Most important changes driving innovation today are in the realms of technology, business and society, further supported by changes in media, prosumerism, intellectual property and education. New technologies are in the core of Real-Time Economy. These technologies have the ability to transform the way organizations do business. In return, our society will face changes that are manifested around our societal structures and culture. 

RTE Community platform features

Central features of the system include but are not limited to:

• Ideas, stories and challenges: this section is the core of the system for generating, improving and implementing ideas around digitalization. "Post an idea" is the central verb while the idea itself is framed with interaction. Main activities include posting ideas, rating ideas, tagging ideas, promoting/demoting ideas, navigating ideas and discussing ideas. Activities are concrete deeds users can do to become notable users in the system - with the label of digital saint applied to all active users. A point-based system is implemented to rank ideas based on user feedback.
  
  
• Knowledge and research: Interaction around ideas requires knowledge in form of research, reflections, crystallizations and general information. Knowledge about tools, external resources, related services and stories around digitalization can be collaboratively written and edited by the community in a wiki fashion. Earlier versions can be browsed and pages can be linked together.
  
  
• Tools and services: Various service providers and their tools can be listed here who provide solutions to the ideas and challenges posted in the ideas section. This section serves as means for linking providers with solution seekers.
  
  
• Networking: A section for listing users in the system and displaying their profiles and social networks. Users can list their business and personal background related to digitalization. Contact information can be provided, including external web-based profiles. Users can add other users as friends. This functionality can be used as a way to sort ideas in the ideas section.
  
  
• Presentations: Various media files related to Real-Time Economy can be listed here. This includes videos, podcasts, digital images and powerpoint presentations. Here are some upcoming features: The presentations section will have the ability to frame presentations with interaction (send to friend, link from favorite video sharing site, comment) and link them together through tagging and social navigation. Presentations are adviced to be stored in external content communities like Youtube, Odeo or SlideShare, so that each media file receives maximum exposure on the web.
  
  
• Front page: the entry page that displays what is new in the community. This can include custom content from the wiki like theme of the week, general information and some automatically generated content like notable (active) users and featured idea.
  
  
• Blog: An official blog based on Wordpress is used to provide news and a voice for the maintainers of the community to promote conversation around the service.

• Ideas, stories and challenges: this section is the core of the system for generating, improving and implementing ideas around digitalization. "Post an idea" is the central verb while the idea itself is framed with interaction. Main activities include posting ideas, rating ideas, tagging ideas, promoting/demoting ideas, navigating ideas and discussing ideas. Activities are concrete deeds users can do to become notable users in the system - with the label of digital saint applied to all active users. A point-based system is implemented to rank ideas based on user feedback.
  
  
• Knowledge and research: Interaction around ideas requires knowledge in form of research, reflections, crystallizations and general information. Knowledge about tools, external resources, related services and stories around digitalization can be collaboratively written and edited by the community in a wiki fashion. Earlier versions can be browsed and pages can be linked together.
  
  
• Contributors and showcases: Various service providers and their showcases can be listed here who provide solutions to the ideas and challenges posted in the ideas section. This section serves as means for linking providers with solution seekers.
  
  
• Networking: A section for listing users in the system and displaying their profiles and social networks. Users can list their business and personal background related to digitalization. Contact information can be provided, including external web-based profiles. Users can add other users as friends. This functionality can be used as a way to sort ideas in the ideas section.
  
  
• Presentations: Various media files related to Real-Time Economy can be listed here. This includes videos, podcasts, digital images and powerpoint presentations. Here are some upcoming features: The presentations section will have the ability to frame presentations with interaction (send to friend, link from favorite video sharing site, comment) and link them together through tagging and social navigation. Presentations are adviced to be stored in external content communities like Youtube, Odeo or SlideShare, so that each media file receives maximum exposure on the web.
  
  
• Front page: the entry page that displays what is new in the community. This can include custom content from the wiki like theme of the week, general information and some automatically generated content like notable (active) users and featured idea.
  
  
• Blog: An official blog based on Wordpress is used to provide news and a voice for the maintainers of the community to promote conversation around the service.

Other features include:

• Every feature in the system provides a RSS feed for easy subscription to updates.
• Researchers can provide a test for the level of digitaliztion within an organization (coming soon)
  
• APIs can be used to post ideas from mobile devices or third party applications (desktop or web-based) (coming soon)
• Inviting friends to join the service
  
  

User participation and interaction