industryterm:communication technologies

Le nouveau #Google_Flight_Search dessine une drôle de carte de l’#Europe
https://www.google.fr/flights
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/my7nfwix4mqlp1m/google_flight_search.png
#avion #aéroports #prix

il ne manque plus que les lignes « isoeuros »

ça rappelle l’isochrone des voyages dans l’empire romain :
http://seenthis.net/messages/70356

[PS/ y en a qui critiquent en disant que ce serait une sorte d’abus de position dominante (http://www.numerama.com/magazine/25429-google-lance-son-comparateur-de-billets-d-avion.html) mais là n’est pas mon propos.]

Vu le déferlement actuel de la campagne de Google et d’Obama, peignant la réunion #WCIT de Dubaï comme le complot secret de l’Axe du Mal, voici un excellent article qui garde les pieds sur terre, et démonte les hypocrisies des deux camps :

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2012/12/05/good-and-bad-reasons-to-be-worried-about-wcit

#ICANN #UIT #gouvernance_Internet

Cape Town Sanitation Hackathon
http://capetownsanhack.eventbrite.com

The Sanitation Hackathon emerges out of the recognition that the rapid increase of penetration, awareness and literacy in information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the developing world can transform water and sanitation management. Mobile phones, the Internet and open data are creating new entry points to make sanitation services more transparent, inclusive and participatory while forging new connections between the government, its citizens and the private sector.

#toilettes #mobile #hack

ORBIS : carte interactive de la Rome antique
http://orbis.stanford.edu

http://orbis.stanford.edu/images/home_geo05.png

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/plan-a-trip-through-history-with-orbis-a-google-maps-for-ancient-rome/257554

un monde virtuel, idéal pour un écrivain qui veut se plonger dans un univers parallèle !

Spanning one-ninth of the earth’s circumference across three continents, the Roman Empire ruled a quarter of humanity through complex networks of political power, military domination and economic exchange. These extensive connections were sustained by premodern transportation and communication technologies that relied on energy generated by human and animal bodies, winds, and currents.
Conventional maps that represent this world as it appears from space signally fail to capture the severe environmental constraints that governed the flows of people, goods and information. Cost, rather than distance, is the principal determinant of connectivity.
For the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.
Taking account of seasonal variation and accommodating a wide range of modes and means of transport, ORBIS reveals the true shape of the Roman world and provides a unique resource for our understanding of premodern history.

#cartographie #histoire

The e-G8 Summit, Unveiled | Nova Spivack - Minding the Planet
http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveiled

I was recently honored to be invited by President Sarkozy of France to participate in the e-G8 Summit — a new and potentially useful summit of global Internet leaders, right before this year’s G8 Summit in Paris.

#net-neutrality #net-gouvernance #internet