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Conférence sur la Monétisation et financement des contenus numériques 

Almost 50,000 projects have sought financing on Kickstarter since the site began on April 28, 2009. About half successfully reached their fund-raising goals. Each dot represents how much a project raised by its deadline. Active projects are shown as of 5:30 p.m. Friday. 

Participez au financement de projets créatifs et innovants, recevez des contreparties exclusives. Si un projet n'atteint pas son objectif, vous êtes remboursé sans frais.

Open government initiatives are either aimed at providing greater transparency, usually as a reaction to an accusation or perception of excessive secrecy, or at engaging citizens in specific problem solution as well as service delivery. It is probably fair to say that the US federal initiatives are closer to the former, while UK initiatives are closer to the latter. In both cases, though, there is a fundamental lack of confidence - or blatant distrust - in the government workforce. This is rooted in a mixture of reality and perception: laziness, risk aversion, self-preservation, lack of incentives, low salaries, a culture of job security, and so forth, do not contribute to creating a pretty picture of government employees. In countries that are struggling with their finances and economy, civil servants are seen as a cost to be reduced in order to recover resources that should help reignite the economy. At the same time many agree that the retirement or dismissal of experienced government workers may make the situation even worse in areas where government services will be in greater demand going forward (think about education, social care, health care, public safety).

The use of e-health technologies, including mobile health, is spreading rapidly in low- and medium-income countries around the world, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). In part, this is because the use of mobile phones and computers is growing in these developing nations, the report said. But less than a quarter of the surveyed health programs used e-health technologies, and their reliance on private donors -- which provided nearly half of their financing -- is one factor limiting their expansion, the WHO report said.

Everyone in Silicon Valley wants to know what's coming next, and every year for the past 13 years, a panel of the most forward-thinking minds in technology and tech finance convenes here to provide a look at what innovations are likely to emerge in the next few years.

"Lors de son discours consacré aux perspectives économiques du 29 novembre 2011 (Autumn Statement), le Chancelier de l'Echiquier, George Osborne, a annoncé la création d'un Open Data Institute (ODI) dédié à la recherche et à l'innovation sur les données ouvertes. Le gouvernement participera au financement du projet à hauteur de 10 M£ sur cinq ans, à côté d'autres investisseurs venant de l'industrie et des universités."

This documentary is about people from vibrant cities across Europe and North America, sharing resources, knowledge, skills, facilities and amazing experiences.People who build and participate in education, food, mobility, housing, work, and finance services and projects are reinventing the world we live in. We want to tell their stories.

"Maintenant que des investisseurs informels peuvent participer au financement commun du capital des startup, ce nouveau modèle pourrait constituer un moyen très efficace d'encourager une partie de l'économie qui pèse lourdement sur l'emploi et le PIB."

Bientôt finie, la « paperasse administrative » ? Une nouvelle étape sera en tout cas franchie ce 1er octobre 2012. Dans un communiqué (.pdf) daté du 13 septembre, la Direction générale des finances publiques rappelle qu'à compter du 1er octobre de cette année, « les entreprises soumises à l'impôt sur les sociétés, quel que soit leur chiffre d'affaires, auront toutes une obligation de recours élargie aux téléprocédures en 2012-2013 ».

Google may be rolling out 1Gbps Internet access to Kansas City, but there are about 19 million American households and businesses that still lack any access to broadband, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Most of them are in rural areas, and some will soon benefit from broadband projects financed by one of the last pillars of the FCC's National Broadband Plan: the Connect America Fund. "I'm pleased to announce today that nearly 400,000 residents and businesses in rural communities who currently lack access to high-speed Internet will gain access within the next three years," declared FCC Chair Julius Genachowski on Thursday.

Ils s'appellent Kickstarter, Ulule ou Indiego, et ils sont les nouveaux acteurs du crowdfunding sur Internet. Ce phénomène, que l'on peut traduire par « financement participatif », permet chaque année le soutien, par un grand nombre, de projets de plus en plus nombreux, qu'ils soient artistiques, journalistiques, économiques ou citoyens.

Si les questions relatives à la gestion de ses finances, de son assurance ou de son investissement ne sont pas les plus attrayantes, le jeu mobile peut aider à s'y intéresser.

Dans la grande région de Québec, on en trouve un seul, à Saint-Jean-Chrysostome. Comme l'explique le directeur général de la caisse Desjardins des Rivières Chaudière et Etchemins, Laurier Boudreau, le nouveau type de guichet s'inspire des tablettes électroniques. À terme, «l'écran va finir par avoir les mêmes fonctions qu'AccèsD». En plus des transactions courantes, on pourra y faire des demandes de prêts Accord D, notamment.

A l'occasion de cet événement international, Fleur PELLERIN a réaffirmé sa volonté de garantir un Internet libre, ouvert et sûr. Elle a rappelé que le secteur de la cybersécurité est décisif pour la France, et qu'il doit se structurer pour gagner en visibilité à  l'international.

"tartups tend to be discreet when they're raising money. Often it's because entrepreneurs are universally paranoid about revealing any details of their business. But there's also a very real reason to keep things hush-hush: the Securities and Exchange Commission has a ban on "general solicitation," left over from the days when crooks would go door to door selling imaginary oil fields to the gullible and overly optimistic. The 30-year-old ban restricts startups, and other issuers of equity in exchange for money, from pitching to anyone but "accredited investors" who meet a magic combination of criteria. That ban is about to be lifted, however, thanks to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) that passed in April. Soon, there will be no impediment to plastering "we're raising a $1 million seed round, invest in us" in the middle of a startup's homepage, and there's no doubt that some zealous entrepreneur will. The SEC was charged with hammering out specific rules and adding investor protections related to general solicitation, and it released a proposed rule at the end of August. But critics have joined voices in vehement dissent, saying the agency's proposal merely parrots the vague phrasing in the JOBS Act without adding in any protections against predatory pitching."