290,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is the estimated number of bytes stored by humanity in 2007. A study published in Science Express, which involved a researcher from the Open University of Catalonia, has measured the ability of existing technology in the world, both digital and analog, to store, communicate, and calculate information

STAFF | FEBRUARY 22ND, 2011

Through the BDigital Global Congress 2010, Barcelona offered itself as a platform for companies specialized in intelligent infrastructures, energy networks and social media to come test different strategies for the future. These companies, meanwhile, refined their proposals for creating the city of tomorrow.

Jordi Montaner | 1 june 2010

The second edition of the Conference on Scientific Communication 2.0, organized by the Department of Scientific Culture and Digital Communication of the University of Girona, will get under way on May 21 at 15:30 in the university’s Science and Technology Park.

19 may 2010

More than 200 ICT (Information and Communication Technology) professionals met yesterday with various public and private corporate finance managers at the "ICT Funding Day" event jointly organized by Barcelona Digital Technology Center as part of its Digital Economy Debate series and the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society's TIC.cat Plan.

25 March 2010

The Media Art Space CaixaForum within the Media Library Channel, provides an electronic cinema season from the 25th of February until the 3rd of April 2010. The program represents a new generation of artists working together and with digital and image techniques to create refreshing and surprising short Films which also highlights the music of its original soundtracks.

24 March 2010

Barcelona Digital, a technological center specialized in R & D in ICT (Information and Communication Technology), has moved to MediaTIC building, located in the 22@Barcelona centre, the first entity to move into this emblematic building. The significant growth of Barcelona Digital prompted a change of corporate headquarters, which will continue the expansion of the center with all the equipment and space requirements, thanks to the exceptional features of the MediaTIC building.

19 march 2010

The MNAC has launched an online collections portal that has put up a service of 1,900 works from the Museum's permanent collections for the Internet users.

17 March 2010

Leonardo painted the air. He studied the human vision, the effect of the atmosphere and the light at the action of looking and long gone are the vivid canvases of the early Renaissance. Velázquez improved the faithful representation of reality according to our perception, so that the photograph was imposed as a mirror of the world. But neither he nor the movie made it out of the two dimensions. Only experimentally. 'Avatar', the latest adventures of the Canadian James Cameron, has laid the foundations of the new commercial cinema. 'Guest star': 'Technology'.

Ànnia Monreal | 8 March 2010

'O2, la Oberta en abierto' is the institutional repository of the UOC. It contains digital publications in open access produced by the UOC on research, teaching and management. The objective of the repository is to collect, preserve and disseminate the scientific and academic production of the University, to increase its visibility and impact.

The UOC will have a collection of digital documents for promotion of the information society that will be able to be consulted from any device and will be accessible to all kinds of people. With support from the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, the Open University has launched the e-Alquimia project, an initiative that allows creation of a portal of digital contents with the possibility of collaborative editing managed with free software.

In 1088, the King of England created a census of his kingdom and registered the results in a very heavy volume which can still be checked at the Royal Library. After 900 years, the BBC wanted to repeat the mission, and taped the same results on a laser disk that fits in the palm of a hand. But when 10 years later some one wanted to check this data, he could not do it: there was no longer a machine capable of reading them.

Michelle Catanzaro | 12 june 2009