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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 to serve people. Fluently speaking five languages he knows how to translate and make accessible to people and businesses technological …
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 in the browser space by competing with Microsoft. In July 2011, within Mozilla team he co-launched Firefox OS, a free-software …
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 crossroads of science and human rights, she believes that solid research and statistics can help breaking the prejudices and understanding …
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 par le Jazz, Edmée Fleury vous proposera de partager son expérience créative. Dans sa musique libre, chaque son est générateur …
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 livelihoods, and contribute to economic recovery and peacebuilding, without creating new grievances or significant environmental degradation. He has worked on …
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 from rapid collapse of major banks to the emergence of complex new forms of political power. The Internet has become …
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 can. With piano, hang, fujara, Trinidad’s steel pan, balafon… Alexandre Cellier is making a living of his concerts in French …
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. The benefits for the participants are not so much about learning to use a wiki software, it is about all …
