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TED: Alessandra Orofino: It’s our city. Let’s fix it - Alessandra Orofino (2014)

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Too often, people feel checked out of politics — even at the level of their own city. But urban activist Alessandra Orofino thinks that can change, using a mix of tech and old-fashioned human connection. Sharing examples from her hometown of Rio, she says: "It is up to us to decide whether we want schools or parking lots, recycling projects or construction sites, cars or buses, loneliness or solidarity."

Two clouds are better than one

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Despite the news that enterprise cloud adoption is up 61.5 percent since 2010, many businesses are still skeptical of moving critical communications applications such as email and corporate data over to a single cloud vendor. Even admitted cloud enthusiasts and members of the Open Data Center Alliance, a consortium of global IT companies such as Infosys, Deutsche Telekom and SAP, have admitted that two-thirds of its members are delaying their move to the cloud due to a number of concerns around security and downtime.

On-premise UC solutions losing ground to hosted, cloud solutions

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Featured | Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketHosted and cloud-based Unified Communications solutions are slowly but surely replacing on-premise UC deployments as organisations reportedly improve their understanding of the benefits of a hosted UC model.

TED: Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like - Jeremy Heimans (2014)

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We can see the power of distributed, crowd-sourced business models every day — witness Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb. But veteran online activist Jeremy Heimans asks: When does that kind of "new power" start to work in politics? His surprising answer: Sooner than you think. It’s a bold argument about the future of politics and power; watch and see if you agree.

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