December 2021 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Structural Indicators for Monitoring Education and Training Systems in Europe 2021: Overview of major reforms since 2015

by Alessandro Brolpito

Ciao tutti, sono, da lungo tempo, assiduo lettore della newsletter, ed ho pensato di portare un modesto contributo personale condividendo del materiale, prevalentemente di "fonte EU". Mi chiamo Alessandro (Brolpito), lavoro presso l'agenzia dell'Unione europea con sede a Torino "European Training Foundation" (ETF - www.etf.europa.eu<http://www.etf.europa.eu>), mi occupo di competenze digitali e dell'uso pedagogico delle tecnologie digitali in ambito scolastico, per giovani ed adulti, essenzialmente in contesti formali (e non). Sono membro gruppo della Commissione europea che si occupa di queste tematiche. I Paesi nei quali lavoro sono quelli extra europei, prevalentemente nell'est Europa e nei Balcani. Condivido con questo primo post uno studio appena pubblicato che sintetizza più di 20 indicatori di base, in quattro aree, sulle politiche educative in Europa: (i) educazione e cura della prima infanzia, (ii) conseguimento delle competenze di base, (iii) abbandono scolastico ed (iv) educazione universitaria. Structural Indicators for Monitoring Education and Training Systems in Europe - 2021 | Eurydice (europa.eu)<https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/structural-in…> Saluti, Alessandro Alessandro Brolpito Senior Human Capital Development Expert - Digital Skills and Learning Policy and Public Outreach Department ADDRESS Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 65, I - 10133 Torino TELEPHONE +39 011 630 2279 FAX +390116302200 E-MAIL info(a)etf.europa.eu WEB http://www.etf.europa.eu

Dec. 12, 2021

Re: [nexa] An entire generation are puzzled by the idea that anyone has the right to say things they don't agree with

by Guido Vetere

> Liddle then claimed that the left was going against 'science or pure facts,' saying 'a person with an X and a Y chromosome, that has a long, dangling > penis, is scientifically a man, and that is pretty much, scientifically, the end of the story', according to the paper. Questo Liddle prima di parlare all'Università magari potrebbe studiare un po': le cose sono ben più 'scientificamente' complesse Che la gente possa dire quel che vuole va bene, ma che si aspetti di essere poi applaudita mi sembra eccessivo G. On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 at 16:02, don Luca Peyron <dluca.universitari(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Un pezzo che mi ha fatto pensare, non esplicitato ma connesso con i nostri > temi mi pare di poter dire. Un sentiment che avverto anche io in aula e non > solo. > > Buona lettura > > dl > > > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10300047/PETER-HITCHENS-Generati… > > _______________________ > don Luca Peyron > Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria > Arcidiocesi di Torino > www.universitari.to.it > via XX settembre 83, Torino > tel. 011 5156239 > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

Dec. 12, 2021

An entire generation are puzzled by the idea that anyone has the right to say things they don't agree with

by don Luca Peyron

Un pezzo che mi ha fatto pensare, non esplicitato ma connesso con i nostri temi mi pare di poter dire. Un sentiment che avverto anche io in aula e non solo. Buona lettura dl https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10300047/PETER-HITCHENS-Generati… _______________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

Dec. 12, 2021

The search is on for $50m in lost cryptocurrency after two Australian exchanges collapse | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/12/the-search-is-on-for-50m…> Andrew Yeo doesn’t know what’s happened to tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency belonging to hundreds of clients of the collapsed exchange ACX, but he aims to find out. In mid-October the veteran insolvency practitioner was appointed administrator of Blockchain Global, the company that used to run ACX, and since then he’s been getting a crash course in all things crypto from the tech experts at the firm where he’s a partner, Pitcher Partners. “There’s always stuff that’s different – you have that on every job,” he says. “Its always about finding out what’s different about this industry and how you can use it.” A cryptocurrency exchange is digital marketplace that enables customers to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies. It makes money through set fees or by taking a percentage of transactions. No mainstream banks in Australia allow customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, although the Commonwealth bank has a pilot in the works, so exchanges are currently the only means to do this. To get to the bottom of what has happened to the cash and coins held in the accounts of ACX customers, Yeo will need to cut through a jungle of claims and counter-claims that have been playing out in court since last year. “It’s clear that there’s a number of channels of investigation which we may have available and determining which ones are best to follow first is not a simple task,” he says. There’s plenty at stake. Since Yeo’s appointment, creditors, including ACX clients and Blockchain Global’s directors and management, have come forward with claims they are owed close to $50m. ACX is not the only Australian exchange to run into trouble in what is – for now – a completely unregulated industry. Last week, the smaller exchange Mycryptowallet also fell into administration, reportedly owing clients hundreds of thousands of dollars. Globally, exchanges have proven vulnerable to failure and theft; Japanese operation Mt Gox collapsed in 2014 after someone stole 850,000 bitcoins from it and in 2016 hackers stole almost 120,000 bitcoins from the British Virgin Islands group Bitfinex, which managed to survive and still exists today. It’s not suggested that ACX’s assets have been stolen. This week, the Morrison government announced plans to regulate exchanges – some time in the future. In a speech on Thursday to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, said the government would consult on establishing a licensing system for digital currency exchanges, together with regulation of businesses that hold custody of crypto on behalf of customers. The consultation process is due to be finished by the middle of next year, after an election that must be held by 21 May 2022. Experts say licensing exchanges is a good idea, but it needs to be backed up by enforcement. “With regulation comes a halo, businesses can say they’ve got a stamp of approval, and represent that people should have trust and confidence in them,” says the chief executive of the Consumer Action Law Centre, Gerard Brody. “The regulatory regime itself has got to be robust. It’s no good having a licence given to a business if the standards it’s got to meet under that licence result in consumer detriment.” Pamela Hanrahan, a professor of commercial law and regulation at the University of New South Wales, says licensing creates a “moral hazard”. “It does carry some kind of colour to it that people are properly regulated, but that’s true of every form of occupational licensing, from hairdressing to whatever,” she says. She points to failures such as the financial planning scandals that rocked the banking industry in the mid-2010s, and the 2009 Trio Capital failure, which deprived retirement savers of $176m and was the biggest superannuation collapse in Australian history, as examples of where licensing regimes have failed to safeguard consumers. “You do have to enforce it properly,” she says. Victims of ACX’s collapse certainly feel they’ve been neglected by regulators including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. In a lawsuit filed in the Victorian supreme court, 94 of them claim Blockchain Global, as operator of the exchange, owes them $13m worth of tokens including bitcoin, ethereum and ripple, as well as cash held in their ACX accounts. “The biggest thing I’m angry about is that we’re not getting any help from Asic,” one ACX client says. “These companies are registered with Asic but … we have to sue the company.” Not all of ACX’s clients are participating in the lawsuit and all up there are estimated to be more than 200 who claim to have lost access to crypto and cash held at the exchange. On Thursday afternoon, judge Richard Attiwill stayed the proceeding against Blockchain Global due to Yeo’s appointment as administrator. However, he allowed it to continue against the other defendants in the case, including Blockchain Global chief executive, Allan Guo, and the company’s chief financial officer, Samuel Lee. Guo and Lee did not respond to questions from Guardian Australia and they are yet to file defences in the matter. Meanwhile, in another dispute also before the Victorian supreme court, Blockchain Global and Guo are fighting a former company employee, Jin Chen, over control of 117 bitcoins. Chen claims that he is owed the crypto for work developing software to run the ACX exchange, but the company and Guo say Chen has failed to comply with a deal that was supposed to end the stoush, because he did not make the source code of the software accessible. Chen denies this. On Thursday afternoon Attiwill also stayed Chen’s claim against the company in light of the appointment of the administrator, but allowed the contest between Chen and Guo to go ahead. The issues are less clear at the smaller Mycryptowallet, which is in the hands of liquidator Terry van der Velde of SV Partners. SV Partners says little information is available because the appointment is “at very early stages” but van der Velde aims to sell the business.

Dec. 12, 2021

R: European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work – Valerio De Stefano and Antonio Aloisi

by pedicoaldo＠gmail.com

Marco, sagge domande ... Aldo Pedico -----Messaggio originale----- Da: nexa <nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it> Per conto di Marco Ciurcina Inviato: sabato 11 dicembre 2021 14:04 A: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Oggetto: Re: [nexa] European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work – Valerio De Stefano and Antonio Aloisi In data giovedì 9 dicembre 2021 16:25:24 CET, Claudio Agosti ha scritto: > Pagina 36 della proposta > https://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=24992&langId=en secondo > me molto progressista Secondo me un po' progressista (meglio dello status quo), ma si può fare di meglio. Per esempio, mi domando: - come e chi controlla che le informazioni fornite dal datore di lavoro siano corrette? - chi ha accesso ai sistemi di monitoraggio e decisione per verificarne il funzionamento? La proposta non mi pare prevedere che i dipendenti e le loro rappresentanze possono accedere ai sistemi di monitoraggio e decisione. Né una previsione simile è contenuta nella proposta di Regolamento sull'AI (che prevede obblighi di redazione di documentazione tecnica che può essere valutata dall'organismo preposto a valutare la conformità dei sistemi di AI ad alto rischio). A me, da non informatico, pare importante per fare in modo che i dipendenti si possano fidare dei sistemi di monitoraggio e decisione adottati dal datore di lavoro (ma magari mi sbaglio). m.c. > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 11:33 AM J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> wrote: > > European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work > > > > by Valerio De Stefano > > <https://socialeurope.eu/author/valerio-de-stefano> > > > > and Antonio Aloisi <https://socialeurope.eu/author/antonio-aloisi> > > on 9th > > > > December 2021 > > > > The draft directive published today is already breaking the united > > front of the platform companies. > > > > https://socialeurope.eu/european-commission-takes-the-lead-in-regula > > ting-p > > latform-work > > > > > > (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if > > any)) _______________________________________________ > > nexa mailing list > > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Dec. 11, 2021

Re: [nexa] European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work – Valerio De Stefano and Antonio Aloisi

by Marco Ciurcina

In data giovedì 9 dicembre 2021 16:25:24 CET, Claudio Agosti ha scritto: > Pagina 36 della proposta > https://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=24992&langId=en secondo me > molto progressista Secondo me un po' progressista (meglio dello status quo), ma si può fare di meglio. Per esempio, mi domando: - come e chi controlla che le informazioni fornite dal datore di lavoro siano corrette? - chi ha accesso ai sistemi di monitoraggio e decisione per verificarne il funzionamento? La proposta non mi pare prevedere che i dipendenti e le loro rappresentanze possono accedere ai sistemi di monitoraggio e decisione. Né una previsione simile è contenuta nella proposta di Regolamento sull'AI (che prevede obblighi di redazione di documentazione tecnica che può essere valutata dall'organismo preposto a valutare la conformità dei sistemi di AI ad alto rischio). A me, da non informatico, pare importante per fare in modo che i dipendenti si possano fidare dei sistemi di monitoraggio e decisione adottati dal datore di lavoro (ma magari mi sbaglio). m.c. > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 11:33 AM J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> wrote: > > European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work > > > > by Valerio De Stefano <https://socialeurope.eu/author/valerio-de-stefano> > > > > and Antonio Aloisi <https://socialeurope.eu/author/antonio-aloisi> on 9th > > > > December 2021 > > > > The draft directive published today is already breaking the united front > > of the platform companies. > > > > https://socialeurope.eu/european-commission-takes-the-lead-in-regulating-p > > latform-work > > > > > > (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any)) > > _______________________________________________ > > nexa mailing list > > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Dec. 11, 2021

Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening

by Giacomo Tesio

Manifest V3, Google Chrome’s soon-to-be definitive basket of changes to the world of web browser extensions, has been framed by its authors as “a step in the direction of privacy, security, and performance.” But we think these changes are a raw deal for users. We’ve said that since Manifest V3 was announced, and continue to say so as its implementation is now imminent. Like FLoC and Privacy Sandbox before it, Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of the largest internet advertising networks. Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions [...] like some privacy-protective tracker blockers [...] Google’s efforts to limit that access is concerning, especially considering that Google has trackers installed on 75% of the top one million websites. Firefox maintains the largest extension market that’s not based on Chrome, and the company has said it will adopt Mv3 in the interest of cross-browser compatibility. [...] As for Chrome’s other justification for Mv3– performance– a 2020 study by researchers at Princeton and the University of Chicago revealed that privacy extensions, the very ones that will be hindered by Mv3, actually improve browser performance. [...] "A web browser is supposed to act on behalf of the user and respect the user's interests. Unfortunately, Chrome now has a track record as a Google agent, not a user agent." Continua con altri commenti di ricercatori e sviluppatori su https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-decei… Gli adblocker danno molto fastidio sia a Mozilla che a Google, sopratutto sui browser mobile. Tant'è che gia da oltre un anno, molte utilissime estensioni di questo genere sono state bandite da Mozilla sul mobile. Eccetto uBlock Origin (che Mozilla non potevano proprio censurare senza perdere la faccia) quelle rimaste sembrano selezionate per non disturbare troppo il tracciamento ma lasciando agli utenti più sprovveduti l'illusione di essere protetti e tech-savy. Sarebbe interessante ragionare su come un sistema antitrust dovrebbe o anche solo potrebbe impedire queste pratiche. Non è nemmeno questione di interoperabilità: il nuovo framework taglia le gambe a tutte le estensioni privacy oriented in un solo colpo. Ne si può dire che sia questione di concorrenza, perché Google non produce ad blocker. Dunque? Giacomo

Dec. 10, 2021

Re: [nexa] [selfie] domenica alle 17 "Potere digitale"

by Damiano Verzulli

Il 20/10/21 10:02, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto: > Comparirà, mi dicono, nel canale YT di Biennale Democrazia: > https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikH4YzgCdZofAB5oBqJptqVGQs7nueHs In realta' è comparsa ieri.... ed è comparsa qui: => Juan Carlos De Martin - "Potere Digitale" - Intervento a cura di "Biennale Democrazia" - Torino - 10/10/2021 https://youtu.be/k7BY8sZyiBE Personalmente ho trovato l'intervento --che dura poco più di un'ora-- estremamente interessante. Particolarmente "forti" "impietose" alcune immagini che evidenziano (con i "numeri") la gravita' della situazione. Davvero complimenti! Saluti, DV -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail:damiano@verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html

Dec. 10, 2021

una perplessità sull'euro digitale

by Enrico Nardelli

Oggi, Fabio Panetta, membro del Comitato esecutivo della Banca centrale europea (BCE), nell'ambito di un intervento per FederCasse https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2021/html/ecb.sp211210~09b6887f8b.… ha detto che l’euro digitale può sostenere "l'esigenza di affermare la nostra sovranità in campo monetario e finanziario, in conformità con l’obiettivo di salvaguardare la nostra autonomia strategica stabilito dal Consiglio europeo", argomentando più oltre che questo potrebbe aiutarci a diminuire la dipendenza dalle Big Tech. In teoria condivido la possibilità, ma un euro digitale viaggia comunque su un'infrastruttura digitale di comunicazione (Internet) sulla quale non mi pare l'Europa abbia un qualche reale potere. Non penso quindi andare "full digital" offrirebbe davvero un vantaggio (ma sono pronto a prendere in considerazione solidi argomenti a favore). Ciao, Enrico -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --

Dec. 10, 2021

HERBERT LIN - Op-Ed: What a house cat can teach us about cybersecurity - Los Angeles Times

by Diego.Latella

;-) https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-07/op-ed-what-a-house-cat-can… D -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986] Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

Dec. 10, 2021