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So my daughter suggested that I spend some time on a beach in Mexico to get myself out of the hole she knew I was stuck\u00a0 in. To which I stupidly replied that I wouldn\u2019t survive the relaxation. When we got back to the house, we said goodbye, glowing from the great conversation.<\/p>\n

The next morning, thanks in part to jet lag, I woke up early. Like every day, I started the day with a few exercises that I made up, a mix of warmup gymnastics I learned to perform as a judo instructor, Yoga and Qigong positions followed by concentrating on respiration and the circulation of energy. Not really meditation \u2013 even if I sometimes chant the way I heard in Japanese Buddhist temples \u2013 but I experience a profound forgetting of the world sometimes, followed by a sublime moment where a Mona Lisa smile flashes across my face.<\/p>\n

Not that day. I was too worked up and out of sorts to find anything like calm. I thought nonstop about Yara\u2019s idea. The unavoidable problem remained that, for a journalist of my age, dropping out of the public sphere risked being a permanent move.<\/p>\n

Suddenly \u2013 I don\u2019t remember how \u2013 I remembered a proposition I\u2019d made a few years earlier to Edwy Plenel, then Editor-in-Chief at Le Monde, and Jesus Ceberio, head of El Pa\u00eds. The idea was to do a summer series for them highlighted by around 10 stops in different parts of the world, to see how IT was used there. Both said it was a good idea, but an idea that was beyond their means. I also think they doubted the public\u2019s interest in the subject back then.<\/p>\n

But in early 2011, more or less everyone had adopted \u2013 even if grudgingly, especially in France \u2013 and had spent thousands of hours with internet devices. Why not try it? Invest part of the money due from the sale of our house. Without retirement, it was the only money I could count on. But I could sell articles telling the stories I found, position myself \u2013 at the end of the trip \u2013 as an expert in global innovation. Could I risk everything?<\/p>\n

In a mix of enlightenment and confusion I saw a door open onto \u2026 I didn\u2019t know what. The discovery of a fascinating subject, the certainty that it would enliven me, the desire to try. I was tired of writing about technology the same way I had for 17 years. But I never doubted tech\u2019s transformative power.\u00a0 Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and their Seattle cousins (Microsoft and Amazon) use this power for their profit. The New York Times\u2019 Thomas Friedman tried to convince us that the world is flat. I thought he was wrong and that it was a dangerous idea, but lacked the arguments to counter him. So why not go see for myself?<\/p>\n

All alone? Not really serious, I guess\u2026<\/p>\n

But since I like to search out the root of whatever it is that makes me move in directions other than traditional ones, I soon realized that this was also a good way to realize a childhood dream: to go around the world. Literally. Leave from one side and come back from the other. Hadn\u2019t I just reread Around the World in 80 Days on my Kindle (at the time, the complete works of Jules Verne was one of the few books available in French, since editors there refused \u2013 you could say that they were running to their own funeral \u2013 to digitalize their books)?<\/p>\n

In short, it was the boy\u2019s dream that excited me most at the time. Which made me make the leap without worrying too much about the risks involved.<\/p>\n

At breakfast, I restated to my daughter that writing a novel on a Mexican beach was out of the question, but that what she actually suggested and offer me a grant. I just decided I was going to use it to tour the world of information technology. I told her she\u2019d just given me an idea that I would structure the next ten years of my life around. I love declarations like that: I made myself sound cocky to make her forget my fears from the day before.<\/p>\n

I even had a moment of hesitation where I hoped she would be against the idea because, while we were talking about it, I realized that I\u2019d have to risk everything. It would be impossible to be half-committed to such an adventure, and I didn\u2019t see any safety net.<\/p>\n

I only had a vague idea, a feeling tinged with hope \u2013 that\u2019s the danger when you want to be serious \u2013 that IT was increasingly being created in regions that we don\u2019t really know, that this is important to learn today in order to know what tomorrow will look like.<\/p>\n

The only think that was left was turning this insight into a project\u2026<\/p>\n

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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. 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