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digiskills, digital education tools

"[La fracture numérique] désigne le fossé entre ceux qui utilisent les potentialités des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) pour leurs besoins personnels ou professionnels et ceux qui ne sont pas en état de les exploiter faute de pouvoir accéder aux équipements ou faute de compétences."

" Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Blockchain beyond EHRs: Transforming value-based payment, precision medicine, patient-centric care While EHRs and information security get all the attention, there are more immediate opportunities for the distributed digital ledger technology."

La citoyenneté numérique désigne le maniement efficace et positif des technologies numériques (créer, travailler, partager, établir des relations sociales, rechercher, jouer, communiquer et apprendre), la participation active et responsable (valeurs, aptitudes, attitudes, connaissance) aux communautés (locales, nationales, mondiales) à tous les niveaux (politique, économique, social, culturel et interculturel), l'engagement dans un double processus d'apprentissage tout au long de la vie (dans des structures formelles, informelles et non formelles) et la défense continue de la dignité humaine.

Lots of resources

The BM has begun an unusual collaboration with Wikipedia to help ensure that the museum's expertise and notable artifacts are reflected in that digital reference's pages. "(...) five times as many people go to the Wikipedia article as to ours." In other words, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em...

properties of digital environments

"Des Web addict, ceux qui avaient connu l'éclatement de la bulle internet en 2000 et qui préparaient l'internet des prochaines années : le web 2.0. Cette petite communauté de geek m'a fait découvrir un monde parallèle que je ne connaissais pas jusqu'alors : celui des blogs, des wiki, des réseaux sociaux, des plate-formes de partage, du streaming… La révélation fut aussi douce que brutale : permettre à tout un chacun de s'exprimer, de faire valoir son talent, de partager ses idées, ses opinions…"

"On a baptisé fracture numérique l'inégalité d'accès aux nouvelles technologies de l'information. La notion-même de fracture numérique est calquée sur celle de fracture sociale."

"Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy The backlash against unethical labor practices in the "collaborative sharing economy" has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post, New York Times and others started to rail against online labor brokerages like Taskrabbit, Handy, and Uber because of an utter lack of concern for their workers. At the recent Digital Labor conference, my colleague McKenzie Wark proposed that the modes of production that we appear to be entering are not quite capitalism as classically described. "This is not capitalism," he said, "this is something worse."

"The Open Bank Project is an open source API and App store for banks that empowers financial institutions to securely and rapidly enhance their digital offerings using an ecosystem of 3rd party applications and services"

"FreedomBox is a joined effort of people to regain control and privacy in the digital world by dragging it into the physical. Our vision is to use free software running on cheap hardware to replace services that are not under our control. Today's cost of CPU power and network bandwidth make hosting your own services affordable. We unite the efforts of countless contributors from the free software world by building on top of Debian GNU/Linux. Our biggest contribution is to be the easy to use administration tool that takes care of otherwise challenging administrative tasks to keep your FreedomBox updated and running. If you want to join the effort of our volunteers or support the non-profit Foundation behind them - get in touch with us."

"This manifesto is a call to deliberate and to act on current and future technological development. We encourage our academic communities, as well as industrial leaders, politicians, policy makers, and professional societies all around the globe, to actively participate in policy formation. Our demands are the result of an emerging process that unites scientists and practitioners across fields and topics, brought together by concerns and hopes for the future. We are aware of our joint responsibility for the current situation and the future - both as professionals and citizens."

"The full report details how and why open source solutions are making their way into enterprises with such remarkable momentum. And it explains some of the ways companies are turning to enterprise open source solutions to modernize their approaches to IT and digitally transform their businesses."

Center for Digital Trust @ EPFL. concrete academic movement for digital trust and its applications

Mission to keep the internet open. "We put our knowledge and experience to work along EU institutions and civil society to ensure that the principle of openness is reflected in the European Union's digital policy framework". They "work on advancing Digital Public Spaces, building Data Commons and designing the Future of Open".

The title says it all...