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Anticipating the French way: when anticipating means reinforcing the status quo

1994: the Thery report on "information highways" The year is 1994. The world was beginning to whisper the word Internet, Al Gore was dreaming of “global communications networks” and “participatory democracy”, and American giants like Yahoo, eBay and Amazon were preparing to revolutionize our daily lives. Meanwhile, in France, the Théry Report (30 years after the publication of the Théry Report on information highways), a masterpiece of visionary analysis commissioned by Édouard Balladur, is being published. In this report, we learn with confidence that the Internet is nothing more than a “precursor...

Is the collaborative economy digital by nature ?

In a previous post I discussed the fact the terms collaborative economy, collaborative consumption and sharing economy were often misused and used equally while...

Web 2.0 turned the digital divide into a social divide

Digital divide used to be and still is a real concern in our industrialized countries. Maybe we should end talking about industrialized countries to...