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"Si le Français [Louis Pouzin] demeure presque inconnu du grand public, il a pourtant, dans les années 1970, été à l'origine d'une technique essentielle qui aura permis le développement du réseau mondial. De 1971 à 1975, l'ingénieur dirige Cyclades, un projet de réseau. Il invente alors le datagramme, qui permet d'envoyer des paquets de données ensemble et de les laisser voyager séparément avant qu'ils ne se regroupent en bout de ligne."

"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."

Immediate action is required to halt the COVID-19 Pandemic and treat those it has affected. It is a practical and moral imperative that every tool we have at our disposal be applied to develop and deploy technologies on a massive scale without impediment. We therefore pledge to make our intellectual property available free of charge for use in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and minimizing the impact of the disease. We will implement this pledge through a license that details the terms and conditions under which our intellectual property is made available.

"Trackers are hiding in nearly every corner of today's Internet, which is to say nearly every corner of modern life. The average web page shares data with dozens of third-parties. The average mobile app does the same, and many apps collect highly sensitive information like location and call records even when they're not in use. Tracking also reaches into the physical world. Shopping centers use automatic license-plate readers to track traffic through their parking lots, then share that data with law enforcement. Businesses, concert organizers, and political campaigns use Bluetooth and WiFi beacons to perform passive monitoring of people in their area. Retail stores use face recognition to identify customers, screen for theft, and deliver targeted ads."

Jacques Vallée, one of the co-creators of the Internet, explains how the acceleration of technology in an increasingly connected society is producing "impossible futures" that range from rapid collapse of major banks to the emergence of complex new forms of political power, with the Internet as both a tool and a victim. Quotes: [The KGB] arrested people at random, and brought them to their headquarters; they had one question for them: "who do you know? who do you talk to, and what do you talk about?" If somebody wanted to do that today, they would not need to arrest people, all they need to do is look at Facebook, Twitter, Google; we give this information everyday to the network and the superstructure above the web. [nb: slightly shortened and simplified] The connected world provides many examples of "Impossible" futures that create a dissonance between existing cultures or belief systems... and the sudden emergence of new facts. The impact cannot be ignored.

Proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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.

French journalist, interested in new technologies and communication, as well as social media. May cover digitaltransion on a "story" level.