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la prima piattaforma "open" per il calcolo del rischio sismico
by Simone Aliprandi Jan. 20, 2015

Jan. 20, 2015

Domani la Fondazione GEM di Pavia terrà un evento di presentazione e lancio della piattaforma OpenQuake: la prima piattaforma online basata su dati open (licenza CC) e su software libero (licenza GPL) e specificamente pensata per modellare, monitorare e gestire il rischio sismico a livello globale. Il tutto sarà trasmesso interamente in streaming dal sito ufficiale. Maggiori info: http://aliprandi.blogspot.com/2015/01/openquake-release-pavia-streaming.html Un cordiale saluto (e sperando di essere on-topic) -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

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La sola cosa di massa che interessa ai politici in US/UK/FR è oramai la sorveglianza?
by Antonio Casilli Jan. 20, 2015

Jan. 20, 2015

Hello all, Tre contributi importanti contro la sorveglianza digitale di massa, sbandierata con rinnovato vigore dai politicanti al di là e al di qua dell'Atlantico da due settimane a questa parte: - The New Yorker - The Whole Haystack (Mattathias Schwartz) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/whole-haystack - The New Scientist - Mass surveillance not effective for finding terrorists (Ray Corrigan) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26801-mass-surveillance-not-effective… - WashingtonsBlog - Authoritarians Use Paris Terror Attack As Excuse for Power Grab (WashingtonsBlog) http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/01/authoritarians-use-paris-terror-atta… -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS)

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Frank Pasquale - editoriale Los Angeles Times
by Antonio Casilli Jan. 20, 2015

Jan. 20, 2015

Buondì à tutt*, per distrarsi (per modo di dire) dal triste contesto della Parigi di questi ultimi giorni, vi inoltro un articolo del collega Frank Pasquale che ha appena pubblicato per i tipi della Harvard University Press il suo attesissimo "The Black Box Society". --- WE'RE BEING STIGMATIZED BY 'BIG DATA' SCORES WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT By Frank Pasquale http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0116-pasquale-reputation-repair-… Excerpt: "It's only complaints, investigations and leaks that give us occasional peeks into these black boxes of data mining. But what has emerged is terrifying. Data brokers can use public records — of marriage, divorce, home purchases or voting — to draw inferences about any of us. And they can sell their conclusions to anyone who wants it. Naturally, just as we've lost control of data, a plethora of new services are offering "credit repair" and "reputation optimization." But can they really help? Credit scoring algorithms are secret, so it's hard to know whether today's "fix" will be tomorrow's total fail. And no private company can save us from the thousands of other firms intent on mashing up whatever data is at hand to score and pigeonhole us. New approaches are needed. What might those look like? I take some inspiration from a Virginia law that bars auto insurers from requiring their customers to release event-recorder data from their cars, or from raising their rates if they refuse. That is forward-thinking regulation that is getting ahead of algorithmic monitoring, rather than belatedly reacting to it. Some states have banned employers from demanding their employees' Facebook passwords. They could go further, requiring employers to share with applicants and current workers the types of outside intelligence they use when making decisions about them. In general, we need what technology law and policy researcher Meg Leta Jones calls "fair automation practices" to complement the "fair data practices" that President Obama is proposing. We can't hope to prevent the collection or creation of inappropriate or inaccurate databases. But we can ensure that the use of that data by employers, insurers and other decision makers is made clear to us when we are affected by it. Without such notification, we may be stigmatized by secret digital judgments." --- Bien à vous, -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS)

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dottorati e master non hanno peso nella PA. Perché?
by Simone Aliprandi Jan. 19, 2015

Jan. 19, 2015

Pochi lo sanno ma... dottorati e master non hanno peso nella pubblica amministrazione. Perché? Perché non servono (allora diciamolo espressamente)... oppure perché chi è già dentro (e spesso ha una semplice laurea triennale) ha paura di sentirsi declassato? E' assurdo alimentare un mercato di "titoli di studio" sempre più elevati, senza poi dar loro il giusto riconoscimento in tutte le sedi. Ecco la mia riflessione: http://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2015/01/dottorati-master-pubblica-amministrazi… Un cordiale saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

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among the disrupted
by Federico Guerrini Jan. 18, 2015

Jan. 18, 2015

Non so se è stato già condiviso (ho fatto una veloce ricerca nel mio inbox, ma non l'ho trovato), cmq trovo interessantissimo questo pezzo uscito sulla Sunday Book Review, la sett. scorsa, specie quando dice: "the discussion of culture is being steadily absorbed into the discussion of business. There are “metrics” for phenomena that cannot be metrically measured. Numerical values are assigned to things that cannot be captured by numbers. Economic concepts go rampaging through noneconomic realms: Economists are our experts on happiness! Where wisdom once was, quantification will now be". ecc. ecc. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/books/review/among-the-disrupted.html? Ciao, Fed. -- https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowships/journalist-fellows/p… www.federicoguerrini.com Il mio ultimo libro: Vivere Social http://www.bol.it/libri/Vivere-social.-Manuale/Federico-Guerrini/ea97888971…

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among the disrupted
by Federico Guerrini Jan. 18, 2015

Jan. 18, 2015

Non so se è stato già condiviso (ho fatto una veloce ricerca nel mio inbox, ma non l'ho trovato), cmq trovo interessantissimo questo pezzo uscito sulla Sunday Book Review, la sett. scorsa, specie quando dice: "the discussion of culture is being steadily absorbed into the discussion of business. There are “metrics” for phenomena that cannot be metrically measured. Numerical values are assigned to things that cannot be captured by numbers. Economic concepts go rampaging through noneconomic realms: Economists are our experts on happiness! Where wisdom once was, quantification will now be". ecc. ecc. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/books/review/among-the-disrupted.html?

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Spiegel: "The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 18, 2015

Jan. 18, 2015

*The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle* By Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt and Michael Sontheimer /The NSA's mass surveillance is just the beginning. Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars -- a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway./* * January 17, 2015 – 05:07 PM Normally, internship applicants need to have polished resumes, with volunteer work on social projects considered a plus. But at Politerain, the job posting calls for candidates with significantly different skill sets. We are, the ad says, "looking for interns who want to break things." Politerain is not a project associated with a conventional company. It is run by a US government intelligence organization, the National Security Agency (NSA). More precisely, it's operated by the NSA's digital snipers with Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the department responsible for breaking into computers. Potential interns are also told that research into third party computers might include plans to "remotely degrade or destroy opponent computers, routers, servers and network enabled devices by attacking the hardware." Using a program called Passionatepolka, for example, they may be asked to "remotely brick network cards." With programs like Berserkr they would implant "persistent backdoors" and "parasitic drivers". Using another piece of software called Barnfire, they would "erase the BIOS on a brand of servers that act as a backbone to many rival governments." An intern's tasks might also include remotely destroying the functionality of hard drives. Ultimately, the goal of the internship program was "developing an attacker's mindset." […] Continua qui: www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-p…

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emailing list
by Giuseppe Silvi Jan. 18, 2015

Jan. 18, 2015

e-mail: giuseppesilvi(a)yahoo.it

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STGlobal 2015 CFP: Priority deadline is fast approaching for the 2015 Conference
by Mia Brown Jan. 16, 2015

Jan. 16, 2015

*Dear Colleagues, * *The Science and Technology Global Consortium would like to formally extend the invitation to submit current research in science and technology in society and policy for the STGlobal 2015 <http://stglobal.org/> conference. This April we mark the 15th anniversary of STGlobal's efforts to foster a creative environment for students interested in the science and technology in society fields. Over the years we have grown into an international conference that provides graduate students not only the opportunity to share their research, but also to network among professionals in their field. * *In collaboration with our mission partners, the American Association for the Advancement of Science <http://www.aaas.org/> and the National Academy of Sciences <http://www.nasonline.org/>, we are excited to announce this year that STGlobal is now accepting submissions for papers and student panels for graduate students. This year, as we seek to expand the scope of our outreach, undergraduates now have the option to participate through our poster sessions. All a**bstracts can be submitted through our submission page <http://stglobal.org/abstract_submission/> by February 1st, 2015 for our priority deadline. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis afterwards. * *Please feel free to pass this cfp to students who may be interested. * *Best, * *Mia Brown* *____________________________________* Mia Brown Vice Chair, STGlobal 2015 Science and Technology Global Consortium E-mail: mia_brown(a)gwu.edu STGlobal 2015 CFP Abstracts Deadline February 1, 2015 View this email in your browser <http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=50cc8c3aebc9737b674766862&id=3e6bf0cc1d…> *STGlobal 2015 CFP* *STGlobal is a consortium of American colleges and schools that focus on topics related to science policy and science, technology and society.* The consortium’s main effort is the annual graduate student-run and graduate student-centric international conference, held in Washington DC, in the spring. The next conference will be held on April 10th-11th 2015. The 2015 event also marks STGlobal’s 15th year and signifies a new chapter in the wonderful story that is a conference like none other. If you’re a graduate student around the world and have a particular interest in science and technology studies or in science and technology policy, this conference is for you. The independent student-led Organizing Committee also awards travel funds for those that are not located around the Greater Washington DC Metropolitan Area. STGlobal inspires and challenges graduate students to contribute to the forefront of research on science and technology studies and policy issues, at whatever stage of the research process. The 15th Annual STGlobal Conference features a brand new type of submissions, posters, thus allowing students three avenues to present their research: as part of a proposed full panel, as a paper presentation or as a poster. While panels and paper presentations are opne to grad students only, poster presentations will be open to submissions from exceptional work from undergraduates as well as graduate students. *DEADLINE: February 1, 2015* *Submissions* *Panels* Starting with the 2014 edition STGlobal accepts panel proposals. Panels should be built around a theme, have a minimum of 5 paper abstracts (that adhere to the same guidelines as those for individual paper abstracts, below) and optionally a possible discussant. *Paper abstracts* We welcome abstracts on completed research or work-in-progress on issues relevant to science & technology policy (STP) and science & technology studies (STS). 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Graduate students are also welcome to submit poster abstracts. *Eligibility* Panels, papers and poster abstracts are open to students currently enrolled in a graduate program at any institution around the world at the time of submitting an abstract, for work performed while enrolled. Poster abstracts are also open to students currently enrolled in an undergraduate program at any institution around the world at the time of submitting an abstract. Submit Your Abstract <http://stglobal.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=50cc8c3aebc9737b67476686…> *Guidelines* Abstracts should not exceed 250 words, setting out the main research questions, theoretical framework, methodology, and findings. 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Workshop: "Open Data Quality: from Theory to Practice" - Monaco, 30 Marzo 2015
by Raimondo Iemma Jan. 16, 2015

Jan. 16, 2015

Cari amici, ho il piacere di segnalare il workshop "Open Data Quality: from Theory to Practice", in programma il 30 Marzo a Monaco di Baviera, organizzato dal Centro Nexa e dall'Institut für Informatik della Technische Universität München, nell'ambito della rete di eccellenza su Internet Science EINS. Il workshop, che avrà un taglio operativo, intende mettere in contatto ricercatori che si occupano di processi per la valutazione e il miglioramento della qualità dei dati con soggetti interessati ad applicare nel concreto tali processi -ad esempio, responsabili dell'open data di pubbliche amministrazioni, in particolare per quanto riguarda gli aspetti tecnologici-. Invito questi ultimi a segnalare il loro interesse a partecipare scrivendo a opendataquality(a)in.tum.de <mailto:opendataquality@in.tum.de> (e di farlo non appena possibile, poiché il numero di posti è limitato). I ricercatori interessati a presentare il proprio lavoro sul tema possono invece inviare, entro il 6 febbraio, un contributo di 2 - 4 pagine, con possibilità di successiva pubblicazione in versione ampliata su /Internet Policy Review/. Tutti i dettagli qui: http://nexa.polito.it/2015/03/OpenDataQuality opendataquality(a)in.tum.d Grazie, Raimondo -- Raimondo Iemma Managing Director & Research Fellow Nexa Center for Internet and Society http://nexa.polito.it/ Project Manager Global Network of Internet & Society Research Centers http://networkofcenters.net/

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