“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 [...]
Digital Divide
Posted in cooperation, international organization, internet, IT, media, ong, open source, people, society, solidarity, technology, tagged accesso, alfabetizzazione informatica, bangalore declaration, bharat mehra, broadband, communication, computer, DD, digital citizen, digital divide, disegualianze, divario digitale, education, educazione, encore ltd, gap, global economy, global village, inequality, information technology, infrastrutture, internet, IT, ITC, lisa servon, MDG, network society, nuove tecnologie, pc, poverty, resource, servizi telematici, simpluter, summit società dell'informazione, trashware, UN, unequal access on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Medialink via youtube The term digital divide refers to the gap between those people with effective access to digital and information technology and those without access to it. It includes the imbalances in physical access to technology as well as the imbalances in resources and skills needed to effectively participate as a digital citizen. [...]
Apple Mac 1984
Posted in advertising, apple, media, technology, tagged 1984, advertising, apple, director, film, great brother, IT, mac, media, spot, steve jobs, video on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1984 is a television commercial launched by Apple Computer in 1984 to promote the Macintosh personal computer in the United States. Directed by Ridley Scott, the commercial showed an unnamed heroine running through an Orwellian world to throw a sledgehammer at a TV image of Big Brother (an implied representation of IBM). This was followed [...]
Open Source
Posted in linux, media, open source, tagged free, gratis, IT, linux, open source, richard stallman, society, ubuntu, video on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Open source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software, the most important of which is that the source code is openly available. Open source (termine inglese che significa sorgente aperto) indica un software rilasciato con un tipo di licenza per la quale il codice sorgente è lasciato alla disponibilità di [...]
UN uses Google to pinpoint refugee crises
Posted in media, people, solidarity, technology, tagged google, google maps, IT, refugee, society, solidarity, UN, UNHCR on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The United Nations is using the mapping programme Google Earth to highlight the plight of millions of refugees and its humanitarian work to help them. The outreach programme, a joint initiative between the internet giant and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), weaves together satellite maps, photos, videos and eyewitness accounts to give viewers a close-up [...]
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Posted in apple, cooperation, media, people, technology, tagged apple, IT, mac, pixar, speech, stanford, video on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
