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As you know, Winch 5 is on the search for the innovations coming from other places, with the hope of finding the most interesting things being done in in the world today. The idea came to me after I realized that Silicon Valley was losing momentum. Maybe it\u2019s temporary, but it\u2019s pretty evident.<\/p>\n

The reason most often given for this is that today\u2019s entrepreneurs are only interested in money. They\u2019ve forgotten the other half of the region\u2019s recipe for success: the desire to change the world. Let\u2019s say, more realistically, the desire to change\u00a0something<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Xavier Niel and Jacques-Antoine Granjon at LeWeb\u201911\/LeWEB11\u2032s flickr<\/p>\n

With the taste for hyperbole proper to PR and communications pros,\u00a0Carmine Gallo<\/a>\u00a0gave a good speech at\u00a0Le Web\u201911<\/a>\u00a0in Paris earlier this month. Steve Jobs advised her to \u201cput a dent in the universe,\u201d she said. But not everyone is a Jobs, and there\u2019s a middle road between trying to change the paths of planets and making money \u2013 do something useful \u2013 that many of us take.<\/p>\n

Since my recent operation has me laid up, it was with regret that I couldn\u2019t to make it to LeWeb\u201911 \u2013 almost as much as I regret not being able to travel right now. But I followed the debates via live-stream, and once more I was struck by the quality of the event, the presentations, speakers, subjects and the schedule created by Lo\u00efc Le Meur. It was really a pleasure to watch. The meeting between Europe and The US continues to stimulate<\/p>\n

Despite all this, I was bothered by the award for the best startup<\/strong>. Among the three finalists,\u00a0Heycrowd<\/a>\u00a0offers an application to encourage the members of your social network to vote on anything. The second,\u00a0Babelverse<\/a>, is a developing a platform for crowdsourced translations in any scenario. The third,\u00a0Beeinto<\/a>, is a way to share the apps we like, with a social-gaming layer to encourage us to do so.<\/p>\n

The jury, made up of members of the European business community, nearly all from France, had \u2013 with good investor logic \u2013 chosen the last company, the one with the best economic possibilities. That\u2019s what they were there for. They proved that they were not seduced by Silicon Valley\u2019s siren\u2019s song: the idea that entrepreneurs must \u201cchange the world.\u201d Unfortunately, they defaulted to the most normal VC position: looking for maximum profit, as quickly as possible. They avoided risk.<\/p>\n

Babelverse is a startup that could foster exchange<\/strong>. The language barrier is one of the most real (especially on the internet), one of the obstacles you hit most often, preventing us from communicating with others, sharing dreams and creations.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sad that the last word came back to the logic of investors, but I also hope it helps to illustrate that, the more investors think about the bottom line, the more Silicon Valley thought masks itself in grand ideals we shouldn\u2019t really take at face value.<\/p>\n

What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It would be dangerous to copy the Silicon Valley model as it loses momentum. It would also be a mistake to reject it entirely when\u00a0 you realize that they themselves are not doing what they tell us to do.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, there are many problems in the world that we can all fight, whether with monetary gain in mind or not. What counts is solving the problem. In any case, this is the lesson I learned on my trip to Africa, as everyone I interviewed said that innovation means resolving old problems with new solutions.<\/p>\n

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J\u2019en a rapport\u00e9 des enseignements sur les meilleures fa\u00e7ons de la rendre possible, de l'encourager, de pr\u00e9parer individus, entreprises et nations \u00e0 participer ainsi \u00e0 la construction de leur propre futur. Une aventure fascinante qui m\u2019a permis de rencontrer des gens audacieux, dot\u00e9s d\u2019une grande intelligence ou d\u2019un grand c\u0153ur. Parfois les deux ensembles. Je donne r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement conf\u00e9rences et s\u00e9minaires sur ce sujet dans certaines entreprises fran\u00e7aises de poids : Bouygues Telecom, CapGemini, L'Or\u00e9al, SFR, SNCF, entre autres ainsi que dans des forums moins prestigieux mais dans lesquels l\u2019assistance est passionn\u00e9e Convaincu que l\u2019am\u00e9lioration de nos villes et de la d\u00e9mocratie locale est un enjeu technologique et social majeur, je viens de me lancer dans une nouvelle s\u00e9rie d\u2019enqu\u00eates \u2013 un tour du monde en plusieurs \u00e9tapes nomm\u00e9 Participolis - sur les villes intelligentes ou qui s\u2019efforcent de l\u2019\u00eatre : 20 villes entre janvier 2014 et avril 2015. Je le con\u00e7ois comme une tension constante entre deux p\u00f4les d\u2019un m\u00eame probl\u00e8me : CitySmarting ou l\u2019effort pour rendre les villes plus intelligentes gr\u00e2ce, notamment aux technologies de l\u2019information et Participolis, le fait qu\u2019un meilleur futur pour nos villes ne peut \u00e9merger que de notre participation \u00e0 leur conception et \u00e0 leur gestion. Mes articles et chroniques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s par plus de 100 m\u00e9dias sur quatre continents dont Le Monde, El Pa\u00eds (Madrid), Reforma (Mexico), The Next Web (Amsterdam) et Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo (Br\u00e9sil). J'enseigne aussi \u00e0 la Paris School of International Affairs de l'Institut d'\u00c9tudes Politiques de Paris et \u00e0 la WebSchoolFactory. J\u2019ai donn\u00e9 des cours \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Berkeley et \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Stanford. Je participe en temps qu\u2019expert au r\u00e9seau Netexplo. J\u2019ai publi\u00e9 plusieurs livres dont Comment le web change le monde, l'alchimie des multitudes (Pearson) avec Dominique Piotet (2008 et 2011). Quand je ne suis pas en vadrouille autour du monde, je vis entre Paris, Barcelone et Mexico. Mais toujours je suis int\u00e9ress\u00e9 par vos commentaires, critiques et suggestions. 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