Sunday Quotation "Digital fluency should mean..."
  "Digital fluency" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting"Mitchel ResnickMitchel Resnick develops in a recent article the rationale for designing the Scratch programming environment. As he stresses right from the beginning, this is a project aimed at developing digital

Sunday Quotation: "The World is Digital"
... and in a much more radical way than you may think. One of the biggest insights of computer science is that the world is digital Dick Lipton Dick Lipton is a theoretical computer scientist at Georgia Tech. He writes a blog ("Gödel's Last Letter") where he has no problems in discussing the latest theorems in his field. To put it mildly, it is not a blog for the fainthearted. It does a great work, however, in communicating the deep knowledge that computer science can offer to other disciplines. Recently, Lipton, while at a

A new challenge: connecting UL09 with UrbanLabs010
The concept of UrbanLabs originated from our perception that there was an opportunity to accelerate change in the city by gathering stakeholders in urban phenomena under the digital culture umbrella . We set ourselves to the goals of awakening the civic conscience of those with technological capability, bringing together urban managers and new digital urban designers and promoting  practical outcomes by letting them work on projects, not just listening to talks.

Sunday quote: "New technologies condemn us to be intelligent"
I do not know how,  but I found this conference by Michel Serres as part of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary  of INRIA in Lille on  December 11th 2007 (day and month of my birthday, incidentally). A  philosopher celebrating new technologies. Enjoy the word

Citilab-Digital Birmingham: considerations on the social context
Yesterday Dave Harte gave an excellent opening keybote speech at Urbanlabs09.  Here you have it on SlideShare. He explained at length the different dimensions along which Birmingham has evolved as a Digital City.  It is difficult to summarize all the aspects he talked about. However, I think he very clearly showed that for him (and not only form him!) a Digital City is not just a city that uses digital technology for accessing and distributing information. A Digital City, as the different examples from Birmingha