2015 Conference Edition

• WikiHouse, Mozilla Fr, Poppy, Framasoft, 3D printing, Mood Hat, LabFab Rennes …
• More than 15 projects ! Check the list of participants here

• What are they ?
• What barrier do they encounter ?
• What are the challenges arising ?

Open Education Resources (OER) represent today a proposal supported by international institutions like UNESCO or the OECD. The goal it to make courseware accessible, reusable, mixable.The OER movement run parallel to those of open software & many lessons from one field can be applied to the other:

• What are the technological challenges?
• How are they accepted?
• Who are the stakeholders & where are they leading us to?
• Can private companies identify business models consistent with OER?
• What are the particular issues with Francophone OER (Ressources Educatives Libres, REL).

These are some of the questions to be discussed during this session. This session is planned on the 23rd Sept. 2015 – 2PM-6PM.

• How designers think of the future using these tools of conception?
• How open & design can interact together in an open manner? 
• How can designers & researchers can work together & experiment new models?
• How can people benefits from these designs & how can designers can live thanks to open collaboration models?

Fing, an independent think/do tank on digital transformations, has developed an open, annual program called “Digital Disruptions”, that tries to identify digital issues and come up with meaningful answers. This year, Fing and Inria will focus work together on the digital and the ecological transition convergence with 1- a foresight & creative workshop on What are the digital levers of the ecological transition ?

• Ecology by design: A new paradigm for ICT?
• Green IT: Green washing, or a lever of the ecological transition?
• ICTs and ecology: Part of the problem, or part of the solution?

Nowadays, Internet services rely mainly on centralized physical infrastructures, such as large scale datacenters as it  greatly simplifies the deployment of software services since such physical infrastructures are always online but this is at a cost of being a single point of failure and privacy issues.

Recent trends in industry have seen the creation of  multiple data centers geographically scattered and interconnected with fast private networks to better serve the user needs and cope well in case of power outage, network failures, or natural disasters.

These trends can be further developed so that cloud services can be hosted at home using low-power and persistent computing systems. Such an approach has always been possible in theory using personal computers. However, energy consumption, and thus  energy cost prevented it to practically happen.

Rapid evolution of smartphone technologies is changing the situation very quickly. It is nowadays feasible to design very low power computing systems using smartphone components (such as ARM based processors or Intel based low power processors). 2015 has seen a spectacular number of announcements for PC sticks, mini or nano-PCs. Such machines consume few watts (typically 3-5 watts), while providing very good performance when using multicore processors and thus can be always-on with an energy cost below 10€ per year.

• It is thus possible to have always-on computing systems at home hosting internet services allowing citizens to have a better control over their data without the need to delegate the management of their sensitive information to public cloud providers.
• Will 2015 be the rise of Citizen clouds ?