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 are not enough anymore…
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 durant cette conférence, c’est la visibilité qui a été donnée aux actions locales, sur le terrain (Kenya, Inde, Afrique du Nord, etc.). J’ai pu assister a beaucoup de discussions intéressantes, je pense que je reviendrai pour l’édition 2008. 
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 Measurement. The main thing I noted was that there are easy and cheap ways to monitor (know what is going on during a project) and evaluate (see what happened) your projects. Educating stakeholders and getting their buyin in order to be able to use monitoring and evalations methods is a related issue that needs to be considered.
Day 1 – afternoon session: “Collaboration and Innovation in Workspace that Works”
Clark Elliott made a very nice presentation about workspaces and how they affect collaboration, working habits, corporate culture, cultures, employer-employee relationship. We covered many topics related to how office spaces are designed: architecture, furnitures, space, interactions, online vs. offline collaboration, new working tools, wireless, mobile workers, etc. His presentation will also be made available soon. I will provide the link as soon as I have it.
Thanks to both presenters, I really enjoyed both sessions and am looking forward to meet new people at tomorrow’s first conference day. Read more about the LIFT07 Conference.
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 documents and other content. A content management system is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available.
Read also my discussion about workflows.
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