The centre-bourgs are dying in the small towns of our French Provinces. Just look at the lowered curtains of the shops and the number of shops for sale. This is a national phenomenon. A devitalization of the cities that the inhabitants are deserting, showing a feeling of decline and abandonment that is great.
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Faced with record levels of mistrust, especially in the oldest democracies, journalists must succeed in convincing people of their social usefulness. What is the situation in countries that are less saturated with information? Why should journalism prove its usefulness? The question may seem incongruous, or controversial. A
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The holidays are here ... Be innovative! Or be yourself, respecting your convictions, your desires. A new platform can help you do this. Sustainable tourism, ecotourism, solidarity travel, voluntourism, social and environmental responsibility, fair trade, ... many terms are used with many nuances to travel.
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France Stratégie, the General Commission for Strategy and Foresight reporting to the Prime Minister, has just published a timely report on the issue of the blockade. This technology promises programmable transactions without the intervention of a trusted third party. The disruptive potential of such an innovation calls, according to the authors of the
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About 23% of the French are "not comfortable with digital", declaring that they never surf the Internet or with difficulty, according to a CSA study on "illiteracy", digital illiteracy. This rate rises to 58% among people aged 70 and over. This is "a new form of fracture
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Migrants, climatic, economic, political, is it possible to talk about them with lucidity and calm in order to reach peaceful answers? We have, with the values of our Republic, the resources to integrate differences and co-construct tomorrow in peace and lucidity. Let us become an example of societal innovation for the world.
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TF1, France Télévisions et M6 lancent leur propre plateforme de contenu à la demande par abonnement. Son nom : « Salto ». Sa date de mise en service : 2019. Son objectif : concurrencer le géant américain de la SVoD, Netflix. Une offre payante qui proposera à ses abonnés et
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Although many projects have been undertaken by our government to modernize public action, one area seems to have escaped this desire for reform for the moment: the use of digital tools to strengthen our soft power (1), or France's image abroad,
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How can we guarantee all students a quality education with motivated teachers? According to the 6th PISA study of 2015, the problem in France is not the "quantity" but the "quality" of education. Analysis confirmed today by the new opus
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Teaching economics as if the last 30 years really happened. And (re)inspire students to take up economics again. These are the ambitions of CORE, a new course and textbook developed by economics professors from around the world. The aim of this course is to show that economics, judged
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On Friday 25 May, the European General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data (GDPSR) will enter into force throughout the European Union. A text that has been hard fought to preserve the personal data of Internet users. Despite this progress, the vast majority of French people still feel unsafe in the digital world.
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Aujourd’hui nous avons du mal à imaginer notre futur, car tous les clignotants climatiques sont au rouge et conduisent plutôt à penser l’effondrement qu’à voir les opportunités de résilience. Pourtant, la biologie nous dit que c’est principalement en période difficile que le vivant coopère et c’est lors de phases d’abondance
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How to "Govern and Innovate in the Real Digital City"? The question comes back to a report published on 25 April 2018, in the form of a "handbook", produced by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the FING (New Generation Internet Foundation), which focuses on the capture of
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The small island of Ulva, the pearl of Scotland with pristine beaches, has been bought by five of its six inhabitants who feared it would fall into the hands of tycoons from Russia or the Middle East, a local organisation said Friday. The announcement had made more than one dream. For sale:
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They had been lost, or worse, presumed dead, for weeks, months or years. For the thousands of children who have gone missing from the streets, alleys and slums of India, there is a glimmer of hope: thanks to a new experimental facial recognition trial by the police in New Delhi, India.
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Achieving the smart city also requires a transformation "from within", by reinventing its public services. This is what François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon and president of Dijon Métropole (1), advocates in a note for the Observatoire de l'expérimentation et de l'innovation locales where he analyses OnDijon, a
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By 2018, 75% of African households will be connected to the Internet via mobile technologies. This is according to Deloitte's latest study, dedicated to the evolution of uses, consumption and markets in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector in Africa in 2018. Gabon announces
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Facebook was brought into the media spotlight during the Cambridge Analytica affair. The scandal showed how the social network was accumulating unprecedented masses of personal data that were then used by pharmacies to target specific audiences and distort, in particular, elections. During the hearings
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In the aftermath of the massive violation of the personal data of 87 million Facebook users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions from US politicians for two days in the US Senate and then in the House of Representatives. These questions focused on the close relationship between the
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Despite the innovation, coffee has always been the first social network in the territories. So what happened to the 600,000 bistros that existed in France in 1960? By 2016, there were only 34,000 (1). And today, 26,000 of the 32,212 French towns and villages no longer have any coffee.
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