Civic Techs - 1 - Quand le numérique renouvelle la démocratie On aurait tort de croire que ces civic techs, particulièrement visibles en France à quelques mois de l’élection présidentielle de 2017, sont un phénomène récent. « Depuis environ deux ans, le mot à la mode est ‘civic tech’ mais beaucoup d’organisations labellisées ainsi comme mySociety, OKFN ou Regards Citoyens existaient bien avant. Ce n’est pas nouveau d’essayer d’utiliser le numérique pour améliorer la participation démocratique, même si l’on observe aujourd’hui une explosion des initiatives », souligne Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, l’un des administrateurs du collectif Regards Citoyens. Trois différences importantes distinguent les deux vagues de ce mouvement : une très grande partie de la population est maintenant connectée à Internet, les réseaux sociaux existent et beaucoup de ces projets ont une dimension entrepreneuriale. Mobiliser les citoyens « Une fois que les citoyens sont informés, on peut les mobiliser. Une illusion de participation ?
Nadia_Méthodes numériques de travail dans le secteur public This article is written by Catherine Clasadonte, MPP Student, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto and Jonathan Craft, Phd. Associate Professor and founding director of Policy Ready, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. In January, Policy Ready and the Institute for Public Administration launched a new Digital Government Case Study Series. Our first case, which we wrote about in Apolitical, focused on the digital transformation of the Ontario Student Assistance Program, where we highlighted the importance of political leadership, interdisciplinary teams, and underscored the multiple facets of digital government transformation including the interactions among technology, policy, programs, political, and operational realities. Want to write for us? As anyone doing digital work in government will know, it is not without challenges. Redesigning digital Getting your team on board Ready for scale?
www.technologyreview With the global population projected to increase by nearly 3 billion people by midcentury, demand for food—as well as the land and energy required to produce it—is to set to soar. If the world doesn’t figure out ways to cultivate far more food on less land, we’ll need to covert nearly two Indias’ worth of forests, grasslands, and other ecosystems to agricultural fields, according to a new study led by World Resources Institute researchers. That, in turn, would increase annual emissions by 15 billion tons of carbon dioxide and equivalent gases—far exceeding the 4 billion tons permissible under models that hold global warming below 2 ˚C. The report, issued by the World Bank and United Nations, found that global food needs will expand 50% overall by 2050, while demand for animal-based products like meat, milk, and eggs will swell by nearly 70%. The innovations that could help achieve these aims include:
AI Index | Stanford HAI Welcome to the Fifth Edition of the AI Index The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI responsibly and ethically with humans in mind. The 2022 AI Index report measures and evaluates the rapid rate of AI advancement from research and development to technical performance and ethics, the economy and education, AI policy and governance, and more. The latest edition includes data from a broad set of academic, private, and non-profit organizations as well as more self-collected data and original analysis than any previous editions. Read the 2022 AI Index Report Who's Leading the Global AI Race? Global AI Vibrancy Tool
Taxer les robots? Voyons d’abord ce que disent les données Une curieuse coalition semble se former autour de la taxation des robots. Benoît Hamon l’a évoquée récemment. Interviewé par Quartz, Bill Gates avance qu'une telle taxe pourrait contribuer au financement d’emplois d’intérêt général comme s’occuper des personnes âgées, par exemple, ou du soutien scolaire. Le débat a également été porté au Parlement européen, avec la proposition de faire payer aux entreprises s’équipant de robots la formation des travailleurs qui perdent leur emploi. Cette idée est d’abord contestable sur son principe. Mais ralentir le progrès n’est pas la bonne réponse à ces graves questions. Pour cela, rien ne sert de réinventer la fiscalité. En revanche pourquoi décider de surtaxer les profits tirés de l’utilisation d’un robot, plus que ceux liés à l’exploitation d’une rente immobilière, d’un savoir-faire, d’un carnet d’adresse ou d’un coup de chance ? Car l’idée de la taxe sur les robots est probablement impossible à mettre en œuvre sans dommage. Figure 1. © Telos.
Nadia_Government as (un)usual This article is written by Honey Dacanay, Director, Digital Academy at Canada School of Public Service I often liken the global digital transformation mission to the Theseus paradox: If you change all the planks on a ship, is it really the same ship when it reaches its destination? In other words, if the end-game of digital government is just . . . well, government . . . would we be able to recognise it? We are, after all, as Harvard lecturer David Eaves describes, in the midst of the hardest part yet of this movement’s journey — that “long, slow battle over what the structure and shape of government will look like.” Want to write for us? Take a look at Apolitical's guide for contributors As planks go, all-digital government offices begin with digital service standards. You must have a clear understanding and appreciation of the complexity of the institution you’re changing But therein lies the problem. Bureaucracy is a system feature, not a bug Institutional supports are a continuum
The Only Three Trends That Matter * Journal of Futures Studies By Leah Zaidi Trends are all the rage. As we enter 2019, there are no shortages of predictions and speculation about what the future may hold. Trends can be useful, but they are also problematic. Are a reflection of the past because all data is historical by natureDon’t account for wildcards and unpredictable eventsBecome more difficult to predict the further out we lookEncourage extrapolating the past into the future, rather creating new visionsSupport an economic/tech-driven mindset (e.g. what to invest in next) which isn’t always the right approachAre simple and linear, and not systemic (we tend to follow single threads and not how they weave together)Can be vague, misleading, or wrong, especially when they capture short-lived fadsAre not all equal Given the sheer number of trend predictions, it can be difficult to determine what matters and what to pay attention to. To that point, I would argue there are only three trends that matter: When we design for the future, we should ask:
Government AI Readiness Index — Oxford Insights Many governments are looking to use AI within their operations and public service delivery. AI is being used with the goal of improving efficiency in the delivery of services, ensuring fairer access to services, and enhancing citizens' experience of services. However, there is a lack of understanding about what foundations are needed for a government to be in the position to integrate AI into services and, beyond that, what it takes for AI to then be used in government effectively and responsibly. The Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2022 seeks to address this lack of understanding. We think that this question cuts across many dimensions of governmental and technological progress. You can access the public dataset for the index here.
Usbek & Rica Moins médiatisés que le DarkWeb, de nombreux services et plateformes ambitionnent de créer des Internet parallèles, contribuant à rendre le web plus sécurisé, plus confidentiel et moins hiérarchisé. Le tout en s'appuyant sur la logique peer-to-peer et les crypto-monnaies. Focus sur IPFS, ZeroNet, Blockstack et SAFE Network, quatre acteurs particulièrement prometteurs en la matière. « Il faut re-décentraliser le web ». J’ai mal à mon web Dans le monde post-Snowden, ce qui n’était jadis qu’une vague intuition paranoïaque s’est transformé en certitude : toutes nos actions en ligne, tous nos messages, toutes nos photos, nos moindres clics sont dûment stockés, traités, analysés, surveillés. Le rêve d’un web universel, libre, respectueux et ouvert s’est changé en cauchemar quasi orwélien Surtout, alors que l’immense majorité du Net, de ses applications et des données qui y circulent sont contrôlés par quatre ou cinq entreprises, c’est l'utopie originelle d'Internet qui a été mise à mal. Privé.
PP - Et si le numérique rendait le management plus humain ? Digital skills training blueprints for upskilling SME employees and unemployed persons The European Commission has published the final report of the pilot project "Digital Skills: New Professions, New Educational Methods, New jobs” which developed blueprints for training programmes to enable SME employees and unemployed persons to acquire digital skills required in the modern work place. The research drew input from a wide range of stakeholders, including SMEs and organisations working with the unemployed in Lithuania and in the region of Murcia, Spain, as well as with stakeholders from other regions and at European-level. The results of the research confirms that SMEs are most likely to invest in training employees when there was an immediate operational need or a business development opportunity. The resulting insights also fed into four digital skills blueprints, which can support the planning and implementation of digital skills initiatives targeted towards those who do not have the digital skills necessary to compete in an increasingly digital economy: Background
World Digital Competitiveness Ranking - IMD Business School for Management and Leadership The IMD World Digital Competitiveness (WDC) ranking analyzes and ranks the extent to which countries adopt and explore digital technologies leading to transformation in government practices, business models and society in general. As in the case of the IMD World Competitiveness ranking, we assume that digital transformation takes place primarily at enterprise level (whether private or state-owned) but it also occurs at the government and society levels. Based on our research, the methodology of the WDC ranking defi nes digital competitiveness into three main factors: Knowledge Technology Future readiness In turn, each of these factors is divided into 3 sub-factors which highlight every facet of the areas analyzed. These nine sub-factors comprise 54 criteria, although each sub-factor does not necessarily have the same number of criteria (for example, it takes more criteria to assess Training and Education than to evaluate IT integration).
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