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Thierry Gyselinx, technicien informatique en Belgique auprès des particuliers (dépannage) propose sur son mini-site un dossier gratuit téléchargeable en pdf : Guide informatique des Seniors (24 pages, en pdf) qui se veut d'un abord très concret sur les avantages de l'utilisation d'un ordinateur pour les publics seniors en présentant l'objet « magique » PC avec un vocabulaire simple, des phrases non technicisantes et explicitant à quoi peut servir cette drôle de machine qu'est l'ordinateur.

The use of information and communication technologies in healthcare is seen as essential for high quality and cost-effective healthcare. However, implementation of e-health initiatives has often been problematic, with many failing to demonstrate predicted benefits. This study aimed to explore and understand the experiences of implementers - the senior managers and other staff charged with implementing e-health initiatives and their assessment of factors which promote or inhibit the successful implementation, embedding, and integration of e-health initiatives

'édition des Tendances des réformes dans les télécommunications de cette année contient dix chapitres qui portent sur différentes questions juridiques et réglementaires qui apparaissent avec la généralisation du large bande et le développement de l'économie numérique: 

Since the crisis of 2008 New York City's massive financial sector - the city's richest economic engine, once seen to have unlimited potential for growth - has languished. In the meantime, attention has turned to its nascent startup sector, home to Foursquare, Tumblr, 10gen, Etsy and Gilt, where VC investment has surged even as it's been flat in other big U.S. tech centers (PDF). I've started to poke around the tech community here with a view toward eventually publishing a paper on the rise of New York's startup scene. In my initial conversations, I've come up with a few broad questions I'll focus on, and I'd welcome thoughts from this blog's legion of smart readers on any of these.

Le déploiement de l'Internet très haut débit en zones rurales prend de l'élan. Vendredi 9 novembre, le gouvernement a annoncé (.pdf) la création d'une mission pour le déploiement de la fibre optique, pilotée par la ministre de l'économie numérique, Fleur Pellerin. La mission sera dirigée par Antoine Darodes, directeur de la régulation des marchés du haut et très haut débit et des relations avec les collectivités territoriales chez le régulateur des télécoms, l'Arcep. Les "parties prenantes", à savoir les collectivités, opérateurs ou équipementiers, seront consultées début décembre.

Over the past several decades, the globalization of the  manufacturing ecosystem has driven more change and impacted  the prosperity of more companies, nations and people than at any  time since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Nations around the  world have taken part in and benefited from the rapid globalization of  industry and expansion of manufacturing. Globalization of  manufacturing has been a key driver of higher-value job creation and  a rising standard of living for the growing middle class in emerging  nation economies. This has dramatically changed the nature of  competition between emerging and developed nations as well as  between companies. Recent research confirms manufacturing has  been immensely important to the prosperity of nations, with over  70% of the income variations of 128 nations explained by differences  in manufactured product export data alone. 

The Cisco ®  Global Cloud Index is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based  IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing. This  document presents the details of the study and the methodology behind it. Global data center traffic:  ● Annual global data center IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes by the end of 2015. In 2015, global data center  IP traffic will reach 402 exabytes per month.  ● Global data center IP traffic will increase fourfold over the next 5 years. Overall, data center IP traffic will  grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent from 2010 to 2015.  Data center virtualization and cloud computing transition:  ● The number of workloads per installed traditional server will increase from 1.4 in 2010 to 2.0 in 2015.  ● The number of workloads per installed cloud server will increase from 3.5 in 2010 to 7.8 in 2015.  ● By 2014, more than 50 percent of all workloads will be processed in the cloud.  Global cloud traffic:  ● Annual global cloud IP traffic will reach 1.6 zettabytes by the end of 2015. In 2015, global cloud IP traffic  will reach 133 exabytes per month.  ● Global cloud IP traffic will increase twelvefold over the next 5 years. Overall, cloud IP traffic will grow at  a CAGR of 66 percent from 2010 to 2015.  ● Global cloud IP traffic will account for more than one-third (34 percent) of total data center traffic by 2015. 

Akamai's globally distributed network of servers allows us to gather massive amounts of  information on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack traffic, and network  connectivity/availability/latency problems, as well as traffic patterns on leading Web sites.  Each quarter, Akamai publishes a "State of the Internet" report. This report includes data  gathered from across Akamai's Intelligent Platform during the third quarter of 2011 about attack  traffic, broadband adoption, and mobile connectivity, as well as trends seen in this data  over time. In addition, this quarter's report also includes insight into SSL, the state of IPv6  adoption, and observations from Akamai partner Ericsson regarding the impact that mobile  data plans have on usage. 

T oday's global economy is forcing executives, governments and consumers  to adopt a new way of thinking. The financial crisis and deep recession that  ended in 2010 caused a seismic shift that has reshaped the global business  landscape. No longer can companies rely on credit-fuelled domestic markets  for growth. Indeed, the need for households, banks and governments to regain  their balance will dampen growth opportunities in many advanced economies.  Instead, we are seeing the emergence of what has been called a "new normal  economy" characterised by several key factors discussed below. 

NetPublic évoquait en février 2012 une formation en ligne gratuite sur le travail collaboratif à distance sous la forme d'une auto-formation en ligne proposée par Isabelle Gonon (CNAM Paris). Ce module vise à définir avec précision et à différencier les notions de travail collaboratif, communauté virtuelle et réseau social. A l'issue de cette séquence pédagogique, l'apprenant est capable de mettre en oeuvre une méthode de travail collaboratif en situation de formation et de faire un choix raisonné d'outils à utiliser. En complément de cette formation, Isabelle Gonon a mis à disposition en libre téléchargement le Guide du travail collaboratif à distance (en pdf, 30 pages).

Venture capital (VC) has delivered poor returns for more than a decade. VC returns  haven't significantly outperformed the public market since the late 1990s, and, since  1997, less cash has been returned to investors than has been invested in VC.  Speculation among industry insiders is that the VC model is broken, despite occasional  high-profile successes like Groupon, Zynga, LinkedIn, and Facebook in recent years.  The Kauffman Foundation investment team analyzed our twenty-year history of venture  investing experience in nearly 100 VC funds with some of the most notable and  exclusive partnership "brands" and concluded that the Limited Partner (LP) investment  model is broken 1 . Limited Partners-foundations, endowments, and state pension  fund-invest too much capital in underperforming venture capital funds on frequently  mis-aligned terms. Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and  again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. We found in our own  portfolio that: * Only twenty of 100 venture funds generated returns that beat a public-market  equivalent by more than 3 percent annually, and half of those began investing  prior to 1995. * The majority of funds-sixty-two out of 100-failed to exceed returns  available from the public markets, after fees and carry were paid. * There is not consistent evidence of a J-curve in venture investing since 1997;  the typical Kauffman Foundation venture fund reported peak internal rates of  return (IRRs) and investment multiples early in a fund's life (while still in the  typical sixty-month investment period), followed by serial fundraising in month  twenty-seven. * Only four of thirty venture capital funds with committed capital of more than  $400 million delivered returns better than those available from a publicly  traded small cap common stock index. * Of eighty-eight venture funds in our sample, sixty-six failed to deliver expect

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

e bulletin examine les  r é sul t a t s  de   l a   c ompi - l a t i on de s  donné e s  de  vente des enregistrements sonores 1 obtenues de Nielsen SoundScan  par l'Observatoire de la culture et  des communications du Québec  (OCCQ) pour la période 2002 à  2011. Il présente une analyse des  résultats quant aux ventes totales  d'albums et de pistes musicales et  quant à la répartition de celles-ci  selon la provenance et la langue. 

We start our examination of the future of TV by taking stock of where we are today. What behaviors surrounding this beloved medium are in the very DNA of television? To find out, Razorfish embarked on a study broken into three parts: Deprivation, Youth and Technogeeks.

The Rise of social Government An Advanced Guide and Review of Social  Media's Role in Local Government Operations