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Depuis cinq ans, le Royaume-Uni a mis en place un plan d'action pour intégrer les technologies au cycle scolaire, en employant des outils généralement utilisés à la maison.

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.

Le MIT a mis au point une plateforme collaborative pour assister les entreprises et les laboratoires dans le développement d'applications en imagerie biomédicale. Les contributeurs seraient des scientifiques travaillant depuis des années dans le domaine.

"Meet the workers making $1.20 an hour "microtasking" for billion-dollar brands like Microsoft and Amazon--right here in the US."

"In summer of 2005, I started experimenting with online outsourcing. I tried eLance, Guru, and Rent-A-Coder. I tentatively started posting there programming projects that were not interesting conceptually (e.g., "crawl this website and store the data in a CSV file", "grab the CSV data from that website and put them in a database", "create a demo website that does that", etc) Quickly, I realized that this was a win-win situation: the code was completed quickly, the quality of the websites was much better than what I could prepare myself, and I was free to focus on my research. Once I started getting PhD students, outsourcing non-research coding requirements became a key part of my research approach: PhD time was too valuable to waste on writing crawlers and dealing with HTML parsing peculiarities."

The web is filled with users' descriptions of the effects of psychedelic drugs. Now neuroscientists are using data mining techniques to quantify the effects of these drugs on human consciousness for the first time

How did you discover the wisdom of crowds?  The idea really came out of my writing on how markets work. Markets are made up of diverse people with different levels of information and intelligence, and yet when you put all those people together and they start buying and selling, they come up with generally intelligent decisions. Sometimes, though, they come up with remarkably stupid decisions-as they did during the stock-market bubble in the late 1990s. I was interested in what explained the successes and the failures of markets, and as I got further into it I realized that it wasn't just markets that were smart. In fact, crowds of all sorts were often remarkably wise.

But why shouldn't we tour biotechnology parks, or parking lots, the more unnoticed corners of our cities and the spots where its seldom-cited history once occurred? Griffis, an artist who plays with this idea through a project called the Temporary Travel Office, is interested in how the tropes of tourism can be applied to decided non-touristy places. This is not an endeavor for out-of-towners. Traditional tourism tries to sell outsiders on a city - its tallest skyscrapers, its picturesque waterfront, its historic monuments. This homegrown hybrid, aimed at locals touring their own communities, aspires to something else, to make us reconsider the places we pass through every day.

De la transparence dans les sodas. Associé à Owni et Terra Eco, le site OpenFoodFacts, consacré à l'ouverture des données dans l'alimentaire, lance une grande opération de recueil des données sur les sodas et leurs ingrédients - pas toujours recommandables. Tous les citoyens sont invités à participer.

"Who created the Internet and why should we care? These questions, so often raised during the Bush-Gore election in 2000, have found their way back into the political debate this season - starting with one of the most cited texts of the preconvention campaign, Obama's so-called "you didn't build that" speech. "The Internet didn't get invented on its own," Obama argued, in the lines that followed his supposed gaffe. "Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet." In other words: business uses the Internet, but government made it happen."