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THE LAURENCE NDONG TEAM TAKES CONTROL OF GABONESE DIGITAL ! LA TEAM LAURENCE NDONG PREND LE CONTRÔLE DU NUMÉRIQUE GABONAIS!

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English version  SING SA (Société d’Incubation Numérique du Gabon / Gabon Digital Incubation Company) is a Gabonese public company created about ten years ago as part of the eGabon project, financed by a World Bank loan taken out by the Gabonese state. Its activities really got underway in 2018 under the leadership of Yannick Ebibie Nze, a US-trained computer scientist who had served as its head since its creation. The entity’s mission was to structure the national digital ecosystem and support the country’s digital transformation. The initial project called for three incubators (Estuaire, Haut-Ogooué, Ogooué-Maritime), but only the Estuaire structure was ultimately established. Its operations rested on four main pillars: • Pivot 4.0: startup incubation and acceleration • Innovation strategy consulting • Digital Factory: digital engineering • SING Capital: fundraising and financing support According to figures the company claims, which can only be verified by the co...
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IF YOU CAN, READ THIS BOOK ! SI VOUS LE POUVEZ, LISEZ CE LIVRE !

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English version  In this book from Anne Applebaum, published in 2020, whose title is  Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism , the core claim is that the pull toward authoritarianism isn’t primarily ideological; it’s psychological.  She argues authoritarianism appeals to people who cannot tolerate complexity, and that there’s nothing inherently left-wing or right-wing about this instinct: it’s anti-pluralist, suspicious of different ideas, and allergic to genuine debate, a frame of mind rather than a set of ideas.    In other words, someone can arrive at authoritarian sympathies from a Marxist starting point just as easily as from a nationalist one; the common thread isn’t the doctrine but the discomfort with disagreement and ambiguity. She draws this partly from behavioral scientist Karen Stenner’s research: Stenner argues that roughly a third of any population has what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a preference for homogenei...
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WHAT DOES THIS QUOTE FROM BLAISE PASCAL MEAN? ? QUE SIGNIFIE CETTE CITATION DE BLAISE PASCAL ?

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English version  A compatriot posted this quote from Blaise Pascal, very fitting in this second half of August that sees the nation going from one celebration to another. This blog wanted to analyze what the author meant by this remarkably elegant formula. Here is our deconstruction. This quote is taken from the  Pensées , a work in which Pascal develops his theory of diversion ( divertissement ). For Pascal, man is fundamentally miserable: mortal, finite, incapable of finding lasting rest; and he knows this confusedly. But rather than confronting this condition, he keeps himself busy: through games, hunting, social life, fleeting ambition, and so on. All of this serves less to achieve a goal than to occupy the mind so as not to think about one’s own finitude. Therein lies the full force of this formula: the remedy becomes the ill. Diversion soothes man’s misery by keeping him from thinking. But this perpetual flight is itself the deepest mark of his misery, since it reveals h...
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