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A new way to talk about the “genocide” in Darfur, Sudan

Alex — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:38:14 +0000

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…

LIFT07 – Interviews et sources utiles

Alex — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:08:25 +0000

Voici diffÃ©rentes sources et liens Ã propos de ce qui s’est dÃ©roulÃ© durant LIFT07, la confÃ©rence qui tente de remettre l’humain au coeur de la discussion Ã propos des nouvelles technologies.

Les liens entre technologie, sociÃ©tÃ© et politique sont essentiels dans la discussion autour du fossÃ© numÃ©rique (digital divide), mais ce que j’ai particuliÃ¨rement apprÃ©ciÃ© durant cette confÃ©rence, c’est la visibilitÃ© qui a Ã©tÃ© donnÃ©e aux actions locales, sur le terrain (Kenya, Inde, Afrique du Nord, etc.). J’ai pu assister a beaucoup de discussions intÃ©ressantes, je pense que je reviendrai pour l’Ã©dition 2008.

My notes during a LIFT07 workshop

Alex — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:12:15 +0000

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.

Word of the week: Content management system

Alex — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:09:03 +0000

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.