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The digital changes brought upon our organizations and companies leads to enormous challenges with complexity that must not be underestimated. Considering weakened supply chains and new players from the collaborative economy, we are witnessing several changes in the ecosystem of different industries. This article is a discussion of thoughts for states and organizations, as they are key stakeholders of an entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Keywords: digital transformation, Transformation numérique, MSME's sustainability, pérennité MPME, sharing economy, économie collaborative, chaînes d'approvisionnement, supply chains, social system transformation, transformation système social
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Tshopo is one of the first provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be selected, in 2011, for the implementation of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) projects. Since then, this province offers the opportunity to analyze the implementation of deforestation reduction initiatives in order to understand how REDD+, developed at the international level and put on governmental agenda of the DRC, is concretely deployed on the ground through deforestation reduction projects. This paper deciphers the process of dissemination and selection of project implementation sites in the DRC in general and in Tshopo province in particular. It also describes and analyses the implementation of REDD+ activities and the resulting territorial dynamics. By mobilizing the concepts of policy diffusion and implementation, territorial dynamics, as well as the analysis of official documents, surveys by interview and direct observation in the field, we show that the diffusion of REDD+, from the national arena to the local arena in the Tshopo, was the initiative of the National REDD+ coordination (CN-REDD), financially supported by external partners. The selection of sites considered as deforestation "hot spots" constituted a crucial step of the diffusion process. In addition to the first REDD+ pilot projects, these sites receive integrated projects known as PIREDD. Our investigations and observations in the field show that in the Tshopo, activities carried out by these PIREDD+ are related to land use planning, governance, agriculture, afforestation and landscape restoration. These activities give rise to territorial dynamics characterized by changes in land use and attempts for land appropriation or reappropriation. Emerging dynamics are nevertheless subject to strong constraints: slowness and delay in the implementation of projects, short duration of projects, lack of innovation linked to the fact that projects are similar to traditional development initiatives that have not, in the past, proven their effectiveness. Constraints identified lead to dysfunctions that have the effect of reducing the enthusiasm of local actors, with the risk of compromising the success of the struggle against deforestation through REDD+ projects.
Keywords: déforestation, REDD+, diffusion et implémentation des projets, dynamiques territoriales, République Démocratique du Congo, deforestation, REDD+, projects diffusion and implementation, territorial dynamics, Democratic Republic of Congo
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For thirty years, Moncton's Centre culturel Aberdeen has been known to be a francophone space, dedicated to Acadian artistic creation and collaboration. In the present text, I will describe how this center serves as reclaimed territory in a minority setting, where English is the legitimate language on the local linguistic marketplace. I will show how the Centre, an Acadian cultural institution, contributes to the construction of an Acadian society, through regionalization, mediation between francophones and anglophones, and the establishment of a public voice for Acadian social actors. Then, I will regard the discourse of these social actors vis-à-vis their participation in the Canadian francophone artistic market. I propose that the challenges that the Centre faces in the era of globalization are emblematic of those experienced by other institutions and social actors in minority societies in Francophone Canada.
Keywords: société acadienne, Nouveau-Brunswick, institutions culturelles, médiation culturelle, marché linguistique, Acadian society, New Brunswick, cultural institutions, cultural mediation, linguistic marketplace