KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

following the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation, a new search engine portal and dataclearinghouse for environmental datas, including  "not just datas from Earth-observing satellites, but also terrestrial sensors datas, population figures, and regional health and ecosystem information" should be launched next November with the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation Systems of Systems) program. This technology will benefit the entire community, creating a social geo referential, that looks a bit more advanced than the common Google Earth Mashups.

Digital Earth is a global initiative aimed at harnessing the world's data and information resources to develop a virtual 3-D model of the Earth in order to monitor, measure, and forecast natural and human activity on the planet. An International Journal of Digital Earth will be launched in January 2008.

Last July 29-31, the World Future Society convened its annual conference in Minneapolis:

WorldFuture 2007 :  The conference Summary can be found under the session summaries 

For the Recordings, some multimedia CD-ROM of all the conference sessions and presentation materials are available from IntelliQuest Media.

Nb : More conference coverage will appear in the November-December 2007 issue of THE FUTURIST magazine.

Worldfuture 2008: The 2008 Conference will be held in WASHINGTON, D.C. and will be focused on "learning to see the future through new eyes".  Chairing next year's conference will be Nat Irvin II, founder of FutureFocus 2020.

A new online comunity , Wazhua (^_^), is changing the way people blog and interacts through the web in China and elsewhere. Developped by Simon Chan, Wazhua looks like MyBlogLog, but with an extra "manga" style. KmLabs has uploaded the interface in the right menu, at the "SocioBlogology" section, under the MyBlogLog widget. See the KM Labs Washua profile here.

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By the way, "Knowledge Management" in Chinese is : 知识管理 (simplified chinese) or in traditional chinese : 知識管理

About the Future conditions : if you are already aware that climate change is a global and important problem, maybe read (in french) this excellent trimestrial letter from the french academy of sciences where this phenomen is greatly analysed and explained.

Now Playing its first international video ! The "Top 10 Forecasts", from the World Future Society's Outlook 2007 report.
See the WFS' site for more information about the forecasts.

BONUS LINK: THE FUTURIST has also now its own MySpace page, maintained by Patrick Tucker (the magazine's associate editor).