February 2017 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Silicon Valley leaders organizing against Trump
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

<http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/silicon-valley-against-trump-234579> A collection of Silicon Valley executives, engineers and activists are quietly plotting a progressive counterattack against President Donald Trump, a sign of the industry's growing anger at his election victory and actions on immigration. Through a new organization tentatively called Win the Future, or WTF, the likes of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Zynga founder Mark Pincus are teaming up with former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach to connect political organizers and shore up progressive candidates and causes ahead of the 2018 midterm and 2020 presidential elections, according to three sources familiar with the plan. Their early efforts will include building a platform to connect activists and, potentially, a website similar to the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to fund progressive initiatives, one source said. The initiative is still in its formative stages, the sources cautioned. But the planning has picked up pace since Trump signed an executive order last week curbing immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. While companies like Amazon and Expedia have thrown their support behind a lawsuit to overturn the order — and Uber pulled out of a business council advising Trump — the new organization points to a desire by the liberal tech industry to channel its outrage into a broader, more organized resistance. []

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Report: "On the Way to Welfare 4.0?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

FRIEDRICH-EBERT-STIFTUNG Daniel Buhr, Claudia Christ, Rolf Frankenberger, Marie-Christine Fregin, Josef Schmid and Markus Trämer *On the Way to Welfare 4.0?** */Digitalisation of the Welfare State in Labour Market, Health Care and Innovation Policy: A European Comparison / PDF (40 pagine) disponibile qui: https://goo.gl/eaYcG0/ /

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Internet delle cose, troppi dati danno troppo potere: ecco i rischi per la concorrenza
by Francesco Ruggiero Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

Quali priorità per ricercatori e policy makers nell'IoT? La dualità della tecnologia e la necessità di interventi normativi. Alcuni spunti dai relatori della Conferenza Nexa 2016 (2a parte): http://bit.ly/2kjhNVN La prima parte dell'articolo è disponibile all'indirizzo: *http://bit.ly/2kjq1xt <http://bit.ly/2kjq1xt>* -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219 -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219 -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

<https://theintercept.com/2017/02/10/former-cia-analyst-sues-defense-departm…> In 2010, Thomas Drake, a former senior employee at the National Security Agency, was charged with espionage for speaking to a reporter from the Baltimore Sun about a bloated, dysfunctional intelligence program he believed would violate Americans’ privacy. The case against him eventually fell apart, and he pled guilty to a single misdemeanor, but his career in the NSA was over. Though Drake was largely vindicated, the central question he raised about technology and privacy has never been resolved. Almost seven years have passed now, but Pat Eddington, a former CIA analyst, is still trying to prove that Drake was right. While working for Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., Eddington had the unique opportunity to comb through still-classified documents that outline the history of two competing NSA programs known as ThinThread and Trailblazer. He’s seen an unredacted version of the Pentagon inspector general’s 2004 audit of the NSA’s failures during that time, and has filed Freedom of Information Act requests. In January, Eddington decided to take those efforts a step further by suing the Department of Defense to obtain the material, he tells The Intercept. “Those documents completely vindicate” those who advocated for ThinThread at personal risk, says Eddington. [] “A tiny group of people at NSA had developed a capability for next to no money at all to give the government an unprecedented level of access to any number of foreign terrorists,” Eddington says. “Instead that system was shut down in favor of an SAIC boondoggle that cost taxpayers, by my last count, close to a billion dollars.”

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Segnalazione Call for Participation - ICEDEG 2017
by Fernanda Faini Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

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OG Forum - open.gov.it - Apertura della sezione Settimana dell'Amministrazione Aperta
by Antonio Vetrò Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

Carissimi, faccio eco qui ad una richiesta del team Open Government Partnership per l'Italia. Sul sito open.gov.it è stata pubblicata la sezione dedicata alla Settimana per l'Amministrazione Aperta, che si terrà dal 4 marzo all’11 marzo, hashtag #SAA2017. Alla pagina open.gov.it/saa <http://open.gov.it/saa> trovate la mappa con tutte le iniziative già inserite in programma, di cui una si terrà proprio al Centro Nexa (con la collaborazione di una start-up di Torino, trovate maggiori info su: https://nexa.polito.it/iodd2017 <https://nexa.polito.it/iodd2017> ) Nella stessa pagina si trova anche il modulo per inserire ulteriori iniziative: qualora siate promotori di altre iniziative, vi invito a auto-censirvi direttamente lì. Nel caso siate a conoscenza di iniziative non ancora censite, l’invito allora è quello di darne notizia agli organizzatori. Inoltre la richiesta del team OGP Italia è quella di dare diffusione alla pagina: "Come sapete, la Settimana dell’Amministrazione aperta è un’azione inserita nell’action plan OGP proprio su richiesta di alcune delle organizzazioni della società civile. Ci aspettiamo quindi il vostro decisivo contributo per la migliore organizzazione della prima edizione. L'agenda rimarrà aperta per l'inserimento fino all'inizio della SAA, ma è opportuno che i vostri contributi giungano al più presto per avere una più ampia diffusione e partecipare alle campagne di comunicazione per la SAA che saranno attivate nelle prossime settimane. " Cordialmente Antonio -- Antonio Vetrò, Ph.D. Director of Research Nexa Center for Internet and Society DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino https://nexa.polito.it/people/avetro

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Report: “Value in the Commons Economy”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

“What is at the heart of the problems erupting worldwide? Is anything good emerging from these multiple crises? Can a new system grow from within the old one? Is it already here, visible and thriving? *These questions are addressed by Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros in the report, “Value in the Commons Economy”, co-published by Heinrich Böll Foundation and the P2PFoundation. *The authors’ main thesis describes the ‘value crisis’ affecting our current world as a sign of an underlying transformation in our ‘value system’. Society is shifting from a system based on value created in a market system (through labor and capital) to one which recognizes broader value streams. These streams are experienced as ‘contributions’ to structures based on the co-construction of shared resources, also known as ‘commons’. While this new system of value creation and distribution still operates within the mainstream value orthodoxy today, the Value in the Commons Economy report emphasizes how pioneering communities are working on expanding the new system from within, and building the potential to eventually break free of those confines.” The complete report is available here: http://commonstransition.org/value-commons-economy/

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Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations to Be Launched
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

<https://ccdcoe.org/tallinn-manual-20-international-law-applicable-cyber-ope…> Authored by nineteen international law experts, Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations is an influential resource for legal advisers dealing with cyber issues. The updated and considerably expanded second edition of the 2013 Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare is published by Cambridge University Press. The drafting of the Tallinn Manual was facilitated and led by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.

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Ireland challenges Facebook in threat to cross-border data pact
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

Nuova puntata nel "serial" US-EU data-transfer. <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-privacy-facebook-idUSKBN15M1K8> Ireland's privacy watchdog has launched a bid to refer Facebook's data transfer mechanism to the European Union's top court in a landmark case that could put the shifting of data across the Atlantic under renewed legal threat. The move is the latest challenge to the various methods by which large tech firms such as Google and Apple move personal data of EU citizens back to the United States. [...] Ireland's data protection commissioner, who has jurisdiction over Facebook as its European headquarters are in Dublin, wants The Court of Justice of the European Union to determine the validity of Facebook's "model contracts" - common legal arrangements used by thousands of firms to transfer personal data outside the 28-nation bloc. [...]

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48° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 22 febbraio 2017
by Francesco Ruggiero Feb. 13, 2017

Feb. 13, 2017

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-48> NEXA 48° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 22 febbraio 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-48 WikiToLearn: libri di testo collaborativi Speaker Riccardo Iaconelli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Le licenze libere in ambito di lavoro creativo si stanno rapidamente diffondendo su scala globale, e *la condivisione delle conoscenze contribuisce a creare un ambiente culturale più aperto*. Quello dell'istruzione, tuttavia, è un settore che sta compiendo i primi passi verso l'uso di un materiale creato sotto licenze libere, ed è necessario approfondirne l'impatto. WikiToLearn è un portale che si propone di creare *libri di testo collaborativi e accessibili*. Sviluppato nell’autunno del 2015 da un gruppo di studenti in cerca di strumenti più semplici per trasferire online gli appunti delle lezioni, ha coinvolto centinaia di collaboratori *secondo il modello di diffusione delle conoscenze open source: più idee circolano, più opportunità si creano*. Accademici di tutto il mondo contribuiscono a condividere la conoscenza creando contenuti di alta qualità e stimolando un approccio nuovo, basato sulla riscoperta di forme di dialogo tra studiosi che si traduce in innovazione e progresso. /Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch48.eventbrite.com entro il 20 febbraio./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [IACONELLI] RICCARDO IACONELLI è uno sviluppatore di software libero dall'età di 13 anni. Sviluppatore core KDE, FSFE Fellow e Mozilla Tech Speaker, vive e studia a Milano. È stato un sostenitore e un divulgatori dell'open source per più di 10 anni. Ha fondato WikiToLearn <http://wikitolearn.org>, un progetto di condivisione dei contenuti creativi prodotti in Università, scuole e centri di ricerca. Letture consigliate e link utili: * Marco Cosenza, WikiToLearn, la Wikipedia degli studenti <https://www.wired.it/economia/start-up/2016/04/14/wikitolearn-wikipedia-stu…>, "Wired". * WikiToLearn, nasce la Wikipedia degli studenti universitari. “Il sapere si accresce solo se condiviso” <http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2016/05/10/wikitolearn-nasce-la-wikipedia-d…>, "Il Fatto Quotidiano". * Annalisa Viola,Ma quali sono i 10 motivi per cui WikiToLearn sarebbe rivoluzionario? <https://psyberneticandmore.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/wikitolearn/> Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. 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. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. 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>

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