July 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Digital Labour Platforms in Europe: Numbers, Profiles, and Employment Status of Platform Workers | EU Science Hub

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Digital Labour Platforms in Europe: Numbers, Profiles, and Employment Status of Platform Workers Abstract: This report explores three issues related to the growing phenomenon of Digital Labour Platforms: firstly, how to measure platform work as a form of employment incorporating elements such as regularity of provision, time allocated and income generated; on this basis, and drawing on a new dedicated survey (COLLEEM), the article quantifies and categorises platform work into sporadic, secondary and main. Secondly, it provides an empirical investigation of the association between individual characteristics, such as gender, age, family composition, education and motivation, and the probability of carrying out particular types of platform work, such as microtasking, creative services, software development, transportation and so on. The analysis highlights substantial heterogeneity in the attributes and motivations of the workers performing different tasks. Finally, it discusses the employment status of platform workers and provides some descriptive statistics suggesting that a large share of platform workers perceive themselves as employees, even though they are in most cases legally considered self-employed. Files: jrc117330_jrc117330_dlp_counting_profiling.pdf URI: Authors: URZI BRANCATI Maria Cesira PESOLE Annarosa FERNANDEZ MACIAS Enrique Publication Year: 2019 https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/digital-labour-platforms-europe-num… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

July 26, 2019

Re: [nexa] GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons

by Davide Carboni

Tutto giusto e inaccettabile dal suo punto di vista ma ... come lavora questo? Senza avere una copia locale del repository? On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 6:40 PM Giacomo Tesio <giacomo(a)tesio.it> wrote: > On 26/07/2019, Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa(a)zeromx.net> wrote: > > Many companies have obeyed US sanctions against Iran. > > La frase chiave secondo me è questa. > Non sono sanzioni ONU. > > Oggi tocca agli iraniani, ma domani? > > > Per questo è urgente per l'UE distribuire la computazione sul proprio > territorio. > Ed non basta spargere i server, bisogna diffondere la conoscenza. > > Ma lo so... sono ripetitivo... > > > Giacomo > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > -- *Ing. Davide Carboni, PhD Partita IVA 03800580924 Via Stresa 5 - 09045 - Quartu Sant'Elena (CA)Tel: +39 3293547783 Albo ingegneri - sez. A (Cagliari) n. 7236* Blog -- http://digitaldavide.me Smart Valor -- http://smartvalor.com Dagli Smart Contract alle ICO -- il Video Corso https://www.udemy.com/dagli-smart-contract-alle-ico-una-guida-completa/?cou…

July 26, 2019

Re: [nexa] GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons

by Giacomo Tesio

On 26/07/2019, Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa(a)zeromx.net> wrote: > Many companies have obeyed US sanctions against Iran. La frase chiave secondo me è questa. Non sono sanzioni ONU. Oggi tocca agli iraniani, ma domani? Per questo è urgente per l'UE distribuire la computazione sul proprio territorio. Ed non basta spargere i server, bisogna diffondere la conoscenza. Ma lo so... sono ripetitivo... Giacomo

July 26, 2019

Re: [nexa] GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons

by Alberto Cammozzo

Grazie, sulle sanzioni che investono F/OSS ho letto questo: <https://shahinsorkh.ir/2019/07/20/how-is-it-like-to-be-a-dev-in-iran> [...] Sanctions If you follow world news, you have definitely heard about sanctions against Iran because of Iran’s nuclear programs. Though it is not just limited to physics and nuclear things. Many companies have obeyed US sanctions against Iran. Nobody really cares about what would happen to the people. The people are worth nothing. That’s what they believe. Both Iran’s government and international institutions, you say the UN. People are dying due to an absence of medicines. People are starving. The economic system is falling apart and the politicians and their children are all abroad! None of them have any sense about what is going on the streets. What happens to us, IT men? Sanctions! What are we missing? FOSS! We are missing Free Open Source Softwares! You see? Sanctions of Docker Few months ago, the Slack team, decided to join the sanctions. They simply deleted every single user who they found out is Iranian! With no real prior notices! Many people have lost their data on Slack and no one was going to do anything! They had some Iranian users who were living abroad for many years and had’t even visited Iran in a long time, but their account got deleted along with others! There were lots of people complaining about it on the Twitter. And even more. (I guess you got the idea.) We cannot have MasterCard/Visa easily, thanks to economic banking sanctions. Thus, we cannot create AWS account, we cannot buy anything on Amazon/Ebay, we cannot have Google Store console, we cannot use (almost) any enterprise service. Android dev returns HTTP 403, Docker docs returns HTTP 403, bintray returns HTTP 403, Schema.org returns HTTP 403 and so on. (There is a long list available) [...] On 26/07/2019 17:48, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > https://medium.com/@hamed/github-blocked-my-account-and-they-think-im-devel… > > First, some background: I am a software developer based in Iran and > I’m on GitHub since 2012. In January 2019 when they announced that > GitHub free includes unlimited private repositories, I completely > moved to GitHub. > > Everything was fine and I was happy. Although I participated in > Hacktoberfest and they failed to send my t-shirt due to “International > embargoes” but I thought OK, at least I can use their free services, > right? Wrong! > > [...] > > GitHub blocked all Iranian accounts without any prior notice and they > don’t give us a chance to download a backup of our data. > > GitHub targeting people based on “Nationality” (the whole activity) > not the residency or current connection IPs. > > I think this is a clear case of discrimination and totally against > Open Source values > _____ > > "Open Source values": $ € £... > > > Giacomo > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

July 26, 2019

GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons

by Giacomo Tesio

https://medium.com/@hamed/github-blocked-my-account-and-they-think-im-devel… First, some background: I am a software developer based in Iran and I’m on GitHub since 2012. In January 2019 when they announced that GitHub free includes unlimited private repositories, I completely moved to GitHub. Everything was fine and I was happy. Although I participated in Hacktoberfest and they failed to send my t-shirt due to “International embargoes” but I thought OK, at least I can use their free services, right? Wrong! [...] GitHub blocked all Iranian accounts without any prior notice and they don’t give us a chance to download a backup of our data. GitHub targeting people based on “Nationality” (the whole activity) not the residency or current connection IPs. I think this is a clear case of discrimination and totally against Open Source values _____ "Open Source values": $ € £... Giacomo

July 26, 2019

Mattarella, web rispetti i principi delle democrazie

by don Luca Peyron

Le sagge parole del nostro presidente della Repubblica dl http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/tecnologia/tlc/2019/07/25/mattarella-web-ri… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

July 26, 2019

Come rigenerare, tra digitale e algoritmi, il valore della “Destinazione”?

by don Luca Peyron

È proprio dalla destinazione che dovremmo ricominciare per ritrovare nel nostro frenetico muoversi elementi di significato nuovi che ci indichino la direzione ma anche il senso. Destinazione richiama infatti la dimensione del telos, cioè del fine e del suo realizzarsi perché, appunto, “siamo giunti a destinazione” Riflessione breve ed interessante, buona lettura dl http://www.vita.it/it/article/2019/07/25/come-rigenerare-tra-digitale-e-alg… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

July 25, 2019

Alessandro Morelli (Lega): ‘Un pacchetto di proposte di legge su digitale e Tlc per la sovranità digitale’

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Alessandro Morelli (Lega): ‘Un pacchetto di proposte di legge su digitale e Tlc per la sovranità digitale’* di Luigi Garofalo | 23 Luglio 2019, ore 13:00 /Domani alle ore 14:30 presso la sala stampa di Montecitorio, Alessandro Morelli, presidente Commissione Tlc, e i deputati Massimiliano Capitanio e Igor Iezzi presenteranno il pacchetto di proposte di legge della Lega. Morelli: “Anche un aggiornamento della Carta Costituzionale e norme per migliorare la sicurezza in Rete, nonché aprire il dibattito sul cloud nazionale e la gestione delle reti 5G’./ “L’Italia deve mettere la quinta sulle tematiche digitali!”, così Alessandro Morelli, presidente della commissione Tlc alla Camera, ha annunciato il pacchetto di proposte di legge della Lega sulle nuove frontiere del digitale e delle telecomunicazioni che domani presenterà a Montecitorio insieme ai deputati Massimiliano Capitanio, membro della Commissione Telecomunicazioni alla Camera, e Igor Iezzi, componente della Commissione Affari Costituzionali. Le proposte di legge saranno illustrate nel dettaglio alle ore 14:30 presso la sala stampa della Camera dei Deputati. [...] continua qui: https://www.key4biz.it/alessandro-morelli-lega-un-pacchetto-di-proposte-di-…

July 24, 2019

FT: "Technology: how the US, EU and China compete to set industry standards"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Technology: how the US, EU and China compete to set industry standards* /*There is a first-mover advantage for whoever writes the new rules for the digital economy */ /Alan Beattie in Brussels/ The first wave of Donald Trump’s trade war on China, punitive tariffs on $250bn of its exports, rivals the brutal protectionism of the Depression. But at least supply chains for basic goods and commodities can be re-established relatively quickly once the barriers are removed. Phase two of the president’s campaign — citing national security imperatives to try to drive Chinese companies like Huawei out of tech supply chains — could leave a much longer-lasting mark. Mr Trump’s move is a massive escalation of the struggle that has endured for years between rival companies and governments in the US and China to control the standards and technologies of the digital economy. The battlefront of that conflict now stretches from establishing market dominance to setting industry standards to influencing regulation. But the US and China are not the only players in the game. Despite its underpowered tech sector, the third great trading power, the EU, has big ambitions as a rulemaker. European officials are quietly confident that, as with the “Brussels effect” whereby EU rules on cars, chemicals and food have adopted around the world, so its regulatory process will play a large role in shaping the global digital economy. [...] continua qui: https://www.ft.com/content/0c91b884-92bb-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3271

July 24, 2019

Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You - The New York Times

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/health/data-privacy-protection.html (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

July 24, 2019