PUBLIC MARKS with search \\\"b\\\"international

The increasing urbanization of many parts of the world coupled with other global issues such as environmental pollution, energy consumption, and resources shortage are resulting in major urban crises in many parts of the world. In an effort to explore and map the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Al-Fateh University and the Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR) have joined together to organize an international conference on sustainable architecture and urban development.

A massive increase in international co-operation and significant investment in awareness-building and training are essential if the concept of an Internet of Things (IoT) is to be turned into a meaningful reality, says a European Union-funded project in its final report, “RFID and the Inclusive Model for the Internet of Things.”

A partir du 16 novembre, l'organisme international en charge de la gestion d'internet acceptera le dépôt de noms de domaine rédigés avec des alphabets arabes, chinois, coréens ou japonais.

Le Fonds stratégique d'investissement (FSI) va apporter 7,5 millions d'euros à Dailymotion, comme l'a annoncé le site du Figaro ce jeudi matin. Un investissement réalisé dans le cadre d'une augmentation de capital totale de 17 millions d'euros. Le reste provient des actionnaires historiques du site : les fonds Advent Venture Partners, AGF Private Equity, Atlas Venture et Partech International.

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) was formed in June 2002 with a mission to "facilitate the international coordination and collaboration necessary for the development and deployment of the tools, systems and organizational structures necessary to enable the international utilization of astronomical archives as an integrated and interoperating virtual observatory." The IVOA now comprises 17 VO projects from Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Membership is open to other national and international projects according to the IVOA Guidelines for Participation.

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) organises two Interoperability meeting per year. The second meeting of 2009 is being hosted by the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), and will be held in the main building of the the ESO Headquarters, on November 9-12 in Garching bei München, Germany.

After yesterday's first part of my report on Parrworld. The Collection of Martin Parr, here's a quick (and very sloppy i'm afraid) focus on his private collection of photographs. The artist's interest in social themes finds an echo in these documentary photographs. I'm going to leave aside the international part of this collection and concentrate only on the images from Great Britain.

First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information

October 12-13, 2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

Grâce aux archives de l'INA, j'ai pu constituer un petit best-of des reportages des JT de France Télévisions qui, depuis maintenant une quinzaine d'années, aident la ménagère de plus de 50 ans à avoir confiance dans les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication telles que le "internet", ce réseau international qui se joue des États et sur lequel on trouve des néonazis, des trucs et astuces pour terroristes, de la drogue, des pédophiles, des révisionnistes, des satanistes, le Ku Klux Klan, des terroristes, des pédophiles, des néonazis, des sites pornographiques, des trafiquants d'enfants, des néonazis, des pédophiles, des groupes terroristes, des médicaments en vente libre, des tueurs en série, des néonazis, des antisémites, des pédophiles, et bien entendu quelques terroristes (sans oublier les pédophiles et les néonazis).