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The Internet Society on the Wikileaks issue
by Carlo Cosmatos Dec. 8, 2010

Dec. 8, 2010

segnalo la posizione della Internet SOCiety sulla censura del sito wikileaks.org http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=2706 Cordiali saluti carlo

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Naughton: "Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 8, 2010

Dec. 8, 2010

Secondo me, questo articolo di John Naughton sul Guardian e' il piu' completo, lucido e penetrante finora uscito sul tema Wikileaks. Must read. juan carlos Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice /Western political elites obfuscate, lie and bluster -- and when the veil of secrecy is lifted, they try to kill the messenger/ * o John Naughton <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnnaughton> o guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk>, Monday 6 December 2010 20.59 GMT 'Never waste a good crisis" used to be the catchphrase of the Obama team in the runup to the presidential election. In that spirit, let us see what we can learn from official reactions to the WikiLeaks revelations <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables>. The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds -- first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-server…>, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11917891> suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students posting updates about WikiLeaks on Facebook -- the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured. The response has been vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive, and it contains hard lessons for everyone who cares about democracy and about the future of the net. There is a delicious irony in the fact that it is now the so-called liberal democracies that are clamouring to shut WikiLeaks down. [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/06/western-demo…

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V.Zambardino: Il “criminale” Assange ci sfida ad essere noi stessi
by Vittorio Pasteris Dec. 8, 2010

Dec. 8, 2010

http://zambardino.blogautore.repubblica.it/2010/12/07/la-sfida-di-assange-a… "L’arresto di Julian Assange è un banco di prova per i paesi coinvolti, che poi sono quelli dell’occidente democratico: gli Stati Uniti, la Gran Bretagna, la Svezia. Paesi che, con giusta ragione, vantano una storia che sta dalla parte dello stato di diritto. Almeno un po’ più che le varie Russia, Cina, Iran (e di certo più dell’Italia, almeno in prospettiva storica). Eppure, fin dall’inizio di questa caccia all’uomo, c’è stato un silenzio complice di media, leader e partiti politici, intellettuali. Anche dei più libertari, anche di quelli con lo sciopero della fame sempre pronto. Una soddisfazione non detta, che non si fa dichiarazione. Tutti d’accordo che il pirata salga sulla “forca”. Tutti a tirare un sospiro di sollievo che si chiuda il rubinetto del “bullshit” e che si torni a un bel clima di indiscrezioni reciproche, veicolate dai siti di gossip comunemente riconosciuti e segretamente da tutti finanziati e nelle mani delle macchine del fango riconosciute e di rito accettato (pensateci, Wikileaks, all’improvviso e per qualche giorno, ce ne ha liberato. Assange è il disintermediatore della macchina del fango. Se il segreto non è più tale, è il fango stesso che si secca alla luce benefica della trasparenza, dove esistono responsabili, non perseguitati e persecutori)."

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CC global meeting
by Simone Aliprandi Dec. 7, 2010

Dec. 7, 2010

Segnalo che è in ballo l'organizzazione del CC global meeting, che dovrà tenersi nei primi mesi del 2011. Località e periodo ancora da decidere. Maggiori info a questa pagina: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Meeting_2011 Un caro saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org

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SAVE THE DATE: prossimo mercoledi di NEXA con Guido Scorza
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 7, 2010

Dec. 7, 2010

Cari Amici, il prossimo mercoledi' di NEXA NON avra' luogo domani, causa festivita', ma *mercoledi' 15 dicembre 2010*, sempre alle ore 18-20 ma presso la nuova sede del centro in via Boggio 59 (v. http://nexa.polito.it/contact) In tale occasione, un ospite di eccezione, *Guido Scorza*, ci aiutera' a fare la *sintesi di un anno di Internet*, con l'obiettivo di di mettere gli sviluppi di questo anno - alcuni attesi, altri meno - un po' in ordine. A gennaio, poi, ci azzarderemo a tentare un pronostico per il 2011, cercando di identificare le priorita' Internet per l'anno nuovo. Seguira' solito comunicato, ma intanto non mancate all'ultimo mercoledi di NEXA del 2010, che si concludera' con un piccolo rinfresco celebrativo della nuova sede e augurale per le festivita' di fine anno. un caro saluto, juan carlos

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Studio su migrazione OpenOffice
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 6, 2010

Dec. 6, 2010

Segnalo il seguente recente studio: http://acta.uta.fi/english/teos.php?id=11357 Abstract a seguire. juan carlos ----------------- *Karjalainen Martti* Large-scale migration to an open source office suite: An innovation adoption study in Finland *Date:* 2010-10-15 *Year:* 2010 *Publisher:* Tampereen yliopisto *Series:* Tietojenkäsittelytieteiden laitoksen -sarja A-2010-4 *ISBN:* 978-951-44-8197-0 *Electronic series:* Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis; 997 *ISBN of the electronic version:* 978-951-44-8216-8 *Electronic publisher:* Tampere University Press *URN:* urn:isbn:978-951-44-8216-8 Downloaded 1821 times Kokoteksti - Fulltext Download pdf <http://acta.uta.fi/haekokoversio.php?id=11357> | Buy a printed version <http://granum.uta.fi/english> Abstract This study investigates the largest transition in Finland to an open source office suite and to an open standard for office documents. The IT environment of the open source OpenOffice.org migration involves more than 10 000 workstations in the Finnish Ministry of Justice and its administrative sector. Methodologically, the research is a longitudinal innovation adoption study covering the 7-year time span from 2003 to 2010. The study applies and tests the organizational innovation adoption process model originally developed by Everett Rogers. In addition to the theory-testing approach, the study includes artifact-building and artifact-evaluation activities of design research. The research view of the study introduces a participatory researcher's implementation perspective where the researcher as a staff member of the organization has been in charge of the adoption of the innovation in the organization. The findings of the study provide contributions both to IS research and practice. The events of the study give reason to suggest that the characteristics of the open source software with low-cost licenses call for improvements in the organizational innovation adoption stage model. The findings suggest that the predefined order of stages in the innovation process and sharp distinctions between stages should not be expected in organizational innovation adoption. As a new model and method, the study provides a complementary framework for the instrumentation and documentation of the open source innovation process in the organizational context. The study confirms several results from previous research and practice, especially the importance of top management support, systematic open source skill building and the presence of innovation champions in the adoption of open source solutions. For IS practice, the study shows that the transition to an open source office suite is feasible in a large-scale context and that substantial benefits can be achieved as the result of the transition. For the user organizations of open source software, lower cost has been the most commonly cited benefit and one of the main reasons for adopting open source. Other often cited considerations include strategic goals like the facilitation of more sovereign IT governance and the reduction of vendor dependence through open source solutions and open standards. The study addresses several practically important issues involved in the adoption of open source, e.g., the analysis of software functionality and interoperability, cost evaluations, installation and configuration issues, local language support issues, additional tools to support the migration, user training and support, technical support, and software usage measurements. The evaluation of costs in the study indicates that the migration to the open source office suite platform will benefit the target organization of the study with impressive cost savings when compared to the deployment of a comparative proprietary office suite platform. The study applies numerous best practice approaches which together with the rich insight provided by the research should benefit other organizations considering open source office suite adoptions both from the perspectives of management and implementation.

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The Atlantic: "The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 6, 2010

Dec. 6, 2010

*The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange* By David Samuels Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful. Manning, a former army intelligence analyst in Iraq, faces up to 52 years in prison. He is currently being held in solitary confinement at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, where he is not allowed to see his parents or other outside visitors. Assange, the organizing brain of Wikileaks, enjoys a higher degree of freedom living as a hunted man in England under the close surveillance of domestic and foreign intelligence agencies -- but probably not for long. Not since President Richard Nixon directed his minions to go after Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg and New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan - "a vicious antiwar type," an enraged Nixon called him on the Watergate tapes -- has a working journalist and his source been subjected to the kind of official intimidation and threats that have been directed at Assange and Manning by high-ranking members of the Obama Administration. [...] Continua qui: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/the-shameful-attac…

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Fw: [Creis_Terminal] base élèves 1er degré : une bombe à retardement ?
by Mariella Berra Dec. 5, 2010

Dec. 5, 2010

aproposito di ID e privicy ciao m ----- Original Message ----- From: "françois" <francois.nadiras(a)orange.fr> To: "creis liste" <creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:04 AM Subject: [Creis_Terminal] base élèves 1er degré : une bombe à retardement ? Mise en ligne sur LDH-Toulon d'un article pour tenter de faire comprendre le fonctionnement de l’application informatique, “Base élèves 1er degré”, que le ministère de l’Éducation nationale met en place en dépit des oppositions qu’il continue de rencontrer – notamment de la part du CNRBE. On assiste en effet au développement de bases de données répertoriant tous les enfants en âge d’être scolarisés, à la multiplication des traitements de données nominatives en tous genres et à l’introduction d’un identifiant national (l’INE) qui permettra des recoupements de données concernant un même enfant. Une vaste entreprise de fichage des enfants qui ne peut que susciter de fortes inquiétudes devant les risques qu’elle représente. Lire l'article : http://www.ldh-toulon.net/spip.php?article4184 _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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Google, Making Copyright Work Better Online
by Marco Pancini Dec. 4, 2010

Dec. 4, 2010

Cari Tutti, Come avrete forse già letto, abbiamo annunciato oggi alcuni cambiamenti alle nostre procedure di rimozione dei contenuti in violazione con il diritto d’autore. Riteniamo infatti che il sistema di “notice and take down” (segnalazione e rimozione) introdotto negli Stati Uniti con il Digital Millenium Copyright Act e in Europa con la Direttiva sul Commercio elettronico (D.Lgs 70/2003) sia il modo migliore per combattere il fenomeno della pirateria: in conformità con queste leggi, Google risponde velocemente alle richieste di rimozione e lavora costantemente allo sviluppo di nuove procedure e strumenti con i quali affrontare questo grave problema. I cambiamenti che annunciamo oggi sono 4, e saranno implementati nel corso dei prossimi mesi: 1. Daremo seguito alle richieste di rimozione per motivi di copyright entro 24 ore 2. Impediremo che i termini strettamente associati con attività di pirateria elettronica appaiano su Autocomplete<http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106230> . 3. Miglioreremo le procedure di revisione antipirateria di AdSense 4. Faremo sperimentazioni su come rendere le preview di contenuti autorizzati più direttamente accessibili sui risultati di ricerca. Troverete ulteriori dettagli su questi cambiamenti sul post pubblicato sul nostro blog ufficiale <http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/12/making-copyright-work-better…>che per vostra comodità riporto qui di seguito: *Making Copyright Work Better Online* Posted by Kent Walker, General Counsel There are more than 1 trillion unique URLs<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html>on the Web and more than 35 hours of video uploaded<http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-vid…>to YouTube every minute. It’s some pretty fantastic stuff - content that makes usthink <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_philosophy>, laugh<http://www.youtube.com/user/montypython?blend=1&ob=4>, and learn new things <http://www.propublica.org/>. Services we couldn’t have imagined ten years ago - iTunes, NetFlix, YouTube, and many others - help us access this content and let traditional and emerging creators profit from and share their work with the world. But along with this new wave of creators come some bad apples who use the Internet to infringe copyright. As the Web has grown, we have seen a growing number of issues relating to infringing content. We respond expeditiously to requests to remove such content from our services, and have been improving our procedures over time. But as the Web grows, and the number of requests grows with it, we are working to develop new ways to better address the underlying problem. That’s why today we’re announcing four changes that we’ll be implementing over the next several months: - We’ll act on reliable copyright takedown requests within 24 hours. We will build tools to improve the submission process to make it easier for rightsholders to submit DMCA <http://www.google.com/dmca.html> takedown requests for Google products (starting with Blogger and Web Search). And for copyright owners who use the tools responsibly, we’ll reduce our average response time to 24 hours or less. At the same time, we’ll improve our “counter-notice”<http://www.chillingeffects.org/question.cgi?QuestionID=132>tools for those who believe their content was wrongly removed and enable public searching of takedown requests. - We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete<http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106230> . While it’s hard to know for sure when search terms are being used to find infringing content, we’ll do our best to prevent Autocomplete from displaying the terms most frequently used for that purpose. - We will improve our AdSense anti-piracy review. We have always prohibited<https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182>the use of our AdSense program on web pages that provide infringing materials. Building on our existing DMCA takedown procedures, we will be working with rightsholders to identify, and, when appropriate, expel violators from the AdSense program. - We will experiment to make authorised preview content more readily accessible in search results. Not surprisingly, we’re big fans of making authorised content more accessible<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/making-search-more-musical.html>on the Internet. Most users want to access legitimate content and are interested in sites that make that content available to them (even if only on a preview basis). We’ll be looking at ways to make this content easier to index and find. These changes build on our continuing efforts, such as Content ID<http://www.youtube.com/t/contentid>, to give rightsholders choice and control over the use of their content, and we look forward to further refining and improving our processes in ways that help both rightsholders and users. Sono a vostra disposizione per ogni informazione aggiuntiva. -- Marco Pancini European Senior Policy Counsel Google Italy Corso Europa, 2 20122 Milano, Italia Tel. +39 02 36618524 Cell. +39.348.9946222 pancini(a)google.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/googlepolicyit This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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EE UU ejecutó un plan para conseguir una ley antidescargas
by Margoni, Thomas Dec. 4, 2010

Dec. 4, 2010

In spagnolo, ma penso comprensibile comunque: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/EE/UU/ejecuto/plan/conseguir/ley/anti…

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