Collaborative working is essential in today's business world to ensure the rapid flow of ideas and understanding. The traditional meeting is time-consuming and expensive, and in a global context increasingly environmentally unacceptable. nuVa Desk builds on our natural way of working. It combines high quality video and audio communications with an intuitive shared desk space for sharing documents, video and information through a familiar pen and keyboard interface. This can be used for writing, sketching and communicating naturally and securely in real time redcuing the need for travel and increasing productivity and life quality.