January 2012 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

due link

by Mariella Berra

articolo Gaggi su <sopa http://www.corriere.it/cultura/12_gennaio_18/gaggi-serrata-wikipedia_837edb… e n commento sulla legge regionale open data http://www.egovnews.it/blog.php/12592/

Jan. 18, 2012

Fwd: [ISOC] SOPA and the Internet Society in the News

by J.C. DE MARTIN

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ISOC] SOPA and the Internet Society in the News Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:53:26 -0500 (EST) From: cover(a)isoc.org To: isoc-members-announce(a)elists.isoc.org All -- The ramifications of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continue to draw media attention, and especially today with the blackout by Wikipedia and actions of other high-profile websites, including Google. The Internet Society posted the following news headline on our home page, "Internet Society Supports Actions to Raise Awareness of the Consequences of Proposed U.S. Legislation, SOPA." The headline links to our December statement that expressed opposition to SOPA and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA), and provides a link to details on DNS filtering and our white paper, http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-perspectives-domain-name-sy… We continue to pursue opportunities to express our views on this important topic, and we have very exciting news to share. A bylined article from our Chief Internet Technology Officer, Leslie Daigle, was just published on Forbes. Here is a link to this article, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/01/18/beyond-sopa-why-easy-solu… . Forbes provides a high-visibility platform to share our concerns on this serious issue. The Internet Society stands ready to defend our stance that sustained, global collaboration amongst all parties is needed to find ways that protect the global architecture of the Internet while combating illegal online activities. We will keep you posted on further developments. Regards, Wende Cover Wende Cover, Director of Media and Communications Internet Society 1775 Wiehle Ave., Suite 201 Reston, VA 20190 +1 703 439 2773 www.isoc.org

Jan. 18, 2012

Rif: Repubblica: "RELAZIONI DIGITALI" (Intervista a Antonio Casilli)

by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it

Jan. 17, 2012

Mozilla's call for academics and students

by Irene Cassarino

Call For Classrooms (and Researchers, Professors, Teachers, Students …) *Mozilla is working with numerous educators, professors and researchers across the world, both to bring open-source, the open web and web technologies into the classroom, and to bring the contributions of students and their mentors to the world. You can be a part of this, and your field does not have to be Computer Science.* Mozilla in the classroom – and beyond Mozilla? Certainly, you have heard about us. Mozilla is best known for its work on the Firefox web browser <http://getfirefox.com/> and the Thunderbird mail client <http://getfirefox.com/> but that is not all there is to Mozilla, far from it. The activities of Mozilla reach largely beyond a few software products. The objective of the Mozilla project is to promote an *open*, *participative* web. For this purpose, we have developed and promoted Firefox, Thunderbird, open standards, add-ons, and countless experiments and innovations. For this purpose, we want to work with you. This is a call for academics and students. We would like to work with you, with your classrooms and with your labs. Mozilla is already present in numerous classrooms and research laboratories around the world, thanks to collaboration of numerous educators, professors, researchers and students. We deliver courses, we provide teaching material, but most importantly, we provide opportunities for students and their mentors: the opportunity to make impacting contributions to the web, to open-source and sometimes to society, the opportunity to tinker with technologies used by hundreds and millions of people, and to deliver research results to an audience consisting in the the whole web, and also, most importantly, the opportunity to learn and teach as part of an exciting, participatory and fun community. So, whether you are an academic or a student, if you want to work alongside us, please contact contact us. [...] http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/call-for-class…

Jan. 17, 2012

http://www.techgoeshome.org/

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Chissà se chi sta lavorando alle "smart cities" ha in mente anche iniziative come questa. juan carlos http://www.techgoeshome.org/ Tech Goes Home strives to ensure that all residents of the City of Boston are provided with the tools, training, and access to support 21st century skill development. In addition, TGH provides opportunities for all residents to connect to schools, community programs and assets, government agencies, and each other. The TGH program offers residents the ability to improve their quality of life as new members of the online community. *What is Tech Goes Home?* Tech Goes Home (TGH) is an 11 year old, broadband education program, recognized by the FCC's National Broadband Plan for excellence in broadband adoption programming as well as being the recipient of Verizon's National Tech Savvy Award. In collaboration with Mayor Menino, Boston Public Schools, the Boston Center for Youth and Family Services, the Boston Public Library, the Timothy Smith Network, and the Boston Housing Association, TGH reaches thousands of Boston families and citizens. The currnet TGH model was developed at the Lilla G Frederick Pilot Middle School in the Grove Hall neighborhood of Dorchester.** *Why is TGH Critical?* Many vulnerable populations, including children, non-english speakers and seniors, lack the access, tools and training required to fully realize the potential of technology. *Goals of the School-Based TGH Program:* - To encourage parents and children to work together toward a common goal - To enhance the relationship between parents and teachers - To help children improve their academic performance - To help adults acquire 21st Century technology skills - To empower children and adults to advocate for themselves and their community *Goals of the Community-Based TGH Program* - To help provide technology access, training, and hardware to members of the Boston community - To enhance the relationship between members of the community and community institutions such as Community Centers, Housing Associations, and Public Libraries - To help adults acquire 21st Century technology skills - To expose citizens to the many online resources offered by the City of Boston and our many partners - To empower adults to advocate for themselves and their community** *How Does it Work?* - Families and participants come to the school or community site for 15 quality hours to learn new and exciting technology skills. - Areas of focus for the training sessions include using an online office suite, effective communication techniques, Internet resources for both students and families, job search resources, and financial literacy. - All those that complete the program may also be eligible for significantly discounted Internet. - Graduates may purchase a netbook at an incredibly low price. - Non-English speaking participants receive a free subscription to Rosetta Stone online. - In the school-based model, a family member and student of the school must attend all required training sessions together in order to complete the program. The community-based model are open to families and individuals. - TGH@School is open to students in grades 5 and higher. - All participants must be residents of Boston.

Jan. 17, 2012

Our unimaginative Internet economy

by Paolo Brini

Come dare torto all'autore dell'articolo? "Making money the old-fashioned way We idolize the billionaire geniuses of the Internet, people like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. We associate their companies with innovation and creativity and, on a technical level, this is true. But financially these firms have not innovated. They have made their money by tweaking the most boring old media monetization models – not old like the 1990′s, old like the 1740′s and 1830′s. For all their technical and managerial skill, these men are simply the ad salesmen and mail-order catalog distributors of the digital era." <http://owni.eu/2012/01/17/our-unimaginative-internet-economy-facebook-amazo…> Ciao, Paolo

Jan. 17, 2012

Re: [nexa] Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology

by Giuseppe Futia

*REMINDER*: *Don’t miss the deadline for applying for the JOINT INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL DEGREE IN LAW, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY **Deadline February 11th, 2012* Find the application form online at http://www.last-jd.eu/?page_id=65 The Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology is an interdisciplinary integrated program designed to address the new legal, socio-ethical, and technical challenges posed by the information society and the newly emerging technologies. The program covers three different research fields with its curricula: * Bioethics and Biolaw, which looks at the legal and ethical issues arising in connection with advances in biology and medicine; * ICT Law, addressing the legal risks and opportunities in ICT; and * Legal Informatics, an area of informatics that takes law as its subject matter, developing techniques with which to manage the legal domain. More information available at: http://www.last-jd.eu/ 2012/1/2 Giuseppe Futia <giuseppe.futia(a)gmail.com> > *LAST-JD call for applications* > > *Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology > > *http://www.last-jd.eu/* > * > * > * > *Deadline February 11th, 2012* > > The Joint International Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology > is an *interdisciplinary integrated program designed to address the new > legal, socio-ethical, and technical challenges* posed by the information > society and the newly emerging technologies. The NEXA Center for Internet & > Society is an Associate Partner of LAST-JD. The NEXA Center will > collaborate to the development of the curriculum, suggesting topics for > courses, seminars and theses, and offer internships to interested > candidates. > > The program covers three different research fields with its curricula: > - *Bioethics and Biolaw*, which looks at the legal and ethical issues > arising in connection with advances in biology and medicine; > - *ICT Law*, addressing the legal risks and opportunities in ICT; > - *Legal Informatics*, an area of informatics that takes law as its > subject matter, developing techniques with which to manage the legal domain. > > This program promotes European excellence, innovation, and competitiveness > in such critical legal and ethical fields as the regulation of privacy, > genomics and biobanks, e-government, e-health and e-commerce, the right of > free speech on the Internet and intellectual property rights (IPR) with > respect to the new technologies. Moreover, the program furthers the design > of new software to support the legal profession, including systems based on > the explicit representation of laws and regulations in a computable form, > as well as systems for checking compliance with international, European, > and national legalframeworks and systems in AI & Law. > > Details are available online at http://www.last-jd.eu/?page_**id=46<http://www.last-jd.eu/?page_id=46> > >

Jan. 17, 2012

Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18.30 - Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides

by Giuseppe Futia

*Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides * *** * <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/01/head>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/01/reich *Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow* Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live The explosion of open education content resources and freely available collaboration and media production platforms represents one of the most exciting emerging trends in education. These tools create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning. Many education technology and open education advocates hope that the widespread availability of free resources and platforms will disproportionately benefit disadvantaged students, by making technology resources broadly available that were once only available to affluent students. It is possible, however, that affluent schools and students have a greater capacity to take up new innovations, even free ones, and so new tools and resources that appear in the ecology of education will widen rather than ameliorate digital divides. In this presentation, we will examine evidence for both the "tech as equalizer" and "tech as accelerator of digital divides" hypotheses, and we will examine technology innovations and interventions that specifically target learners with the most needs. A lively discussion will follow to consider how educators, technologists, and policymakers can address issues of educational digital inequalities in their work. An introduction to these issues can be found in this video op-ed <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shgwTcJ9fo0>. *About Justin* I’m a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education <http://www.gse.harvard.edu/> and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>. I’m the project manager for the Distributed Collaborative Learning Community, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to study issues of excellence, equity and analytics in the use of social technologies in K-12 settings. I’m also the co-director of EdTechTeacher <http://edtechteacher.org/>, a social venture that provides professional learning services to schools and teachers. Our mission is to help educators leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. We also publish the Best of History Web Sites <http://besthistorysites.net/> and Teaching History with Technology <http://thwt.org/>. Fundamentally, I’m motivated by the belief that young people are tremendously capable, and we need to develop educational systems that tap their energy, creativity, drive and talent. Personally, I’m a husband and father and an avid adventurer and traveler. I have a long association with Camp Chewonki <http://chewonki.org/>. *Links* * Ed Tech Researcher <http://edtechresearcher.org/> * Ed Tech Teacher <http://edtechteacher.org/>

Jan. 17, 2012

Re: [nexa] Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free

by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com

Interessante, ma come la mettiamo con il diritto di critica, considerato che mi sembra innegabile che si tratti di un discorso politico? Nel sistema italiano il discorso non rientra nelle libere utilizzazioni? Nel sistema americano non rientra nel fair use? V Il giorno 17/gen/2012, alle ore 04.41, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto: > Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free > Posted by Alex_Pasternack on Monday, Jan 16, 2012 > > Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech is considered one of the most recognizable collection of words in American history. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of a national treasure or a national park. The National Park Service inscribed it on the Lincoln Memorial and the Library of Congress put it into its National Recording Registry. So we might hold it to be self evident that it can be spread freely. > > Not exactly. Any unauthorized usage of the speech and a number of other speeches by King – including in PBS documentaries – is a violation of American law. You’d be hard pressed to find a good complete video version on the web, and it’s not even to be found in the new digital archive of the King Center’s website. If you want to watch the whole thing, legally, you’ll need to get the $20 DVD. > > That’s because the King estate, and, as of 2009, the British music publishing conglomerate EMI Publishing, owns the copyright of the speech and its recorded performance. While the copyright restriction isn’t news, EMI’s unusual role in policing the use of King’s words – the first instance of the company taking on a non-music based intellectual property catalog – hasn’t been widely reported. In November 2011,EMI Group was auctioned off, and the publishing business was sold to a consortium run by Sony Corp for $2.2 billion. > The awkward tussle over MLK’s words bears recounting, especially given the ongoing controversy over SOPA, which targets copyright infringements on the Internet – and highlights all sorts of problems with our aging copyright system and general ignorance about how ideas actually spread in the digital age: > > [...] > > Continua qui: http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/16/copyright-king-why-the-i-have-a-dream… > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Jan. 17, 2012

Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free Posted byAlex_Pasternack <http://motherboard.vice.com/profiles/alex_pasternack>on Monday, Jan 16, 2012 Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech isconsidered <http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/3504.html>one of the most recognizable collection of words in American history. It's the rhetorical equivalent of a national treasure or a national park. The National Park Service inscribed it on the Lincoln Memorial and the Library of Congress put it into its National Recording Registry. So we might hold it to be self evident that it can be spread freely. Not exactly. Any unauthorized usage of the speech and a number of other speeches by King -- including inPBSdocumentaries -- is a violation of American law. You'd be hard pressed to find a good complete video version on the web, and it's not even to be found in the new digital archive ofthe King Center's website <http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive>. If you want to watch the whole thing, legally, you'll need toget the $20DVD <https://www.thekingcentergifts.com/default.aspx?p=viewitem&item=MLKAUD0001&…>. That's because the King estate, and, as of 2009, the British music publishing conglomerateEMIPublishing <http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090317/FREE/903179967>, owns the copyright of the speech and its recorded performance. While the copyright restrictionisn't news <http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/8/29/the-copyright-nightmare-of-i-have-a-d…>, EMI's unusual role in policing the use of King's words -- the first instance of the company taking on a non-music based intellectual property catalog -- hasn't been widely reported. In November 2011,EMIGroup wasauctioned off <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204224604577031694160429400.h…>, and the publishing business was sold to a consortium run by Sony Corp for $2.2 billion. The awkward tussle over MLK's words bears recounting, especially giventhe ongoing controversy overSOPA <http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/16/sopa-is-on-the-chopping-block-but-the…>, which targets copyright infringements on the Internet -- and highlights all sorts ofproblems <http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/13/sopa-backers-are-pirates-themselves>with our aging copyright system andgeneral ignorance <http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-n…>about how ideas actually spread in the digital age: [...] Continua qui: http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/16/copyright-king-why-the-i-have-a-dream…

Jan. 17, 2012