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conferenza al IUE 18-19 maggio, Firenze
by Angela Daly Jan. 31, 2012

Jan. 31, 2012

Ci sara una conferenza al European University Institute il 18 e 19 maggio sul tema di "Communications & Media Markets: Emerging Trends and Policy Issues" Informazioni (e call for papers) qua: http://www.florence-school.eu/portal/page/portal/FSR_HOME/COMMUNICATIONS_ME…

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Agenda Digitale, una cabina di regia ? un po' poco...
by Masera Anna Jan. 30, 2012

Jan. 30, 2012

http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_…

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Fw: Offers Certificates to Outside Students In Its Online Courses
by Mariella Berra Jan. 30, 2012

Jan. 30, 2012

Utile articolo Massimo Sideri sul Corriere di oggi , L'accesso impossibile a internet per quattro famiglie su dieci Il 39% della popolazione tra i 16 e i 74 anni non si è mai collegata al web. In Inghilterra è solo il 10% http://www.corriere.it/economia/12_gennaio_30/accesso-impossibile-a-interne… Nella versione cartacea ci sono grafici utili di confronto fra paesi ----- Original Message ----- From: Yolanda Campos Campos To: Mariella Berra ; Mariella Berra Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:40 AM Subject: MIT: Offers Certificates to Outside Students In Its Online Courses ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jerry Becker <jbecker(a)siu.edu> Date: 2012/1/23 Subject: MIT: Offers Certificates to Outside Students In Its Online Courses To: JERRY-P-BECKER-BIGA-L(a)listserv.siu.edu ********************************* >From The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2012, p. A18. See http://chronicle.com/article/MIT-Will-Offer-Certificates-to/130121/ ********************************* MIT Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students Who Take Its Online Courses By Marc Parry Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare project. Now MIT plans to release a fresh batch of open online courses-and, for the first time, to offer certificates to outside students who complete them. The credentials are part of a new, interactive e-learning venture, tentatively called MITx, that is expected to host "a virtual community of millions of learners around the world," the institute will announce on Monday. Here's how it will work: MITx will give anyone free access to an online-course platform. Users will include students on the MIT campus, but also external learners like high-school seniors and engineering majors at other colleges. They'll watch videos, answer questions, practice exercises, visit online labs, and take quizzes and tests. They'll also connect with others working on the material. The first course will begin around the spring of 2012. MIT has not yet announced its subject, but the goal is to build a portfolio of high-demand courses-the kind that draw more than 200 people to lecture halls on the campus, in Cambridge, Mass. MIT is investing "millions of dollars" in the project, said L. Rafael Reif, the provost, and the plan is to solicit more from donors and foundations. Ten years ago, MIT galvanized the open-education movement by giving away free learning materials from 2,100 courses. But some universities are moving beyond publishing online syllabi and simple videos. They now provide virtual tutors and automated feedback through interactive projects like the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and the free online computer-science courses at Stanford University. MIT's new venture is a step in that direction. ------------------------------------- SIDEBAR: If Stanford's experience is any indication, the potential pool of participants could be vast. Back in November, roughly 94,000 students enrolled in Andrew Ng's open course on machine learning there. -------------------------------------- MIT's project could also help answer a big question facing open education: How do you sustain projects whose content is free? Although access to MITx courses will carry no cost, the institute plans to charge a "modest" fee for certificates that indicate a learner has mastered the content. It's unclear exactly how the assessment will work. What is clear is that any credentials "would not be issued under the name MIT," according to an MITx fact sheet. "Rather, MIT plans to create a not-for-profit body within the institute that will offer certification for online learners of MIT course work," the sheet says. "That body will carry a distinct name to avoid confusion." Mr. Reif stressed that the open-learning experiment "is not an easier version of MIT." ------------------------------------ SIDEBAR: "For them to earn a credential, they have to demonstrate mastery of the subject," he said, "just like an MIT student does." ----------------------------------- A 3-Tiered Ecosystem Monday's announcement marks a shift for MIT. The institute does not offer a fully online education for conventional credits. And when the OpenCourseWare idea emerged, the thinking was to avoid credit-bearing courses so as not to "dilute the MIT brand," according to one official quoted in Unlocking the Gates, a book about open learning by Taylor Walsh of Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit group that promotes the use of technology in higher education. But the new venture will apparently create a three-tiered ecosystem, with traditional MIT degrees, for residential students; cheaper MITx certificates, and free OpenCourseWare materials, said Roger C. Schonfeld, Ithaka's director of research. "It seems like an effort to begin to expand the breadth of individuals who can claim an educational association with MIT," he said. The project aims to "lower the existing barriers between residential campuses and millions of learners around the world," MIT says. But how much will outside individuals get to interact with MIT professors? That's unclear. One way to promote such contact will be software that handles many questions, said Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "Through voting and other mechanisms, you can create a funnel of requests so that the requests that come off the funnel at the very top can actually be answered by MIT professors and MIT TA's," he said. "A large number of questions at the lower parts of the funnel can actually be answered by other learners who may be slightly ahead." MIT faculty members have also developed technology that can automatically grade essays. Other technologies that could come into play here include automatic transcription, online tutors, and crowdsourced grading. The core idea of OpenCourseWare-free online content-spread far beyond MIT. The institute hopes this project will also catch on elsewhere. To help make that happen, it will release the MITx open-learning software at no charge, so other educational institutions can adopt it. ************************************************* -- Jerry P. Becker Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction Southern Illinois University 625 Wham Drive Mail Code 4610 Carbondale, IL 62901-4610 Phone: (618) 453-4241 [O] (618) 457-8903 [H] Fax: (618) 453-4244 E-mail: jbecker(a)siu.edu -- Dra. Yolanda Campos Campos Tel. of. 53365184 Cel. 0445525237478 yola(a)camposc.net http://www.camposc.net

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intervista al Presidente Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali su nuovo regolamento UE sulla privacy; poteri delle autorità nazionali, aborgazione DPS
by Mauro Alovisio Jan. 30, 2012

Jan. 30, 2012

gent.mi in riferimento alle tematiche del nuovo regolamento Ue in materia di protezione dei dati personali e dell'abrogazione della misura di sicurezza del Documento programmatico sulla sicurezza (DPS) , recentemente postati in lista , vi segnalo interessante intervista del 28 gennaio 2012 al prof. Francesco Pizzetti, Presidente dell'Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali http://www.euractiv.it/it/interviste-e-opinioni/interviste/4771-il-garante-… A presto Cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio Università di Torino http://fire.rettorato.unito.it/blog/?area=Blog&action=ReadForm&id=40524

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the sky is raising
by Marco Pancini Jan. 30, 2012

Jan. 30, 2012

The sky is rising: interessante studio di Mike Masnick (commissionato dalla CCIA) sullo stato dell'industria dei media: http://www.ccianet.org/index.asp?sid=5&artid=285&evtflg=False -- Marco Pancini | Senior Policy Counsel | pancini(a)google.com | +32.28948492 +32.473531203 This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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Fwd: Re: [governance] BBC: European Parliament rapporteur quits in Acta protest
by Ing. Stefano Trumpy Jan. 30, 2012

Jan. 30, 2012

Interesting new. Stefano Trumpy >Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:07:28 -0300 >From: ricardo ruiz <doutorsocratesoreidofutebol(a)gmail.com> >To: governance(a)lists.igcaucus.org, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [governance] BBC: European Parliament rapporteur quits in Acta > protest >Reply-To: governance(a)lists.igcaucus.org,ricardo >ruiz <doutorsocratesoreidofutebol(a)gmail.com> >X-Loop: governance(a)lists.igcaucus.org >X-Sequence: 80 >Sender: governance-request(a)lists.igcaucus.org >X-no-archive: yes >List-Id: <governance.lists.igcaucus.org> >List-Archive: <http://lists.igcaucus.org//arc/governance> >List-Help: <mailto:sympa@lists.igcaucus.org?subject=help> >List-Owner: <mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org> >List-Post: <mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org> >List-Subscribe: ><mailto:sympa@lists.igcaucus.org?subject=subscribe%20governance> >List-Unsubscribe: ><mailto:sympa@lists.igcaucus.org?subject=unsubscribe%20governance> > >sad. Very short-minded people gorvernments from EU and US. Attached to >the past, with no solutions for a already existing new world. "money, >money, money, people, is the root of all the evil" > >Deus salve Macunaíma no fim dos tempos - > >Best and good luck for us, poor citizens, > >R > >2012/1/27, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob(a)gmail.com>: >> [1 person, just one person... !] >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16757142 European Parliament >> rapporteur quits in Acta protest Comments (90) By Dave Lee Technology >> Reporter Mr Arif's resignation follows protests in several locations >> across Poland Negotiations over a controversial anti-piracy agreement >> have been described as a "masquerade" by a key Euro MP. Kader Arif, the >> European Parliament's rapporteur for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade >> Agreement (Acta), resigned over the issue on Friday. He said he had >> witnessed "never-before-seen manoeuvres" by officials preparing the >> treaty. On Thursday, 22 EU member states including the UK signed the >> agreement. The treaty still needs to be ratified by the European >> Parliament before it can be enacted. A debate is scheduled to take place >> in June. Mr Arif criticised the efforts to push forward with the >> measures ahead of those discussions taking place. "I condemn the whole >> process which led to the signature of this agreement: no consultation of >> the civil society, lack of transparency since the beginning of >> negotiations, repeated delays of the signature of the text without any >> explanation given, reject of Parliament's recommendations as given in >> several resolutions of our assembly." Mr Arif's decision to stand down >> follows protests by campaigners in Poland. Thousands of demonstrators >> took to the streets after the agreement was signed. Crowds of mostly >> young people held banners with slogans such as "no to censorship" and "a >> free internet". Earlier in the week, hackers attacked several Polish >> government websites, including that of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The >> country's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski defended the plans, telling >> local television: "We believe that theft on a massive scale of >> intellectual property is not a good thing." 'Legitimate demands' >> Campaigners' concerns have been buoyed by Mr Arif's strongly-worded >> statement released on Friday. "This agreement can have major >> consequences on citizens' lives," he wrote. "However, everything is made >> to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. I >> want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this >> unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade." The >> treaty has caused controversy since an early discussion paper was >> published by Wikileaks in 2008 - two years after negotiations first >> began. The details were subsequently confirmed in 2010. People took to >> the streets across Poland to protest against Acta If ratified, it >> proposes to improve "the enforcement of intellectual property rights" in > > participating countries. It suggests setting international standards >> over how copyright infringements are dealt with, with preventative >> measures including possible imprisonment and fines. The UK's >> Intellectual Property Office has backed the measures, describing piracy >> as a "major global issue". "Yesterday's signing of Acta is important for >> the UK as it will set an international standard for tackling large-scale >> infringements of IPR, through the creation of common enforcement >> standards and more effective international cooperation. Importantly, it >> aims to improve the enforcement of existing IPR laws, not create new >> ones," it said. 'Dangerous' Darrell Issa, a US senator and vocal critic >> of the stalled Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa), voiced his concerns about >> Acta at the World Economics Forum in Davos. "As a member of Congress, >> it's more dangerous than Sopa," he said. "It's not coming to me for a >> vote. It purports that it does not change existing laws. But once >> implemented, it creates a whole new enforcement system and will >> virtually tie the hands of Congress to undo it." In addition to >> internet-based measures, the agreement also seeks to curb trade of >> counterfeited physical goods. Past drafts of the treaty suggested that >> internet service providers would have to give up data about users >> accused of copyright infringement and might have to cut them off - >> although this segment of the agreement has since been removed. Outside >> of the EU, the treaty has also been signed by the US, Australia, Canada, >> Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea. In response to >> Mr Arif's resignation, a spokesman for the European Commission told the >> BBC: "Mr Arif and other members of the European Parliament's [Committee >> on International Trade] have had access to successive versions of the >> Acta text. The full text has been fully public since April 2010. It was >> made available in the first place because the European Commission >> convinced the other countries to publish this text. "There have been >> four stakeholder conferences since 2008, and at least three speeches in >> the European Parliament on Acta. And now there will be a full debate. >> This is exactly what the normal process is. "But most importantly Acta >> does not change any EU laws, it simply levels the playing field so that >> other countries match our standards. There is no threat to internet >> freedom or privacy. Everything you can do legally today in the EU, you >> would be legally able to do if Acta is ratified." >> >> > > >-- >----------- >:(){ :|:& };: >Unix Shell Forkbomb (2002) > > >____________________________________________________________ >You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > governance(a)lists.igcaucus.org >To be removed from the list, visit: > http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing > >For all other list information and functions, see: > http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance >To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see: > http://www.igcaucus.org/ > >Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t -- _________________________________________________________ Ing. Stefano TRUMPY CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica Phone: +39 050 3152634 Mobile: +39 348 8218618 E-mail: stefano.trumpy(a)iit.cnr.it http://www.iit.cnr.it/en/node/201 _________________________________________________________

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Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Jan. 30, 2012

Jan. 30, 2012

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why-the-movie-industry-is-so-wrong-about-sopa
by Marco Pancini Jan. 27, 2012

Jan. 27, 2012

Vi segnalo questo infographic, molto interessante: http://matadornetwork.com/change/infographic-why-the-movie-industry-is-so-w… A presto. marco -- Marco Pancini | Senior Policy Counsel | pancini(a)google.com | +32.28948492 +32.473531203 This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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I: AGENDA DIGITALE nel DL SEMPLIFICAZIONI
by Masera Anna Jan. 27, 2012

Jan. 27, 2012

avete visto? a. ________________________________ Da: Anna Borioni [mailto:anna.borioni@confindustriadigitale.it] Inviato: venerdì 27 gennaio 2012 16.54 Oggetto: DL SEMPLIFICAZIONI: FINALMENTE ANCHE IN ITALIA L'AGENDA DIGITALE E' FRA LE PRIORITA' DI GOVERNO Comunicato stampa DL SEMPLIFICAZIONI: FINALMENTE ANCHE IN ITALIA L'AGENDA DIGITALE E' FRA LE PRIORITA' DI GOVERNO Roma, 27/1/2012- " Con il decreto semplificazione, lo sviluppo dell'economia digitale è finalmente entrato anche in Italia a far parte delle priorità dell'agenda di governo" è il commento del presidente di Confindustria Digitale, Stefano Parisi, che dichiara pieno apprezzamento per questa nuova tornata di misure messe in campo dall'esecutivo "L'istituzione di una cabina di regia per l'attuazione dell'agenda digitale posta in capo ai massimi responsabili della politica nazionale di sviluppo e modernizzazione del Paese, lo snellimento burocratico, l'obbligo di switch-off verso il digitale di una serie di transazioni - continua Parisi- aprono concretamente la strada a una stagione di cambiamenti per l'Italia imperniata sulla valorizzazione delle tecnologie digitali e del web come chiave strategica per affrontare i problemi di crescita, competitività e produttività " "Confindustria Digitale è fortemente impegnata a sostenere il Governo e le istituzioni locali a muoversi nella direzione dello switch-off digitale del complesso del Paese- conclude il presidente - Su questo abbiamo avviato un confronto presentando un pacchetto di proposte applicabili subito, a costo zero per il contribuente, in cui prevediamo il trasferimento sul web di tutta una serie di attività e adempimenti tra Pa e cittadini, misure per lo sviluppo dell'e-commerce, per la lotta digitale all'evasione fiscale, per il superamento del digital divide strutturale e iniziative, che annunceremo nei prossimi giorni, di sostegno concreto alle star up innovative e al talento digitale dei giovani". ------------------------------------------------------------------ Anna Borioni Responsabile Ufficio stampa [image003.jpg] Via Barberini 11 - 00187 Roma tel. 0642140(1)410 - cell. 3471409877 anna.borioni(a)confindustriadigitale.it

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R: Re: [open-government] Open Legislative Data Conference in Paris - July 6-7
by agatalotauro＠libero.it Jan. 27, 2012

Jan. 27, 2012

Hello! Please read below. Thanks in advance, Agata PS- Vi inoltro il seguente messaggio sperando di fare cosa gradita. Ad maiora mbaron(a)directoriolegislativo.org wrote on 26-gen-2012 14.23 A: "Daniel Dietrich"<daniel.dietrich(a)okfn.org> Cc: "PICRI"<picri(a)regardscitoyens.org>, <transparency-tech(a)googlegroups.com>, "EU Open Data Working Group"<euopendata(a)lists.okfn.org>, "Open Government WG List"<open-government(a)lists.okfn.org> Ogg: Re: [open-government] Open Legislative Data Conference in Paris - July 6-7 Benjamin, Daniel, The Paris event seems a very interesting one. I hope as meany people can make it. As you may know for over a year now 15 organizations from 5 countries in Latin America have created the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency and together we promote transparency, access to public information and accountability in our Congresses. Take a look at our website to see our publications and projects. Please let us know if we can help in any way in the organization of the event. Feel free to contact us. Daniel, yours is a good review of what we all do! Thanks for posting it. I'll circulate it to our contacts. Best regards María On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich(a)okfn.org> wrote: Dear Benjamin, this is *really* very exciting! Please let us know if and how you think the OKF could be of any help supporting this event. All the best Daniel PS: For those of you who haven't read, please see my topic report on re-use of parliamentary data: http://epsiplatform.eu/content/topic-report-8-re-use-parliamentary-data and the much broader analysis by National Democratic Institute and World Bank Institute http://www.ndi.org/parliamentary-monitoring-organization-survey On 25.01.2012, at 19:00, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou wrote: > Hi everyone, > > From the premises of TheyWorkForYou to the latest portuguese > Demo.Cratica we now have plenty of citizen initiatives among the world > working on parliament data. Let's all meet up together with > parliamentary researchers to share and confront ideas? > > We are organising on July 6th & 7th in Paris with researchers from the > Sciences Politiques institute an international conference aimed at > gathering both academics and hactivists working on parliamentary and > legislative issues. > > The « Open Legislative Data in Paris » conference will be held in > english to ensure a maximal participation from communities all over > the world: academic studies, parliamentary informatics and citizen > monitoring projects, or combination of both are all welcome! Our > common projet with SciencesPo and its MediaLab will present during the > event the first prototype of a legislative evolution monitoring tool. > > All participants from various horizons are very welcome to present > their work, within 15 minutes talks or 5 minutes lightning talks. > We are thinking especially to all of you everywhere, who develop cool > parsing, scraping and visualisation tools on any parliament chamber, > working on votes, presence, legal texts, and so on! :) > > Submissions to make a presentation should be made online before April > 1st. Subscription will come later on : > http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/submit-a-proposal/ > > If you really want to come but can't do it for financial reasons, we > can support a selection of people to the extend of our limited budget. > So don't hesitate to sollicitate us for a help at > picri(a)regardscitoyens.org > > Similarily, if you can offer or advice for financial support, you're > very welcome to e-mail us as well. > > More details can be read in the pdf attached and online on « The Law > Factory »'s website: > http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/ > > Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens > > PS : We’ve also got a dedicated mailing list for discussions around > the conference which you can write to: > TheLawFactory(a)ml.regardscitoyens.org. If you’d like to join the > discussion, sign up by sending an empty e-mail to > TheLawFactory-subscribe(a)ml.regardscitoyens.org > <OpenLegislativeDataInParis-July6-7.pdf> -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org www.ddie.me twitter.com/ddie +49 176 327 685 30 _______________________________________________ open-government mailing list open-government(a)lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government -- María Baron Directora Ejecutiva Fundación Directorio Legislativo Av. Entre Ríos 258 3 E, C.A. de Buenos Aires C1079ABP - Argentina Tel: (54 11) 5218-4647 Fax: (54 11) 5236-4293 http://www.directoriolegislativo.org

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