By Doug Lederman. Inside Higher Ed’s 2018 Survey of College and University Presidents, released late last week, focused much of its attention on ever-urgent issues like money and politics, not surprising at a time when many colleges are feeling intense financial pressure and campus leaders are grappling with a changing public policy landscape. More...
Digital Canada 150
Press Release, Government of Canada, April 8, 2014
The Canadian government announces its digital economy strategy: "our vision is for a thriving digital Canada, underscored by five key pillars: connecting Canadians, protecting Canadians, economic opportunities, digital government and Canadian content." View the interactive version here, or read the PDF. More...
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives
Ah I don't know what to say about this item but it looks important enough to pass on. Through a Byzantine arrangement of exclusive arrangements and access to materials, libraries can offer access to newspaper archives. More...
McGraw-Hill, NYTimes Team on Digital Content
There's not too much too this item just yet, but the gist is that the New York Times and McGraw-Hill are offering a co-branded service aimed at college and university students using McGraw-Hill's Higher Education Online Learning Centers. More...
Bleak Future Looms if You Don't Take a Stand
It's a bit of a manifesto, but tech writer Dan Gillmor's stand on copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act echoes my own. In a nutshell: "Here's my message to the record industry and its allies: I'm not a thief. I'm a customer. More...
DigitalConsumer.org
In response to the increasingly restrictive conditions placed on the use of digital materials demanded by publishers, a newly formed group, DigitalConsumer.org, is advocating a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights that will positively assert a consumer's rights to fair use. More...
Cette manifestation est organisée par l’Association française des industriels du numérique, de l’éducation et de la formation (AFINEF), Groupe AEF et l’Alliance Didactique, avec le soutien du Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale et de Régions de France. Elus et services régionaux seront tout particulièrement présents pour cette deuxième édition. Plus...
Accélérons la transformation digitale des PME de croissance et des ETI ! Dans le rapport ETI : taille intermédiaire, gros potentiel, l’Institut Montaigne, en partenariat avec le METI, fait du numérique l’un des cinq champs prioritaires d’action pour développer notre tissu entrepreneurial. Plus...
Silicon Valley likes to promise ‘digital socialism’ – but it is selling a fairytale
Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian, 2015/03/02
One of the things I've learned over the years is to resist letting positions I hold be defined by their opponents. One of those positions happens to be socialism, and while it is true it has evolved over the years, it nonetheless resembles nothing like what is discussed by Evgeny Morozov in this column for the Guardian, or by Kevin Kelly in the 2009 article Morozov is responding to. More...
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