Archive for December, 2007
In a recent interview, Antonio María Rouco Varela, the archbishop of Madrid, gives his opinion on contemporary transformations of kinship:
“Gay marriage has an impact on the public appraisal of the truth of family, and also some pedagogical consequences for future generations and for society as a whole. The belief that family is vital for [...]
Ipsos issued today a press release (in English, also in French here) in which this important market research company officially informs the public of the fact that two general managers, Pierre Giacometti and Stéphane Truchi, just flew away — an information made unofficially available three days ago here.
The people that edited the press release did [...]
Some journalists and opinion makers are scandalized by Muammar al-Gaddafi’s visit to France and subsequent handshaking with Nicolas Sarkozy. For instance: “Sarkozy accueille sans complexe le tyran de Libye”, Libération, December 10 2007. It’s true that it’s annoying that Sarkozy is so keen on making friends with dictators and with any sort of fascist scum [...]
Orange Labs (a.k.a. France Telecom R&D) is experimenting with electronic justice. A device called “Point Visio-Public”, which allows interacting with public administrations at-a-distance, is going to be tested in the field of legal procedures. Here’s the advertised purpose:
“Through this real-time interaction, based on human relation, administrative obligations are simplified and cumbersome physical displacements are avoided. [...]
French parliamentarians have now in their hands an explicit proposal to consider the democratization of science and technology:
“Today, the exercising of citizenship needs to be expanded beyond elections and beyond civic organizations. But this exercising of citizenship needs to be institutionalized and framed — it would be vain and even dangerous to pretend that citizenship [...]
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