force of the new global economy called “Digital Economy”. SRII organizations around the world are working on building Digital Innovation agenda (Cloud computing, Mobile Services, Big data analytics, Social networking and etc) for major industry sectors such as Healthcare, Smart government, Smart city, Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Education and etc.
SRII global initiatives are also very much focused on ensuring Digital Economy innovation for ALL 7.5 billion people around the world and not just the 2.5 billion people currently benefiting from the Digital economy
- Innovating Healthcare Services
- Innovating the Education system and building Entrepreneurship program at the university level
- Innovating Energy economy to Renewable Energy
If you look at innovation, innovation happens at multiple levels: at the individual level, the organisational level and the ecosystem level. This is what we call it open innovation, where we all need to connect. One organisation cannot drive innovation alone. One of our key goals in SRII is thus to join forces with others in order to help creating a Silicon Valley Innovation Culture all around the world.
The Silicon Valley Innovation system includes:
- Building close partnership between Industry, Startups, Academia, VCs and Government organizations to develop and drive key Innovation Initiatives for Norway
- Attract smart and innovational people
Norway already have a good foundation for a digital economy, but having the tools and the knowledge is one thing, but how to use the tools and the knowledge is another. Thats precisely why we are also joining forces with the newly launched Open Innovation Lab of Norway, so we can help each other to address the economic challenges and the needs of Norway, as well as other countries.
See Kris´s talk at this weeks “Future Insight 2030” conference above
