March 2013 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

La Stampa (De Martin): "L’accesso alla Rete, un diritto che va garantito per Costituzione"

by Giuseppe Futia

28.03.2013 L’accesso alla Rete, un diritto che va garantito per Costituzione JUAN CARLOS DE MARTIN A metà degli Anni 90 il Web era appena nato, ma già si discuteva di democrazia elettronica. Lo faceva, per esempio, Newt Gingrich, l’allora speaker della Camera dei Deputati americana, finendo anche sulla copertina di Wired, la rivista di culto degli entusiasti digitali. Per i proponenti il sogno era quello della democrazia diretta: Internet visto come strumento che affranca i cittadini dai limiti della rappresentanza permettendo loro di esprimersi direttamente e frequentemente su una miriade di questioni. [...] Continua qui: http://www.lastampa.it/2013/03/28/cultura/speciali/biennale-democrazia-2013…

March 28, 2013

The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook

by Blengino

Molto interessante... <http://infojustice.org/archives/29136> The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world's population have fair use or fair dealing provisions in their copyright laws. These countries are in all regions of the world and at all levels of development. The broad diffusion of fair use and fair dealing indicates that there is no basis for preventing the more widespread adoption of these doctrines, with the benefits their flexibility brings to authors, publishers, consumers, technology companies, libraries, museums, educational institutions, and governments. http://infojustice.org/archives/29136

March 28, 2013

Informal Consultation on “Internet Universality” Concept

by Andrea Cairola

Carissimi, sul (neo)concetto di “Internet Universality” UNESCO’s Freedom of Expression and Media Development Division is kick-starting work on a new concept: “Internet Universality”. At this preliminary stage, UNESCO is seeking input from the WSIS community to feed conceptual work on this notion. An outcome may be a document to present at the Internet Governance Forum 2013. ...Far-reaching in scope, “Internet Universality” encompasses a free, rights-based, open and accessible Internet...In this light, the concept of “Internet Universality” could be understood as a heuristic to highlight the interdependence of the components of this uniquely open ecosystem – the normative, technical, social, etc Piu' info in allegato e su http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-a… http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/freedom-of-expre… Possono anche interessare: - Global survey on Internet privacy and freedom of expression http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/public… - Call for proposals: Research on the Safety of Online Media Actors Doing Journalism http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-a… un caro saluto Andrea

March 28, 2013

Anche gli editori portoghesi vogliono che Google paghi come in Francia ma Google non vuole

by Stefano Quintarelli

Anche gli editori portoghesi vogliono che Google paghi come in Francia ma Google non vuole (con una breve riflessione sull'effetto delle correnti sotterranee digitali che attraversano l'editoria, e loro conseguenze sul business) http://is.gd/ulW49r ciao, s. -- my calendar: http://doodle.com/quinta http://blog.quintarelli.it

March 27, 2013

Re: [nexa] Quello che Google [NON] pensa

by oreste.pollicino

qui news con rinvio a sentenza http://www.medialaws.eu/tribunale-di-milano-google-e-un-caching-provider-an… a presto e buona Pasqua per tutti o. ----- Messaggio originale ----- Da: "Blengino" <blengino(a)penalistiassociati.it> A: "NEXA List" <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> Inviato: Mercoledì, 27 marzo 2013 19:02:04 Oggetto: [nexa] Quello che Google [NON] pensa Il Tribunale di Milano esclude la “diffamazione automatica” sui servizi di search. La sentenza ( http://bit.ly/11MEsKI ) è ricca di spunti interessanti: “ trattasi di servizi della c.d. attività di “caching” svolta da Google al fine di facilitare, a loro richiesta, l’accesso ad altri destinatari di informazioni fornite da destinatari del servizio, senza che il prestatore del servizio, nella specie Google, sia responsabile del contenuto di tali informazioni a norma dell’art. 15 cit. D.Lgs .” ed ancora, nel merito della lesione della reputazione: oggi l'utente medio può certamente non conoscere le modalità dello strumento di Google… - nella specie Autocomplete e Ricerche Correlate - comprende tuttavia senza alcuna difficoltà che i risultati non sono che proposte di ricerca e non un'affermazione emanante da Google ; e ancora che tutto ciò che appare è una lista di singole parole nella stringa di ricerca del motore di ricerca. Per l’utente medio del motore di ricerca questo non implica una dichiarazione di contenuto specifico, in quanto…è generalmente risaputo che l’aiuto alla ricerca che viene visualizzato non è il frutto dell’attività intellettuale di specifici utenti ma quanto invece il risultato di una procedura del tutto automatica ; .... non pare potersi ravvisare nell’esito di ricerche del tutto automatiche (effettuate dunque in base agli accostamenti più ricorrenti, ovvero a quanto presente e indicizzato nelle pagine web con quel termine di ricerca, e comunque ad informazioni e materiale pubblicati da terzi in rete), prodotto di un algoritmo, memorizzato al fine di facilitare la ricerca di altri destinatari del servizio, una qualsivoglia affermazione o dichiarazione di contenuto diffamatorio Buona Pasqua Carlo _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

March 27, 2013

Quello che Google [NON] pensa

by Blengino

Il Tribunale di Milano esclude la diffamazione automatica sui servizi di search. La sentenza (http://bit.ly/11MEsKI ) è ricca di spunti interessanti: trattasi di servizi della c.d. attività di caching svolta da Google al fine di facilitare, a loro richiesta, laccesso ad altri destinatari di informazioni fornite da destinatari del servizio, senza che il prestatore del servizio, nella specie Google, sia responsabile del contenuto di tali informazioni a norma dellart. 15 cit. D.Lgs. ed ancora, nel merito della lesione della reputazione: oggi l'utente medio può certamente non conoscere le modalità dello strumento di Google- nella specie Autocomplete e Ricerche Correlate - comprende tuttavia senza alcuna difficoltà che i risultati non sono che proposte di ricerca e non un'affermazione emanante da Google; e ancora che tutto ciò che appare è una lista di singole parole nella stringa di ricerca del motore di ricerca. Per lutente medio del motore di ricerca questo non implica una dichiarazione di contenuto specifico, in quantoè generalmente risaputo che laiuto alla ricerca che viene visualizzato non è il frutto dellattività intellettuale di specifici utenti ma quanto invece il risultato di una procedura del tutto automatica; ....non pare potersi ravvisare nellesito di ricerche del tutto automatiche (effettuate dunque in base agli accostamenti più ricorrenti, ovvero a quanto presente e indicizzato nelle pagine web con quel termine di ricerca, e comunque ad informazioni e materiale pubblicati da terzi in rete), prodotto di un algoritmo, memorizzato al fine di facilitare la ricerca di altri destinatari del servizio, una qualsivoglia affermazione o dichiarazione di contenuto diffamatorio Buona Pasqua Carlo

March 27, 2013

The UK Copyright Hub

by Luca Valente

"An idea initially envisioned as the "Digital Copyright Exchange" in U.K. professor Ian Hargreaves' 2011 report<http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1167506/ian-hargreaves-qa-the-ma…>on copyright reform, before becoming the Copyright Hub in a report released last year, is now becoming a very real (digital) thing. The Copyright Hub is one of the first, and most high-profile, steps the U.K. has taken towards modernizing and streamlining its countries' management of copyright in the digital age, following the past two years' investigations and reports. Said Richard Hooper, architect of the Hub, in a statement: "The Copyright Hub until now has been just an idea. Today it begins to become an exciting reality.(..)” continua qui<http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1554439/uk-an…> _____________ Un caro saluto, Luca Valente

March 27, 2013

Fwd: Elinor Ostrom Award on collective governance on the commons

by J.C. DE MARTIN

> > THE ELINOR OSTROM AWARD ON COLLECTIVE GOVERNANCE OF THE COMMONS > > Created to honour and develop the legacy of Elinor Ostrom, it aims to acknowledge and promote the work of practitioners, young and senior scholars involved in the field of the commons. According with Ostrom´ s large legacy the Award will go to academic and applied works on traditional commons, local commons, interlinked commons, global commons, knowledge, cultural and virtual commons. > > There are three main Award categories: > * Scientific - Young Scholars: No more than ten years after the PHD > * Scientific - Senior Scholars More than ten years after the PHD > * Applied - Practitioners > > Nominators can submit the proposals until April 8th, 2013. > > http://elinorostromaward.org/ > > Vision Statement: About Elinor Ostrom > > Elinor Ostrom was an exceptional academic leader who, throughout her carrier, had challenged the conventional vision of individuals who act only as rational utility-maximizers and are neither able to cooperate, not to create, own, or use collective goods sustainably, except under external authoritarian rule or by dividing those goods into small units and privatizing them. By demonstrating that collaboration is possible, frequent and occurs among individuals of different rationalities and in different contexts, Ostrom promoted a paradigm shift in political science and economics, as well as behavioral and social sciences in general. > Ostrom’s methodological and theoretical approaches were guided by a strong problem-solving impulse. Her aim was to provide scientifically and empirically grounded evidence for public policy. Not surprisingly, many of her contributions have direct implications for policy and governance of a wide range of collective goods that came to be recognized and defined as “commons”- including some of those “global” goods critical for the survival of humans and even of the Earth System, such as biological diversity and the Earth’s capacity to regulate climate. Today, other types of critically important goods, such as the Internet, the genetic information, and knowledge itself, are part of the theoretical and policy domain of the commons, largely as a result of Ostrom’s work. > > Ostrom’s empirically grounded faith in collective action and self-government was based on extended research on the roles that institutions (regarded as rules-in-use) play in societies and a wide analysis of the conditions and factors that improve or block their capacities to solve the governance problem of the commons. She found conditions such as trust and reciprocity among players to be crucial for any collective enterprise and argued that policy-makers should recognize their critical importance. Ostrom was a firm supporter of local collective action, but never considered that communities always acted as responsible stewards of common goods. Her stronger recommendations for policy making were poly-centricity and awareness of the considerable risks of imposed panaceas. For Ostrom, the relationship between the worlds of academia and of policy-making could be a win-win game. While she strongly believed that better policy- making required empirically grounded research, she also saw the existing policy experiences as a rich pool for new academy work. > > Ostrom was a strong believer in the need for collective action in research work itself. From the beginning, her continuous work on forests, water, wildlife, and fisheries took the “commons and collective action school” close to practitioners. She promoted inter-disciplinary collaboration beyond the realm of social sciences, as she worked closely with biologists, foresters, geographers, and mathematicians. She also fully acknowledged the need to use different methods and collaborative research in order to produce meaningful knowledge to address contemporary problems. In this realm, she also promoted paradigm shifts, as she emphasized the need to regard environmental problems as complex processes experienced by socio-ecological systems whose understanding and governance demanded equally complex approaches. It can also be said that Ostrom’s practice and reflections call for changes in the way scholarly work is produced, accessed, evaluated, distributed, and used. > > >

March 27, 2013

1st International conference on Internet Science - Brussels, 10-11 April 2013

by Giuseppe Futia

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/2013-eins-conference> NEXA April 10-11, 2013 The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) <http://www.kvab.be/?lang=en> Rue Ducale 1, Brussels (Belgium) http://nexa.polito.it/2013-eins-conference 1st International conference on Internet Science open_data_day Register online <http://internetscienceconference.eu/register-now/> The 1st International conference on Internet Science <http://internetscienceconference.eu/>, will be organized from April 10 to 11 in Brussels, under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science <http://www.internet-science.eu/>, with the support of KVAB. This *highly multidisciplinary conference* combines Computer Science, Sociology, Art, Mathematics, Physics, Complex systems analysis, Psychology, Economics, Law, Political Science, Epistemology and other relevant disciplines. It will be a unique venue fostering dialogue among scholars and practitioners belonging to these disciplines. It will also provide the EINS Network of Excellence with an *opportunity to interact with external stakeholders, detail project objectives and methodological approach, and showcase its first results*. The event will start on April 9 at 18:30 with a welcome reception, and will end on April 11 in the early afternoon. The conference is open to any organizations and individuals interested in the event topic. Only limited registration fees are requested to attend it in order that they are not an obstacle to registration, thanks to the financial support of the European Commission, made available through the EINS FP7 project. These fees cover in particular access to the venue, to the welcome cocktail of April 9, all coffee-breaks and lunches of April 10 and 11, and the dinner of April 10. Please note that pre-registration is compulsory since registration may be closed prior to the event date due to room capacity constraints. The programme of the conference is available at: http://internetscienceconference.eu/programme/. Download the EINS Conference flyer <http://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/EINS_conference_flyer.pdf>. About the EINS Network of Excellence The EINS Network of Excellence in Internet Science is supported by the European Commission under its FP7 research-funding programme (ICT Theme). It aims to strengthen scientific and technological excellence by developing an integrated and interdisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society, by addressing the fragmentation of European research in this area, at geographical and disciplinary levels. Its main objective is to enable an open and productive dialogue between all disciplines exploring Internet systems from any technological or humanistic perspective, and which in turn are being transformed by continuous advances in Internet functionality. The network brings together thirty-eight research institutions across Europe that are focusing on network engineering, computation, complexity, networking, security, mathematics, physics, sociology, game theory, economics, political sciences, humanities, and law, as well as other relevant social and life sciences. It is coordinated by Prof. Leandros Tassiulas from CERTH, Greece. The network's main deliverable will be a durable shaping and structuring of the way Internet research is carried out, by reaching a critical mass of expertise needed to provide European leadership in this area, providing concrete incentives for multidisciplinary collaborations, and spreading excellence beyond the partnership. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. More information about the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino is available at: http://nexa.polito.it/. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved> Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

March 27, 2013

Re: [nexa] PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF AUDIOVISUAL REGULATORY BODIES

by Carlo Blengino

Davvero interessante. Sarebbe importante, data la storia di AGCOM nella nostra telecrazia, poter dire qualcosina. Come caso patologico intendo. Abbiamo pagine degne della migliore commedia, come la mitica nomina di Martuscello (ignoto allo stesso parlamento che lo ha votato e di cui ebbe a scrivere anche De Martin su La Stampa tempo addietro) o il recente rinnovo avvenuto pochi mesi fa con logiche opache di spartizione politica che rendono ridicolo e quasi offensivo lo streaming delle consultazioni cui abbiamo assistito oggi. E sì che l'audiovisivo è parte fondamentale dei contenuti del web... C. Inviato da iPad2 Il giorno 27/mar/2013, alle ore 11:43, Marina Caporale <marina.caporale(a)unibo.it> ha scritto: > https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/Art30%20cons… > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

March 27, 2013