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L'eau potable: une denrée rare dans le pays le plus riche d'Afrique. Extrait du film Ku nkélo de Nadège Batou consacré à de jeunes porteurs d’eau à Brazzaville. Ce documentaire dénonce les problèmes d’approvisionnement en eau potable qui touche les Brazzavillois.

Today's research community congratulates itself for the success of the internet and passionately argues whether circuits or datagrams are the One True Way. Meanwhile the list of unsolved problems grows. Security, mobility, ubiquitous computing, wireless, autonomous sensors, content distribution, digital divide, third world infrastructure, etc., are all poorly served by what's available from either the research community or the marketplace. Van Jacobson, primary contributor to the TCP/IP stack, uses various

One of the challenges that the Internet raises is the necessity of designing distributed protocols for settings where the participating computers are owned and operated by different owners with different goals. Over the last decade or so there has been much research that aims to address these issues using ideas taken from the micro-economic field of mechanism design. In this talk Noam Nissan surveys the current state of the field: how mechanism design is applied in computational settings, how far can classi

Stafford Beer explains the basic thinking behind the creation of the Viable System Model. The stuff of management is complexity and variety is the scientific name used to quantify complexity.

@valdiskrebs: Ed Morrison and Valdis Krebs talking about building new economic networks in NE Ohio!

Talk by Carlos A. Gómez-Uribe at Google Tech Talks

McKinsey Quarterly talk with Adam Werbach, CEO of Saatchi S and author of Strategy for Sustainability, a Business Manifesto

MIT ILP Talk Moderated by Peter Senge, author of The Necessary Revolution

Dr. Mathis Wackernagel at Google Lunch Talk: One Planet Budgeting

Five Axioms of Sustainability by Author Richard Heinberg (The Oil Depletion Protocol; Peak Everything)

Berkman Luncheon Series: evolution of crowdsourcing and the passion of amateurs: Jeff Howe at the Nieman Journalism Lab

with Annie Leonard

People doing what other people do

Clay Shirky reveals social dynamic insights through various case studies found in his book Here Comes Everybody published in 2008

President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo, Egypt