Alex around the World

A new way to show what happens in Darfour. Google Earth connects photos to refugee camps, villages that have been destroyed, etc. Read the Telegraph’s article. It is also a good example illustrating how powerful images can be. Let’s hope it will show the world what really happens there. It seems like words and figures [...]

Voici différentes sources et liens à propos de ce qui s’est déroulé durant LIFT07, la conférence qui tente de remettre l’humain au coeur de la discussion à propos des nouvelles technologies. Les liens entre technologie, société et politique sont essentiels dans la discussion autour du fossé numérique (digital divide), mais ce que j’ai particulièrement apprécié [...]

LIFT07 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland Day 1 – morning session: “D.I.Y Monitoring and Evaluation” This was an interesting workshop about how to monitor and evaluate any type of project when you don’t want / can’t spend too much money on it. The workshop presentation is made available by the presenter (Glenn O’Neil) on his blog, Intelligent [...]

Content management systems are behind more and more corporate websites. It does certainly help manage thousands of gigabytes of content, but we are also more aware of the limitations of some systems. Here’s the weekly definition from wikipedia: A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of [...]

Here’s the word of the week: multilingualism, courtesy of Wikipedia community: A multilingual person is, in the broadest definition of multilingualism, anyone with communicative skills in more than one language, be it active or passive. More specifically, the terms bilingual and trilingual are used to describe comparable situations in which two or three languages are [...]