Matteo Mazzeri, a digital native before the term existed, has been participating in the evolution of technology as a developer and a facilitator. He has this rare quality of a profound understanding of technology and how it can be applied …
Tristan Nitot: Firefox OS – freedom for smartphones?
As French Open Web and free software advocate, Tristan shares his success story on common good in information society. He co-created Mozilla Europe (a non-profit organization) in 1998, when he was unemployed, launching Firefox in Europe to bring back competition …
Michaëlle de Cock: Unravelling the chains of modern slavery
Michaelle De Cock is a senior researcher for the ILO on labor conditions of migrant workers, children and workers in “slave-like” conditions and a field activist on women and children rights in India for Terre des Hommes Genève. At a …
Edmée Fleury: Synergic music
Profile: artist and trainer on creative and synergic vocals. Après avoir parcouru la scène depuis une quinzaine d’années comme chanteuse au sein du trio NØRN ou dans des projets musicaux allant de la musique expérimentales à la chanson en passant …
David Jensen: Are United Nations united?
David Jensen heads the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding programme of the UN Environment Programme. His portfolio of work focuses on how natural resources contribute to conflict, as well as how they can be managed in ways that create jobs, sustain …
Jacques Vallée: The age of impossible, anticipating discontinuous futures
Profile : simply one of the co-creators of the Internet (TCP/IP), as one of the project managers of Arpanet, and also venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. The acceleration of technology in an increasingly connected society producing « impossible futures » that range …
Alexandre Cellier : Music by nature – Let’s play vegetals
Profile : musician discovering musical instruments worldwide. Surprising improvisations are appearing from transformed objects from his garden (the famous carrot-flute), from sport (bike handlebars, syringe) or from an enchanted house: from brush to fondue pot, from coffee cup to watering …
Florence Devouard: The Wiki Skills, how synergic methods change collaborative culture
Former Wikimedia Foundation chairwoman USA, co-leading the innovative WikiSkills EU project @ Ynternet.org Institute. When Wikipedia became mainstream around 2004-2005,the wiki environment invented in 1995, finally got public attention. It rapidly became a frequent platform for community knowledge based projects. …