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Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

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.

World traveler, science fiction author, journalist, and future-focused design critic Bruce Sterling spins the globe a few rounds as he wraps up the Interactive Conference with his peculiar view of the state of the world from a global perspective, as one who lives in Turin, Belgrade, and Austin. Most recently, Bruce has been an instigator of the DIY - Internet of Things model home project, Casa Jasmina. He also makes an annual "state of the world" assessment, with Jon Lebkowsky, for two weeks every January on The WELL.

"À Framasoft, fort·es de trois années passées à Dégoogliser Internet en proposant plus d'une trentaine de services alternatifs, on sait que les services en ligne des géants du Web ne font pas que siphonner nos vies numériques : par leur conception même, ils façonnent nos usages, nos actions et notre pensée."

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.

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.

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.