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Fwd: [liberationtech] CfP: The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons (tripleC Special Issue)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 15, 2014

Oct. 15, 2014

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [liberationtech] CfP: The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons (tripleC Special Issue) Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:01:27 +0200 Resent-From: d004620(a)polito.it Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:00:38 +0300 From: Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> To: liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Dear all, I think that the following call might be of interest to some members of the list: Call for Papers: The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/23 Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at) Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2015 Guest editors: Vasilis Kostakis, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), P2P Lab (Greece); Andreas Roos, Human Ecology Division, Lund University (Sweden) With an escalating environmental crisis and an unprecedented increase of ICT diversity and use, it is more crucial than ever to understand the underlying material aspects of the ICT infrastructure. This special issue therefore asks the question: What are the true material and socio-environmental costs of the global ICT infrastructure? In a recent paper (Fuchs 2013) as well as in the book Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Fuchs 2014), Christian Fuchs examined the complex web of production relations and the new division of digital labour that makes possible the vast and cheap ICT infrastructure as we know it. The analysis partly revealed that ICT products and infrastructure can be said to embody slave-like and other extremely harsh conditions that perpetually force mine and assembly workers into conditions of dependency. Expanding this argument, the WWF reported (Reed and Miranda 2007) that mining in the Congo basin poses considerable threats to the local environment in the form of pollution, the loss of biodiversity, and an increased presence of business-as-usual made possible by roads and railways. Thus ICTs can be said to be not at all immaterial because the ICT infrastructure under the given economic conditions can be said to embody as its material foundations slave-like working conditions, various class relations and undesirable environmental consequences. At the same time, the emerging digital commons provide a new and promising platform for social developments, arguably enabled by the progressive dynamics of ICT development. These are predominantly manifested as commons-based peer production, i.e., a new mode of collaborative, social production (Benkler 2006); and grassroots digital fabrication or community-driven makerspaces, i.e., forms of bottom-up, distributed manufacturing. The most well known examples of commons-based peer production are the free/open source software projects and the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. While these new forms of social organisation are immanent in capitalism, they also have the features to challenge these conditions in a way that might in turn transcend the dominant system (Kostakis and Bauwens 2014). Following this dialectical framing, we would like to call for papers for a special issue of tripleC that will investigate how we can understand and balance the perils and promises of ICTs in order to make way for a just and sustainable paradigm. We seek scholarly articles and commentaries that address any of the following themes and beyond. We also welcome experimental formats, especially photo essays, which address the special issue's theme. Suggested themes Papers that track, measure and/or theorise the scope of the socio-environmental impact of the ICT infrastructure. Papers that track, measure and/or theorise surplus value as both ecological (land), social (labour) and intellectual (patent) in the context of ICTs. Understanding the human organisation of nature in commons-based peer production. Studies of the environmental dimensions of desktop manufacturing technologies (for example, 3D printing or CNC machines) in non-industrial modes of subsistence, e.g. eco-villages or traditional agriculture, as well as in modern towns and mega-cities. Suggestions for and insights into bridging understandings of the socio-economic organisation of the natural commons with the socio-economic organisation of the digital commons drawing on types of organisations in the past and the present that are grounded in theories of the commons. Elaboration of which theoretical approaches can be used for overcoming the conceptual separation of the categories immaterial/material in the digital commons. References Benkler, Yochai. 2006. The wealth of networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press. Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Digital labour and Karl Marx. New York: Routledge. Fuchs, Christian. 2013. Theorising and analysing digital labour: From global value chains to modes of production. The Political Economy of Communication 1 (2): 3-27. http://www.polecom.org/index.php/polecom/article/view/19. Kostakis, Vasilis and Michel Bauwens. 2014. Network society and future scenarios for a collaborative economy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Reed, Erik and Marta Miranda. 2007. Assessment of the mining sector and infrastructure development in the congo basin region. Washington DC: World Wildlife Fund, Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Program Office, 27. http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/congobasinmining.pdf Schedule Submission of abstracts (250-300 words) by January 15, 2015 via email to vasileios.kostakis(a)ttu.ee <mailto:vasileios.kostakis@ttu.ee> Responses about acceptance/rejection to authors: February 15, 2015. Selected authors will be expected to submit their full documents to tripleC via the online submission system by May 15, 2015: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Expected publication date of the special issue: October 1, 2015. About the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is an academic open access online journal using a non-commercial Creative Commons license. It is a journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas. The journal has a special interest in disseminating articles that focus on the role of information in contemporary capitalist societies. For this task, articles should employ critical theories and/or empirical research inspired by critical theories and/or philosophy and ethics guided by critical thinking as well as relate the analysis to power structures and inequalities of capitalism, especially forms of stratification such as class, racist and other ideologies and capitalist patriarchy. Papers should reflect on how the presented findings contribute to the illumination of conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of a global sustainable and participatory information society. TripleC was founded in 2003 and is edited by Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval.

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Re: [nexa] Il Cloud è una trappola
by Carmelo Fontana Oct. 14, 2014

Oct. 14, 2014

Ma è un articolo di 6 anni e 15 giorni fa?! O il punto e' che se ne parla gia' da tanto tempo? :-) Il 14/ott/2014 08:45 Diego Giorio <dgiorio(a)hotmail.com> ha scritto: > > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.s… > > Questo il parere di Richard Stallman sul cloud > > Saluti a tutti > > Diego

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Public Consultation on Patents and Standards (DEADLINE: 31 Jan 2015)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2014

Oct. 14, 2014

Public Consultation on Patents and Standards URL: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/industrial-competitiveness/industri… *A modern framework for standardisation involving intellectual property rights* Topic and objective The objective of this consultation is to gather information and views on the interplay between standardisation and intellectual property rights (IPR) such as patents. Standardisation is the voluntary process of developing technical specifications based on consensus among the interested parties. Standard setting takes place in the European and International Standardisation Organizations (ETSI, CEN, CENELEC, ITU, ISO, IEC) but also in other organizations and fora or consortia on national, European or international level. Many standards comprise technologies that are patent protected. Public authorities and the standardisation community have developed rules and practices to ensure the efficient licensing of these standard-related patents. The purpose of this consultation is to allow stakeholders interested in standardisation involving patents, to bring to the Commission's attention their views on – how the current framework governing standardisation involving patents performs and on – how it should evolve to ensure that standardization remains efficient and adapted to the fast-changing economic and technological environment. The European Commission has the task of ensuring that the European Union’s internal market functions efficiently. Therefore harmonisation standards are particularly important for the EU. Furthermore, an efficiently performing standardization system is crucial for the EU's objectives in the areas of industry policy, innovation, services and technological development. Target group(s) Companies of all sizes, organizations, public authorities, citizens and any other interested stakeholders are welcome to contribute to this consultation. We particularly encourage those having direct experience with standardisation involving intellectual property rights to share with us their experience and insight. This includes those currently active in standardisation activities or planning to become active, as well as those who use standards without taking part in their formulation. We also encourage participation by those having direct experience with – patent transfers – patent pools and other types of patent market intermediation – patent dispute resolution (Courts, ADR service providers, users of ADR services etc.). Period of consultation The consultation is open from 14 October 2014 to 31 January 2015. Questionnaire Please find eight key questions as well as modules with more detailed questions in the following questionnaire: Public Consultation on Patents and Standards [Word] <http://ec.europa.eu/DocsRoom/documents/7129/attachments/1/translations/en/r…> Public Consultation on Patents and Standards [PDF] <http://ec.europa.eu/DocsRoom/documents/7163/attachments/1/translations/en/r…> Study on "Patents and Standards" In 2013 DG Enterprise and Industry commissioned a fact-finding study on the issue of patents and standards. This fact-finding study analyses the rules and practices developed to ensure efficient licensing of standard-related patents. It also covers barriers to efficient licensing and ideas discussed among stakeholders for dealing with these barriers. The study can be found here: – Final Report <http://ec.europa.eu/DocsRoom/documents/4843/attachments/1/translations/en/r…> – Executive Summary <http://ec.europa.eu/DocsRoom/documents/4844/attachments/1/translations/en/r…> The study is useful background reading for this public consultation. The questionnaire is stand-alone and can be answered without having read the study. We encourage you to structure your reply along the modules of this questionnaire. Where you want to comment on aspects in the study that do not directly fit into any specific part of the questionnaire, please do so in the section that is closest to the subject matter. How to submit your contribution Please submit your observations by sending your contribution to the following e-mail address: ENTR-SEP(a)ec.europa.eu <mailto:ENTR-SEP@ec.europa.eu> You can submit observations to all questions in this consultation or to specific sections alone. In either case, please ensure that we know to which question your answer relates. Respondent profile Please indicate clearly on your submission the following information about yourself: – Your name or the name of the submitting organization – Type of respondent (enterprise, association, citizen, public authority, judge/law firm, other) – Country of residence or location of headquarters – Your contact details including an e-mail address In case you reply as an association, please also: – Indicate whether you are registered in the EU Transparency Register (see below) – State clearly whom you represent (see below) In case you reply as an enterprise, please also indicate: – Your main field of business activity and the field of activity related to the consultation's topic (if not identical to the overall business activity) – Whether your enterprise can be classified as a "small or medium sized enterprise" (SME) according to the EU SME definition <http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis/sme-defi…>. In case of doubt in this regard, please make a judgment call. Submissions that are sent anonymously will not be published or taken into account. If you include the above information but wish that your contribution be published without this information, please submit a non-confidential, anonymised version as well. The Commission may contact you in case a clarification regarding your submission is needed. If you do not wish to be contacted, please state this clearly in your reply. Transparency and registering In the interests of transparency, organisations (including, for example, NGOs, trade associations and commercial enterprises) are invited to provide the public with relevant information about themselves by registering in the Transparency Register <http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/info/homePage.do>and subscribing to its Code of Conduct. – If you are a Registered Organisation, please indicate the name and address of your organisation and your Register ID number on the first page of your contribution. Your contribution will then be considered as representing the views of your organisation. – If your organisation is not registered, you have the opportunity to register now. Please then return to this page to submit your contribution as a Registered Organisation. – Responses from organisations not registered will be published separately. The Commission asks organisations who wish to submit comments in the context of public consultations to provide the Commission and the public at large with information about whom and what they represent. If an organisation decides not to provide this information, it is the Commission's stated policy to list the contribution as part of the individual contributions. (Consultation Standards, see COM (2002) 704, and Communication on ETI Follow-up, see COM (2007) 127 of 21/03/2007). Confidentiality and data protection The replies submitted will be published here after the end of the consultation period. Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your reply if you do not wish your contribution to be published. If you wish that only certain parts of your reply are personal data or business secrets and should not be published, please submit a confidential and a non-confidential version and mark them as such prominently at their respective starts. In this case, we will only publish the version marked as non-confidential. Please find information on the protection of your personal data here: – Specific privacy statement <http://ec.europa.eu/DocsRoom/documents/7102/attachments/1/translations/en/r…> – Protection of personal data <http://ec.europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm> *Contact details* European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry Unit A4 - Industrial Competitiveness Policy for Growth Avenue d'Auderghem 45, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium ENTR-SEP(a)ec.europa.eu <mailto:ENTR-SEP@ec.europa.eu>

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Fwd: [ NNSquad ] "ISPs Already Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption And Make Everyone Less Safe Online"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2014

Oct. 14, 2014

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] "ISPs Already Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption And Make Everyone Less Safe Online" Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:26:36 +0200 Resent-From: d004620(a)polito.it Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:22:09 -0700 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren(a)vortex.com> To: nnsquad(a)nnsquad.org "ISPs Already Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption And Make Everyone Less Safe Online" (Techdirt): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141012/06344928801/revealed-isps-alread… "In the second instance, Golden Frog shows that a wireless broadband Internet access provider is interfering with its users' ability to encrypt their SMTP email traffic. This broadband provider is overwriting the content of users' communications and actively blocking STARTTLS encryption. This is a man-in-the-middle attack that prevents customers from using the applications of their choosing and directly prevents users from protecting their privacy." - - - If it's true that an ISP is purposely tampering with SMTP responses to try disable STARTTLS, it's utterly horrendous and unacceptable. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren(a)vortex.com) http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them. Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad

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NYT: "How Jean Tirole’s Work Helps Explain the Internet Economy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2014

Oct. 14, 2014

*How Jean Tirole’s Work Helps Explain the Internet Economy* by Claire Cain Miller For anyone who has wondered how it’s possible to get so much stuff from web companies free or at too-good-to-be-true prices — whether Google searching, Facebook socializing, Uber riding or Amazon shopping — Jean Tirole, the new Nobel Prize winner in economics, has an answer. In 2002, two years before Google went public or Facebook was founded, he wrote that Internet-era companies operate as two-sided platforms, with consumers on one side and software developers or advertisers on the other. Even if tech entrepreneurs have never read his work, they are referencing it when they throw around words like “platform” and “network effect.” […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/upshot/how-jean-tiroles-work-helps-explai…

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Fwd: Fight Ebola With Tech
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2014

Oct. 14, 2014

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Fight Ebola With Tech Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:34:27 +0200 Resent-From: d004620(a)polito.it Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:18:19 +0000 From: Internet Society News <isoc-newsletter(a)elists.isoc.org> Reply-To: isoc-newsletter(a)elists.isoc.org To: isoc-newsletter(a)elists.isoc.org <isoc-newsletter(a)elists.isoc.org> The Internet Society, its staff, members and Board of Trustees wishes to offer its thoughts and prayers to all those affected by the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. Our thoughts are especially to the Internet Society Chapters and members, their families and communities in all the affected areas at this difficult time.. But we think we can do something about it. To harness our collective technical expertise to assist communities affected by the Ebola epidemic, we have created a community on "Connect" called the "Ebola TECH Response". Please join us by clicking on the link below http://connect.internetsociety.org/ebolaresponse

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Wired: "With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2014

Oct. 14, 2014

*With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online* BY ANDY GREENBERG 10.13.14 No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple as putting a portable hardware condom on your ethernet cable. Today a group of privacy-focused developers plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign for Anonabox. The $45 open-source router automatically directs all data that connects to it by ethernet or Wifi through the Tor network, hiding the user’s IP address and skirting censorship. It’s also small enough to hide two in a pack of cigarettes. Anonabox’s tiny size means users can carry the device with them anywhere, plugging it into an office ethernet cable to do sensitive work or in a cybercafe in China to evade the Great Firewall. The result, if Anonabox fulfills its security promises, is that it could become significantly easier to anonymize all your traffic with Tor—not just Web browsing, but email, instant messaging, filesharing and all the other miscellaneous digital exhaust that your computer leaves behind online. […] Continua qui: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everything-online/

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Offese su un blog: non è applicabile la legge sulla stampa
by Diego Giorio Oct. 14, 2014

Oct. 14, 2014

http://www.altalex.com/index.php?idnot=69040 Buona giornata a tutti

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Patent: "Internet of Things Lawful Interception"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 13, 2014

Oct. 13, 2014

http://www.google.com/patents/US20130057388 *Internet of Things Lawful Interception* US 20130057388 A1 *Estratto* ** The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for providing a Law Enforcement Agency (*200*) with things data related to one or more target identities using a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) Data Manager (*124*), which is managing RFID data traffic comprising things data in a Radio-Frequency Data system, wherein said manager (*124*) is provided with an Intercepting Control Element (ICE; *160*). The invention further involves receiving to the Intercepting Control Element (*160*) a request to intercept dynamic and optionally static things data related to one or more target identities. It further involves collecting in the Intercepting Control Element (*160*), dynamic things and optionally static things data related to one or more target identities for which things data has been requested and forwarding the collected data to a Law Enforcement Management Function unit.

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Disponibile online il testo della "Dichiarazione dei diritti in Internet"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 13, 2014

Oct. 13, 2014

Cari Nexiani, è disponibile online la prima bozza pubblica della Dichiarazione dei diritti in Internet: http://www.camera.it/leg17/1179 E' stata redatta dalla commissione della Presidente della Camera che ricorderete. Su questo pagina di Nexa trovate inoltre, oltre che un po' di contesto, anche le traduzioni ufficiali in inglese e francese (il tedesco seguirà a breve): http://nexa.polito.it/dichiarazione-diritti-internet Il 27 ottobre inizierà una consultazione pubblica che durerà quattro mesi. Questa bozza, infatti, è - a mio avviso (di parte) - un buon punto di partenza, ma non è né completa, né perfetta. Un caro saluto, juan carlos

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