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It's about how organisations within a community can use technology as a catalyst or supporting tool to support ideas and create social action or change within that community," Amy Gadd, senior network manager of the community hubs project, told E-Government Bulletin. All the hubs' progress will also be measured over the funded period up to April 2013, to evaluate its impact. "We'll be creating case studies as we go, particularly in terms of how technology has made a change", said Gadd. "We're not expecting massive changes, they may be quite small, but significant to that community. And we'll be pulling some of those stories out, spreading them through the UK Online Centres network, so that others can follow.

Qu'ils s'agisse d'illustrer les pages web d'un blog, ou d'un site d'e-commerce, la question du choix des photos/pictogrammes/icônes se pose rapidement. De nombreuses banques d'images proposent des millions de photos couvrant de très nombreuses thématiques, mais la plupart de ces images sont payantes. Une solution alternative consiste à trouver des photos gratuites, sous licences Creative Commons, et/ou tombés dans le domaine public, afin de pouvoir les utiliser librement dans le cadre d'une activité commerciale. Mais comment effectuer cette recherche, et surtout, respecter le cadre d'utilisation de ces images, pour ne pas enfreindre les droits d'auteur ? 

"A newly published patent application shows Microsoft potentially planning to take console gaming beyond the barriers of the TV screen by projecting a "peripheral image" around a room, providing a 360-degree view of a virtual scene. Microsoft's patent application for an "immersive display experience" was published by the US Patent Office last week after being filed back in early 2011. It describes a standard video game system with a connected "environmental display" capable of projecting a panoramic image that "appears to surround the user.""

Photo JPL - Visites panoramiques interactives - Virtual visits for the Web First HD panoramic picture on Mars that the world has ever seen! This image was made by Nasa Opportunity rover with 817 images. We present here the interactive panorama for you to enjoy: http://www.photojpl.com/greeley-haven-mars-panorama-virtual-tour/-/XMpLYEyNJJ/

Medicine has been revolutionised by 3D imaging techniques. But you ain't seen nothing yet, say data imaging researchers

The eight articles that the New York Times published this week in a special Science series on health information technology called "The Digital Doctor" covered everything from advances in imaging technology to the psychological impacts of a wired society. The articles are well worth a read. One story, on the "ups and downs" of electronic health records (EHRs), examined doctors' and nurses' experiences as EHRs become more wide-spread because of the U.S. government's multi-billion dollar EHR adoption incentive program. What I found interesting in the Times story was the admission by some of the fiercest advocates for EHRs, like Dr. David Brailer, the first national coordinator for health information technology, that, "The current information tools are still difficult to set up. They are hard to use. They fit only parts of what doctors do, and not the rest."

"Most data centers, by design, consume vast amounts of energy in an incongruously wasteful manner, interviews and documents show. Online companies typically run their facilities at maximum capacity around the clock, whatever the demand. As a result, data centers can waste 90 percent or more of the electricity they pull off the grid, The Times found."

Governments around the world are investing multiple billions to support the roll-out of fiber to enable high speed broadband. These subsidies are based on the premise that fiber to the home (FTTH) brings substantial externalities. It is argued that FTTH will support economic growth and is key to national competitiveness; that it will benefit education, healthcare, transportation and the electricity industry; and that it will be the TV platform of the future. In this paper we argue that the evidence to support these views is surprisingly weak, and that there are several errors that are made repeatedly when making the case for FTTH. In particular: * The evidence that basic broadband contributed to economic growth is decidedly mixed, and some of the studies reporting greater benefits have significant flaws * Time and again, data that basic broadband brings certain benefits is used to justify investment in fiber - but the investment in fiber must be based on the incremental benefits of higher speed, since (in the developed world) there is already near universal basic broadband * This error is compounded since other high speed broadband infrastructures (such as cable, and in time wireless) are often simply ignored when making the case for fiber * Fibre is credited with bringing benefits that would in fact require major systems and social change in other parts of the economy, such as a widespread shift to home working, or remote medical care. In practice, these changes may never happen, and even if they do they will have significant additional cost beyond simply rolling out fibre * Frequently business or government applications, such as remote medical imaging, are used to make the case for FTTH. But these applications require fiber to certain major buildings, not to entire residential neighborhoods (and these buildings often have high speed connections already) We do not argue that there is no commercial case for rolling out fiber, nor do we argue that fiber b

Attention all innovators, entrepreneurs, hackers, thinkers and people of open mind: the time has come to reinvent your city. Reinvent it not in the image of the city we are all familiar with, but as something altogether new: something intelligent, efficient and open, something livable and sustainable, something that not only works, but works better than we've ever imagined.

Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content. JSTOR connects libraries, researchers, teachers, and students around the world with vital scholarly content in more than 50 disciplines.

Très bientôt, le contenu accessible sur Internet doublera toutes les 72 heures. Trouver une information pertinente deviendra une tâche encore plus ardue! En réponse à cette préoccupation, une pratique est en vogue depuis plusieurs mois sur le Web: la curation. On mise désormais sur l'édition et la diffusion plutôt que sur la création de contenu. En quoi consiste la curation? Quels en sont les outils? En quoi cette pratique est-elle utile pour le tourisme? Levons le voile sur ce concept… Qu'est-ce que la curation? Le terme anglais curator se traduit par conservateur dans le domaine de l'art. Pour Internet, on parle plutôt de content curator, c'est-à-dire d'«organisateur de contenu» ou d'«éditeur de contenu», à l'opposé du rédacteur qui crée de l'information sur le Web (voir image). Dans le milieu, on traduit ce concept par le terme curation et on appelle celui qui en fait la pratique curateur, des traductions littérales des termes anglais. Dans cette analyse, nous recourrons plutôt aux termes équivalents français, soit organisation ou édition de contenu et organisateur ou éditeur de contenu.

On se plaît souvent à imaginer l'Ina comme un formidable réservoir d'images, grenier merveilleux ou caverne d'Ali Baba regorgeant de trésors audiovisuels. Cette vision correspond bien sûr à une réalité : premier centre d'archives numérisées au monde, l'Ina préserve en son sein plus de 3 millions et demi d'heures de télévision et de radio - des émissions les plus anciennes aux plus récentes - auxquelles s'ajoutent chaque année plus de 800 000 heures supplémentaires collectées au titre du dépôt légal. Un fonds d'une telle richesse suffirait en soi à susciter la fascination - et pourtant, l'Ina est encore beaucoup plus que cela. Pour essentielle qu'elle soit, la conservation du patrimoine n'est pas pour nous une fin en soi, mais au contraire le point de départ de notre action. Parce que la mémoire ne vaut que si elle est partagée, nous avons à cœur d'ouvrir nos collections au public le plus largement possible, que ce soit en DVD, sur le Web ou, depuis peu, sur les télévisions connectées ou encore via les fournisseurs d'accès à Internet. En tant qu'éditeur multimédia et producteur audiovisuel, l'Ina contribue ainsi non seulement à diffuser ses images, mais aussi à les mettre en perspective - en proposant à chaque fois un point de vue, un regard. Livrée telle quelle, l'image brute demeure muette. Pour lui redonner du sens, pour lui restituer toute sa richesse, il faut être capable de l'appréhender, de l'analyser, de la penser, de la resituer dans son contexte. C'est pour cela que l'Ina est aussi le premier pôle européen de recherche et de formation aux métiers de l'audiovisuel. Une mission de transmission des savoirs et des savoir-faire qui devient aujourd'hui un axe de développement stratégique, pour une entreprise qui se conçoit tout à la fois aux sources du patrimoine et à la pointe de la modernité. Conserver, valoriser, transmettre : tel est le fil rouge de nos act

Experts have long argued that computerized patient records will save the health system money by helping doctors reduce the number of redundant or inappropriate tests they order. A new study published in Health Affairs, disputes that, suggesting that office-based physicians who have access to electronic records of patient care are actually more likely to order additional imaging tests and laboratory tests than doctors who rely on paper records.

Earlier today, Harvard and MIT announced edX, an open-source technology platform designed to deliver online courses. Now, anyone from around the world with an Internet connection can have access to, what MIT President Susan Hockfield called, "one of the best kept secrets of Cambridge and the entire higher education community" - the "richness of collaborations" between Harvard and MIT.

This will help sooth your kids' booboos: Johnson & Johnson has just introduced an augmented reality app that projects image of the Muppets on their Band-Aids.

In a bid to give its staid image a jolt of cool, the software giant snaps up a red-hot business-networking platform for $1.2 billion in cash

Avouons-le : l'infographie est très à la mode depuis quelques mois. Dans une journée typique de veille sur Internet, vous allez nécessairement tomber sur des infographies couvrant une multitude de sujets. Qu'il s'agisse de Facebook en passant par le Football, la mode, etc … tous les sujets sont abordés dans ce nouveau mode de publication. Mais, il semblerait que ce soit un phénomène planétaire seulement parce que les internautes aiment vraiment un contenu en image. Ce que je veux dire par là, c'est qu'on dirait qu'ils sont prêts, disposés et capables de les partager avec tous leurs « amis » sur les réseaux sociaux, et ce bien plus que les traditionnels articles.

Yet there's something intriguing about the concept of augmented reality, the notion of enhancing objects in the real world with virtual sounds and images and additional info. And when Google revealed earlier this year that it was developing glasses that will be part wearable computer, part digital assistant that flashes relevant data right before your eyes, augmented reality (AR) no longer seemed such a digital parlor trick. The geek gods had spoken. In fact, recent analysis by the London firm ABI Research concludes that the next big phase of AR-now largely played out on smartphones and tablets-will be through wearable tech. That's when the technology will become truly functional, when your glasses are able to tell you everything you want to know about the restaurants and stores on the block where you're walking.

"A new pilot project is allowing citizens to see local service information such as planning applications and food hygiene ratings of cafes projected live onto images or videos of their local area using "augmented reality" (AR) software. Data can be seen overlaid live onto locations by pointing a smartphone or tablet computer with a camera running AR software at a building or area. "