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Fwd: Re: [governance] Great speech, Carlos!
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 7, 2012

Nov. 7, 2012

Il bel discorso che Carlos Afonso ha tenuto - in rappresentanza delle organizzazioni della società civile, dei movimenti civili e degli individui attivi nei processi di Internet governance - durante la cerimonia di apertura dell'IGF di Baku. E' possibile seguire l'IGF da remoto: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation/connect-now juan carlos -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [governance] Great speech, Carlos! Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:53:16 -0200 From: Hartmut Richard Glaser <glaser(a)cgi.br> Reply-To: governance(a)lists.igcaucus.org, Hartmut Richard Glaser <glaser(a)cgi.br> Organization: CGI.br To: governance(a)lists.igcaucus.org, Izumi AIZU <iza(a)anr.org> CC: Carlos A. Afonso <ca(a)cafonso.ca> Your Excellencies, Mr Wu Hongbo, Under Secretary General, Undesa, Chairman minister Ali Abatov, Secretary Chengetai Masango, in the name of whom I wish to salute all present authorities; ladies and gentlemen: I have been assigned the honorable task of speaking in the opening ceremony of this IGF in the name of civil society organizations, social movements and individuals active in Internet governance processes, many of them involved in these processes since the inception of WSIS nearly 10 years ago. Several of them collaborated with me in drafting the following statement. We believe that the absence of gatekeepers and the open, global communication enabled by the Internet is crucial to realize the promise of Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To impose restrictions (legal or otherwise) to the free flow of information is and has always been contrary to the individual human right to freedom of expression. We therefore oppose efforts to create "national Internets," or to block and filter Internet access in ways that deny individuals access to applications, content and services of their choice. All attempts to deem certain forms of communication and information illegal and restrict or block them must follow established, transparent, due processes of law and should not involve prior restraint. We oppose efforts to militarize the Internet, or any actions that would foster a destructive and wasteful cyber arms race among governments or private actors. We consider the covert use of exploits and malware for surveillance or attacks to be criminal regardless of whether they are deployed by governments, private corporations or organized criminals. We are skeptical of efforts to subordinate the design and use of information and communication technology to "national security" agendas. We believe that Internet security will be achieved primarily at the operational level and that national security and military agendas often work against rather than for users' security needs. In the processes of policy formulation, we emphasize the need to prioritize dialogue with policy makers over their subordinated law enforcement agencies. Global governance institutions should not be restricted to states, so we welcome the additional participation in global policy making that multi-stakeholder processes provide. But we caution that multi-stakeholder participation is not an end in itself. Opening up global governance institutions to additional voices from civil society and business does not by itself ensure that individual rights are adequately protected or that the best substantive policies are developed and enforced. In the informal spaces created by pluralist institutions, it is possible that powerful governmental and corporate actors can make deals contrary to the interests of Internet users. Multistakeholder processes, while involving all interest groups, must incorporate and institutionalize concepts of due process, separation of powers and user's inalienable civil and political rights, and governmental decision-making ought to take into account the inputs of all participants of such pluralist processes. Let us remind ourselves that participation goes beyond representation, and participation in decision-making goes beyond just debates and dialogues. Regarding the ITR review process to be concluded in Dubai (and here I use the standard terminology the technical community defines to refer to the different components of the network): We agree that the internet layer and the layers above it (transport layer and applications layer) should not be included in any way in the regulations, while the free flow of Internet packets should be guaranteed in the link layer, in line with network neutrality in which Internet packets are never touched by the operators providing the physical connectivity infrastructure. Let the Internet flourish freely to the benefit of those who live at its edges, which are all of us. Thank you. === On 07/11/12 04:44, Izumi AIZU wrote: > Dear Carlos, > > I hear many people really liked your speech yesterday, at the opening > session. In fact, one of the government reps told me this morning it > was THE BEST among all speeches of all guest speakers. > > I also was asked to get File version of your speech, Carlos, to be shared. > > To confess, I was not able to listen you since I was have some > preparatory meeting for Emerging Issues main session, so I also need > your speech in print/file. I am sure there are many others like me. > > Many thanks, > > izumi > > > -- > >> Izumi Aizu << > Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo > Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita, > Japan > www.anr.org >

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E ora cosa succede alla #salvasallusti sulla diffamazione in discussione al Senato? Dalla Commissione all’Aula e viceversa in poche ore.
by fulvio sarzana Nov. 6, 2012

Nov. 6, 2012

Il DDL salva-Sallusti sulla riforma della diffamazione, dopo un iter movimentato in Aula, giace in Commissione Giustizia al Senato ed è oggetto in queste ore di un’aspra discussione al fine di trovare un punto di incontro tra le diverse interpretazioni. La Commissione in verità parrebbe non trovare un punto di incontro e lo scenario più realistico che si prospetta è il seguente. Dai lavori della Commissione viene fuori un testo condiviso esclusivamente sul punto di cui all’articolo 1, ed in particolar modo solo sulla questione su cui è inciampato il senato, ovvero l’emendamento Mugnai sulle pene accessorie ai giornalisti, che dovrebbe essere arrivato a questa formulazione. art. 1 1.700 (testo 5) Balboni, Mugnai al comma 1, lettera a), capoverso “art.13″, sostituire il comma 4 con il seguente: “4. Il giudice, in caso di condanna per il delitto di cui al comma 1 puo’ applicare, tenuto conto della gravita’ dei fatti, la pena accessoria dell’ interdizione dalla professione di giornalista per un periodo da uno a tre mesi. In caso di nuova condana, il giudice puo’ applicare, tenuto conto della gravita’ dei fatti, la pena accessoria dell’interdizione dalla professione di giornalista da uno a sei mesi. Ad ogni ulteriore condanna pe ril reato di cui al comma 1, commesso nei due anni successivi alla precedente sentenza di condanna, il giudice puo’ applicare, tenuto conto della gravita’ dei fatti, la pena accessoria dell’interdizione dalla professione di giornalista da un mese a un anno”. Continua su www.fulviosarzana.it <http://www.fulviosarzana.it/> ************************************* Avv. Fulvio Sarzana di Sant'Ippolito Studio Legale Sarzana e Associati Via Velletri, 10 - 00198 Roma Tel. +39 06 3211553 Tel. +39 06 97614489 Fax. +39 06 97256424 skype fulvio.sarzana <http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it ************************************* This message and any file transmitted are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please You should not copy or disclose the contents to any other person. For further information please visit our website at <http://www.lidis.it/> http://www.lidis.it .

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Understanding the Emergent Regulatory Framework Governing Public Sector Data - Amsterdam, 7-9 November 2012
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 4, 2012

Nov. 4, 2012

Understanding The Emergent Regulatory Framework Governing Public Sector Data ESF Exploratory Workshop - SCSS <http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops/workshops-list/workshop…> Convened by: Mireille Marie Madeleine van Eechoud (NL), Lionel Bently (UK), Jos Dumortier (BE), Katleen Janssen (BE) Location: 7-9 November 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands *Prof. Marco Ricolfi will hold a presentation on the topic of Intellectual Property* Information is the currency of democracy, so it is said. Emanating from different sources and informed by an array of policy objectives, the law on public information is mushrooming and rapidly becoming complex. So is the potential for inconsistencies and conflicting norms. This workshop brings together legal scholars from different disciplines to debate the contours of this new field of research, and explore which legal theories and methodologies can take us forward to a better understanding of the myriad legal issues implicated in access, dissemination and use of public sector data and the way they relate. The program of the workshop is available at: https://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/esf-workshop.pdf

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Consultazione MISE su WCIT 2012 (Dubai)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 3, 2012

Nov. 3, 2012

Non mi sembra sia già passato in lista, mi sembra importante. Scadenza: 19 novembre. juan carlos Telecomunicazioni internazionali: consultazione regolamento prorogata di un mese http://www.sviluppoeconomico.gov.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic… Il Dipartimento per le Comunicazioni, in collaborazione con l'Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione, ha avviato una consultazione aperta a tutti i soggetti interessati sulle proposte di revisione normativa del trattato internazionale delle telecomunicazioni, firmato a Melbourne nel 1988 da tutti i paesi del mondo nell'ambito dell'Unione Internazionale delle Telecomunicazioni. È possibile esprimere le proprie valutazioni, anche plurime, sull'intero testo del trattato, utilizzando il file da scaricare. La chiusura della consultazione, inizialmente prevista per il 19 ottobre 2012, è prorogata di un mese, fino al *19 novembre 2012.* La consultazione s'inserisce nel corso della Conferenza Mondiale sulle Telecomunicazioni Internazionali, che si terrà a Dubai, dal 3 al 14 dicembre 2012, in seno all'Unione Internazionale delle Telecomunicazioni, l'organismo ONU competente in materia. L'attuale accordo internazionale è stato sottoscritto a Melbourne nel 1988 e si è reso pertanto necessario provvedere ad una sua revisione, in un contesto tecnologico, economico e sociale radicalmente mutato. Nell'attuale fase di grandi e rapidi mutamenti, dove si è verificata una progressiva estensione dei perimetri entro cui l'individuo svolge le proprie attività e gli spazi discrezionali interni sono sempre più condizionati dall'ambiente globale, anche i processi di revisione normativa internazionale richiedono la più ampia partecipazione e condivisione di tutti i soggetti coinvolti, cittadini, imprese, associazioni e pubblica amministrazione. Il testo ufficiale del trattato è in lingua inglese e pertanto è raccomandabile, nei casi in cui si desidera proporre una modifica o un nuovo testo, utilizzare la lingua inglese. Per ciascuna proposta di modifica si avrà a disposizione una specifica area di testo, denominata note, dove si potranno indicare in lingua italiana le proprie ragioni e motivazioni. E' comunque sempre possibile inviare le proprie proposte anche in lingua italiana, così come, nell'apposita area, il proprio commento. Il file compilato, anche per la parte anagrafica, dovrà essere inviato attraverso una casella di posta elettronica certificata (PEC) al seguente indirizzo: proposta.itr(a)pec.sviluppoeconomico.gov.it <mailto:proposta.itr@pec.sviluppoeconomico.gov.it> /Nota operativa per la compilazione: nel file scaricabile, in formato excel, sono contenute tutte le indicazioni per un agevole utilizzo. Per il suo funzionamento è indispensabile attivare le macro all'apertura del file./ Le comunicazioni fornite dai soggetti che aderiscono alla consultazione non precostituiscono alcun titolo, condizione o vincolo rispetto ad eventuali successive decisioni. Responsabile del procedimento: *dott. Mauro Fazio* -- Divisione I Staff Dipartimentale

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NYTimes: Data Shows Twitter Posts That Resonate With Electorate
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 2, 2012

Nov. 2, 2012

http://nyti.ms/PpSYl7 NYTimes: Data Shows Twitter Posts That Resonate With Electorate Twitter has introduced an interactive map showing which of the presidential candidates’ posts drove the most engagement. (not only typed on the go, but also subject to the influence of a capricious spelling corrector - apologies for any typos)

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L'abrogazione dell'adozione dei libri di testo scolastici come metafora - mondopen
by Marco Baldassari Nov. 1, 2012

Nov. 1, 2012

http://www.egovnews.it/articolo/16953/L-abrogazione-dell-adozione-dei-libri… Totalmente favorevole!! (nella legge precedente i testi dovevano gia' essere online nel 2o12) Unleash creativity in open education. Chiedo a tutti di spingere al massimo in questa direzione.

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Ars Technica: "How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012

How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything /Wiley v. Kirtsaeng/ may be the IP case of the decade---affecting all from eBay to libraries. by Joe Mullin <http://arstechnica.com/author/joe-mullin-2/> - Oct 29 2012, 0:00am CET On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits a major textbook publisher against Supap Kirtsaeng, a student-entrepreneur who built a small business importing and selling textbooks. Like many Supreme Court cases, though, there's more than meets the eye. It's not merely a question of whether the Thai-born Kirtsaeng will have to cough up his profits as a copyright infringer; the case is a long-awaited rematch between content companies seeking to knock out the "first sale" doctrine on goods made abroad (not to mention their many opponents). That makes /Wiley v. Kirtsaeng/ the highest-stakes intellectual property case of the year, if not the decade. It's not an exaggeration to say the outcome could affect the very notion of property ownership in the United States. Since most consumer electronics are manufactured outside the US and include copyrighted software in it, a loss for Kirtsaeng would mean copyright owners could tax, or even shut down, resales of everything from books to DVDs to cellphones. [...] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/a-supreme-court-clash-could-cha=…

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Video: "RAP NEWS 15: Big Brother is WWWatching You (feat. George Orwell)"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012

http://youtu.be/o66FUc61MvU juan carlos

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Fwd: [dpla-discussion] Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [dpla-discussion] Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:13:22 -0400 From: Kenny Whitebloom <kwhitebloom(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu> Reply-To: dpla-discussion(a)eon.law.harvard.edu To: dpla-discussion(a)eon.law.harvard.edu, dpla(a)eon.law.harvard.edu *Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America* /Harvard Library committed to expanding access to materials./ October 31, 2012---The Harvard Library <http://library.harvard.edu/> plans to share several collections with the Digital Public Library of America <http://dp.la> (DPLA)---becoming the first DPLA content hub <http://dp.la/about/digital-hubs-pilot-project/>. The Harvard Library contains a wealth of special collections, and is dedicated to providing open access to them, where possible, through digitization and online dissemination. Through its collaboration with the DPLA, Harvard will contribute to global access to knowledge by linking to select digitized special collections. Robert Darnton, Harvard University Librarian and DPLA Steering Committee member, noted, "By making their special collections available to the public through the DPLA, research libraries can contribute mightily to the democratization of access to knowledge. Harvard's collections, built up since 1638, form the largest university library in the country. By supporting the DPLA, we will make the choicest items in them accessible to everyone in America---and eventually, we hope, to everyone in the world." In response to the DPLA's call, the Harvard Library is actively exploring what collections it could contribute. Work remains to be done on various fronts before a final decision is made about specific collections, but the Harvard Library looks forward to making a number of its collections available to the DPLA. Among them, the following have already been digitized and could be available to the DPLA before its launch in April 2013: * /Colonial Harvard/. An online guide and an expanding digital data base with thousands of items---diaries, commonplace books, correspondence, legal documents, University records, drawings, maps, student notebooks, scientific observations and lecture notes---that form the documentary history of Harvard and serve as one of the great social history collections on the evolving United States. * /Daguerreotypes/. Harvard's 3,500 daguerreotypes gathered in an online collection. The images include some of the earliest photographs of the moon, views of the first use of ether and rare portraits of African-born slaves. * /Digital Scores and Libretti/. First and early editions and manuscripts of works by J.S. Bach (and family), Mozart, Schubert and others. * /Zoology/. The Jacques Burkhardt Collection comprising 976 scientific drawings of fish and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates. The collection also includes field notes, correspondence, diaries, photographs and specimen records from Louis Agassiz's 15-month Brazil expedition in 1865-66. * /Digital Maps/. Over 1,000 maps and atlases, many georeferenced for use in GIS. Includes maps of New England towns, London, China, pictorial maps by Ernest Dudley Chase, fire-insurance and real-property atlases and maps from the Revolutionary War. * /Trial Narratives/. More than 450 pamphlets and chapbooks printed in the United States and the United Kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century. They recount trials for murder, rape, divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry and the custody of children. * /Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts/. More than 75 rare works in English, French, German, Italian, and Greek. From the collection of Houghton Library, these manuscripts reflect a broad range of subjects in history, literature, religion, science and geography. This selection also includes richly illuminated books of hours used for private devotion. Harvard holds the largest collection of the original manuscripts of poems by Emily Dickinson. It is now assembling these manuscripts and other material into a digital Emily Dickinson Archive, which it could make available to the DPLA as well. And as it pursues other digitization initiatives and reviews its digital holdings, it may make additional material available. Projects that could fall in this category include collections of North American manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries, rare Chinese works and materials from the Library's Open Collections Program. "The Harvard Library is committed to collaboration and open access. Earlier this year, the Library made more than 12 million of its records publically available, and is actively pursuing additional collaborative and open access projects. We hope this contribution is one of many steps toward sharing the vital cultural knowledge in libraries with all," said Mary Lee Kennedy, Senior Associate Provost for the Harvard Library. The DPLA is still taking shape, and Harvard's collaboration with it is contingent upon working out satisfactory arrangements on a range of matters. The Harvard Library will ensure that any materials made available by it through the DPLA do not infringe copyright. ### *Contact* Kira Poplowski Director of Communications The Harvard Library 617.496.3758 kira_poplowski at harvard.edu <mailto:kira_poplowski@harvard.edu>

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Seminario a Trento su PRIVACY CHALLENGES FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS
by Maurizio Napolitano Oct. 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012

Segnalo questo seminario sperando sia di interesse a questa ML. ================================================================== PRIVACY CHALLENGES FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS November 7th, 2012 Wednesday 2:30 pm EIT conference room, Northern Bldg, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18 - Povo Speaker: Prof. Johann-Christoph Freytag - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Abstract: Over the last years the means to collect personal data implicitly or explicitly over the Web and by various kinds of sensors and to combine data for profiling individuals has dramatically increased. These improved abilities have a dramatic impact on the privacy of every individual. This talk focuses on presenting and discussing different approaches how to prevent privacy breaches when personal data is either stored or individuals are at risk to reveal which data they access. In the first part of the talk we introduce several examples of privacy breaches that help us to better understand what is at risk and to categorize the kind of privacy threads and privacy attacks. They show that privacy is at risk in different fields such as in the field of communication and in the field of database systems. The latter will be the focus for the rest of the presentation. To begin with, we first discuss the principles of Hippocratic database systems that should guide any privacy solution for database systems. These principles rest in part on various requirements coming from the privacy (non computer science) community and from the legal world. They will help us in better understand the different solutions and concepts to protect the privacy of individuals when storing personal data in a database system. We then turn to the notion of data privacy. The challenge of data privacy is to prevent the linkage of stored data to individuals. For example, if we store patient and disease data, it should be impossible to find out which individual has which disease when the data is released. As a first step we introduce the notion of k-anonymity as a way to release data without revealing the identity of the individual they belong to. We show that the basic notion of k-anonymity does not suffice; it must be improved in various ways due to the different kind of privacy leakages (or possible attacks) that might occur. Based on the notion of access privacy we describe a solution how protect the user’s privacy when accessing a database such that one cannot detect/observe which data is accessed in the database. The presentation ends by discussing how to model the knowledge an adversary gains by the results of a series of queries to the database – here the goal is to detect when the database should not provide any more results in order to protect privacy. Short Bio: Johann-Christoph Freytag is currently full professor for Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) at the Computer Science Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Before joining the department in 1994, he was a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1985-1987), a researcher at the European Computer-Industry-Research Centre (ECRC, in Munich, Germany, 1987-1989), and the head of Digital's Database Technology Center (also in Munich, 1990- 1993). He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Harvard University, MA. Prof. Freytag's research interests include all aspects of query processing and query optimization in object-relational database systems, new developments in the database area (such as semi-structured data, data quality, databases and security), privacy in database systems, and applying database technology to applications such as GIS, genomics, and bioinformatics/life science. In the last years he received the IBM Faculty Award four times for collaborative work in the areas of databases, middleware, and bioinformatics/life science. He organized the VLDB conference in Berlin in 2003 and was a member of the VLDB Endowment (2001-2007) and in the head of the German database interest group of the GI (Fachbereich DBIS, Gesellschaft für Informatik). Contact: Cesare Furlanello, MPBA - Center for Information Technology - Irst

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