La norme est une frontière mouvante. La norme en effet, a une dimension axiologique (valeur morale ou philosophique) qu’il faut considérer et respecter. Il en est de même pour les économies africaines, qui s’épanouissent, tant bien que mal dans le secteur informel[1]. Dans cette analyse, il ne s’agit point de faire l’apologie de l’informalité mais de la présenter comme une alternative pour le développement inclusif et la transformation structurelle de l’Afrique. Plus...
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Le Forum 104, espace de rencontre culturel et interspirituel, organise une soirée de conférence et d'échanges sur la démarche écologique et sociale portée par la Pêche avec Sarah Tartarin (co-présidente Une Monnaie pour Paris!) et Brigitte Abel (co-présidente La Pêche monnaie locale). Plus...
What is the Blog Revenue Model and Can Blogs Gather News as Opposed to Pontificate on it?
Roland posts this summary and link to a summary of discussions about blogs at the Davos economic forum, where their concern is (as usual) how to turn something into money. "This creates a classic free-rider problem. If the blogs eventually steal the mass media's audience (or at least, key parts of it) and the Internet as a whole continues to steal its revenues, there will come a time when those big, expensive news-gathering operations will become economically insupportable." Here's a clue: they are already economically unsupportable. More...
The Learning Marketplace: Meaning, Metadata and Content Syndication in the Learning Object Economy
In September, 2001, just for fun I created a 'book generator' and, for posterity, 'authored' two books using it: Knowledge, Learning and Community (a.k.a. Book 1) and Democracy and Freedom (a.k.a. Book 2). Inexplicably, because I link to them utterly nowhere (and haven't for years) they still generate about a hundred downloads a month, give or take, as you can see in my stats. More...
A few years ago, I published an article in a reasonably well-known social science journal. After my article was accepted, I received an invoice for €2,300, plus VAT. More...
La dernière crise financière a été marquée par la faillite de Lehman Brothers, il y a exactement 10 ans. Cette banque d’investissement, fondée en 1850 et qui employait 25 000 personnes dans le monde entier, avait accumulé plus de 610 milliards de dollars de dette, c’est-à-dire autant que ses actifs qui représentaient alors 30 fois son capital. Plus...
Accords et plans d’actions
Développement, mutations économiques et besoins régionaux
Données économiques
L’intervention de la région en faveur du développement de l’économie circulaire doit permettre de disposer d’outils permettant de préparer et accompagner la transition vers l’économie circulaire. Plus...
Tipping Hollywood The Black Spot
Discussion from the Economist around the movie industry's failure to plan effectively for the inevitable sharing of movies, television programs and other video content. Holloywood's sole saving grave so far has been the size of movie files, which makes them impractical to share. But as bandwidth and computer power increase, the fate of the music industry (which has seen sales decline 25 percent) looms closer and closer. Hollywood's response, what the article calls "an Orwellian project to 're-educate' the young", will not convince anyone. More...
Elusive Vision:Challenges Impeding the Learning Object Economy
Via CogDogBlog comes this link from Macromedia to a White Paper summarizing discussion about learning objects from 18 luminaries in the field. After the usual introduction to learning objects, the discussion turns to the learning object economy, which is depicted by Masie as being "about content, content, content." The paper predicts five separate marketplaces, the first sign of awareness I've seen that there is this segmentation occuring. More...
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