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Wash Post: "Policy makers, businesses debate role of Washington in cloud computing"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

Policy makers, businesses debate role of Washington in cloud computing Behind *Facebook*, *Gmail* and the *Bing* search engine is a multibillion-dollar shift in technology that users don't see and Washington doesn't quite know how to handle. That trend is called cloud computing: the hosting of data on remote servers that can be tapped from any computer connected to the Web. And the policy implications of cloud computing was the subject of debate last night at a roundtable dinner discussion at the Aspen Institute, hosted by *Microsoft*. Microsoft has emerged as a proponent of some rules of the road for the largely Wild West that cloud computing companies such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon operate. Yes, that's right -- the company wants more rules. Microsoft has called on Congress to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to clearly apply to protections on the Web. And it wants stronger rules against cyber attacks by reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Continua qui: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/03/what.html

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World Economic Forum: The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

Networked Readiness Index dell'Italia: 48esima (su 133). Un anno fa: 45esima. Due anni fa: 42esima. See the trend? http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology… juan carlos

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Fw: [Creis_Terminal] L'Observatoire du Vote publie son rapportd'observation 2009
by Mariella Berra March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

Quelques informations de Bruxelles ----- Original Message ----- From: chantal richard To: creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:30 PM Subject: [Creis_Terminal] L'Observatoire du Vote publie son rapportd'observation 2009 A LIRE ABSOLUMENT Bonjour, Veuillez trouver ci-joint le communiqué de presse de l'Observatoire du Vote du 4 mars qui a publié son rapport d'observation 2009 "Incidence du vote électronique lors des élections européennes de 2009 sur la justesse des résultats, la participation et l'accroissement du vote blanc". Chantal Richard Informations complémentaires OBSERVATOIRE DU VOTE Chantal Enguehard Directrice Scientifique T. +33 6 25 17 59 19 Mèle : chantal.enguehard(a)observatoire-du-vote.eu Jean-Didier Graton Président T. + 33 1 73 99 5858 Mèle : jean-didier.graton(a)observatoire-du-vote.eu L'Observatoire du Vote : L'Observatoire du Vote, institut de recherche créé en 2006 à Bruxelles, étudie les spécificités, les contraintes et les conséquences des procédures et techniques de dématérialisation des opérations électorales et des systèmes de vote. Outre l'exécution de programmes de recherches pluriannuels, l'Observatoire fournit assistance, expertise et formation aux différents acteurs concernés par l'organisation et le contrôle des consultations et élections. Mme Chantal Enguehard, chercheuse française reconnue en Europe pour la qualité et l'indépendance de ses travaux sur le vote électronique, assure la direction scientifique de l'Observatoire depuis sa création en 2006 par M. Jean-Didier Graton, expert en droit et technologies de l'information. Adresse de correspondance en France : Certencia - O.d.V. 176 Avenue Charles de Gaulle F 92200 Neuilly sur seine Cordialement Chantal Richard Présidente de CREIS-Terminal (Centre de coordination pour la Recherche et l'Enseignement en Informatique et Société et Revue Terminal) sites web : http://www.lecreis.org/ http://www.revue-terminal.org contact(a)lecreis.org P Pensez environnement : n'imprimez que si nécessaire -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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IHT: "A crusade to save digital material"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

The IHT A crusade to save digital material March 18, 2010 | By PATRICIA COHEN Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie on display at Emory University, in Atlanta, are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable files, quickly accessible with a few clicks. But like most Rushdian paradises, this digital idyll has its set of problems. As research libraries and archives are discovering, ''born-digital'' materials - those initially created in electronic form - are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated. Electronically produced drafts, correspondence and editorial comments, sweated over by contemporary poets, novelists and nonfiction authors, are ultimately just a series of digits - 0's and 1's - written on floppy disks, CDs and hard drives, all of which degrade much faster than old-fashioned acid-free paper. Even if those storage media do survive, the relentless march of technology can mean that the older equipment and software that can make sense of all those 0's and 1's simply don't exist anymore. Imagine having a record but no record player. All of which means that archivists are finding themselves trying to fend off digital extinction at the same time that they are puzzling through questions about what to save, how to save it and how to make that material accessible. Continua qui: http://tinyurl.com/y9hxmuc

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IHT: "The End of Newspapers?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

March 17, 2010 I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor The End of Newspapers? By MARIE BÉNILDE Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don't know it. That was the assessment of a banker from BNP-Paribas at the French national press federation's conference in Strasbourg in 2006. His words caused a sensation, but the statistics support him: Having lost more than 2,300 jobs last year, the French press is going through a crisis similar to America's. Every national daily in France, apart from the sports daily, L'Equipe, has lost money. In the United States, only 300,000 people now work in newspapers, compared to 415,000 a decade ago. According to the management consultants Bain and Company, the Internet increased its share of global profits in the creative industries from 4 to 22 percent in the last 10 years, at the expense of the press, which saw its profits fall from 40 percent to 14 percent. The public has also become disillusioned with the content supplied by a journalistic elite that has lost credibility. Newspapers are increasingly seen as politically biased and uninterested in the needs of their readers. Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/opinion/17iht-edbenilde.html

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Repubblica: "SE LA GENERAZIONE WEB LEGGE PIÙ DEGLI ADULTI"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

SE LA GENERAZIONE WEB LEGGE PIÙ DEGLI ADULTI Repubblica --- 25 marzo 2010 pagina 47 sezione: CULTURA Sorpresa. I ragazzi di oggi, quelli compresi fra i 6 e i 17 anni, leggono molto più della media nazionale: 57 per cento contro 45, ed è un dato cresciuto quasi costantemente dal 2000 ad oggi, con buona pace di chi li dipinge ignoranti e vittime del piccolo schermo. È quanto emerge dall' ultima ricerca condotta dalla Nielsen per conto dell' Associazione Italiana Editori (Aie) su un campione di circa ottomila individui. Ricerca che verrà illustrata domani mattina all' Auditorium di Roma, nell' ambito della manifestazione "Libri Come". Il tutto alla presenza dello scrittore Federico Moccia e del giornalista di Radio Tre Giorgio Zanchini. «Abbiamo calcolato che, durante una giornata tipo, chi ha fra i 6 e i 17 anni attinge informazioni da 23 dispositivi diversi», spiega Cristina Mussinelli, consulente della Aie per il settore digitale e coordinatrice della ricerca. Continua qui: http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2010/03/25/se-l…

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internet e libertà, ethan zuckerman su Voci Globali
by Masera Anna March 26, 2010

March 26, 2010

http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplRubriche/vociglobali/grubrica.asp?ID_…

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NYTimes: Google Calls for Action on Web Limits
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 26, 2010

March 26, 2010

From The New York Times: Google Calls for Action on Web Limits A Google director said that censorship had become more than a human rights issue and was hurting profit. http://s.nyt.com/u/Q6T

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SAVE THE DATE "Il futuro delle nuove tecnologie al servizio del cittadino"
by Marco Pancini March 26, 2010

March 26, 2010

Cari Tutti, Come ho avuto modo di scrivervi qualche giorno fa, Google è lieta di invitarvi all'evento "Il futuro delle nuove tecnologie al servizio del cittadino", che si terrà il prossimo Mercoledì 31 Marzo a partire dalle ore 10,30 presso la Biblioteca del Senato "Giovanni Spadolini" (Piazza della Minerva 38, Roma) Interverrà Nelson Mattos<http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#mattos>, Vicepresidente Engineering di Google EMEA in un dibattito con rappresentanti del mondo istituzionale, accademico (parteciperà anche Juan Carlos), associativo ed imprenditoriale moderato dalla giornalista del TG1 Francesca Oliva. Vi preghiamo di confermare la vostra partecipazione all'indirizzo reti(a)retionline.it. Nell'attesa di discuterne con voi, cordialmente, marco -- Marco Pancini European Senior Policy Counsel Google Italy Corso Europa, 2 20122 Milano, Italia Tel. +39 02 36618524 Cell. +39.348.9946222 pancini(a)google.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/googlepolicyit 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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Responsabilita` degli intermediari (Era: Sentenza Corte di Giustizia UE)
by Andrea Glorioso March 26, 2010

March 26, 2010

A proposito della sezione "la responsabilita` del prestatore del servizio di posizionamento", il paragrafo 118 della decisione e` particolarmente importante: "By contrast, in the context of the examination referred to in paragraph 114 of the present judgment, the role played by Google in the drafting of the commercial message which accompanies the advertising link or in the establishment or selection of keywords is relevant." Ciao, Andrea 2010/3/23 Margherita Salvadori <margherita.salvadori(a)unito.it>: > Google non ha violato il diritto dei marchi consentendo agli inserzionisti > l'acquisto di parole chiave corrispondenti ai marchi dei loro concorrenti. > Gli inserzionisti invece non possono, mediante tali parole chiave, far > visualizzare da Google annunci che non consentano agli utenti di Internet di > capire facilmente da quale impresa provengono i prodotti o i servizi a cui > l'annuncio si riferisce > > (Sentenza nei procedimenti riuniti da C-236/08 a C-238/08, Google France & > Google Inc. e a. / Louis Vuitton Malletier e a.) > > v. comunicato stampa allegato. > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > >

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