“The Age of Access”, will focus on the profound changes taking place in the global economy with particular emphasis on the new economic models that are beginning to fundamentally change the way we do business. In a linear market-based model of commerce, it is the goods that are commodified. In a process oriented network model, [...]
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The Age of Access and the 3rd Industrial Revolution by Jeremy Rifkin
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, internet, IT, media, network, resource, risorse, società, society, sustainability, tagged age of access, ambiente, clima, climate, climate change, CO2, collective intelligence, communication, cooperation, development, ecologia, ecology, economia, economy, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, fuel, inquinamento, internet, IT, media, oil, pollution, rifkin, society, sustainable development, sviluppo sostenibile on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cloud Computing
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, cooperazione, data, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, internet, IT, media, network, resource, risorse, technology, web 2.0, web application, tagged cloud, cloud computing, collective intelligence, communication, computer, internet, IT, media, scalability, shared resources on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model for IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a [...]
Africa Channel
Posted in media, network, peace, people, society on January 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Africa Channel is english language television channel that shows programming from Africa for american and uk audiences. The main mission is to open a daily window on african way of life and culture through a programming which includes: news, documentaries, music, series, specials, feature films, music, cultural programs and more. The African Channel, launched [...]
Open Society Institute – George Soros
Posted in cooperation, lobby, media, ngo, ong, pace, peace, people, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, società, society, sustainability, tagged batory, central european, ceu, charities, charity, civil society, communism, democracy, democrazia, diritti umani, eastern europe, est, europa, filantropia, fondazione, fondi, foundation, funding, george soros, human rights, independent media, movements, movimenti, no profit, open society, open society institute, OSI, partecipazione, participation, reform, revolution, riforme, rivoluzioni colorate, rivouluzioni, soros, soviet union, studenti, students, sviluppo, transition, transizione, università, university on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI [...]
The Guardian International Development Journal Competition
Posted in media, ngo, ong, society, tagged article, competition, contest, development, freelance, guardian, journal, journalism, media, poverty, writers, writing on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have the ability to be a top-notch journalist? Could you write the sort of articles the Guardian would be happy to publish? Here is the chance for your work to be published alongside some of the best journalism in the UK. The Guardian, in partnership with eight UK-based international non-government organisations (NGOs), wants [...]
Google Ocean – Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
Posted in cooperation, data, ecology, enviroment, free, internet, IT, media, science, technology, web 2.0, web application, tagged 3D, algae blooms, bathymetry, coral reef, currents, data, database, enviroment, google, google maps, google ocean, lamont_doherty, map, mape, mapping, ocean, oceani, sea, shipwreck, topografia, topography, weather patterns on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level–Google Ocean. The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts to create a 3D oceanographic map. The tool–for now called Google Ocean, is expected to be similar to other 3D online mapping applications. People will [...]
DARFUR: “China and USA in New Cold War over Africa’s Oil Riches”
Posted in energy, media, peace, people, politic, tagged africa, chad, china, cold war, darfur, engdahl, globalresearch, oil, oil riches, petroleum, reserves, sources, sudan, uranium, usa on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by F. William Engdahl The case of Darfur, a forbidding piece of sun-parched real estate in the southern part of Sudan, illustrates the new Cold War over oil, where the dramatic rise in China’s oil demand to fuel its booming growth has led Beijing to embark on an aggressive policy of—ironically– dollar diplomacy. With its [...]
Ten Reasons Why “Save Darfur” is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa
Posted in advertising, ecology, energy, enviroment, international organization, lobby, media, ong, peace, people, politic, resource, society, tagged africa, arab, black, bruce dixon, congo, darfur, dixon, genocide, globalresearch, lobby, media, oil, pr scam, resources, save darfur, sudan, uranium, US, war on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Bruce Dixon The “Save Darfur” Hoax, pt.1/2 The star-studded hue and cry to Save Darfur and “stop the genocide” has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not [...]
