More than a million backers have given $274 million to more than 28,000 home-grown ideas through the New York-based website, which entreats visitors to "fund and follow creativity." Some donors are growing disillusioned as entrepreneurs miss deadlines or fail to produce. Among technology and design-related projects, 75 percent didn't finish on time, according to a study published last month by Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Le 12 juin dernier, le CEFRIO soulignait ses 25 ans lors d'un déjeuner-conférence qui a rassemblé près de 350 personnes au Centre des congrès de Québec. Animé par Marie Grégoire, cet événement a permis de réunir des conférenciers qui se sont exprimés sur le thème suivant « Les perspectives du numérique pour l'économie et la société du savoir ». Conférence sur l'économie du savoir Robert Ouellette, Premier vice-président Services partagés et directeur général du Groupe Technologies Desjardins Conférence sur la société du savoir Michel Côté, directeur général du Musée de la civilisation. Regard scientifique sur la société du savoir Rémi Quirion, scientifique en chef du Québec.

The US is a long way from its goal of making broadband Internet available to all 314 million Americans. In its third annual broadband progress report, the Federal Communications Commission says 19 million Americans have no option to buy fixed broadband Internet service, and an additional 100 million Americans that do live in areas where broadband is available are not subscribers.

In a few short years, social technologies have given social interactions the speed and scale of the Internet. Whether discussing consumer products or organizing political movements, people around the world constantly use social-media platforms to seek and share information. Companies use them to reach consumers in new ways too; by tapping into these conversations, organizations can generate richer insights and create precisely targeted messages and offers.

Financial customers will use mobile banking at levels of nearly half in the next 5 years. This trend will put pressure on banks, smartphone manufacturers and software developers.

"Once we get over ourselves and start rolling up our sleeves, I think big data will fall into three major buckets: Enterprise BI, Civil Engineering, and Customer Relationship Optimization. This is where we'll see most IT spending, most government oversight, and most early adoption in the next few years."

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Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we've compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher's tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom.

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

If government work weren't challenging enough with the upcoming elections, continuing resolutions instead of federal budgets and the threat of sequestration in January, federal agencies just reached a milestone of sorts by having launched more than 200 IT challenge and prize competitions, according to DigitalGov's Challenge.gov. In addition, more than 16,000 citizen "solvers" have taken part in the Challenge.gov competitions since the platform was launched Sept. 7, 2010.

"The US Department of Transportation said it will run a massive road test of cars, trucks and buses linked together via WiFi equipment in what the agency says will be the largest test of automated crash avoidance technology to date."

"ere is a summary of the Gartner Hype Cycle for "Emerging Technologies" for 2012 - what is stated explicitly, what can be inferred. This Hype Cycle is suppose provide insight into emerging technologies that have broad, cross-industry relevance, and are transformational and high impact in potential. Most crowded hype cycle on emerging technologies in last 10 years 48 technologies are listed in this year's hype cycle which is the highest in last ten years. Last year they had 42 - year 2008 was the lowest (27) - year 2005 was the previous highest (44)."

"The arrival of shopping without borders online has had major repercussions for the retail industry at large. Now, just as online retail is becoming accepted, another technological revolution threatens to cause an even bigger upset."

Parallèlement aux avancées réalisées sur le terrain de l'e-gouvernement et de la simplification administrative, EASI-WAL souhaite promouvoir le recours aux technologies de l'information et de la communication en faveur du bon déroulement de la vie démocratique. Il apparaît en effet que les TIC sont d'une grande utilité afin d'informer, de consulter ou d'associer les citoyens à la prise de décision relativement aux actions menées dans la sphère publique.

Experts expect more-efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-campus life

"The aim of Inquire is to provide students with the world's first intelligent textbook, says its creator David Gunning of Seattle-based Vulcan. At first glance, the system just looks like an electronic version of Campbell Biology, the tome that forms the bedrock of biology classes for first-year university and advanced high school students in the US. But behind the scenes is a machine-readable concept map of the 5000 or so ideas covered in the book, along with information on how they are all related. When a student asks a question - "what does a protein do?", for instance - the system first converts it into a more structured query, such as "what is the function of a protein?", and then uses this to search and find results from the concept map."

While Verizon and AT&T have increasingly given up on their legacy landline networks, Bell Canada is showing that investment in their network to keep up with the times can make all the difference.

"Call it the year of the mega-class. Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOC's-short for "massive open online courses." The courses raise questions about the future of teaching, the value of a degree, and the effect technology will have on how colleges operate. Struggling to make sense of it all? On this page you'll find highlights from The Chronicle's coverage of MOOC's."

"Higher education is rapidly changing--you don't have to even be paying much attention to see that. Universities have started streaming lectures en masse, schools like Harvard and MIT are teaming up to create content tailored for the web, startups like UniversityNow are creating reasonably priced online universities, and startups like Udacity offer online-only classes from renowned professors. None of this existed 10 years ago, and the field isn't done changing yet. A new report from Pew Internet looks at what higher education will look like in 2020, based on survey responses from over 1,000 "Internet experts, researchers, observers and users.""