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"Une transition intéressante est aujourd'hui à l'œuvre : la transformation des -isme en -ité. Elle induit la notion d'un retournement radical de modèle, plus précisément le glissement d'un modèle dominant transmis verticalement à un public passif à un modèle privilégiant des savoir-faire et des pratiques transversaux, raisonnés et responsables."

Bruce Sterling is back this year. He has a remarkable ability to both celebrate dreams of the future - but also to challenge us with the problems he sees. That makes us more deeply consider what we are doing, why we are doing it - and the potential consequences of those decisions.

Bruce Sterling closes the SXSW Interactive Festival with a wide-ranging, hour-long speech about the state of the nation (technological obsolescence of humanity, the robots-will-take-our-jobs,...)

"El Reg dives into global DNS split threat"

" 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."

The only way out of our Big Tech problem is up and through. If our future is not reliant upon high tech, it will be because civilization has fallen. Big Tech wired together a planetary, species-wide nervous system that, with the proper reforms and course corrections, is capable of seeing us through the existential challenge of our species and planet. Now it's up to us to seize the means of computation, putting that electronic nervous system under democratic, accountable control.

Now for the first time ever, we have a global plan of action - the Contract for the Web - created by experts and citizens from across the world to make sure our online world is safe, empowering and genuinely for everyone. We invite governments, companies, civil society organizations and individuals to back the Contract and uphold its principles and clauses. The Contract for the Web will become a strong mechanism for each party to be held accountable for doing their part to build an open and free web.

Nomagic aims to provide private individuals and small associations with a viable, responsible, and committed alternative to the Web services provided by big IT corporations.

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

Founder of Fairphone, then went into TADA (data ethics manifesto), Founder & Host at "What if We get it Right?" (podcast), now Member of the Board of Advisors at "Creatives for Climate", a non-profit global network of creative thinkers from all over the world,

A human rights defender and computer networking pioneer from South Africa. he has been the Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications. She was one of five finalists for IT Personality of the Year in South Africa in 2012. She was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector". In 2015, she was the winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Awards. She is a founder of Women's Net in South Africa and has served on the Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Acts as president of the Free Software Foundation in France, also its founder. He is a speaker for the GNU Project and the April association. Right now, he is a full-time volunteer for the SecureDrop project. In 2001 wrote Savannah and SourceForge.

"Dans votre livre, vous comparez l'acidification des océans à la pollution numérique, quel rapport ? Je ne rentre pas dans la mer en me disant : "la mer est acide". De même, l'aggravation de la pollution numérique échappe à nos sens. On peut la décrire avec des mots, avec des chiffres mais il est difficile sensoriellement de prendre la mesure de cette pollution. Et je pense que c'est le grand défi de la pollution numérique. Or en retraçant le parcours d'un simple like à travers le monde, je me suis rendu compte que mes cinq sens avaient été convoqués. J'ai découvert qu'Internet avait une couleur, en général vert pale, correspondant aux câbles sous-marins qui glissent au fond des océans ; un son avec tous ses serveurs qui sifflent étrangement comme une ruche ; un goût, celui de l'eau des mers ; une texture, celle de la roche rugueuse de laquelle on extrait le graphite qui permet de faire des téléphones portables. "