Joël Van Hoolandt — Fractional CTO | Magma Consulting

I read this morning an interesting article about home working policies and Marissa Mayer's decision to bring home working to an end at Yahoo!... See the whole article here We all know that publication, information and news are every day published, always faster and faster, with less and less time for analysis...but honestly, who can believe that Mayer's decision is a full and complete change of mind? In my eyes, it can't be the case for very simple reasons: Who can imagine that an innovative IT corporation is concentrating all his knowledge (normally located in employee's head) in one single place? Who can imagine that Mayer - as CEO - wants to give the feeling that she embraces an old management style and brings Yahoo! (even more) in the past? Who has said that the new HR policy prohibits reasonable home working choices (like one day a week, for example)? Who has even thought that, with all the current technology we have in place, and especially in the IT secto...

Then check this Big Data blog, where you will find info in English and in French! Follow the link at http://www.blogbigdata.com/ The question where I can't find any answer on is what are we doing for data protection, extraction and manipulation between the different continents? EU legislation is different from the US and Australian data protection legal frameworks, but when it comes to big data analytics and transformation, what and where are the rules? All Internet based information is, by definition, above any physical frontier - but what about the data manipulation and the use of it?

A very good idea from the European institutions is to propose a centralized page with different legal frameworks and texts that are applicable in the ICT and European Union. Basically, you will find legal information about: Current general legal framework Regulatory framework. Competition. Digital Strategy, i2010 Strategy, eEurope Action Plan, Digital Strategy Programmes Internet, Online activities and ICT standards Internet and Online activities. Fight against illegal online activities. Network security and information system. Coordination and standardisation. Data protection, copyright and related rights Radiofrequencies Mobile communications. Radio spectrum. Interaction of the information society with certain policies The use of ITC for road safety. The use of ITC for electronic commerce. The use of ITC for payment systems. The use of ITC for research. The use of ITC for public health. Enlargement Ongoing enlargement. Enlargement of January 2007. En...

Have you checked the new SharePoint Pro web site ? A lot of resources are already available about SP2013!

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The European Commission has issued a third Open Innovation book. The 3 parts of the book focus on policy development trends and weak signals in service innovation cases and open innovation development in EU countries and regions What strikes me in the third part is that one of the case is about cloud computing that can take service innovation to next level . Let's see what does that means exactly... Cloud computing will boost our European economy with an accelerated time to market for new applications (installation time of a Database is today around 12 minutes; the deployment of new applications passed from some months to some days...), rapid information delivery and efficient data analysis. For the non service economy, enhanced connectivity and cloud solutions can help to bring local products faster to the local markets, in a more efficient way (think on logistics and transport). On the regulatory side, the European Union needs to harmonize the different national lega...