CTO.nokia.com: A voice for innovation

The Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) at Nokia is much more than Chief Technology Officer Bob Iannucci, and more than the Nokia Research Center (NRC) labs across the world. A new site, CTO.nokia.com, has been launched to spread OCTO’s vision of the mobile future and engage the outside world.

Since Nokia embraced the Open Innovation research model two years ago, the collective work of OCTO extends far out into a global network of researchers and thought leaders at universities, think tanks, and the broader industry. OCTO’s eight hundred or so employees are its heart, but this broader community is becoming ever more critical to

its success. Sharing OCTO’s vision for the future of mobility with the worldwide community, sparking an active dialogue, and fostering feedback channels are all necessary for bringing OCTO’s ideas to ever-higher thresholds.

In order to facilitate communication within the global network, and within the Internet community as a whole, CTO.nokia.com was launched in late June 2008. Designed as a sister site to the pre-existing research.nokia.com the new CTO site will revolve around editorial content from sources both inside and outside of Nokia.

The research.nokia.com site has always been a repository of unbiased, opinion-neutral content about OCTO, NRC, specific research projects, initiatives and collaborations, in addition to providing profiles of facilities and staff. The new CTO site is designed to be its editorial counter-part. Its aim is to be a place where Nokia can paint a vision of the future, propose potentially disruptive ideas, reflect on industry happenings, and encourage direct communication from any and all interested parties.

The initial set of content revolves around blogs from Bob Iannucci, internal staff, and eventually external partners. There is also information on upcoming speaking events where OCTO and NRC staff will be presenting, and a stream of news stories that impact Nokia and the mobility industry as a whole.

In the upcoming months further content, features and new communications capabilities will be added to the site, evolving it into a full bilateral communications portal going forward.