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Re: [nexa] Allarme Brasile, diritti in Internet calpestati altro che Marco Civil...
by Blengino Dec. 20, 2015

Dec. 20, 2015

FYI Da: Per conto di Carolina Rossini Inviato: giovedì 17 dicembre 2015 16:56 A: Oggetto: WhatsApp Blockage in Brazil - what do we know all we know is: - this decision came out as part of a criminal case that is under legal confidentiality ("justice secret") - so all our information is based on press releases from Sao Paulo courts - more than 100 million Brazilians use WhatsApp - 0hrs of the 12/17 was when the 48hrs started - http://www.tjsp.jus.br/institucional/canaiscomunicacao/noticias/Noticia.asp… - a superior tribunal, on the morning of the 17th, invalidated the Sao Bernardo Judge - http://www.conjur.com.br/2015-dez-17/tj-sao-paulo-suspende-bloqueio-aplicat… - it seems the blocking was based on the refusal of WhatsApp to provide data that was relevant to a criminal investigation...WhatsApp/FB used old arguments (similar to 2007/2008 Google cases), saying Brazil did not have the jurisdiction - based on MC, Brazil does have jurisdiction - BUT, the decision was just now invalidated since it was disproportional and unnecessary...it inflicted consumers/users...and not only the company. The judge could have just threaten the company with gigantic fines or possibly to put executives in jail ...but not cut the whole service - MC needs to be applied following the Constitution and its own principles, not in a vacuum - BUT....IT IS IMPORTANT TO notice that since the case in going under justice secret, we do not even know if MC was used in the judge legal rational for the blocking - WhatsApp/FB position was extremely not helpful to the discussion of internet rights in Brazil ...it puts the discussion back to arguments from 2007/2008...and belittles MC debate and achievements - this might have terrible repercussions for the reform of telco law in Brazil, where telco companies what to have OTT companies regulated <https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif> -- Carolina Rossini Vice President, International Policy Public Knowledge http://www.publicknowledge.org/ + 1 6176979389 | skype: carolrossini | @carolinarossini

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Workshop "Consumers and the Internet of Things" e invio di contributi
by Miryam Bianco Dec. 18, 2015

Dec. 18, 2015

Carissimi, vi segnaliamo che il Centro Nexa sta attualmente organizzando un Workshop su "Consumers and the Internet of Things", che si terrà l'11 Aprile 2016 a Vienna, nell'ambito della Cyber-Physical Week 2016 (http://www.cpsweek.org/2016/) E' possibile inviare contributi volontari sul tema, da presentare nel corso del Workshop. Una descrizione approfondita del Workshop è visualizzabile al seguente indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/consiot2016. Alla sezione "Contributi" della pagina sono fornite tutte le informazioni necessarie per la presentazione dei contributi volontari. La pagina a cui fare riferimento, nel caso in cui ci siano aggiornamenti, è la medesima (per quanto ci premureremo di renderli noti anche attraverso la presente mailing list). Siete naturalmente invitati a pubblicizzare l'evento (e la connessa possibilità di contribuire) attraverso i vostri canali. Un caro saluto, Miryam Bianco Nexa Staff Research Fellow

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Nuovo regolamento EU data protection_ Approvato dalla Commisione LIBE
by Alessandro Mantelero Dec. 18, 2015

Dec. 18, 2015

qui il comunicato stampa: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2b… Next steps The informal agreement on the regulation will be voted by the full house in spring 2016 (probably March or April). After the entry into force of the regulation, member states will have two years to apply its provisions. In allegato (pdf) il testo approvato AM -- Prof. Avv. Alessandro Mantelero Politecnico di Torino Nexa Center for Internet and Society | Director of Privacy Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University| Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | Part-time Expert, School of Public Administration http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero @mantelero EMAIL POLICY: twice a day (Mon-Fri)

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Allarme Brasile, diritti in Internet calpestati altro che Marco Civil...
by Anna Masera Dec. 17, 2015

Dec. 17, 2015

Vi segnalo questa escalation preoccupante in corso in Brasile, le telco stanotte hanno ottenuto di far chiudere whatsapp: what else? Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp And Brazil’s Congress Wants To Shut Down The Social Web Next | TechCrunch Inviato da iPhone

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anagrafe Unica Digitale
by Mauro Alovisio Dec. 16, 2015

Dec. 16, 2015

gent.me/misegnalo dal sito Agid http://www.agid.gov.it/notizie/2015/12/14/anagrafe-unica-digitale-partono-o… saluti Mauro Alovisio Anagrafe Unica Digitale: partono oggi i primi due Comuni *Lunedì, 14 Dicembre, 2015* Al via oggi la fase di attuazione dell’Anagrafe Nazionale della Popolazione Residente (ANPR) per Bagnacavallo e Cesena. [image: Anagrafe Unica Digitale: partono oggi i primi due Comuni] È partita oggi la fase attuativa dell’Anagrafe Nazionale della Popolazione Residente (ANPR) per i primi due comuni pilota. Le città di Cesena e Bagnacavallo, dopo aver completato il processo di bonifica dei dati delle singole anagrafiche comunali, hanno portato a termine il percorso di migrazione nella nuova anagrafe centrale. La transizione proseguirà nei primi mesi del 2016 con il subentro degli altri 25 comuni pilota (PDF) <http://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/files/uploads/210/comuni_pilota.pdf>che hanno partecipato alla fase di sperimentazione e coinvolgerà un totale di circa 6,5 milioni di cittadini. Martedì 15 dicembre, durante la riunione del gruppo di lavoro con i comuni pilota si definiranno tempistiche e modalità dettagliate di subentro che termineranno entro marzo 2016. Sulla base di questa prima fase attuativa proseguirà la diffusione per tutti gli altri comuni italiani sulla base di un cronoprogramma che prevede il completamento del processo entro la fine del 2016. L'Anagrafe unica, una volta a regime, consentirà la piena interoperabilità e standardizzazione dei dati anagrafici nazionali e permetterà il passaggio dalle oltre 8.000 banche dati anagrafiche dei comuni ad un'unica banca dati centralizzata.

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Techno-Vernacular Creativity and STEAM
by Giuseppe Futia Dec. 15, 2015

Dec. 15, 2015

Techno-Vernacular Creativity and STEAM https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/12/Gaskins <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, STEAM Lab Director at Boston Arts Academy* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Dr. Gaskins discusses her model for ‘techno-vernacular’ creative production as an area of practice that investigates the characteristics of this production and its application in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) learning. Her research consists of a study involving workshops conducted between 2013 and 2014 that sought to examine the impact of the following combined methods a) culturally situated design, which connects vernacular art and crafts with standards-based STEM principles and allows users to simulate and develop their own creations; b) art-based learning, which is effective in stimulating the development of 21st century skills such as creativity, learning, and innovation; and c) educational applications of new technologies on underrepresented ethnic groups' learning in STEAM. She has applied this research in her work as STEAM Lab Director at Boston Arts Academy. About Nettrice Nettrice Gaskins was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She majored in Visual Art at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, KY. She earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and a MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She worked for several years in K-12 and post-secondary education, community media and technology before enrolling at Georgia Tech where she received a doctorate in Digital Media in 2014. Her model for ‘techno-vernacular creativity’ is an area of practice that investigates the characteristics of this production and its application in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). When she is not advancing interdisciplinary education, Ms. Gaskins blogs for Art21, the producer of the Peabody award-winning PBS series, Art in the Twenty-First Century and publishes articles and essays about topics such as Afrofuturism and Ghost Nature. Her essay was included in Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader published by ETC Press. In the past Nettrice has supported the use of digital technologies by students and faculty in all art/media disciplines; worked as a teaching artist for the Boston 100K Artscience Innovation Prize; and was a youth media/technology trainer for Adobe Youth Voices. I was board president of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture and on the board of the Community Technology Centers Network (CTCNet). Nettrice presented Black Futurism at We Are City 2014 in Indianapolis, Cybism and Decoding the Letter at ISEA2011 in Istanbul and co-facilitated Augmented Reality in Open Spaces (AROS) at ISEA2012 in Albuquerque, NM. She moderated Enlightenment, Strange Mathematics & Rhythmic Equations at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2014). She was a Digital STEAM research intern at the Smithsonian Institution (2013) and received funding from the National Science Foundation for Advancing STEM Through Culturally Situated Arts-Based Learning (2014). For Art21 Nettrice authored several blog posts and Polyculturalist Visions, New Frameworks of Representation: Multiculturalism and the American Culture Wars. She wrote Afro-Futurism: Countering Mass Culture’s Reductional Breakdown Through Creative Forms of Representation for Nictoglobe Magazine, and Urban Metaphysics: Creating Game Layers on Top of the World for UCLA's Mediascape.

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Germany, Italy Leading Resistance To EU Ratification Of Marrakesh Treaty, Blind Union Says
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 14, 2015

Dec. 14, 2015

Germany, Italy Leading Resistance To EU Ratification Of Marrakesh Treaty, Blind Union Says 10/12/2015 by Intellectual Property Watch Two and a half years after an international treaty was adopted to facilitate access to special format literary works for blind and visually impaired people, the European Blind Union blames the failure of the European Union to ratify it as a failure to implement the right to read in the EU. The World Intellectual Property Organization Marrakesh Treaty <http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13169> to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled was adopted on 27 June 2013. In a press release <http://www.euroblind.org/news/nr/2748> today, the European Blind Union (EBU) said “while a range of countries such as India, Mexico, El Salvador, Argentina, Paraguay, Mali and others have already ratified the Marrakesh Treaty, the EU and its members are still failing in doing so.” […] Continua qui: http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/12/10/germany-italy-leading-resistance-to-eu-r…

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Call for papers: "Decentralizing the Commons"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 14, 2015

Dec. 14, 2015

Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons We are witnessing today a steady growth in the impact of user-generated content and peer-production on the so-called sharing or collaborative economy. These emergent practices are an indicator of radical changes in the mode of production in an age of ‘prosumerism’, characterized by two main trends. On the one hand, corporations such as Google, Uber or Facebook are capturing the value created by the actors contributing to the collaborative economy, in a way that has been described by some scholars as an exploitation of free labour. On the other hand, projects such as Wikipedia or GNU/Linux are emblematic of a new model of production that relies on the contribution of many individuals collaborating to a collective project that is not owned by any given entity but rather by the community as a whole (Commons-Based Peer Production or CBPP). These individuals organise themselves without relying on traditional hierarchical and mercantile organisational structures, to produce a set of commons resources which are made freely available to the public for use and reuse. In the last few years, CBPP has expanded beyond the field of software and encyclopedias to also cover the realms of information (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), accommodation (Couchsurfing, BeWelcome) and currency (Bitcoin, Altcoins). The concept of decentralisation is a key requisite for the protection of thesecommons — from their governance system, including the allocation of power and functions in the organisation of labour; to the characteristics of the socio-technical means of collaboration, in terms of both the underlying technical infrastructure and the ownership structure of such infrastructure. Despite the original design of the Internet as a decentralized network, with the advent of the Web 2.0, centralized (and often proprietary) platforms — typically driven by corporate interests — have progressively taken over the web. These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open source (FLOSS)alternatives, if we do not as well endeavor to re-decentralize the Internet. Newdecentralized software tools may ultimately be useful to support the operation and the long-term sustainability of CBPP communities. In view of this, we organised the second FLOSS4P2P workshop <http://www.p2pvalue.eu/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop> (@Fablab London, supported by P2Pvalue <http://p2pvalue.eu/>), gathering a wide spectrum of people working ondecentralized FLOSS projects that could help or support the activities of peer production communities. Given the success of the workshop <http://p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-workshop-agenda>, we would like to prepare a book in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures <http://networkcultures.org/> (on the model of the former MoneyLab Reader <http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/moneylab-reader-an-intervention…>) to explore the topic of decentralisation in thecommons sector. We welcome proposals from academics, activists, researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the topic from a wide set of perspectives, ranging from computer science, engineering, sociology, philosophy, organisational theory, cultural studies, digital studies, etc. Contributions can cover a variety of topics, including tools for grassroots communities, commons-based peer production, both online and offline wikis, maker culture, activism, hacktivism, free culture, citizen science and hospitality exchange. Contributions can take a variety of formats, e.g. a story, a sci-fi tale, a comicstrip, a manifesto, a critical essay, an interview, a study, a poem, a conversation, a debate, a combination of the former… we would like you to experiment and surprise us! We invite you to submit an initial abstract (max. 750w; count each image as 200w, if any) explaining your idea by January 30, 2016.Examples of possible topics are: o Dynamics of (de)centralization in CBPP communities o Decentralized software applications for online/offline communities o Decentralized solutions to tackle specific communities concerns o Guidelines for developers and/or researchers o Comparison of centralized/decentralized processes in CBPP (e.g. decision-making, infrastructure ownership, value generation, value distribution) o Practical experiences around centralized/decentralized structures (in the form of stories, research, interview, etc.) The more compelling ideas will be selected to be included in the book. Please upload your contribution using the following Easychair link: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floss4p2p>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floss4p2p

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Tabella sinottica direttiva trattamento dati
by Diego Giorio Dec. 14, 2015

Dec. 14, 2015

94.242.234.211/documents/10160/0/Tabella+sinottica+direttiva+protezione+dati+III+pilastro.pdf per chi si occupa di privacy, segnalo questo interessante strumento messo disposizione dal Garante Saluti a tutti diego

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LibreOffice vs MS Office
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 14, 2015

Dec. 14, 2015

Potenzialmente utile, FYI. juan carlos https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Micro… *This page compares the features of LibreOffice 5.0.3 (download) and Microsoft Office 2016. * It separates major and minor feature differences and also includes notes on LibreOffice extensions. The comparison highlights differences and therefore does not display any features which are present in both office suites. The feature comparison table is continuously being updated and is work in progress. It is a compilation by users and not an official document by the Document Foundation. Please feel free to improve this page. Last update to this table was made at 10.12.2015

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