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"La pecorina" va su Nature

by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it

Feb. 16, 2012

Un cloud "autarchico" per l'Italia??

by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO

forse seguendo l'idea francese alcuni anche nel nostro Paese paventano un cloud "tutto italiano", da qui qualche perplessità: http://goo.gl/aXyNa (Medialaws) AM -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Confirmed Assistant Professor http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Department of Production Systems and Business Economics Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy

Feb. 15, 2012

Un cloud "autarchico" per l'Italia?

by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO

forse seguendo l'idea francese alcuni anche nel nostro Paese paventano un cloud "tutto italiano", da qui qualche perplessità: http://goo.gl/aXyNa (Medialaws) AM -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Confirmed Assistant Professor http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Department of Production Systems and Business Economics Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy

Feb. 15, 2012

"The Next Web and its Impact on Government Communication", Bruxelles, 16 febbraio 2012

by Daria Santucci

Gentilissime/i, qualora possa interessarvi, vi segnalo il convegno "The Next Web and its Impact on Government Communication", domani a Bruxelles. Porterò un contributo nel panel del primo pomeriggio. Previsto live coverage (http://consilium.europa.eu/web4gov) e live tweeting (#web4gov). Buona giornata, Daria -- Daria Santucci, Ph.D. Professor of Web Communication Semiotics Communications Professional Journalist +39 347 2512926 www.vitaminapubblica.org www.progetto-rena.it/author/daria_santucci

Feb. 15, 2012

Rif: Fwd: [A2k] Facebook France helping Sarkozy... ? O_o

by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it

Feb. 15, 2012

Fwd: BOAI Ten Years On

by J.C. DE MARTIN

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: BOAI Ten Years On Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:27:06 -0500 From: LIBLICENSE <liblicense(a)GMAIL.COM> Reply-To: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <LIBLICENSE-L(a)LISTSERV.CRL.EDU> To: <LIBLICENSE-L(a)LISTSERV.CRL.EDU> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:30:25 +0200 From: Iryna Kuchma<iryna.kuchma(a)eifl.net> To mark the 10th anniversary of the BOAI -http://blog.soros.org/2012/02/ten-years-on-researchers-embrace-open-access/ Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access February 14, 2012 | by Melissa Hagemann How long does it take for an idea to turn into a movement for change? And how long before that movement achieves its goals? Today, the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, seems like a good time to ask these questions. The term “Open Access” (OA), the free online availability of research literature, was first coined at an Open Society sponsored meeting in Budapest in December 2001. The Information Program had supported the distribution of hard copies of scientific journals to universities in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and was interested in harnessing the power of the internet to more easily put academic research in the hands of those who could benefit. So we brought together leaders who were exploring alternative publishing models. The group hammered out a declaration that would provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research—much of which is publicly funded. The declaration, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, urged academics to place their research in institutional archives and it encouraged the creation of new open access journals. The result? Ten years on, troves of scholarly research and information—which had largely been the domain of elite universities and wealthy countries who could afford it—are freely available to the public. Today, Open Access is at the forefront of discussions about scholarly communications in the digital age. Open Access is taught in universities, debated in Parliaments, embraced and opposed by publishers, and most importantly, mandated by over 300 research funders and institutions, including the largest funder of research in the world, the U.S. National Institutes of Health. This rise to prominence is all the more remarkable when considering how ambitious the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was, as it sought to change an $8 billion industry. Few beyond the initial BOAI participants shared the vision that change was possible. The release of the BOAI declaration, urging publishers and academics to make research freely available, was followed by two similar initiatives that strengthened the base of support for Open Access: the Bethesda Statement from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Berlin Declaration which originated from the Max Planck Society. While HHMI, Max Planck, and OSF provided the framework, it has been the library and research communities who have organized their members and driven the Open Access agenda. Today, scholarly content and research is freely available online to doctors, patients, professors, and students around the world. Nearly 7,500 academic journals are readily accessible in the Directory of Open Access Journals and more than 2,000 archives are included in the Directory of Open Access Repositories. While much has been achieved to make research freely available, it’s fair to say the BOAI was initially greeted with immense scepticism – even ridicule – by the traditional scholarly publishing sector. Many of my favorite milestones for the movement have to do with the gradual softening of that initial stance, as some traditional publishers have begun to see the value of Open Access to their business. The launch in 2006 of PLoS One, the Open Access “mega-journal,” has been much copied by traditional publishers, and has put its OA publisher, the Public Library of Science, firmly in the black. The purchase of the OA publisher BioMed Central in 2008 by one of the two market leaders in scholarly journal publishing, Springer, further vindicated the OA model. We are also encouraged by support from major donors for medical research and from academic institutions. The Wellcome Trust in the UK was the first funder in the world to mandate Open Access to the research it funds. Many of the schools of Harvard University have also adopted OA mandates. But the single most exciting development in this field has been the National Institutes of Health mandate, launched in 2008, that requires research they fund using taxpayer money be made publicly available. This mandate alone places $30 billion of research in the hands of the public every year. However the fight for open access to research has not been won. The U.S. Congress is considering reversing the NIH mandate in a bill – the Research Works Act – backed by traditional publishers. Discussions of Open Access policies will be just one item on the agenda of a gathering of OA leaders, taking place today and tomorrow in Budapest. We plan to develop a set of recommendations which will help guide the movement over the next ten years. We will be exploring issues of sustainability, what we can do to further support OA in developing and transition countries, and what implications OA has for measuring the impact of research, and encouraging its reuse. But just like the first meeting in Budapest, we will be keeping the agenda as open as possible. We want to encourage the creative thinking that led to the conception of Open Access in the first place, thinking that has inspired a global movement which cannot now be claimed by any single institution, but is a testament to the power of a good idea to spread across institutional boundaries and disciplines. ****

Feb. 15, 2012

Roma, 22 Febbraio, Giornata di studio sul tema: Banda Larga e Societa'

by Norberto Patrignani

Carissim*, per vs info vi allego il link dell'evento in oggetto http://www.associazioneaict.it/gds_item.asp?item=277&nt=p saluto cordialmente Norberto Patrignani

Feb. 14, 2012

Impronte elettroniche: l’identità tra pubblico e privato

by Arturo Filastò

Nel 2008 scrissi questo saggio sulla privacy e l'identità senza mai pubblicarlo. Nonostante sia un po' datato secondo me contiene ancora degli spunti interessanti. http://hellais.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/impronte-elettroniche-lidentita-tra… (se siete iscritti anche in m-list e-privacy scusate per il crosspost) - Art.

Feb. 14, 2012

Fwd: [A2k] Facebook France helping Sarkozy... ? O_o

by J.C. DE MARTIN

(in mobilità) Begin forwarded message: > From: soufron <soufron(a)gmail.com> > Date: 14 febbraio 2012 14:09:41 GMT-05:00 > To: a2k(a)lists.keionline.org > Subject: [A2k] Facebook France helping Sarkozy... ? O_o > Reply-To: soufron(a)gmail.com > > Dear Guys, > > some of our French newspapers are reporting from France that Facebook > France has been informally assisting Nicolas Sarkozy's web campaign team so > as to give him some developer time, allow him to access advanced functions, > and create a Timeline on his Fan Page - a world premiere bringing tons of > good press to his campaign. > > Journalists and inside sources named a Facebook executive named Julien > Codorniou. For this purpose, he has been working directly with Nicolas > Princen, Sarkozy's official web advisor and Loic Le Meur, who is also very > close to the President. > > Their aim was to achieve a good media coverage for Nicolas Sarkozy, and > have him depicted as an advanced user of Internet communication - which you > and Marc Zuckerberg must know is far from the truth. > > This implication of Facebook within the French presidential campaign is > unacceptable. If they have really been working on such a feature for weeks > or months, they should have offered it equally to all the candidates, and > planned its release at the same time. > > I am aware that Facebook is no traditional media. However, I am surprised > that they would take sides in a presidential campaign by providing > technical and intellectual support which may give a competitive advantage > to one of the candidates. As a result, the staff of François Hollande - a > democrat and the current favorite - already decided to cancel a meeting > they had planned with the French representatives of Facebook. > > Who to forward it to at Facebook US...? > > I am sure they would be very surprised to learn that some of their people > are using their company's resources to support a republican candidate in a > local election... > > ... or maybe a story for you? Or any help you could think of? > > Here is an article about it in "L'Express": > http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/facebook-roule-t-il-pour-sarkozy… > > And it will be in "Le Canard Enchainé" tomorrow morning. > > Best regards, > > Jean-Baptiste Soufron > > blog : http://www.soufron.com > chroniques france culture : http://www.youtube.com/soufron > > phone: +33 (0) 970 466 928 > mobile: +33 (0) 648 741 510 > fax: +33 (0) 950 140 164 > skype: soufron > twitter: soufron > gtalk : soufron(a)gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > A2k mailing list > A2k(a)lists.keionline.org > http://lists.keionline.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k_lists.keionline.org

Feb. 14, 2012

Funzionalità di ricerca introdotta negli archivi delle liste del Centro NEXA

by Giuseppe Futia

Siamo lieti di informarvi che negli archivi delle mailing-list pubbliche del Centro NEXA su Internet & Società è stata introdotta la funzionalità di ricerca. Gli archivi delle liste che dispongono di tale funzionalità sono accessibili agli indirizzi seguenti: - lista nexa (http://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/) - lista nexa-announce (http://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/) - lista communia (http://lists.communia-project.eu/pipermail/communia/) - lista communia-associates ( http://lists.communia-association.org/pipermail/communia-associates/) - lista lapsi (http://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/lapsi/) -- Giuseppe Futia Communications Manager NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219

Feb. 14, 2012