Comment la Banque mondiale fonctionne-t-elle ?
Qu’est-ce que le "soft power" ?
67% des Européens connaissent le RGPD, un an après son entrée en vigueur
Quelles sont les missions du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) ?
Immigration de travail : la carte bleue européenne a dix ans
Quels sont les éléments de la puissance des États ?
Le Conseil de l'innovation fête ses 1 an !
À l'occasion du 1er anniversaire du Conseil de l'innovation (CNI), mardi 19 novembre, une matinée d'échanges a permis aux directeurs de programme des grands défis de présenter la nouvelle politique de soutien à l'innovation ainsi que les priorités à venir. Plus...Math Education For The Benefit of MasterCard
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Math Education For The Benefit of MasterCard
Discussion of a Roger Schank piece about business perceptions of American education. You certainly have to wonder what their thinking is. Schank writes, "Math is core to MasterCard's business? Are they doing a lot of trigonometry over there at MasterCard? Congruent triangles on the MasterCard logo? How exactly is math core to MasterCard's business? Ah". More...
OpenSocial, Killer Apps and Regular People
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OpenSocial, Killer Apps and Regular People
SixApart (LiveJournal, Movable Type, Vox) announces support for OpenSocial, writing "Honestly, we don't care much about the political battles between big tech companies: We're doing this because this is what it takes for new features, applications, and experiences to happen in the right way for the vast range of communities that we serve." MySpace has joined. Wired also weighs in quoting Jonathon Abrams: "Previous efforts like FOAF [friend of a friend] and OpenID were pretty complicated. For something to be useful from the user's perspective it has to be simple and easy." Meanwhile, view screenshots and screencasts from Marc Andreessen. There's a lot of figuring out to do. And I should also add that as I write there is a huge debate taking place in the open social graph community about whether the Google API is either open or social. More...