Infrastructure provides the basic needs for society, and sustainable infrastructure systems are essential for the survival, health and well-being of a society. For developing countries, the civil and environmental engineer are at the epicenter in seeking means to enhance human life through modernization of infrastructure as evidenced by provision of shelter, water, and transport, amongst others.

The current rate of urbanization and industrialization has caused a rise in environmental issues, involving environmental mismanagement which has been associated with unforeseen global catastrophes. The problems are further aggravated with environmental degradation such as soil erosion, depletion of water resources, etc.

In order to meet these multifaceted challenges, proper planning, implementation and verification exercises are required, via an integrated, multidisciplinary and holistic approach. The global momentum for sustainable development must now lead to practical applications of the engineering and science of sustainability.

Human development is about putting people at the centre of development. It is about people realizing their potential, increasing their choices and enjoying the freedom to lead lives they value. Since 1990, annual Human Development Reports have explored challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, cultural liberty, globalization, water scarcity and climate change.

Clément Laberge dit :

18 septembre 2009 à 1:33

Au sujet de reCaptcha… dans un échange par courriel, Karl Dubost propose une autre interprétation de l’intérêt de Google pour cette technologie:

« Je vois ReCAPTCHA comme un enjeu différent. Bien sûr c’est utile pour corriger les mauvaises numérisations de livres par le crowd sourcing, mais ce n’est pas la priorité numéro 1. Google a perdu le lead sur l’information extrêmement fraîche à cause de twitter. Re-Captcha est un cheval de troie des blogs. Il permet de savoir quels sont les articles de blogs qui sont commentés en temps réel. Et donc d’envoyer un bot d’indexation quand le contenu réel est vraiment modifié (plutôt que des headers HTTP mal configurés). »

J’adhère!

The good news is that the eco-friendly trend seems to be growing. Chinese factories produce a third of the world’s solar cells and China will soon lead the world in wind turbines.

Unfortunately there is a lot misuse of GET over POST and vice versa. Both HTTP methods can achieve the same goals, but an incorrect choice between them can lead to unexpected and potentially harmful outcomes.

Aaron Koblin is an an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to examine cultural trends and emergent patterns. Aaron’s work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation's first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. As Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab in San Francisco, Aaron helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work from designers around the world.

MFA Design|Media Arts UCLA

Without an applicable encryption standard -- and some boundaries on what's really required -- I think these legal initiatives will do more harm than good. To prevent the various risks, companies will do dumb things. Things that are probably dumber than what they've done that lead to leaks of personal information.

So we discussed this challenge of reframing things and some how that lead to a short discussion of parenting — getting kids to try things that they don’t want and disallowing them from doing things they shouldn’t. This point came up directly — “yeah, and they’ll say — can I wash the cat in the toilet?” Somehow this started the story, where we ourselves reversed our assumptions and looked at it from the positive side. How do you encourage unconventional, presumably preposterous things and not assume failed results?

Karl Dubost

Directeur du Développement chez VDL2 (Montréal, Canada)

Karl est un hédoniste, rêveur en permanente exploration d’un Web ouvert et créatif. Son principal défi dans sa vie professionnelle est de mettre en relation les humains et la technologie. Il s’intéresse aux changements induits dans la société par les réseaux sociaux Web en définissant leur opacité. Dans De 2000 à 2008, Il a été Web Community Liaison, HTML WG staff contact, QA Activity Lead et Conformance Manager pour le W3C.

Son intervention cette année

* HTTP pour les naifs et les brutes

Each and every title is precious to me, and my hope is that a viewing on this website will lead you to seek out screenings of these pictures or perhaps DVDs as they appear.

Pondering what the combination of corn circles, very large QR codes and Google Earth might lead to. Any takers?

The term locative media refers generally to the communication technologies involving location; ie, those providing a link or information relating to a specific place via devices such as GPS, mobile telephones or PDAs, laptop computers or wireless networks. These media are now fully integrated into our daily lives and lead to a whole series of social, professional and cultural routines. Likewise, they have catalysed a certain level of curiosity and concern both in terms of artistic practice and academic study. In this issue of Artnodes, we want to contribute to the academic debate on locative media. We focus specifically on artistic projects that use these media for distinct aims, from political activism to games, or the different ways of appropriating these technologies. This allows us to see, from a conceptual perspective, that all these projects share an idea of the notion of space: how it is ordered, how it is represented, or what kind of social interaction takes place there. These are the underlying questions in each and every one of these locative media projects.