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What to expect from the Cancun Conference on climate change?
The teacher Naomi Oreskes of the University of California in 2004 led a research effort to assess the< strong>degree of consensus on climate change in the international scientific community. To do this, he took a statistically significant random sample, 10%, of all the scientific articles that had been published in the last ten years on…
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Euskadi’s message at the Cancun Conference
The fight to redirect the climate crisis is long-winded. As Ban Ki-Moon said, the way humanity deals with climate change will decisively define the 21st century. Redressing the situation requires reducing total emissions by 2050 to half those of the reference year, 1990, while the human population will have reached 9 billion people on that…
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Ongietorriak! That two hundred years is nothing…
The traditionalist sectors linked to the outlawed Aberzale left have announced in the capital of Navarra the configuration of a new political party. Two principles stand out in the bases of the new project. It will have “an internal structure and democratic operation” and its activity “will be carried out exclusively through peaceful and democratic…
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If you are a researcher and want to create a company…
Review of the main variables for exploitation of R&D You are a researcher who works in a technology center, research institute or university and you have a business idea that derives from the result of your research work. How to start it? How to know if it is viable? What exploitation alternatives do you have?…
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Where we are, where we are going and how far to trust urban technologies
I take this opportunity to continue sharing the process of preparing the intervention next week in the course Rethinking urban policies 30 years later. This time they are the notes of the participation in the round table “New urban paradigms: infrastructures, technology and urban habitat“. They are still provisional in the absence of a last…
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The crisis is worth 50,000 euros
The National Statistics Institute has just brought us freshly taken of the furnace the statistics on R&D activities for 2009. Do we have reasons to smile in the Basque Country? The first important piece of information is that there is barely a million euros difference between investment in R&D in 2008 and 2009. So that…
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Net neutrality: sorry, but it’s not that simple
Net Neutrality: Excuse me, but It’s not that simple Today the country picked up the news on the motion presented by the PP before the Senate in which the neutrality of the telecommunications operators is requested to be respected. A neutrality that says that it must “ensure that the data packets that circulate through its…
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The cities of the future and emerging urban services. some reading
In a few days I will be around Barcelona, as I have already been commenting, in a coursein which much of what I hope to contribute has to to do with the role of technology in the configuration of current cities and those of the future. Above all, I am interested in addressing in the…
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fast sidewalks. Losing public space tile by tile
I read at Wall Street Journalan idea that seems intelligent and, in my opinion, contains a few perversions. Perversions of the fine ones, of the imperceptible ones, of those that are hardly noticeable but leave their mark. Come on, a Malaysian drop. They say that they say that in one area of London (the well-known…
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Economic recovery, technology and a new development model
La week I commented on the blog about the case of Silicon Roundabout and mentioned that David Cameron, British Prime Minister, has set his sights on this area, to send a strong signal of how it intends to drive economic recovery through digital technologies (you can find the full speech here): “We’re not just going…