“Empowering new generations worldwide by supporting the development of open eLearning infrastructures to support education for all at zero cost. Provide opportunities for lifetime learning and develop capabilities to learn how to learn.”
In face of the overwhelming arrival of massive young people on the job market and in an era characterized by the acceleration of technology progress, climate change, the advent of the fourth industrial revolution(4IR), and the rise of populism, this book attempts to build the case of designing and developing worldwide open eLearning infrastructures to raise awareness about the development sustainability, preparing the massive young people to the 4IR, and building a kind of understanding of the world. The traditional education system, ingrained in an accumulation of learning system that values existing knowledge and aims at shaping the mind to fit an antiquated approach for communicating and behaving, cannot prepare young people for the challenges the world is facing, the 4IR, and societal transformation.
The world must consider education, knowledge, and awareness as a game changer for future challenges. The current crisis triggered by Covid-19 represents an unprecedented occasion for the world to build open eLearning infrastructures to counter the challenges the world is facing.
It is a great opportunity not to be missed: to use disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and data science to respond quickly to the dangers of dormant and latent viruses that may wake up with climate change. If we get education right for everyone, then we will escape the traps of climate change, technological unemployment, exponential growth of the world population, and populism. With two, three, or four billion well educated minds, we can protect ourselves and our planet. That is why we must rise to meet future challenges with Open eLearning Infrastructures at zero cost (for all, worldwide).
Le livre se propose d’exposer la théorie microéconomique traditionnelle qui analyse le comportement du consommateur et du producteur et explique les fondements de la détermination des prix sur différent marchés. Il se propose aussi d’examiner le comportement des coéchangistes dans un environnement où les décisions sont interdépendantes (théorie des jeux) et un environnement caractérisé par l’asymétrie de l’information.
À partir de quelques hypothèses de base, les choix des agents économiques (consommateurs et producteurs) sont analysés, l’origine de la demande et de l’offre est étudiée et les mécanismes de l’interaction demande-offre permettant de déterminer les prix sur différents marchés sont examinés.
Théorie de jeux et économie de l’information se sont développées par suite d’une rupture partielle avec le fonctionnement classique des marchés. La théorie des jeux et la théorie de l’économie de l’information sont étroitement interdépendantes dans la mesure où les agents sont à la fois en situation de risque et de conflit. Dans la plupart des échanges, les coéchangistes ne détiennent pas la même information sur la valeur et la qualité des biens échangés. Le livre propose de modéliser les comportements de coordination des parties prenantes selon diverses situations pour avoir des informations sur les décisions en matière de prix et de quantité. Il analyse les comportements opportunistes des agents qui bénéficient d’une information asymétrique. La modélisation de ces comportements stratégiques et l’analyse de ces comportements opportunistes donnent une représentation particulière du fonctionnement des marchés.
Le livre est composé de quatre parties. Dans chaque partie, un chapitre est alloué aux résumés succincts des chapitres, aux questions de révision et réflexion accompagnées de réponses et aux exercices et de leurs corrigés.
Digital supply chains are on the move. This digitalization is already powered by established technologies like EDI, Cloud-ERP, and RFID. The combination of established and emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Internet of Things (IoT), BlockChain, PaaS based Cloud, and Data Analytics will automate supply chains, making them more efficient and propel them to an era of self-learning/self- adjusting/self-driving. These technologies will generate a torrent of data, created by myriad of digital devices, transactions among business partners, and people-object interactions across the ecosystem. Central to the supply chain digitalization is data analytics (e.g., analysis, prediction, prescription) and insight generation.
The adoption and deployment of emerging technologies will digitalize and transform further supply chains, leading to platform-mediated ecosystems where market players will interact digitally in an open market without any hierarchical chain of command.
The approach, in this book, leaves heavy technology complexity and details to technologists. Likewise, it will leave mathematical and statistics complexity to data scientists. The approach favors relatively simple and intuitive explanations in some areas, but also in-depth explanation regarding functionality and capability dimensions of supply chain technologies, helping technology strategists and supply chain managers make informed decisions without compromising their critical and limited resources, which is time. Finally, the book suggests 21 case studies related to the integration of supply chain technologies in various industries. Most of these cases can be accessed through Harvard Business Publishing.
In face of the overwhelming arrival of massive young people on the job market and in an era characterized by the acceleration of technology progress, climate change, the advent of the fourth industrial revolution(4IR), and the rise of populism, this book attempts to build the case of designing and developing worldwide open eLearning infrastructures to raise awareness about the development sustainability, preparing the massive young people to the 4IR, and building a kind of understanding of the world. The traditional education system, ingrained in an accumulation of learning system that values existing knowledge and aims at shaping the mind to fit an antiquated approach for communicating and behaving, cannot prepare young people for the challenges the world is facing, the 4IR, and societal transformation.
