Arquivo para a ‘Economia’ Categoria
Games made in Africa
06
Jul
.Allan Mukhwana is not an employee of support groups, or a doctor of any country helping Africa, he is the head of a game studio called Momentum Core, which is in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
His company specializes in developing games with educational functions, and Allan developed a game to help more than 1,400 families in malaria risk rural areas in Kenya and his game teaches how to kill the mosquitoes that are becoming smarter when the player completes all levels of the game, the Kenyan government donates to a family living in malaria risk zone.
In an interview with BBC News, Allan said: “We aim to make learning about these important topics fun and engaging for players”, but of course with an underlying educational goal.
Marketplace Kenyan video games was $ 44 million (£ 28 million) at the end of 2013; Nigeria was valued at $ 71 million, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
It would be great if much of this money was using with educational purpose.
The Internet of Things benefit the development
30
Jun
The potential economic value of the Internet 
of Things (IoT) is being widely underestimated, and it could be worth more than $ 11 trillion a year, according to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute, see in Washington Post.
The Trade Marks Registry gives six reasons why the IoT is being underestimated, which includes the sub-use of data generated by various sensing devices and other networked devices.
According to the institute’s analysts paint a big-picture economic outlook, seen exclusively in industrial sectors, while there is the primary concentration of opportunities in the market to Consume Commerce (business-to-consumer) of IoT and is missing a potentially much larger opportunity the business-to-business.
In addition, about 40% of the IoT’s economic value is fed by the interoperability device, which obviates the revenue opportunity in software and hardware for this.
McKinsey also argues the impact of the Internet of Things on world economies in development are underestimated and that these savings benefit of about 40 percent of economic gains compared with about 60 percent share of the developed world due to a mistaken view this is only for the advanced world.
McKinsey speculates some developing countries will be able to overcome the advances in developed countries because the installation of equipment or infrastructure with sensors and actuators will become a problem solved.
Finally, the Internet of Things will support new business models that are likely to correlate with how data is tracked and evaluated in real time, making the frontiers of technology and and no-tech companies can not be confused.
A crise economica e as redes sociais
23
Jun
Ainda estamos ainda do rescaldo de uma crise que começou por volta de
2008 na Europa, atingindo a Grécia em 2010 e Portugal em 2011, mas estava estabelecida em todo o mundo desde o início da “marolinha” nos anos 2003 e 2004, o problema é que deixamos de fazer direito nossa tarefa de casa.
A marolinha foi superada internamente no Brasil fortalecendo o mercado interno e oferecendo um grande número de comodities que financiaram este “progresso” que no fundo foi aparente, pois as chamadas políticas anti-cíclicas do governo foram desvendadas com os seus efeitos nas operações Lava Jato e Petrobrás, devido ás benesses do poder aos magnatas. O quadro atual é de piora, segundo dados divulgados no dia 19/06 há um aprofundamento do que especialistas chamam de estagflação, combinação econômica de estagnação e inflação.
Os dados vêm no momento que diversos economistas fazem um manifesto de apoio a conservadora política econômica do governo, o professor José Márcio de Camargo da PUC-Rio entretanto afirmou: “O quadro de estagflação já existe desde o ano passado, mas agora ingressa num estágio mais grave”.
Para outros economistas, o quadro ainda que em estágio inicial, lembra as crises enfrentadas pelo Brasil nos anos 1980 e 1990, quando a inflação destruía a economia doméstica de muitos e enriquecia banqueiros e doleiros. O próprio Ministério do Trabalho, afirmou que 115.599 trabalhadores perdem seu trabalho só no mês de maio, o pior resultado para este mês desde 1992.
A economista Cornélia Nogueira do Dieese (Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconômicos, afirmou que a população deve lançar mãos das redes sociais na internet para divulgar locais com melhores preços e serviços e denunciar abusos, ela discorda da avaliação da equipe economia do governo que haveria agora uma tendência de queda nos preços: “Tenho a impressão que a coisa não está tão tranquila, não. No ano passado, nesta época, a inflação estava muito baixa”.
Mas há gente religiosa que diz não haver crise nenhuma, é o fundamentalismo político.
Intelligent agents are happening
16
Jun
In a recent article in CIO Australia, many new jobs are
being proposed to increase the services where intelligent agents can be used, they include: services to tag pictures and verify that these markings popular with users on Facebook, Baidu is working on a technology to put an adjoining voice capacity for its search engine allowing users to chat via smartphones or other devices, the Department of Defense and the Australian Technology Organization is trying a technology with intelligent agents to control autonomous drones operating in sea, land and air mapping using satellite and which seems particularly interesting IBM is training your supercomputer Watson to ask questions of human experts and help them with tasks such as drug discovery and document classification.
The report does not explain much of each of these surveys, but talk show-type question and answer, called Jeopardy in the US, the Watson computer won human.
The idea that we can classify documents and assist the organization in a universe with just enough disorder is a very simple idea because all chaos has an order, and complex because it requires the processing of billions of data, and therefore information, entropy which is a Indeed since the beginning of history but does not address something else that the very idea that it is possible to organize it is also possible to develop a process of self-organization, not automatic but likely to be suggestible and manageable.
Tom Simonite, author of an article in MIT Technology Review, described a test of the new feature Watson, made in the Environment Cognitive Lab of IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York, with a laboratory equipped with a conference room with microphones to listen and convey all what they say in the meeting, the software used there apparently takes all inputs speech and transcribes them in real time to feed it to the computer and Watson did this with various experts.
The area of intelligent agents promises to be the next big disruptive technology of the decade.
The contempt for the masses and the hierarchical elite
12
Jun
The media to despise, networks and any preparation even though science made by “mass”
term used by Peter Sloterdijk and his book “Die Verachtung der Massen”, in english “Contempt for the masses”, (Estação Liberdade, 2002, p. is in brazilian edition), but it may well be replaced by an correct adjective: the “crowd.”
The book grew out of a dialogue with Elias Canetti and its diagnosis about the aggressiveness of the “mass” and held in a dialogue with Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault, Rorty (criticizes this your bet in an anti-philosophical stupidity) and some other curiously at times goes on to quote the theology of grace, and this is its keynote says that “lovers of smart masses” will say: “For this reason in the world grow like weeds those ethics committees that, like institutes the shattered philosophy, want to replace the wise. “(in brazilian edition, p. 99)
Immediately identifies the crowd neither passivity nor objectivity, but: “Just the fact that modern crowd, turned and subjectivized, becomes insistently mass called by their spokesmen and those who despise, already suggests that the rise to Sovereignty more can be perceived as an unfinished process, perhaps never-ending. “(p. 12)
Unlike other late modern, Sloterdijk stands: “The mass not in session and not reunível in postmodern society no longer has, therefore, a sense of body and spaces; He is not more converge and act, no longer feels its pulsating nature; no longer produces a cry together. Distances itself increasingly the possibility to move from their practice routines and indolent to a revolutionary sharpening. “(P. 21).
Hence arises the two contempt of the elite “engaged” and economic elite, he says: “Necessarily appears twice also the second contempt or scorn compound as low as offensive contempt of the elites by the new relaxed masses who do of their way of life the measure of all things and want to break free from its observer that despises; and as contempt of the masses and its broad language through the last elitists who know their goals despised by the mass and can sense that the organization in mass culture just once and for all what they care about. “(p. 70)
And clarifies the alleged “involvement” as: “This first committed human science does not forget its mission at any time. With methodical seriousness and strategic finesse it pursues its intended purpose: If you need to delete the very essence – because of essential differences to be denied – it will also pay this price “(p. 87).
The text provoked a controversy due to the future of humanity, so there is no end, only the mass wants to be the crowd, networks, blogs and anonymous heroes are there.
The remedy cure or more sick: understand the brazilian crisis
08
Jun
The idea that the Brazilian economy was healthy just after the elections, and what you see is an attempt to reduce
the social consumption with high interest rates and budget cuts in sectors where there could be cuts while other sectors are still spending.
The remedy is to cut costs, but this should not sacrifice their children and family sick.
A family that solves reduce costs because it’s getting pay the bills with difficulties, should try to choose areas where you can cut, can not cut back on food, health and education, and currently also the security item entered on the agenda.
One way that the government has to make people spend less is to increase interest rates, it means reduce the consumption which is the opposite of the previous period where there was incentive to consumption, and thus can clearly see that the path was wrong, but as it took to cut the costs will be higher and more drastic cuts, and the worst is that it is not giving the expected result.
A family for cutting credit in the market, in a country the international lenders tighten right, the country sell less and buy more entering a vicious circle.
In Brazil, credit card interest them are arriving at a rate of 12.1% per month or 290.5% a year, one consequence is that companies reduce investments and are forced to lay off workers, the unemployment rate It grew to 8% of the productive force.
The logic of exchange is as follows, increasing the dollar or the real devaluing which is the same means that our product is cheaper out there (a product worth U $ 10 is worth $ 8 if the real devalued 20%) and also products out are more expensive and do not come to compete in the domestic market, but has taxes who deal with domestic products, to sell the government charges less and raises less.
The medicine can cure or sick over the body, inflation in Brazil continues to rise then ..
Brazilians soccer corruption
28
May
In the night of Wednesday to Thursday in Brazilian time, morning and Switzerland in a special operation, seven
major FIFA executives were arrested on charges of corruption, including José Maria Marin, former president and current vice CBF.
On Friday would be the election of new leaders of FIFA, in addition to 7 more defendants leaders are accused of extortion, fraud and conspiracy to launder money, also a search warrant at the headquarters of CONCACAF (Caribbean and Central and North America Confederation) in Miami was issued.
Corruption happened to the marketing rights and the Brazilian J.Hawilla, owner of Traffic, sports marketing company, is among the accused in addition to the leaders as early as December 2014 answered a process and the time has agreed to pay 151 million dollars.
In Brazil, Romario deputy, former player who played and won the World Cup 1994 in the United States, got the signatures to make a Investigation Comission (cpi) Brazilian 2014 World Soccer Cup, may finally have the truth about the fun splurges and made with public money during the World Cup , it will come the moment of truth.
Romario prefaced the book “O lado sujo do Futebol” (in english The dirty side of football) perhaps the country needs begin to change from the greatest passion of the brazilians: soccer.
Gartner curve and technologies
26
May
Gartner research foundation published his Hypo Cycle in 2014, and among its forecasts
(taken debatable of course, for example, HTML5 is already a reality) seems that within two years we will have assistants to usable voice, 3D scanners in fast movement, reality in virtual layers in the “valley of disappointment”, the NFC is still stuck in the valley, which reminds me that we will see the iPhone 6 rise with a machine translation of voice, while still very slow, but at the end of maturity curve (speech recognition) and the beginning of the productivity curve.
The Internet of Things is at the peak of expectations, but then enters the valley of disappointment, and autonomous vehicles are already getting a little behind this peak, while gamification and augmented reality (virtual glasses are part of it) are in full diving in the valley the disappointment, but then they must take the ramp maturity.
Among the high expectations of the future, one highlight is the volumetric display holograms, quantum computing and the three-dimensional bioprinting able to create organic compounds and maybe even woven into three dimensional format, while only prostheses and three-dimensional molds.
On the other hand, three-dimensional scanners and printers on an industrial scale are already in the maturation curve and should achieve major market groups in the very near future.
They must be mature in the next two years the computing cloud and the proximity communication devices (Near Field Communication), while in the next five years will be in the market Communication Machine-to-machine and monitoring of health from a distance, of course this in part is already done, but still lack maturity.
Of course are only predictions, there are other search the curve
Curve of Tecnologies adoption
25
May
The so-called Hype Cycle is a graphic presentation developed by Gartner to represent the appearance of cycles, 
adoption, maturity and social application of specific technologies and can be used for investments and IT adoption in companies.
After the emergence and adoption by the market a technology must be accompanied by observing the cases of success and failure when it reaches a product, observe what happens in the inflated expectations of Pico is important to note the following point drop.
The next moment is marked by a fall by distrust of the market and must be carefully studied until the time it reaches the Peak of Trough of Disillusionment.
Then begins the time to maturity of the product and the market, it is easy to observe this moment, it is marked by a gentle Slope of Enlightenment.
The end of this curve is called the Plateau of Productivity in which the product is stable in the market and does not return to the previous period unless there is a obsolescence.
China Business
21
May
With a powerful but exploiting labor often slave industry, China is eyeing Latin America, and the impetus was
given for the purchase of debt Argentina.
The Chinese Premier Li Kegiang is in the region and started the visit on Monday by Brazil and will have stops in Colombia, Peru and Chile, which would be at stake beyond business.
In areas such as strategic planning, transport, infrastructure, energy and agriculture many agreements have been signed, but the big deal would be a walkway across Latin America in the construction of a railroad between the Atlantic and the Pacific, but the subject is controversial, because part is building or in progress.
The point is that the region is expected to grow less than 1% and the highway would be strategic for the entry of products and also to the flow of raw materials to countries with the greatest needs and industrializariam resending to Brazil products already with aggregate values and in this sense It would be just a “catwalk”.
The lack of infrastructure is precisely our biggest problem, but we can not sell us without getting a clear contrast, also ecological impacts should be thought.
The Transoceanic Railroad would cost is estimated at up to $ 10 billion (R$ 30 billion), can meet the needs of the various countries involved.
