Chapitre 2 — Innover = créer des opportunités Comment poser la question de l'innovation ? Il y a une question à laquelle, après tous ces voyages, j'ai du mal à répondre de façon claire et définitive : pourquoi les gens se mettent-ils à innover ? Pourquoi cela arrive partout dans le monde ? Je constate par contre qu'ils le font et pas nécessairement comme on croirait. Sec, légèrement barbu, Adnane Charafeddine a le regard intense de celui qui a une vision. "Nous copions bêtement et méchamment ce qui se fait ailleurs" explique-t-il -- en l'occurrence quelques magazines automobiles et autres sites spécialisés. Après quinze ans passés dans la région de San Francisco, j'avais acquis, à tort, l'habitude de la concevoir comme ce qui n'existait pas avant. Le grand Steve Jobs lui-même n'a-t-il pas trouvé souris et interface graphique dans les laboratoires de Xerox Parc ? Carla Gómez Monroy/photo F. Copier puis modifier et modifier en assemblant ne sont peut-être pas des entreprises si différentes…. [Écrit le 8 octobre 2011]
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review By Daniel J. Solove When the government gathers or analyzes personal information, many people say they're not worried. "I've got nothing to hide," they declare. "Only if you're doing something wrong should you worry, and then you don't deserve to keep it private." The nothing-to-hide argument pervades discussions about privacy. The nothing-to-hide argument is everywhere. The argument is not of recent vintage. I encountered the nothing-to-hide argument so frequently in news interviews, discussions, and the like that I decided to probe the issue. My response is "So do you have curtains?" On the surface, it seems easy to dismiss the nothing-to-hide argument. One can usually think of something that even the most open person would want to hide. But such responses attack the nothing-to-hide argument only in its most extreme form, which isn't particularly strong. To evaluate the nothing-to-hide argument, we should begin by looking at how its adherents understand privacy. Daniel J.
Pool Party, UrbanDaddy M-Pesa M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service for Safaricom and Vodacom, the largest mobile network operators in Kenya and Tanzania.[1] Currently the most developed mobile payment system in the world, M-Pesa allows users with a national ID card or passport to deposit, withdraw, and transfer money easily with a mobile device.[2] History[edit] The initial work of developing the product was given to a product and technology development company[9] known as Sagentia. Development and second line support responsibilities were transferred to IBM in September 2009, to where most of the original Sagentia team transferred. Concept[edit] M-Pesa is also criticized for stopping the government from getting seigniorage revenues.[13] Services[edit] M-Pesa customers can deposit and withdraw money from a network of agents that includes airtime resellers and retail outlets acting as banking agents. The service enables its users to: Kenya[edit]
NSA "Whistleblower" Snowden: Hero? Fool? Traitor? Or ... ? Oops. I'd thought there was a good probability I could get through today without having to post again about the ever more confusing NSA mess. Not a chance, as it turns out. This saga is now taking on the various aspects of a 60s-era spy spoof film, and its bizarre twists and turns are making David Lynch's 1984 production of "Dune" look clear and easily comprehensible by comparison. Here's where we stand. Word is out that the NSA leaker, "whistleblower," or whatever your preferred terminology may be, is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA tech assistant who (until very recently) was a contract worker at NSA on behalf of various outside firms, like Dell and Booz Allen. Snowden is now reportedly holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, and states that he hopes to achieve asylum in Iceland. He asserts that he has done "nothing wrong." Snowden is already being hailed as a "hero" in many quarters, and comparisons are being made to U.S. I'll admit to being puzzled by such actions. Be seeing you.
Perrier Secret Place Perrier believes that drinking water at a party is the best way to not miss a single thing. After all – when you are more aware, you experience more. Perrier Secret Place is an immersive digital experience that lets you live the ultimate party you've always dreamed of. Through a 90-minute film that works like a video game, users are invited to experience the perspective of 60 different characters – experiencing the party not just through one point of view, but 60 wild fantasies. Our goal was to give people the opportunity to live an experience they've only dreamed about.
"L'Innovation jugaad. Redevenons ingénieux!" (Editions Diateino) LE MONDE ECONOMIE | • Mis à jour le | Annie Kahn Depuis quelques années, le savoir-faire et la créativité des chercheurs indiens, éduqués dans un contexte de frugalité et non d'abondance à l'occidentale, inspirent les chercheurs des pays développés. Navi Radjou, français d'origine indienne, consultant en innovation actuellement installé dans la Silicon Valley, a beaucoup fait pour populariser cet état d'esprit dont la dénomination, "jugaad", vient d'un mot hindi signifiant "savoir se débrouiller et trouver des solutions dans des conditions hostiles". En français, l'innovation "jugaad" est traduite par "innovation frugale", celle dont l'objectif est de trouver des solutions radicalement nouvelles, mais économes en matières premières, en énergie. Le livre que Navi Radjou cosigne avec Jaideep Prabhu, professeur à la Judge Business School de l'université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni) - où M. Son marché est celui du "milieu supérieur de la pyramide", précisent les auteurs. L'Innovation jugaad.
Compagnies aériennes: jusqu'où iront Ryanair et les autres rois du low cost pour réduire les coûts? Face à la concurrence qui fait rage, Ryanair et les autres compagnies aériennes sont prêtes à tout pour faire des économies. Parfois, les mesures prises ressortissent à la plus pure radinerie, même si, au final, elles se traduisent par des millions de dollars d'économies chaque année. Mais parfois, elles peuvent aller à l'encontre de l'exigence de sécuriité. Revue de détail. Le champion du monde des réductions de dépenses tous azimuts est Michael O'Leary, le patron de Ryanair, qui ne ménage pas son temps pour produire des idées lui permettant d'économiser et... accessoirement de faire parler de lui. A l'occasion d'une interview accordée au Républicain lorrain, il avait ainsi carrément annoncé qu'il souhaitait supprimer des toilettes dans ses avions : "N’en garder qu’un sur quatre suffit largement, nos trajets étant en moyenne d’un peu plus d’une heure. Et cet Irlandais qui dirige Ryanair depuis près de 20 ans a de la suite dans les idées.
Run That Town The Australian Bureau of Statistics was looking for ways to get people more engaged with Census data to help them understand why the data matters and how it can help guide planning and policy decisions. But most people don’t get a chance to make those kind of decisions. To them, the Census data can just seem like so many numbers. We took the data from every postal area in Australia and turned it into a mobile game. Innovation Jugaad. Redevons ingénieux !: Amazon.fr: Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Simone Ahuja, Jean-Joseph Boillot
What is the NSA's PRISM program? (FAQ) | Security & Privacy Editors' note: Updated on June 12 to include new information. You've been hearing about a top-secret government program reportedly giving the NSA access to digital consumer information held by large tech companies. But what is it, really, and how does it affect you? Reports are changing fast, so we created this FAQ to let you know what is known so far. We will continue to update it as the facts become clear. What is PRISM? It has now been acknowledged by the Obama administration. In the words of national security reporter Marc Ambinder, "PRISM [is] a kick-ass GUI that allows an analyst to look at, collate, monitor, and cross-check different data types provided to the NSA from Internet companies located inside the United States." It only targets foreigners? Why would there be foreign intelligence on American servers? So how does this affect an American's data? What is PRISM not? Which companies are involved? How? Why isn't Twitter a part of PRISM? What type of data is monitored?
Local Attorney Ad Goes Viral with More Than 5 Million YouTube Views If you own a local business, how would you like your ad to be viewed more than five million times in just over a week. Yeah, we thought so. Well, that’s what happened to personal injury lawyer Jamie Casino (real name Jamie Biancosino) when he posted a video he had made for local airing in the Savannah, GA, area during last week’s Super Bowl to YouTube. Of course, Casino’s ad was not seen nationally at first like those of many of the major Super Bowl sponsors. But the video has created a huge following online, much more than would ever have been possible with Super Bowl viewers in the Savannah market alone. The key to the ad’s success may be the video itself. “You take a big chance when you do things like this. He says the spot is not so much an ad for his law firm (though, clips from his law ads clearly appear at the beginning of the video.) If we are to believe the narrative of the video, Michael’s death turned his brother Jamie’s life around. Image: Video Still
L'EPFL Investit Dans L'innovation Frugale La conversion religieuse est à la fois le processus, et l'aboutissement, d'un cheminement personnel où des croyances religieuses ou philosophiques, nouvelles ou anciennes, supplantent d'autres con... Religions, une histoire de choix! Now Is The Time For All Good Nerds To Come To The Aid Of The Internet The Internet is broken. It is burning. Facebook and Twitter fiddle while it smokes and we, the sapped members of the Internet class, watch the flames and wonder what’s next. Say what you want about the politics of whistleblowing or the tendency of the exhausted sysadmins to finally give up, now is the time to fix this before all we hold dear – the freedom that NSA snooping was ostensibly designed to protect – is gone. Ignore this moment at your peril. To be clear, what the NSA is doing is far from technologically advanced. How can we start? Encrypt your hard drive. Require transparency and control of your service providers. Support open source. Don’t consent to be identified or use hardware that does. The absence of privacy is tragic and dangerous. One way of beginning to understand privacy is by looking at what happens to people in extreme situations where it is absent. You are all smart people.