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Education in Malaysia: A reverse brain drain | The Economist - 0 views

  • “Educity”, as the Johor complex is called, reflects Malaysia’s grand strategy to become a centre for Western education. The country wants to meet strong demand among Asia’s new middle classes for English-language schooling. It also worries about its brain drain (over 300,000 university-educated Malays work abroad). Having watched Asian children flock west to spend a lot of money on British and American schools, the government decided a few years ago to try to reverse the trend. It has campaigned to persuade Western schools and colleges to come and set up branch campuses. The Malaysian proposition to Asian parents is simple and beguiling: come to these famous schools and universities in our country and get the same degrees and qualifications as in Britain or America for half the price.
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    "Educity", as the Johor complex is called, reflects Malaysia's grand strategy to become a centre for Western education. The country wants to meet strong demand among Asia's new middle classes for English-language schooling. It also worries about its brain drain (over 300,000 university-educated Malays work abroad). Having watched Asian children flock west to spend a lot of money on British and American schools, the government decided a few years ago to try to reverse the trend. It has campaigned to persuade Western schools and colleges to come and set up branch campuses. The Malaysian proposition to Asian parents is simple and beguiling: come to these famous schools and universities in our country and get the same degrees and qualifications as in Britain or America for half the price.
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Lessons Learned from AppLab's First Three Years in Uganda « Creating a World ... - 0 views

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Schumpeter: Bamboo innovation | The Economist - 0 views

  • Yet China’s lack of originality matters less than you may think, believe Dan Breznitz and Michael Murphree of the Georgia Institute of Technology. In a new book, “Run of the Red Queen”, they argue that it is wrong to equate innovation solely with the invention of breakthrough products. In an emerging economy, other forms of innovation can yield bigger dividends. One is “process innovation”: the relentless improvement of factories and distribution systems. Another is “product innovation”: the adaptation of existing goods to China’s unique requirements.
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    Yet China's lack of originality matters less than you may think, believe Dan Breznitz and Michael Murphree of the Georgia Institute of Technology. In a new book, "Run of the Red Queen", they argue that it is wrong to equate innovation solely with the invention of breakthrough products. In an emerging economy, other forms of innovation can yield bigger dividends. One is "process innovation": the relentless improvement of factories and distribution systems. Another is "product innovation": the adaptation of existing goods to China's unique requirements.
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S'inspirer de la vie réelle pour aider à prédire qui deviendra l'ami d'un aut... - 0 views

  • Dis moi où tu es allé, et je te dirais qui deviendra ton ami. Ce postulat est à la base d’une nouvelle méthode pour prédire qui peut devenir l’ami d’un autre sur les réseaux sociaux,
  • Par exemple, recommander des amis à des amis pour créer des liens sur Facebook, qui compte 750 millions d’utilisateurs actifs, est une tâche difficile. Les méthodes visent donc à faciliter la recherche de communautés et de liens possibles entre «noeuds» sur ces réseaux.
Marc Botte

Consommation collaborative : "garçons, un café !" » OWNI, News, Augmented - 0 views

  • Comment un Américain qui cherchait à pouvoir utiliser sa carte Starbucks sur ses deux téléphones a créé une API collaborative pour permettre aux gens de se payer des cafés les uns aux autres
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Inside Chungking Mansions with expert Gordon Mathews | CNNGo.com - 0 views

  • “Low-end globalization is globalization not as practiced by the big multinationals with their batteries of lawyers and their billion-dollar budgets,” says Mathews. “It’s globalization done by individual traders carrying goods in their suitcases back and forth from their home countries. That’s the dominant form of globalization here and that’s how globalization works for 70 percent of the world’s people.”
  • In "Ghetto at the Center of the World," Chungking Mansions is a Grand Central Station and Mathews traces the passage of people and goods from the building to destinations such as Dubai, Lagos, Mombasa, Nairobi, Bangkok, and Kolkata. 
  • Mobile phones figure at the center of Chungking Mansions’ global trade, and Mathews estimates that up to 20 percent of the mobile phones recently in use in sub-Saharan Africa had passed through the building at some point
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  • Mathews writes that some small traders can expect to make between US$400 and $1,300 per trip, but sustaining and building this income takes intelligence, business acumen, and luck.
  • “For 20 years, Chungking Mansions has been up and down,” he says. “It’s been a good place to do business, but these days, it has also become a community center, offering services for all people in the building.” Indeed, a community of sorts does exist, and many other constituencies walk the halls of Chungking Mansions.
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    Chungking Mansions, 36-44 Nathan Road. Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. "Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong" by Gordon Mathews, Hong Kong University Press. Available at English language bookstores in Hong Kong and Amazon.com.
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Chungking Mansions and Mirador Mansions: budget hotels, high-end thrills | CNNGo.com - 0 views

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    Low end globalization
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Haïtit - Loramus, journaliste humanitaire | YOUPHIL - 0 views

  • Le journaliste de 43 ans choisit après le séisme d’habiter dans un camp, refusant la proposition de sa mère de se rendre chez elle. "Ma place était auprès des gens, justifie-t-il. Quelqu’un pourrait lire mes papiers et vouloir leur venir en aide."
  • Installées autour d’une table en bois qui mange le peu d’espace de la maisonnette, plusieurs grands-mères sont venues parler à Loramus. Passionné, ce dernier demeure intarissable sur son émission, ChiménKwazé ["nos chemins se rencontrent", en français] qu'il anime depuis plusieurs mois pour l'ONG HelpAge. L’idée: faire parler les personnes âgées qui ont notamment besoin d’un petit emploi pour continuer à vivre.
  • "Nous avons perdu nos archives avec la catastrophe, commente Loramus, tandis que Madame Kamita s’essuie péniblement le front, épuisée par la chaleur. Mais les anciens peuvent continuer de porter la mémoire de ce pays
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  • "communicateur social"
  • Enfant, il voulait "exercer au moins trois métiers". Après avoir été menuisier et journaliste, Loramus, qui vient de suivre une formation web*, rêve d’ouvrir un cybercafé. Une autre manière de diffuser l’information dans un pays où l’accès au web reste encore limité, et les connexions difficiles.
Marc Botte

Belgique: où sont les données libérées ? #OpenData » Damien Van Achter, Since... - 0 views

  • pointer du doigt les indéniables opportunités économiques, scientifiques, culturelles et citoyennes de l’OpenData (avec des exemples concrets, comme  ceux de Montpellier, à Rennes ou du Conseil régional de Gironde)
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People's Voice Media part of Smart City project along with Manchester City Council | My... - 0 views

  • ‘smart cities’ across Europe, including Ghent (Belgium), Cologne (Germany), Bologna (Italy) and Oulo (Finland).
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