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Nemesys in EUPL: una proposta
by marco scialdone Dec. 29, 2010

Dec. 29, 2010

Ieri Punto Informatico ha ripreso<http://punto-informatico.it/2970592/PI/News/banda-larga-consumatori-meta.as…>la proposta avanzata negli ultimi giorni da me e Fabio Bravo affinchè l'AGCOM rilasci Nemesys, il software per la misurazione della velocità delle connessioni a banda larga, con licenza EUPL. So che in lista ci sono persone che lavorano all'AGCOM. Sarebbe interessante poter aprire un dialogo su questo punto. Magari dopo le ferie :-) M.S. -- Avv. Marco Scialdone Blog: http://scialdone.blogspot.com Site: www.computerlaw.it PEC: marcoscialdone(a)ordineavvocatiroma.org Flavors me <http://flavors.me/marcoscialdone> My profile: www.linkedin.com/in/marcoscialdone CC Network: https://creativecommons.net/marcoscialdone/

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SAVE THE DATE: Conferenza NEXA 2010, sabato 27.11.2010 (include CCIT2010)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 24, 2010

Nov. 24, 2010

Siamo lieti di annunciare che la *conferenza NEXA 2010* avra' luogo SABATO, 27 NOVEMBRE 2010 a Torino, presso la sala conferenze della Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Via Magenta 31, www.gamtorino.it. Il tema principale dell'incontro sara' *la liberta' di espressione e informazione online*. URL di riferimento: http://nexa.polito.it/conf2010 Come di consueto, la giornata ospitera' anche *CCIT 2010*, ovvero una sessione di discussione dello stato di Creative Commons in Italia. Oltre alla presentazione di casi particolarmente interessanti di utilizzo delle licenze CC nel nostro paese, si parlera' anche di CC-SIAE e del perche' non sia successo ancora nulla a oltre un anno dalla fine dei lavori del tavolo di lavoro congiunto. URL di riferimento: http://creativecommons.it/ccit2010 Precedenti edizioni: http://nexa.polito.it/conf2009 http://creativecommons.it/ccit2009 http://creativecommons.it/ccit2006 http://creativecommons.it/ccit2005 http://creativecommons.it/ccit2004

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Fw: Info DEL-CNRS: "Behind the Digital Campaign", New report by the Hansard Society (UK)
by Mariella Berra Nov. 22, 2010

Nov. 22, 2010

----- Original Message ----- From: INFOS Réseau DEL/CNRS To: destinataires inconnus: Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 5:31 PM Subject: Info DEL-CNRS: "Behind the Digital Campaign", New report by the Hansard Society (UK) New report by the Hansard Society (UK) examines the work done by the political parties' digital teams in the build up to the 2010 General Election Behind the Digital Campaign demonstrates how their strategies have been influenced by digital campaigns in other countries and outlines the development of the 'perpetual campaign'. It concludes that while the internet is unlikely to lead to dramatic changes in the electoral landscape in this election, there are nevertheless some noteworthy aspects to the General Election digital campaign. -- Gérard Loiseau, CERTOP/CNRS (loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr) Stéphanie Wojcik, Université Paris-Est, Céditec (stephanie.wojcik(a)u-pec.fr) Réseau de recherche "Démocratie électronique" / Research network "Electronic Democracy" www.certop.fr/DEL Pour vous désabonner, envoyez un mail à loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr" / "To unsuscribe from the DEL mailing list, send an e-mail to loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr

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public consultation on Net Neutrality
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Oct. 4, 2010

Oct. 4, 2010

Mi pare già passato in lista, ma utile è ricordare perciò Ricevo e inoltro da La Quadrature du Net ciao °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Dear Friends, As you know, the European Commission has launched a public consultation on Net Neutrality. *** Deadline for answering is this Thursday, September 30th, 2010 *** We expect all the telcos and entertainment industries lobbies to answer in order to promote an agenda going against our freedom to access the Internet, therefore our fundamental freedoms. It is crucial that as many of us as possible answer this consultation, so that EU institutions will have pressure from the civil society to orient policies towards general interest. We therefore urge you to answer, and to call your members and supports to do the same, according to guidelines we set up here: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/make-your-voice-heard-on-net-neutrality (You can answer only to a few selected questions, or make a short, generic statement, in the EU language of your choice) In case you have no resource at all to answer, even in a minimal form, you still have the option to sign the answer we will submit on behalf of La Quadrature du Net, in order to give it more weight. Our draft will be published and sent to you in the following hours, but you can already start discussing about it and prepare your signature. To sign our answer, you will need to send us, to contact(a)laquadrature.net: - the name of your structure - its country of activity - your logo - one sentence of description. Yours, La Quadrature du Net's team

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Commission refers UK to Court over privacy and personal data protection
by Paolo Brini Sept. 30, 2010

Sept. 30, 2010

Brussels, 30 September 2010 Digital Agenda: Commission refers UK to Court over privacy and personal data protection The European Commission has decided to refer the United Kingdom to the EU's Court of Justice for not fully implementing EU rules on the confidentiality of electronic communications such as e-mail or internet browsing. Specifically, the Commission considers that UK law does not comply with EU rules on consent to interception and on enforcement by supervisory authorities. The EU rules in question are laid down in the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32002L0058:EN:N…>and the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31995L0046:EN:N…>. The infringement procedure was opened in April 2009 (IP/09/570 <http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/570&format=HT…>), following complaints from UK internet users notably with regard to targeted advertising based on analysis of users' internet traffic. The Commission previously requested the UK authorities in October 2009 (IP/09/1626 <http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1626&format=H…>) to amend their rules to comply with EU law. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1215&format=H…

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IL codice Azuni e la politica degli annunci
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Sept. 29, 2010

Sept. 29, 2010

Dopo i roboanti annunci di Vilnius, qualcuno sa che fine ha fatto il codice/metodo Azuni? http://www.igf-italia.it/notizie/anno-2010/159-igf-2010-dichiarazione-gover… Io avevo avvertito amici e colleghi di ponderare bene il risalto che volevano dare all'ennesimo annuncio dell'entourage di Brunetta.... Chiudendo la mia corrispondenza da Vilnius per Il sole avevo evitato di parlare di questa "grande consultazione popolare" per evitare brutte figure...peccato per i colleghi giornalisti che ci hanno abboccato. http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2010-09-23/salvare-regole-091910.…

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Reminder
by Paolo Brini Sept. 29, 2010

Sept. 29, 2010

Due giorni alla fine della consultazione pubblica della Commissione sulla Net Neutrality. Avete già risposto al questionario? http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/library/public_consult… Ciao, Paolo

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IP Watch: " Internet Access And Human Rights Highlighted Alongside UN Human Rights Council"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 28, 2010

Sept. 28, 2010

Intellectual Property Watch *28 September 2010* Internet Access And Human Rights Highlighted Alongside UN Human Rights Council By Kaitlin Mara <http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/author/kaitlin/> @ 6:30 pm http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/09/28/internet-and-human-rights-highlig… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Can the digital environment be used in a way that promotes real human rights? A group of activists speaking yesterday alongside the ongoing UN Human Rights Council believes that it can, and provided several examples of work they are doing to make that happen. The internet can facilitate community building, and help coordinate the activities of human rights activists, speakers said. But there are dangers. There is a new action before the European Parliament that would challenge anonymity online, which demonstrates the risk that new technologies could become new tools in the hands of governments in order to control, rather than to encourage more participation, said Marco Perduca, a member of the Italian Senate for the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational & Transparty. The 27 September event, "Digital Democracy: Using Virtual Ways to Promote Real Rights," was organised by the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational & Transparty, which draws inspiration from the tactics of Mahatma Gandhi in using nonviolent means to influence law. Access to the internet is itself being recognised around the world as a matter of rights, said Christine Runnegar of the Internet Society. Ecuador, for example, recently passed a law about the right to access information and communications technologies, and Finland, too, recently granted rights to access information, she said. But even as the internet provides access to a large amount of information, a lot of it is banal and low quality, cautioned Marino Busdachin of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. The internet has provided "an incredible amount of information, but less knowledge about what is happening," and especially about what is happening between citizens and their governments, he said. But he later said there was enormous potential when ordinary citizens used the internet as a means of social change. The Internet Society has several initiatives intended to aid the cause of access to information and human rights via digital technology, Runnegar said. For example, they are working to provide "freedom phones" involving voice-over-internet protocol on a dedicated server. Activists working to combat sexual violence, especially in the Congo, have been threatened and some even traced and killed as a result of information shared over tapped mobile phones, said Runnegar. Freedom phones would protect the identity of people sending or receiving calls for help or sharing information, she said. The internet can also help to build community ties and assist in the organisation of diaspora groups working on human rights issues, said Sepideh Sadeghi, who at a young age fled West Balochistan, a region in Iran, and now lives in Norway. When she was a child, Sadeghi recalled meeting once a year to discuss the issues with other members of the Baloch diaspora. But this was expensive, and the annual meetings were not enough to effect true political change. Now, "with the internet, we can make the discussion part of our daily lives," she said. Through online conversations the diaspora can "present a truer identity" of the Baloch people than the state does, she said, and can encourage people to use their native language, wear traditional clothing, and use Baloch names, things normally discouraged in Iran. The internet was also crucial in communicating to the outside world issues of violence around last year's elections in Iran, said Perduca. But, with the help of several large telecommunications companies, said Sadeghi, Iran has build one of the largest systems for surveilling the internet. After the elections, communications online slowed down even further, perhaps evidence that communications were being inspected, she said. Kathy Polias of the World Uyghur Congress said it is "no secret that internet repression is everywhere in China," but added it was particularly severe in the Uyghur region. After a protest in July 2009 sparked by the beating and killing of at least two Uyghur factory workers by Han Chinese factory workers (there are two documented, but Polias said there are believed to have been more) turned violent, the Chinese government blamed the internet for sparking social unrest and "endangering state security." Several Uyghur webmasters were charged, and many Uyghur language websites remain shut down, she said. Busdachin briefly presented a project he is working on a project called Haystack <http://www.haystacknetwork.com/>, which aims to provide unfiltered access to the internet in cases such as Iran's where the internet is heavily filtered. Other speakers included Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, who presented a plan to map the evolution of conflicts -- both geographically and chronologically -- in a visually appealing way, as well as Stéphane Koch of Reporters Without Borders.

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I: Help EFF Fight Government Censorship and Surveillance
by Masera Anna Sept. 28, 2010

Sept. 28, 2010

condivido con voi questo appello della Electronic Frontiers Foundation, mi sembra importante! Anna Masera -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Electronic Frontier Foundation [mailto:membership@eff.org] Inviato: martedì 28 settembre 2010 19.30 A: Masera Anna Oggetto: Help EFF Fight Government Censorship and Surveillance Dear Anna, The U.S. government has made two proposals this week that threaten online speech and privacy in radical new ways. Either one, if passed by Congress, will fundamentally rewrite the rules of the Internet. EFF is fighting hard for your rights and needs your help. These proposals are the most frightening we've seen in a long time. The first is a bill called the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act," which would give the Justice Department new powers to censor websites accused of aiding "piracy." The second is an Obama Administration proposal that would end online privacy as we know it by requiring all Internet communication service providers -- from Facebook to Skype to your webmail provider -- to rebuild their systems to give the government backdoor access to all of your private Internet communications. EFF is battling these threats to Internet users' privacy and freedom of speech, and we need your support. More than half of EFF's funding comes from individuals like you, and none of our funding comes from government grants. That means that when EFF goes toe-to-toe against government attempts to snatch away your rights, we pull no punches in defending the civil liberties of all technology users and innovators. Become an EFF member today, and join the ongoing fight for privacy, free expression, and civil liberties on the Internet, as we face down these threats and secure a better future for us all. Donate Today: http://secure.eff.org/defend EFF appreciates your support and respects your privacy. http://www.eff.org/policy Unsubscribe from future mailings or change your email preferences. http://action.eff.org/site/CO?i=FctCwI8NQlHosIK_KHR77-EYqaQNtmzm&cid=1601

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3rd Free Culture Research Conference - October 8-9, Berlin
by Federico Morando Sept. 28, 2010

Sept. 28, 2010

Cari tutti, con piacere vi giro l'invito a partecipare alla Free Culture Research Conference, che si terrà l'8-9 Ottobre a Berlino. La Conferenza è organizzata in collaborazione con COMMUNIA, il network tematico sul pubblico dominio digitale, coordinato dal Centro NEXA. (In caso di problemi coi link successivi, potete aprire direttamente http://www.communia-project.eu/fcrc2010 o il sito della Conferenza: http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/ ) 3rd Free Culture Research Conference - October 8-9, Berlin Hosted jointly by the Free University of Berlin <http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/en/index.html> and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies <http://www.mpifg.de/index_en.asp>, the 3rd edition of the *Free Culture Research Conference* will take place on _October 8-9, 2010_ at the Free University Campus in Berlin, in collaboration with COMMUNIA <http://communia-project.eu/>, and with funding also provided by the Heinrich Böll Foundation <http://www.boell.de/service/home.html>. Under the title "Free Culture between Commons and Markets: Approaching the Hybrid Economy?", this event <http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Home> will be a unique opportunity for scholars whose work contributes to the promotion, study or criticism of a Free Culture, to engage with a multidisciplinary group of academic peers and practitioners, identify the most important research opportunities and challenges, and attempt to chart the future of Free Culture. _COMMUNIA Working Groups_ will meet in Berlin the day before the Conference: COMMUNIA Members may visit this page <http://www.communia-project.eu/fcrc2010-wg> for the agenda of the day (October 7) <http://www.communia-project.eu/fcrc2010-wg>. The complete programme <http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=59080767> of the Conference (including links to the papers) is available here <http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=59080767>. -- ----------------------------------- Federico MORANDO Managing Director & Research Fellow NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 TORINO - ITALY tel.: +39 011 564 5954 fax: +39 011 564 7216 web: http://nexa.polito.it

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