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"Selon une étude menée par l'Economist Intelligence Unit avec le soutien de Ricoh, les dirigeants d'entreprises prévoient des transformations radicales engendrées par la technologie dans leur secteur d'activité. Pour ces dirigeants, d'ici à 2020, les entreprises vont connaître trois grandes évolutions. La première a trait aux clients, qui vont jouer un rôle de plus en plus important dans l'élaboration de nouvelles idées de produits ou de services. La deuxième concerne la structure même des entreprises : celles-ci vont passer à des structures décentralisées et privilégier les environnements de travail virtuels."

"acebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency, Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. You'll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Libra online or at local exchange points like grocery stores, and spend it using interoperable third-party wallet apps or Facebook's own Calibra wallet that will be built into WhatsApp, Messenger and its own app. Today Facebook released its white paper explaining Libra and its testnet for working out the kinks of its blockchain system before a public launch in the first half of 2020."

"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."

August (2020), Democrats introduced a bill in Congress to block manufacturers' limits on medical devices, spurred by the pandemic. In Europe, the European Commission announced plans in March for new right-to-repair rules that would cover phones, tablets, and laptops by 2021.

"Un monde virtuel, une pollution bien réelle 21 août 2020 Le numérique pollue bien plus qu'on l'imagine. Solange Ghernaouti, spécialiste en cybersécurité à l'UNIL, dévoile la face cachée de cette industrie «peu vertueuse». On n'y pense jamais quand on pianote sur son téléphone mobile. Ça ne se voit pas quand on joue avec sa console ou qu'on branche son téléviseur sur Netflix. C'est également invisible quand on fait une recherche sur Google ou qu'on trouve une nouvelle opportunité professionnelle sur LinkedIn. C'est toujours impossible à déceler quand on stocke ses photos de vacances dans le Cloud et qu'on regarde une vidéo sur YouTube. Enfin, ça ne fait aucun bruit suspect quand on écoute une playlist en streaming sur Spotify. Et pourtant, l'industrie numérique pollue."

"Our initiative "Public Money? Public Code!" has the purpose that Software, funded by public money and used in the public administration shall be Free and Open Source Software. We have an open letter, which you can sign as an individual or as a NGO. So far we have over 26.000 people and nearly 200 NGOs supporting our goal. Next to this we have already three administrations who have signed our letter but still we would like to have more administration supporting our cause. To achieve this we need your help."

"The FSFE welcomes the "Public Money? Public Code!" policy by the new Munich government. After the last government of SPD and CSU had distanced itself from the prior progressive Free Software strategy this is now a positive signal again. Public administrations following the principle of "Public Money? Public Code!" can benefit from collaboration with other public bodies, independence from single vendors, potential tax savings, increased innovation, and a better basis for IT security.", says Matthias Kirschner, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe."

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.

"In the last decade Open Science principles, such as Open Access, study preregistration, use of preprints, making available data and code, and open peer review, have been successfully advocated for and are being slowly adopted in many different research communities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many publishers and researchers have sped up their adoption of some of these Open Science practices, sometimes embracing them fully and sometimes partially or in a sub-optimal manner. In this article, we express concerns about the violation of some of the Open Science principles and its potential impact on the quality of research output. We provide evidence of the misuses of these principles at different stages of the scientific process. We call for a wider adoption of Open Science practices in the hope that this work will encourage a broader endorsement of Open Science principles and serve as a reminder that science should always be a rigorous process, reliable and transparent, especially in the context of a pandemic where research findings are being translated into practice even more rapidly"