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Alla provincia di Roma passa mozione su Internet diritto costituzionale
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 11, 2011

April 11, 2011

Dal "Fatto Quotidiano" di oggi: INTERNET DIRITTO COSTITUZIONALE PASSA LA MOZIONE ALLA PROVINCIA DI ROMA Internet come diritto della Costituzione. Testualmente: “Introdurre nella Costituzione italiana l’articolo 21 bis per garantire a tutti i cittadini il diritto di accedere alla rete Internet”. È quanto chiede la mozione promossa dal Gruppo del Pd e approvata oggi dal Consiglio provinciale di Roma. L’art. 21 bis, proposta dal giurista e costituzionalista Stefano Rodotà, dovrebbe avere la seguente stesura: “Tutti hanno eguale diritto di accedere alla Rete Internet, in condizione di parità, con modalità tecnologicamente adeguate e che rimuovano ogni ostacolo di ordine economico e sociale”. Altri comuni ed enti locali si stanno muovendo per chiedere che l’accesso alla rete diventi un diritto costituzionale. juan carlos

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christians defending muslims
by Stefano Quintarelli April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011

sempre int ema con il trhread sui suggerimenti questo non e' lo stesso ma e' interessante http://www.harrr.org/rrr/google-did-you-mean-problem/ forse cercavi "christians offending muslims" ? simone e' uno dei piu' bravi artigiani del seo che conosca. ciao, s. -- blog.quintarelli.it www.eximia.it www.reeplay.it

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Cloud computing_lunedì Politecnico
by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO April 10, 2011

April 10, 2011

Vi segnalo il seguente seminario su Cloud computing e processi di outsourcing dei servizi informatici 11 aprile 2011 ore 14.30-17.30, Sala Consiglio di Facoltà Relazioni: I profili giuridici del contratto di outsourcing Prof. M. Graziadei, Università degli Studi di Torino Il trattamento dei dati personali nei servizi di cloud computing localizzati all'estero Avv. A. Mantelero, IV Facoltà di Ingegneria del Politecnico di Torino La tutela dei dati nei processi di outsourcing informatico in India Avv. D. Francavilla, Università di Torino La tutela dei dati nei processi di outsourcing informatico in Cina Dott. P. Rossi, Università del Piemonte Orientale Casi aziendali: modalità di tutela dei dati personali Dott. P.N. Fantuzzi Direzione IT Strategy – IBM Italia Dott.ssa S. Ricciardi Direttore Affari Legali – Microsoft Italia non è necessaria registrazione preventiva, per maggiori informazioni: http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero/events.html la riproduzione audio/video del seminario di lunedì e di quello del 31 marzo, nonché i materiali relativi, saranno consultabili al seguente indirizzo: http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero/CCP.html --- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Confirmed Assistant Professor Department of Production Systems and Business Economics Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero

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La GPL delle Cose [Was: proprietà intellettuale sul prodotto industriale]
by Giampaolo Mancini April 9, 2011

April 9, 2011

Ciao a tutti, un interessante articolo su Ars Technica a proposito di proprietà intellettuale e prodotti industriali che, IMHO, riporta sul tavolo gli argomenti discussi più di un anno fa nel thread a cui si fa riferimento nel titolo (http://is.gd/ZVjKQv) The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age - http://is.gd/WTfq7i In realtà era già da un po' che mi aspettavo di leggere un articolo del genere dato che, ormai, i tempi per la "personal fabrication" sono più che maturi. Credo che, grazie a tutte le tecnologie che rendono possibile, a basso costo, la commistione di bit e atomi, questioni come queste, d'ora in avanti, saranno all'ordine del giorno. Vi ricordo che si parla di personal fabrication, di DIY revolution, Arduino e compagnia bella non solo sulla mitica rivista Make (http://makezine.com/) ma anche sull'ultimo numero di Wired (oltre che su diverse altre issue negli scorsi anni): http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/ff_adafruit/ Stampanti 3D, tinkering e mashup "atomici" sono anche l'argomento principale di "Makers" (http://craphound.com/makers/) uno degli ultimi romanzi di Cory Doctorow. Mi aspetto che quando (un giorno sarò molto ricco e per puro divertimento) aprirò un mio negozio in cui venderò oggetti "stampati" con una stampante 3D che ho assemblato da solo a partire da un progetto "open hardware" (cioè che ha tanto di... buh? Licenza? Brevetto? Un-vincolo-giuridico-che-vi-pare "open hardware" "virale") insieme all'oggetto dovrò fornire anche tutta la documentazione necessaria per permettere ai miei clienti di riprodurselo in casa... accompagnata, ovviamente, da una "GPL delle Cose"... Mi immagino già ad andare da Leroy-Merlin e dirigermi subito verso lo scaffale "Bulloni LGPL"... "Just for fun", Giampaolo 2010/1/11 Angelo Raffaele Meo <meo(a)polito.it> > Carissimi, > desidero scusare la mia assenza all'incontro Nexa > previsto per mercoledì 13. Come nel caso dei precedenti mercoledì, debbo > partecipare alla seduta mensile dell'Accademia delle Scienze, ove, tra > l'altro, dobbiamo discutere di un convegno sulla ricerca industriale > che intendiamo organizzare. > Avanzo comunque una richiesta relativa alla roadmap 2010. Mi > piacerebbe, come anticipai in un incontro lontano, che Nexa > affrontasse anche la questione della proprietà intellettuale sui > prodotti industriali e dei brevetti in particolare. Quel giorno Marco > (Ricolfi, non Ciurcina) mi rispose che quella questione non rientrava > negli obiettivi di Nexa e oggi, in un incontro privato, Juan Carlos mi > ha ribadito la posizione di Marco. > Se questa è la posizione di tutti, accetto disciplinatamente la > decisione collegiale. Tuttavia, mi sia consentito ricordare l'opinione > di un numero rapidamente crescente di studiosi, secondo la quale la > questione della proprietà intellettuale sul prodotto industriale è molto > più importante della questione della proprietà sul prodotto artistico, > perchè la proprietà intellettuale industriale è un freno allo sviluppo, > fattore di disuguaglianze fra imprese grandi e piccole, fra paesi forti > e deboli, e ragione della morte di decine di milioni di uomini, ogni > anno, come illustrato da Medici senza Frontiere. > Grazie per l'attenzione. Colgo l'occasione per associarmi alle > congratulazioni di Marco R. a Marco C. > Raf > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > -- Giampaolo Mancini email: manchoz(a)gmail.com phone: +39 348 41 48 682 skype/linkedin/gtalk: manchoz

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NYT (Darnton): "A Digital Library Better Than Google’s"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 9, 2011

April 9, 2011

March 23, 2011 A Digital Library Better Than Google’s By ROBERT DARNTON Cambridge, Mass. ON Tuesday, Denny Chin, a federal judge in Manhattan, rejected the settlement <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/technology/23google.html> between Google, which aims to digitize every book ever published, and a group of authors and publishers who had sued the company for copyright infringement. This decision is a victory for the public good, preventing one company from monopolizing access to our common cultural heritage. Nonetheless, we should not abandon Google’s dream of making all the books in the world available to everyone. Instead, we should build a digital public library, which would provide these digital copies free of charge to readers. Yes, many problems — legal, financial, technological, political — stand in the way. All can be solved. Let’s consider the legal questions raised by the rejected settlement. Beginning in 2005, Google’s book project made the contents of millions of titles searchable online, leading the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers to claim that the snippets made available to readers violated their copyrights. Google could have defended its actions as fair use, but the company chose instead to negotiate a deal. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/opinion/24darnton.html

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European Data Protection Commissioners' Conference
by Paolo Brini April 8, 2011

April 8, 2011

(Il maiuscolo è mio) "[...] Having in mind the intention of the Commission to adopt in the course of 2011 a proposal for a new legal framework, the Conference: - Recalls the main challenges to be addressed in the new framework, which include - the consequences of globalisation and transborder flows of personal data; - the development of technology especially in the on-line world; - THE IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE PROTECTION IN THE AREAS OF POLICE AND JUSTICE, ALSO IN LIGHT OF THE TREND TO RE-USE ON A SYSTEMATIC BASIS PERSONAL DATA OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES. <http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Coope…> Ciao, Paolo

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NEM SUMMIT: Implementation of the Future Media Internet (Torino, 27-29 settembre 2011)
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

*NEM SUMMIT Implementation of the Future Media Internet* Torino, 27-29 settembre 2011 http://nem-summit.eu/call-for-papers-2/ NEM Initiative, the Networked and Electronic Media Technology Platform, is organising the fourth edition of its main annual conference NEM Summit 2011 in Torino (Italy) on 27-29 September 2011. Building on successful previous Summit editions, this NEM Summit will address various issues, such as research and business challenges, societal as well as user needs, implementation requirements, regulatory and standardisation environment, etc., related to the *Implementation of the Future Media Internet*. *NEM Summit 2011* will have four*Tracks* * Immersive and Pervasive Media * Cloud Media * Social Media * User Media *Important dates* * Submission opening: 30 March 2011 * Paper submission deadline: 16 May 2011 * Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2011 * Deadline for final papers: 1 September 2011 All stakeholders of networked and electronic media are invited to submit scientific, technical as well as business-oriented papers addressing topics defined within NEM Summit Tracks descriptions below. The submissions should present original work, innovative ideas, and results, including description of on-going activities and development of related products, services, and applications for increasing the competitiveness. *Immersive and Pervasive Media* The Future Internet not only will become pervasive in the sense that the number of connected devices will grow by orders of magnitude; it will also carry all sorts of media with an unprecedented quality. Forecasts predict that in less than 5 years 80--90% of the carried payload will be media. Immersiveness is dramatically increased by quality improvements: Panoramic or Giant Images and Movies, Higher Dynamic Range, Ultra High Resolution, Plano-stereoscopic, Multiview or Free Viewpoint Video and Wave Field Synthesis, Ambisonics and Multichannel Audio will boost the credibility and "reality" of media rendering. Pervasiveness, on the other hand, brings the content to the user and into his/her context. Dynamic and scalable content coding, media integration into browsers through HTML5, adaptivity considering location and device characteristics are important ingredients for making media even more pervasive. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Technologies for transport, coding and rendering (content-centric networks, spatial and ultra high resolution sound and video, scalable and hierarchical coding, rendering of audio and video over the device continuum) * Applications and services: Digital Cinema, (3D)IPTV, Giant Image and Movie Browsing, Scalable Rendering, Browser-based media applications, 3D integration into browsers *Cloud Media* Being the finest meshed communication network ever available, the Internet offers an unprecedented number of services that can be shared amongst participants. Cloud Computing has been a hot topic during the last years: Whether sharing of information via P2P networks like Torrent or shifting complete Office Suites into the Cloud, using storage and processing power in the cloud has become state-of-the-art and is now ready for Media! P2P networks as well as the Content Delivery Networks are now evolving towards media and new architectures for storing, replicating and transporting media into and out of the cloud are required. Additionally, the accumulated processing power in the cloud enables innovative media applications in the area of Smart TV (TV 3.0) through visual analytics, object recognition, retrieval in media data-bases and device specific transcoding. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Architectures and technologies for media content storage, replication and transport of media into and out of the cloud (P2P streaming, media content delivery networks) * Architectures and technologies for cloud computing for media (visual analytics in the cloud, content transcoding, media content retrieval) * Applications and services for cloud media *Social Media* Networked Electronic Media are more than a simple ingredient of future social media services: They are evolving to become the heart of Social Media: Videos are shared via YouTube and Facebook, video is increasingly added to voice communication in Skype, Windows Messenger or Office Communicator and networked games significantly increase their share in the electronic games domain. This track is dedicated to developments, innovative applications and business models in and around Social Media. Social media have significantly shaped the way citizens communicate. Even more than mobile phones, which made a well known communication service available ubiquitously, Social Media have influenced the daily life: People can spend more than 1 hour per day in Social Media and Facebook in December 2010 for the first time has been the most visited Website worldwide. User generated content has grown to an unforeseen magnitude and will continue to grow. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Data protection, security and trust (payment, viruses, profile-squatting, ID theft, infiltration) * Virtual and real personas (profiling, semantic descriptions, face recognition, footprint) * Applications and business models for Social Media (community generated content, service composition, umbrella services, etc.) ** *User Media* Much more than data, media have to be handled in a user-specific context. Whether for end customer consumption, for post production in a professional environment, whether for smart browsing of large data bases or for efficient sharing of personal media, coding, transport, representation, tagging and many other things related to media have to be adapted. */This track is dedicated to developments in and around User Media and it differs from the Social Media track by targeting explicitly single users or user categories./* In the upcoming era of user generated media content the user has a double role: On the one hand media is consumed by different categories of users (private and business customers, and professional users), on the other hand those categories of users down to the private individuum have become content producers. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Technologies for production, ingest, distribution, browsing and consumption of content for specific users and/or user groups. * Technologies for aggregation, presentation, creation, uploading, curating and distributing of user generated content * Applications and business services for user media (e.g. small and large digital cinemas on the professional user side and media sharing and community services like for private user) *Submission Guidelines* Papers for all NEM Summit 2011 Tracks must be submitted using the Online Submission Tool <http://conference.eurescom.eu> in PDF format using the NEM Summit paper template <http://www.nem-initiative.org/fileadmin/documents/Summit/NEMSummitTemplate.…> and not exceeding maximum length of six pages. Paper template and access to the submission tool, as well as further and updated information about NEM Summit 2011, will be available at the NEM Summit website (*www.nem-summit.eu <http://www.nem-summit.eu/>*) and NEM Initiative website (*www.nem-initiative.org <http://www.nem-initiative.org/>*). The submitted papers will be subject to peer review by members of the NEM Summit 2011 Programme Committee. The papers selected for the NEM Summit 2001 programme will be published in the Summit Proceedings where all further rights will remain with the authors. Extended versions of papers of special merit will be considered for possible fast track publication in the Computer Communications Journal of Elsevier. NEM Summit 2011 General Chair: Jean-Dominique Meunier (Technicolor) Programme Committee Co-chairs: Thorsten Herfet (Intel), Marco Ajmone Marsan (Politecnico of Torino) Summit Track Co-chairs * Immersive and Pervasive Media: Graham Thomas (BBC), José Manuel Menéndez (UPM) * Cloud Media: Stefan Arbanowski (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Martin May (Technicolor) * Social Media: Malte Behrmann (Game/EGDF), Nozha Boujemaa (Inria), Alex Jaimes (Yahoo Research) * User Media: George Wright (BBC), Luca Console (University of Torino) Programme Committee Coordinator: Halid Hrasnica (Eurescom) Organisation Committee Co-chairs: Jovanka Adzic (Telecom Italia), Florent Genoux (Sigma Orionis)

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Check out ICMPA's global study on how college students on 5 continents use media & access news
by Andrea Cairola April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

Ricevo e inoltro: interessante studio e metodologia (l'astinenza!) per capire come i giovani usino i media e Internet. Ciao Andrea From: Susan Moeller [mailto:icmpa@jmail.umd.edu] Sent: 07 April 2011 13:14 To: icmpa(a)umd.edu Subject: Check out ICMPA's global study on how college students on 5 continents use media & access news (+ HuffPost column) Everyone, Please take a look at the latest ICMPA study: The world Unplugged. Conducted with the assistance of a dozen university partners of the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change the study asked 1000 students in 10 countries on five continents to gave up all media for 24 hours. After their daylong abstinence, the students recorded their experiences. In total, students wrote almost half a million words--about the same number of words as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. The world Unplugged study concluded that most college students, whether in developed or developing countries, are strikingly similar in how they use media. Student after student spoke about their generation's utter dependency on media - especially the mobile phone. And they also talked about how they think about news. Said one student, from Slovakia: “We are used to having information about everything on the planet and this information we have to have in an unbelievable time. Our generation doesn’t need certified and acknowledged information. More important is quantity, not quality of news.” Please also look at a column I wrote on the study at the Huffington Post: Worldwide, Students Suffer From Internet 'Addiction' and another at the World Bank: What Kind of News Comes in 140 Characters or Facebook Status Updates? We are beginning to get some significant attention to the project – here's an early story from Yahoo Canada in which a couple of Maryland students are quoted. Thank you! Susan Susan Moeller, PhD Director, International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism & School of Public Policy University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA w) 301-405-2419 m) 240-472-4166 Inviato da iPhone

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by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

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Francia alla sbarra per la data retention
by avv. Monica Alessia Senor April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

Ecco la risposta di venti grandi aziende ICT al Décret n° 2011-219 del 25 febbraio 2011 con cui la Francia ha imposto loro di registrare e conservare i dati personali degli utenti, password comprese: http://punto-informatico.it/3125692/PI/News/francia-alla-sbarra-data-retenti on.aspx Un caro saluto Monica

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