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Exclusion et e-Exclusion: analyses, méthodes et outils pour maîtriser  le changement et promouvoir l'innovation sociale  et technologique

(Entrevues avec des gourous de l'innovation) Les jeux vidéo et les algorithmes. Grâce à ces deux éléments qui caractérisent si bien Montréal, Louise Guay veut révolutionner le transport dans les grandes villes de la planète. Il ne s'agit pas de voeux pieux, mais de projets concrets qui seront mis à l'essai dès cet été et dont la commercialisation pourrait débuter dès 2013, soutient la présidente de Living Lab Montréal.

They're called "glanceable" devices, and Massachusetts-based Ambient Devices has been developing them for over a decade. The company spun out of a project at MIT's famed Media Lab with the goal of integrating data points into our lives in a natural, organic way. Ambient's path to building a real business has been an unusual one, producing oddities likes the Orb - a glass sphere capable of glowing different colors to indicate a temperature, stock price, or anything else the user can dream up - and the Umbrella, whose handle would glow when rain was in the forecast.

MindLab is a cross-ministerial innovation unit which involves citizens and businesses in creating new solutions for society. We are also a physical space - a neutral zone for inspiring creativity, innovation and collaboration. We work with the civil servants in our three parent ministries: the Ministry of Business and Growth, the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Employment. These three ministries cover broad policy areas that affect the daily lives of virtually all Danes. Entrepreneurship, climate change, digital self-service, citizen's rights, emplyment services and workplace safety are some of the areas they address. MindLab is instrumental in helping the ministry's key decision-makers and employees view their efforts from the outside-in, to see them from a citizen's perspective. We use this approach as a platform for co-creating better ideas.