SCFO,Swiss Chinese Finance Organization-- 八八吧 :: 88 Bar. # Lift12: Circles cons Networks "InternetActu.net. Par Hubert Guillaud le 09/03/12 | 1 commentaire | 1,040 lectures | Impression Sur la scène de Lift, Tricia Wang (@triciawang qui anime plusieurs blogs, Cultural Bytes, spécialisé sur les rapports entre technologies et communautés pauvres, Bytes of China, qui pose un regard ethnographique sur la Chine, 88-bar sur l’analyse de l’actualité vue par les blogs chinois et Ethnography Matters sur la pratique ethnographique), sociologue à l’université de Californie, nous présente Han, un jeune chinois d’une vingtaine d’années. Ce fils de fermier a grandi en Chine. Il est allé dans un bon collège. Comme beaucoup de chinois, il avait une photo de Mao au-dessus de son lit. Cette histoire singulière est un moyen pour Tricia Wang de nous expliquer le fonctionnement de la Chine d’aujourd’hui.
Han est allé à l’université. Le 19 mai 2011, il a reçu un message qui indiquait que FBX allait s’exprimer dans son université. Pourquoi Han n’a-t-il pas été arrêté ? Hubert Guillaud. Kindstar's Lab Work in China Carries Challenges. Wuhan Kindstar Diagnostics does lab work for more than 2,000 hospitals in 320 cities across China, charging $50 to $300 per test. Last year, the startup added 700 new hospitals as clients, and it expects to keep growing fast as more Chinese enter the middle class and can afford tests to diagnose cancers and other diseases that in the past often went undetected and untreated. “It’s a unique opportunity,” says Chief Executive Officer Shiang Huang. Soon after Huang launched his startup in 2003, though, he realized that an understanding of logistics would be just as important as medical skills. China doesn’t have a good answer to FedEx (FDX) or DHL (DPW:GR), so a small-but-fast-growing operation such as Huang’s needed workers to shuttle samples from hospitals to the company’s lab in Wuhan via buses, planes, and trains.
Today an army of couriers makes up half of Kindstar’s 1,000 employees, picking up 25,000 blood, urine, and tissue samples a day. Retrospective: human rights abuse in China. Chinese: The New Dominant Language of the Internet. New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof recently argued that “[E]very child in the United States should learn Spanish, beginning in elementary school; Chinese makes a terrific addition to Spanish, but not a substitute.” As more parents encourage their kids to study Chinese, and more schools – both public and private – begin offering Chinese language classes, it might seem that Americans are neglecting a language with far more day-to-day applications: Spanish. The reality, however, is that Spanish remains the most studied foreign language in the US [PDF]; and enrollment in Chinese courses has skyrocketed because of China’s ever-increasing global influence.
For example, if you think that English will always be the most widely used language on the Internet, you might want to think again. This infographic from The Next Web indicates that five years from now, Chinese will be the dominant language online. Click to Enlarge Source: TNW(Visited 2,129 times, 1 visits today) China Energy & Environment Conference » Green from the Bottom Up.