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L’impôt, la taxe et la redevance permettent aux Etats de financer leurs dépenses, d’investir dans leur futur et celui de leurs citoyens. Les Etats peuvent également dépenser plus que ce qu’ils récoltent, et s’endetter auprès de banques. Read the rest

Quelle place pour l’empirisme dans le débat démocratique? La méthode Lean Startup originaire de la Silicon Valley est couramment utilisée dans le domaine de l’innovation afin de pouvoir tester rapidement la viabilité d’une idée. Read the rest

Discussion held at the Westminster Reference Library in February 2016. Our perception of reality – and of the choices that we have in life – has always been influenced by our surroundings: education, friends, favourite newspaper, social media. Read the rest

Benjamin J. Muller is Associate Professor of Political Science, King’s University College at Western University, London, Canada. Our interview is based on his forthcoming “Biometric Borders” paper, part of Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration, edited by Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones and Jennifer Fluri, Edward Elgar Press (publication scheduled for February 2019). Read the rest

Participants: Dr. Btihaj Ajana, Associate Professor at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. Dr. Federica Lucivero, Marie Curie Fellow at the Global Health and Social Medicine department at King’s College London. Irma Arianti (moderator)

Can lean software development techniques (such as Scrum, Test-driven development, and UX-driven design) both increase government effectiveness and improve citizen engagement? London (UK) and Toronto Participants: Dazza Greenwood, Lecturer & research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, @DazzaGreenwood Joshua Stark, Head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, @jjmstark Marina Korneeva, UX evangelists, Daveta co-founder, @MarinaTO9 Keith McDonald, Public engagement consultant, @SherylsCrush Christien Levien, Founder of the Legal Swipe app, @ChristienLevien James Moore, Co-founder of F-LEX, @reducingwip Mark Lizar, Founder and CEO of Smart Species, @smartopian Moderators: Cyprian Bruck & Christophe Bruchansky See the slides In collaboration with: Legal Hackers Toronto

Participants: Dr Eitan Buchalter, senior anthropologist at the global innovation consultancy Idea Couture where he specialises in the cultural factors that affect innovative behaviour. Dr Stephann Makri, lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at City University London and self-proclaimed ‘prince of serendip.’ Read the rest