Hello
Today,
as you can see here,
I prepared a talk about the link type person that the future needs.
Um last part of can be included in the first part of my talk,
I’d like to tell in the different of view today.
I have some friends in Africa.
The number of my friends in Africa is not that large,
but many of them are a lot of fine people.
Among my friends,
Erik Hersman is famous.
Have ever heard of him?
You haven’t heard of him, right?
But he doesn’t look like African,
does he?
When we look into his life,
he is American.
His mother and father are all American.
There is a country called Sudan.
His father and mother went south Sudan of Africa as missionary.
His parents did translation of the bible
in to the one of an African language, Swahili.
And after then, they went to Kenya.
So he was born in Africa and lived in there until he went to the high school.
But he wanted to go back to the America since he is American.
For that reason, he went to America after he graduated high school.
I’m not sure he has patriotism especially since he was in Africa for the long time,
but He volunteered for military service,
after he came to the America and studied a little.
During he worked for the US army
he didn’t only work for the army,
but also he learned about computer software.
And he was very brilliant software engineer.
You know the people who are talented for computer programming.
He has an aptitude for the software programming.
So he achieved recognition from the Silicon Valley and lived like this way.
But suddenly he came back to the Africa.
He thought that he should go back to the Africa and do something new.
He started to introduce everything of Africa getting around the Africa
that locates surroundings of Nairobi of Kenya which he settled at first.
And he made a world-wide famous website, a blog called Afrigadget ,
which is nominated as ’50 best websites’ by the Times in 2008.
This is the screen that I captured yesterday and the day before last.
In Africa, they do some work, called Maker Faire, that makes new rule and suggest it.
For example, Bulb 2.0,
as you can see here links these things and introduce new trial of incandescent lamp.
There is another thing that became famous due to the Afrigadget.
They do work that they find the people who has potential possibility and then introduce them to the world.
The new service and site that he found is Ushahidi.
I’m not sure you’ve heard of it or not.
It is a project that each people in the world register the thing that is happening in their region.
Then, they mark on the world map in the method of cloud sourcing.
When the hurricane hit the Katrina, and Fukushima nuclear accidents happened in Japan,
people in the whole world showed everything using the Ushahidi platform linking with the google map.
This is made by one lady, whose name is Juliana Rotich.
It was Erik Hersman who picked up her,
and invested so that Ushahidi can be known to the whole world.
And another example is ‘iHub’. This is called ‘Coworking space’.
In the Africa education program for the computer Engineer is lack.
So this is a program that call in the engineers some place in Africa,
and educate the talented in Africa that they learned from the USA.
On the other way, they pick some great items and introduce them in to the world.
Erik Hersman is very competent businessman who does this kind of linkage business.
Thanks to him, I could meet a lot of talented people in Africa.
And I usually think it will be good for you to do something like this.
I think Erik Hersman is a typical talented person.
Anyway, in the role of Hersman, there are two or three ability that we usually recall.
What do you think first? He can speak African language, Swahili quite freely.
Also he knows African culture very well since he lived until he was high school student.
So he made the liking service possible get around alone with motorcycle.
So to understand culture of different countries very well
and to understand the language of different counties did very important role in linking between something.
It is very important to tie this together to achieve some mission,
not just simply ‘I can speak foreign language’.
But is it all? No. Human never cannot live alone by nature.
Actually, in real, we should do in team. So it will be the co-work age in the future.
Then, the language and culture is not the only thing that is different. Many things will be difference.
For example, only in our society, there are many cases when people have different jobs.
Also, there are many examples that are hard to understand due the characteristic of that industry.
Even, um, this is really heartbroken case.
If the circumstances that people lives are different,
they cannot understand their relationship since it is hard to meet each other.
Recently, the reason that that the politicians make a comment
that looks they don’t understand the other side is that they failed to understand.
Since they couldn’t understand the circumstance…
It is very sorry that our society has a lot of group that are isolated and separated. Too many…
Then, someone should do the role of tying together. To do this, we should converge or co-work.
At first, he simply thought that it will be enough to meet each other or meet them in somewhere?
But it is not enough. More important thing is the linkage to lead convergence and co-work.
If there wasn’t Erik Hersman, whom I told you before,
it will be difficult to make meeting between the Africa and the advanced country.
But thanks to him, the potential explode loudly. This is my major. I majored in medicine.
I don’t five medical treatment and just have license.
It has been 10 years not to serve medical treatment.
Also I studied policy called health policy management for a master’s.
It is kind of social science.
And I studied Engineering field that is called Biomechanical Engineering for doctor’s degree.
My major is light.
Isn’t the symbol look cool?
Look at this picture.
The symbol on the back side that shows atom is part of science.
And do you know what the central part means?
It is the cane of Hippocrates that represents the medicine and it is very important.
So the Biomedical Engineering is a study to connect between the two parts.
The important thing to do this is
whether the people studied biomedical engineering knows more about engineering
than people who studied it in the engineering department.
No. they don’t. Then, Do they know more about medical science than the people who majored in medical science?
No, No way. It can’t be. I’ll tell you the reason why this role is important.
I recognized this during undergraduate.
And I called Professor from engineering field and medical science.
Also I studied convergence abroad.
Therefore, I suggested make a forum like that together.
But it doesn’t work well. Can you guess the reason?
Because of lack of effort to understand each other.
Another reason of this is self-esteem is too strong.
Professor of engineering field is too proud isn’t he?
So he said there are lots of technologies.
Then, doctors said that engineers don’t know medical science and this is ridiculous.
So Engineers took offense.
Vice versa, if medical scientist told something with their imaginary,
then engineers tell it is impossible to realize mechanically.
Then, doctor took offense too. In real, it usually takes place.
This also happens between the artist and logician. The most pitiful thing was..
Um. Medici effect of Renaissance comes from the co-work of artists and scientist.
But in Korea, there is another reason that makes impossible.
There are left-brain type person and right-brain type person.
One is People who do artistic work and the other is people who do logistic or engineering job.
They don’t like each other. It is inevitable.
Left-brain type person thinks right-brain type person makes ridiculous thinking.
The other way, do you know the way the right-brain type person thinks left-brain type person?
They think left-type person is very boring. Their thinking is always stuffy.
They are not creative at all. Therefore, they cannot understand each other.
Then what do we need?
We need someone who can connect both sides. We need a person who can understand both sides,
who can help their communication and help them to achieve some social mission.
A while ago, I told you the thing that Erik Hersman get over the language and culture.
But we need more than that.
It is a role that helps understanding and communication between the different concerns.
Convergence is the key to do this.
What is this picture? This shows the result of vote at 18th president election in Korea.
It looks different country.
This area is neutral zone between Dong yeong Jeong and Myung-bak Lee.
And this area has clear color as you know.
And this area has also clear color like this way.
Politic is the same. What do you think is important in case of politic?
Is it important to make my category since I’m good?
No. It is important to understand each other and lead agreement.
And the role that can tie up on the middle step is important.
Preposterously, we can easily find the case that politician speaks their voice loudly and not to hear the other side.
They always concerns about make their supporter.
The reason for this is that, we make it worse.
We make this result and we don’t try to hear the other side.
Then who is the person we need? Likewise, we need people who can lead social consultation.
When we lead the agreement in society, our society will develop into ideal direction.
Therefore, the most important thing is link type person should seek the convergence that is emphasized in UNIST also.
What is convergence? You may major in many studies.
In case of Nano and IT, you might say that to combine the content of Nano and IT is the convergence between Nano and IT.
But it is just Bibimbab. It is not convergence to major just two or more studies.
The key point of convergence is how to bring the horizontal connection.
We cannot fuse two things without the effort to develop essence. Just connect two things never creates.
I define convergence as communication and culture.
First step is to make ability of listening to different things, understanding and connecting them.
And second step is to make the environment that the person who has ability of the first step.
These days, large company wants to find creative person or fused type person.
Let them scout those kinds of people.
Let me guess what happen in few years?
The creativity and fusion will be disappeared from that people.
Why? Since the company doesn’t have that kind of culture.
If the company doesn’t have that kind of culture, creative and convergence person cannot change that company.
Therefore, the culture and external environment is also important. So, convergence is communication and culture.
This is the key point I think in convergence.
This is the environment that changes these days.
Every things start to be connected. So someone used word, connected world.
And social network connects between people. The connection is not that simple.
Look inside, then there are lots of islands.
According to their language, interest and concern, people make ‘we’ that kind of circle.
If we find some bridge between the ‘we’, then we can find the ‘pie’ type person. We use another expression, ’age of me we’.
We should make the world that ‘I’ and ‘we’ exists together.
This is the last picture. What is this? This is my favorite song by duo, Simon and Garfunkel.
When you’re weary feel in small. When tears are in, your eyes I’ll dry them all, You know.
What does the lyrics that I song before means? It means that when you are crying, I’d like to remove your tears.
We live very hard life. And various people make various tears in their life.
I hope you to become a person who can connect this rough life and world. This is the final message,
Bride of traveled water.
Thank you.