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Project 2048 and the International Convention on Human Rights

December 21st, 2010 No comments

Following the one day conference (see the full video content with all the debates here), a couple of interviews of experts in the domain were recorded on December 10, 2010.

Video Interview of Mrs Nicola Furey, vice-president and secretary general of the EarthFocus Foundation:

Interview of four young students from the Kenyan Aga Khan Academy:

Links to other interviews:

In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions are not enforceable, its promise has not been fulfilled. Human rights violations continue in every corner of the globe, the cause of countless individual tragedies as well as large-scale disasters like war, poverty and environmental ruin.

EarthFocus organized this conference in Geneva on the 10th of December 2010. You can watch the video of the full conference by clicking on the image below:

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EPFL’s Pocket Campus – Demo Event

December 20th, 2010 No comments


On Monday December 20, there was a demo event marking the release of Pocket Campus 1.0 at EPFL. Pocket Campus is a project involving the development of a smartphone application built by undergraduate students taking the Software Development Project course (http://sweng.epfl.ch/) – a course that is recorded autonomously by Prof. George Candea’s staff, using the Klewel capture station. The webcasts of the course are available at http://sweng.epfl.ch/schedule, by clicking on the [video] links.

Pocket Campus is an app developed to help students, faculty, alumni, and visitors to get around the EPFL campus.

The event was open to all members of I&C. There was a panel of invited guests, including Klewel team member, to offer feedback to the students and course staff on the application, as well as on the course:

  • Manuel Acevedo (CEO of MadeInLocal, VP of EPFL A3 Alumni Association)
  • Mehdi Aminian (CEO of Jilion, Licensing Officer @ EPFL)
  • Alexandre Bisenz (Head of communication @ EPFL A3 Alumni Association)
  • Kevin Blackman (Co-Founder of DealOnTheWay)
  • Didier Bonvin (Editor @ EPFL MediaCom)
  • Dr. Richard Ekwall (Software engineer @ Google)
  • Claude Florin (President of A3 Angels Club)
  • Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux (Director of LCA1)
  • David Lazar (Software engineer @ Google)
  • Dr. Ingrid Le Duc (Scientist @ Center for Pedagogical Research and Support)
  • Dr. Maxime Monod (Software Architect @ Klewel)
  • Prof. Bernard Moret (Chef de section Computer Science, Director of LCBB)
  • Prof. Emre Telatar (Chef de section Communication Science, Director of LTHI)

You can get more information about the project by visiting its website: http://pocketcampus.org/

The webcast of the event is available here:

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