Educa On-Line, Berlin, December 4, 2008 © In Principo - PARIS - LYON - www.inprincipo.com Accélérateur de Progrès How to reduce the usage digital divide among SME’s: The « Explorateurs du Web » illustration

The web « explorateurs » …

What is gathering us ? A passion for exploring the new Web tools and usages The willingness to share with others the results of our explorations The huge need to fill the usage digital divide

A passion for exploring the new Web tools and usages

The willingness to share with others the results of our explorations

The huge need to fill the usage digital divide

What are our strengths ? Openness Multi cultural origins & multi professional backgrounds Complementary competencies

Openness

Multi cultural origins & multi professional backgrounds

Complementary competencies

What do we offer ?

What do we offer for SME’s ?

We have wikis : open

Our wikis : or private

Even experimental wikis :

What are our challenges ? Remain coherent Keep a shared vision among strong personnalities Enable business to happen without loosing our soul

Remain coherent

Keep a shared vision among strong personnalities

Enable business to happen without loosing our soul

2 different but complementary logics Top-Down Bottom - Bottom Blogs Wikis Social networks Formal training E-learning Intranet 1.0 Web 2.0 « knowledge sharing » Informal learning

Some questionings and paradoxes … Cultures… (hole in the wall http://www. hole-in-the-wall . com/ ) Access to tools & services (saas, open source, cloud, economic model)) Infrastructures and contents (LMS, LCMS) Institutions and structures Behaviours & jobs (trainers/ teachers & learners) Collaboration, agility, speed Will and meaning

Cultures… (hole in the wall http://www. hole-in-the-wall . com/ )

Access to tools & services (saas, open source, cloud, economic model))

Infrastructures and contents (LMS, LCMS)

Institutions and structures

Behaviours & jobs (trainers/ teachers & learners)

Collaboration, agility, speed

Will and meaning

« In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. » Eric Hoffer, american philosopher (1902-1983) Learning more, more often and faster …