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DoorsEast 2003 had three parts:
- morning plenary presentations by experts and project leaders
- afternoon small groups to deepen knowledge exchange
- informal evening show-and-tell sessions around the city

Designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and grassroots innovators, shared their project experiences developing new kinds of services. They presented and discussed projects from India, South Asia, and the North, that deliver new ways to meet needs in daily life in the areas of home, work, learning, mobility, and sociability.

Discussions addressed principles for the design of network-based services in new contexts; tools and methodologies for mapping local knowledge; lessons learned, and next steps

Although their contexts differ dramatically, both Europe and Asia face the same innovation dilemma: in order to innovate successfully, we need to learn about the emerging needs to which new technology might be an answer. DoorsEast 2003 will foster new connections among people and organisations able to exploit lessons learned in real innovation projects:

- innovation managers in the ICT sector;
- professional designers involved in the innovation of services;
- postgraduate design and engineering students and researchers.

Presenters and participants included:

- Designers of future service scenarios from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea;
- Grassroots innovators from India and South Asia;
- Research and design leaders from leading international universities
- Darlie Koshy, Executive Director, National Institute of Design;
- Jogi Panghaal, Principal, DoorsEast;
- Gillian Crampton Smith, Director, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea;
- Aditya Dev Sood, CEO Center for Knowledge Societies, Bangalore;
- Marko Ahtisaari, Director of user-focused activities in the Insight & Foresight Unit of Nokia
- John Thackara, Director, Doors of Perception;
- Jouke Kleerebezem, advising researcher , Jan van Eyck, Maastricht
- Caroline Nevejan, Director of Research at the Amsterdam profesional University
- Jogchem Niemandsverdriet, Webby award winning artist- for best personal website in 2003
- Jussi Angleseva, winner of the OpenDoors design contest, 2002
- Debra Solomon, Dutch Art Institute for Master of Fine Arts programme, Enschede
- Zeenat Hasan, Center for Knowledge Societies, Bangalore;
- Marco Susani, Manager of Advanced Concepts, Motorola;
- Nokia future services designers

Follow-up and outcomes

The main aim of DoorsEast 2003 was to build an innovation community, linking India and Europe, around an agenda of sustainability, equal access, and social quality.