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As reported by Nesta, an innovation charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life: As technology shapes our world, young people need to be able to shape it too. As skills and work become increasingly technologically mediated, the need for digital skills is paramount with some calculating a potential £2 billion loss to the UK economy from unfilled roles requiring such skills. After several years working with organisations supporting digital making, and with creating with technology set to go mainstream through a forthcoming BBC campaign, this report takes stock of what is happening. Key Findings: 82 per cent of young people say they are interested in digital making. However, half of young people make things with digital technology less than once a week or never. Parents are overwhelmingly supportive of digital making. 89 per cent think it is a worthwhile activity for their children. 73 per cent encourage their children to make things with technology. We identified 130,800 opportunities to experience digital making provided by the organisations surveyed. This is a long way from providing for the interest shown by 82 per cent of our survey, which represents a possible 8.2 million school age children and young people in the UK. Digital making is powered not just by money, but also by volunteers. Two thirds of the organisations identified said they relied on volunteers to do their work. Only half of teachers who teach ICT or computing report being confident in teaching the curriculum.

"The Open Artificial Pancreas System project (#OpenAPS) is an open and transparent effort to make safe and effective basic Artificial Pancreas System (APS) technology widely available to more quickly improve and save as many lives as possible and reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes. OpenAPS means basic overnight closed loop APS technology is more widely available to anyone with compatible medical devices who is willing to build their own system. We believe that we can make safe and effective APS technology available more quickly, to more people, rather than just waiting for current APS efforts to complete clinical trials and be FDA-approved and commercialized through traditional processes. And in the process, we believe we can engage the untapped potential of dozens or possibly hundreds of patient innovators and independent researchers and also make APS technology available to hundreds or thousands of people willing to participate as subjects in clinical trials."

"Ofcom: six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults"

"Net Generation (Tapscott, 2009, 1998; Oblinger and Oblinger, 2005), Generation Y (Zhao and Liu, 2008; Halse and Mallinson, 2009), Millennials (Howe and Strauss, 2000), Homo Zappiens (Veen, 2003) and i-Generation (Rosen, 2010). The labels used to describe the generation of young people and their relation with technology are numerous. Over the past few years, one of the notions, which might have had more echoes among parents, teachers, and policy-makers is those of "digital natives" introduced in 2001 by Mark Prensky. The metaphor has had enduring influence on how the educational system perceives students and technology. Most scholars do not like it, for various reasons. Among other problems, the term implies that technological abilities are innate rather than taught and learned. The aim of this contribution is not to join the existing debate about the existence of digital native but to examine if there is any empirical evidence to support the use of that metaphor in the first place, questioning its usefulness to depict particular generations of young people"

"[L'expression « Big Brother »] s'applique plus particulièrement au contrôle par les nouvelles technologies, et notamment d'internet, alors considéré comme l'outil le plus efficace en la matière. Une prise de conscience responsable de ces risques et une utilisation critique d'internet permettent toutefois de créer des espaces sociaux démocratiques, de contourner les contrôles ou encore d'élargir le champ de la liberté d'expression et des technologies qui l'appuient."

Le Massachusetts Institute of Technology ou MIT, en français Institut de technologie du Massachusetts, est un institut de recherche et une université américaine, spécialisée dans les domaines de la science et de la technologie

We believe that the fate of humanity will be decided at the frontier of technological innovation. We will either see technology lead to a more free, open, and fair society or reinforce a global regime of centralized control, surveillance, and oppression. Our fear is that without a global, conscious, and concerted effort, the outlook is incredibly bleak. The Internet has opened the doors for universal, cross-border, and non-violent collaborative effort to fight for our freedom. However, the Internet has also opened the doors for global surveillance and manipulation. We believe humankind should use technology as a liberating tool to unleash all the goodwill and creativity of our species, rather than as a tool to enslave and take advantage of one another. Thus, Aragon is a fight for freedom. Aragon empowers freedom by creating liberating tools that leverage decentralized technologies.

See "Table 3  Energy Technology Literacy Scale"

Advancements in technology are disrupting the ways we view learning and performance. Any new technology brings with it opportunities, risks ... and questions. FocusOn Learning 2016 Conference & Expo targets the trends and technologies that are changing our approaches to training.

"Silicon Valley désigne le pôle des industries de pointe situé dans la partie sud de la Région de la baie de San Francisco en Californie, sur la côte ouest des États-Unis. Même si cette région n'est pas une vallée à proprement parler, l'expression désigne souvent par métonymie l'industrie des technologies de pointe en général."

"Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 19-103"

" 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."

Une visite guidée et critique de Londres, capitale mondiale de la surveillance tous azimuts. Avec plus de 4 millions de caméras en activité, soit une pour quatorze habitants, la Grande-Bretagne est aujourd'hui le pays dont les citoyens sont le plus surveillés au monde. Duncan Campbell, journaliste indépendant et auteur d'un rapport sur le système d'écoute Echelon (élaboré par les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni, le Canada, l'Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande pour intercepter les communications), fait découvrir la dimension orwellienne de la capitale britannique, véritable laboratoire des technologies de contrôle.

Les NTIC regroupent les innovations réalisées en matière de volume de stockage et de rapidité du traitement de l' information ainsi que son transport grâce au numérique et aux nouveaux moyens de télécommunication ( fibre optique, câble, satellites, techniques sans fil). Leur impact s'étend sur de multiples domaines, notamment sur notre mode de vie et notre économie.

"Apprendre2.0, c'est le projet d'expérimenter et de comprendre l'impact des technologies sur la façon d'apprendre. Depuis 2007, ce site est l'espace de discussion et de partage de plus de 2000 participants. On apprend au contact des autres, en partageant nos connaissances, notre veille et nos réflexions personelles. Tout est gratuit sur ce site, notre démarche est désintéressée. Notre ambition est de pratiquer l'Apprendre tout au long de la vie, d'en démocratiser et d'en valoriser la démarche. Ici, pas de méthode toute prête ! Pour Apprendre à Apprendre, il n'existe pas de solution universelle : il vous faut faire votre propre expérience ! "

"Ces « 10 commandements » marqués du sceau de la sagesse apportent un éclairage et une prise de recul qui ne visent qu'un seul but : replacer l'humain au cœur des technologies numériques. Ce livre d'une rare pertinence, accessible à tous et empreint de bon sens, nous aide à reprendre le contrôle. Il faut le lire, le relire et faire lire. De toute urgence."

"Facebook under fire from drag queens over 'real-name' rule * Social network demands performers use their legal names * 6,800 sign petition, arguing policy can be harmful"

La société de l'information désigne un état de la société dans lequel les technologies de l'information jouent un rôle fondamental. Elle est en général placée dans la continuité de la société industrielle.

L'exercice consiste souvent à reprendre les bases: comment insère-t-on une pièce jointe dans un mail? Où faut-il cliquer pour valider son inscription sur un site web? Que se passe-t-il quand on appuie sur la touche "entrée"?... Au pied de Montmartre, la mission locale de Paris accueille chaque année des milliers de jeunes pour qui les technologies prennent souvent des airs de terrain mal défriché.