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Fw: Info DEL-CNRS : Open Legislative Data conference in Paris July 6-7

by Mariella Berra

----- Original Message ----- From: INFOS Réseau DEL/CNRS To: destinataires inconnus: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:21 PM Subject: Info DEL-CNRS : Open Legislative Data conference in Paris July 6-7 Dear colleagues, The Center for European Studies, Sciences Po Paris, Regards Citoyens and Madialab Sciences Po are organizing on the 6th & 7th July, 2012 the international conference: Open Legislative Data in Paris A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics. When? 6th & 7th July, 2012 Where? Sciences Po in Paris Who? The Law Factory (Regards Citoyens + Sciences Po) The conference has two aims: · To discuss the latest developments regarding parliamentary informatics, eg. parliamentary open data, computer analysis of parliamentary activities, e-parliament. · To assemble two groups that usually do not communicate: the academic world of legislative studies and individuals and organizations from across the open data and parliamentary informatics spectrum. What is the program ? · On the morning of the 6th of July, we'll have a plenary session with keynote speeches and the public presentation of several on-going projects like the Law Track System by the Law Factory Group. · On the afternoon of the 6th of July, there will be several parallel thematic sessions. · On the morning of the 7th of July, a hackspace in Paris will host an informal meeting devoted to performances, exchanging practices and networking. How do I get involved? We welcome different kind of presentations from individual or groups, from academics or hacktivists. or both! There will be two ways that you can participate: · Lightning presentations (5 minutes) · Talks (10-15 minutes) You'll find an on-line application form here: http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/submit-a-proposal/ Application must be sent before April 28th 2012! 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. To ask for a grant, please find more in Grant Call for Applications: http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/submit-a-proposal/ For further information, please find attached the call for application. Angela Tacea Research Assistant angela.tacea(a)sciences-po.org Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po 27 rue Saint-Guillaume 75337 Paris cedex 07 France Tél. +33 (0)1 45 49 55 10 - Fax +33 (0)1 45 49 83 60 www.sciences-po.fr -- Gérard Loiseau, CERTOP/CNRS (loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr) Stéphanie Wojcik, Université Paris-Est, Céditec (stephanie.wojcik(a)u-pec.fr) Réseau de recherche "Démocratie électronique" / Research network "Electronic Democracy" www.certop.fr/DEL Pour vous désabonner, envoyez un mail à loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr" / "To unsuscribe from the DEL mailing list, send an e-mail to loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr

April 26, 2012

Discussione Pubblica su Agenda Digitale Italiana

by lorenzo benussi

Buonasera a tutti, è da poco partita una discussione pubblica e aperta a tutti sull'agenda digitale italiana. Ogni contributo è importante. Trovate di seguito l'annuncio. ------------ L’ IDEARIO DELL’AGENDA DIGITALE ITALIANA http://adi.ideascale.com contatti: adisocial(a)istruzione.it #adisocial Il Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università e Ricerca nel contesto dell’Agenda Digitale Italiana lancia l’IDEARIO dell’Agenda Digitale Italiana, una discussione virtuale sulle azioni per sviluppare una strategia digitale in Italia. La discussione è aperta a tutti i cittadini, imprese e organizzazioni della società civile che intendano proporre delle idee inerenti agli obiettivi dell’Agenda Digitale Italiana. Oltre a lanciare le proprie idee, ogni partecipante potrà discutere le idee proposte da altri e votarle con lo scopo di esprimere il proprio consenso. La discussione ha l’obiettivo di consentire ai cittadini di inviare suggerimenti e proposte concrete alle istituzioni impegnate nella definizione dell’Agenda Digitale Italiana. La discussione avrà luogo su una piattaforma dedicata (http://adi.ideascale.com) e rimarrà aperta per tutta la durata dei lavori della Cabina di Regia. A conclusione dei lavori, il MIUR produrrà una relazione in cui saranno riportate le idee che hanno catalizzato la maggiore attenzione e le criticità più rilevanti emerse dal dibattito online. La relazione finale sarà valutata dai rispettivi tavoli di lavoro dell’Agenda Digitale Italiana e resa disponibile al pubblico. Come funziona? Ci sono tre fasi: 1) I cittadini inviano le loro idee 2) La comunità discute e vota le idee migliori 3) Le idee più votate salgono in cima alla lista: diventano più visibili e acquistano maggior valore all’interno della piattaforma. La “consultazione social” è una modalità nuova di discussione e confronto con il pubblico, attraverso la quale il cittadino può proporre delle azioni concrete a partire dalla propria esperienza e dalle proprie esigenze. Il MIUR intende utilizzare queste pratiche innovative per sfruttare le potenzialità della rete nel coinvolgimento dei cittadini alla definizione delle politiche pubbliche. Il Ministero sta lavorando per lanciare a breve delle linee guida allo scopo di creare una cultura di partecipazione tra i cittadini e all’interno delle stesse istituzioni. La consultazione social si affianca alla consultazione strutturata lanciata dalla Cabina di Regia dell’Agenda Digitale. ---- Lorenzo Benussi www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzobenussi ---------------------------------- ‎"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" Eleanor Roosevelt ---- Lorenzo Benussi - Fellow ----------------------------------- Department of Economics, University of Turin www.de.unito.it ---- "Knowledge is like a candle. Even as it lights a new candle, the strength of the original flame is not diminished." Thomas Jefferson

April 26, 2012

Klout Score? mai sentito prima..

by gianluca quaglia

What Your Klout Score Really Means Last spring Sam Fiorella was recruited for a VP position at a large Toronto marketing agency. With 15 years of experience consulting for major brands like AOL, Ford, and Kraft, Fiorella felt confident in his qualifications. But midway through the interview, he was caught off guard when his interviewer asked him for his Klout score. Fiorella hesitated awkwardly before confessing that he had no idea what a Klout score was. The interviewer pulled up the web page for Klout.com—a service that purports to measure users’ online influence on a scale from 1 to 100—and angled the monitor so that Fiorella could see the humbling result for himself: His score was 34. “He cut the interview short pretty soon after that,” Fiorella says. Later he learned that he’d been eliminated as a candidate specifically because his Klout score was too low. “They hired a guy whose score was 67.” Partly intrigued, partly scared, Fiorella spent the next six months working feverishly to boost his Klout score, eventually hitting 72. As his score rose, so did the number of job offers and speaking invitations he received. “Fifteen years of accomplishments weren’t as important as that score,” he says [...] continua qui http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_klout/ Qgl

April 26, 2012

ISHTIP summer school on IP and the Public Domain, 18-22 June

by Maurizio Borghi

Ancora pochi giorni per iscriversi con la quota ridotta! Un cordiale saluto a tutti, Maurizio Borghi ISHTIP<http://www.ishtip.org/> Summer Course: Intellectual Property and the Public Domain 18-22 June 2012 - Brunel University, London A one-week intensive course on the cultural, historical and theoretical evolution of the relationship between private rights and the public sphere. Participants will benefit from research-intensive contributions of world renowned scholars. Book your place now as the early bird rate applies until the end of April! Download the flyer here<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/174200/Brunel-ISHTIP-su…>. See the full progamme and all details here<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/law/research/events/ipimrg-intellectual-property,-i…>.

April 26, 2012

Le Lobby contro la trasparenza - la denuncia di ProPublica

by Alessandro Cappai

http://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-media-companies-lobbying-against… <a href= Alessandro Cappai write me: alessandrocappai(a)gmail.com (mailto:alessandrocappai@gmail.com) read me: http://savethecontents.com/ http://rethinkamerica.blogosfere.it/ call me: +393926609780 tweet me: @alessandro_c (http://twitter.com/#!/alessandro_c) facebook: http://fb.me/alessandrocappai posterous & tumblr: themashmap.posterous.com (http://themashmap.posterous.com/) - themashmap.tumblr.com (http://themashmap.tumblr.com/) > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

April 26, 2012

Understanding social media in China

by gianluca quaglia

*Understanding social media in China* The world's largest social-media market is vastly different from its counterpart in the West. Yet the ingredients of a winning strategy are familiar. APRIL 2012 . Cindy Chiu, Chris Ip, and Ari Silverman No Facebook. No Twitter. No YouTube. Listing the companies that don't have access to China's exploding social-media space underscores just how different it is from those of many Western markets. Understanding that space is vitally important for anyone trying to engage Chinese consumers: social media is a larger phenomenon in the world'sa second-biggest economy than it is in other countries, including the United States. And it's not indecipherable. Chinese consumers follow the same decision-making journey as their peers in other countries, and the basic rules for engaging with them effectively are reassuringly familiar. Surveying the scene In addition to having the world's biggest Internet user base---513 million people, more than double the 245 million users in the United States1---China also has the world's most active environment for social media. More than 300 million people use it, from blogs to social-networking sites to microblogs and other online communities.2 That's roughly equivalent to the combined population of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. In addition, China's online users spend more than 40 percent of their time online on social media, a figure that continues to rise rapidly. continua qui https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Marketing/Digital_Marketing/Understanding… Qgl

April 25, 2012

Preparare una lista per le prossime elezioni?

by Luigi Di Liberto

La Resistenza, il risveglio della coscienza nazionale, la Liberazione! un po' anche per me festa :X) http://www.scambioetico.org/?p=8481 Ciao, Gino

April 25, 2012

"Biometric Data Mining Applied to On-line" II invio in PDF doc.

by Marco Mendola

FYI (versione allegato PDF causa problemi con il link): "*Biometric Data Mining Applied to On-line* *Recognition Systems*" . José Alberto Hernández-Aguilar, Crispin Zavala, Ocotlán Díaz, Gennadiy Burlak, Alberto Ochoa and Julio César Ponce. Buon 25 aprile! A presto, *Marco Mendola*

April 24, 2012

"Biometric Data Mining Applied to On-line" Articolo Web.

by Marco Mendola

FYI (cfr. *infra* link): *"Biometric Data Mining Applied to On-line* *Recognition Systems"* * * José Alberto Hernández-Aguilar, Crispin Zavala, Ocotlán Díaz, Gennadiy Burlak, Alberto Ochoa and Julio César Ponce. http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/14647/InTech-Biometric_data_mining_applied_t… Buon 25 aprile! A presto, *Marco Mendola*

April 24, 2012

Neubot 0.4.11 released

by Simone Basso

Version 0.4.11 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6, Windows >= XP SP3 and FreeBSD, as well as in source format. Here's what changed in less than 140 characters: win32 auto updates prototype, bug fix for a database bug that corrupted pre-0.4.6 results, new event scheduler, cleanups, docs and fixes. Install, upgrade instructions at http://www.neubot.org/download, read on for more details. This release contains 111 commits. The diffstat says: 86 changed files with 4,102 additions and 278 deletions. Here is the list of what changed and why: - win32: auto updates prototype (still experimental) https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/781ae533 This commit includes support for automatic updates in the Windows environment. This piece of work is still marked "experimental", mainly because the code for signing and verifying the update tarball is not yet implemented. My opinion is that one can also trust and install code that is not signed, but I know that most people are not of the same advice. Hence, by default this feature is disabled, and I won't make it the default until there is sign/verify code. So, if you want to exploit it, make sure that you set ``win32_updater`` to ``1``, using the settings page (http://127.0.0.1:9774/settings.html) - database: fix pre-0.4.6 results corruption bug https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/33b479a8 In Neubot 0.4.6 I made a stupid programming mistake and introduced a bug in the database code. This bug caused pre-0.4.6 results to be somewhat corrupted. In particular, for each result row, values were permuted. Luckily it seems that the permutation depends on the version of Python and on the system architecture. This means that I'm confident that it's possible to undo this problem in most cases. The fix works like this. First, runs both the broken and the fixed code to compute the buggy permutation. Then, it scans the whole database of results and searches for suspicious lines, i.e. lines where the IP address does not look like an IP address, or the operating system name is not a string, etc. Whenever a suspicious line is found, the code tries to undo the buggy permutation. If the result after the undo makes sense, the code overwrites the suspicious line. Otherwise it is left untouched. Note that it takes some time to search the whole database and eventually fix suspicious lines. It should not be a tremendous boot-time issue: on UNIX Neubot forks before opening the database, while on MacOSX and Windows it is started as a background process. The worst thing that can happen is that, just after boot, Neubot uses a lot of CPU for quite some time. I have tested this bugfix passing Neubot big databases collected on the server side during the lifetime of the project. I have tried to be careful to guarantee that the algorithm to fix this bug consumes a constant amount of memory and does not fail spectacularly. I have, of course, also checked that the bugfix code does not screw new data. And I have also been quite conservative: the patch was finalized more than one month ago, but I decided not to include it in 0.4.10 to perform further testing. However if you notice any issue with it, please let me know as soon as possible. - www: add workaround for IE8 plot issues https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/fe5f9565 As reported by Joachim Kross (thanks!), speed and latency plots are empty with Internet Explorer 8, unless one enables the compatibility view mode. This release ships with a workaround, which loads the proper set of javascripts with Internet Explorer 8. With this fix in tree, plots are now shown correctly, both in compatibility and in normal mode. Thanks to Alessio Palmero Aprosio, who did most of the work needed to workaround this problem. - new event scheduler based on stdlib sched https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commit/2f70d911 Comparative tests showed that Python standard library scheduler module (``sched``) was more efficient than Neubot native one. As a consequence, quite some time ago I started working on a diff to replace Neubot scheduler with standard library one. During this release cycle I finally managed to finalize this work, and, since it was stable, I decided to include it in this relase. - More code rationalizations, cleanups, documentation improvements, and bug fixes. Full change log available here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.11.1/ChangeLog Diff since previous version here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/compare/0.4.10...0.4.11 Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.11 SHA256sums here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/sha256 Errata here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/errata Data here: http://www.neubot.org/data Short-term roadmap here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/todo Long-term roadmap here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/wiki/roadmap -- Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso>

April 24, 2012