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Appena pubblicato: "COVID-19 outbreak response: first assessment of mobility changes in Italy following lockdown"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

COVID-19 outbreak response: first assessment of mobility changes in Italy following lockdown /Authors:/ /Emanuele Pepe (1), Paolo Bajardi (1), Laetitia Gauvin (1), Filippo Privitera (2), Ciro Cattuto (1,3), Michele Tizzoni (1)/ /1. ISI Foundation/ /2. Cuebiq Inc./ /3. University of Turin/ /*Notice*: this is preliminary analysis, has not yet been peer-reviewed and is updated daily as new data becomes available. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. A summary of this report can be downloaded here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bu-QYturpwdrWPKdTTIzwAWoIkPBIOOK/view?usp=…>/ Background The mitigation measures enacted as part of the response to the unfolding SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are unprecedented in their breadth and societal burden. A major challenge in this situation is to quantitatively assess the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions like mobility restrictions and social distancing, to better understand the ensuing reduction of mobility flows, individual mobility changes, and impact on contact patterns. Here we report preliminary results on tackling the above challenges by using de-identified, large-scale data from a location intelligence company, Cuebiq, that has instrumented smartphone apps with high-accuracy location-data collection software. We focus this initial analysis on Italy, where the COVID-19 epidemic has already triggered an unprecedented and escalating series of restrictions on travel and individual mobility of citizens. Continua qui: https://covid19mm.github.io/in-progress/2020/03/13/first-report-assessment.…

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"Coronavirus Tech Handbook"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

*Coronavirus Tech Handbook* a crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/

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Israel: Attorney General Approves Cyber Tech to Track Coronavirus Patients
by Luigi Scorca March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

https://www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news/.premium-israel-to-use-cyber-tech-t… Luigi

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Post di Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

/Traduzione automatica effettuata da Facebook dall'originale ungherese./ https://www.facebook.com/barabasi/posts/10163040501220612 In the next few months, I will most likely become infected. Billions of crown virus will be produced in my body, starting a desperate fight with my immune cells. However, in the absence of chronic disease, in Boston, I hope my immune system will win. Yet I'm really worried about the virus. So much that I think it is inevitable that we will close the world for two months. I don't do this for myself, but for my mother. In the lab since February, we know that the world will stop in mid-March. I mentioned this to a lot of friends weeks ago, but even for me it was hard to understand what this means. Now we start to see it -- it's going to be a hard two months and the best is yet to go. I knew what was going to happen because at the Boston Network Science Institute where I work, my colleagues have been able to predict the spread of the current virus for years. They were followed by is, Ebola, and now it's the crown virus. I'm not moving out to the theory of the problem network - this is what the and is about x. And my school book x. Chapter (http://networksciencebook.com/) The virus caused by the crown virus is a network problem, so a network method and thinking is needed to predict its spread and finally control. Now we understand that the virus cannot be stopped. It will spread regardless of how many countries close their border and how many flights will be cancelled or how many schools have been closed. Where ten patients are in hospital, there are hundreds of infected people in the community. Many will never know that they were infected because they had no signs. But the virus is spreading through them too. We are already over the point that we can stop the spread of Cov-19 with a whom of a stay. Ebola could be written like this, but the crown virus is too contagious and is too spread. In addition, we can't expect shots this year. If it is unstoppable, then why do we put the brake in? Why do we close schools, why do we push the world economy into a recession? For one reason - to slow down. Because this way we can save our parents, our grandparents, and sometimes ourselves. Every model predict that about half of the population will be infected within a year. In the absence of action, the process will follow a well-expected fast growth, a strong peak, then a strong peak. However, there will be no hospital capacity for everyone who needs this. And the top is scary close -- thousands will be infected within weeks if we don't do anything. In the example of Italy, we see what happens when the virus is free -- in the absence of capacity, doctors have to decide over life and death, to help some patients, and let others go without a means. Many continue to lie that we are facing a safe flu virus, which is safe to many of us, because it avoid young people and especially children. This is not true - the crown virus is spread faster than the flu and does not meet immune. By the time the flu reaches Europe in the fall, a large number of population is already vaccinated against it, making it harder to spread. The Crown virus is contagious without obstacles and causes death in the elderly and patients. I'm most worried about the elderly. Everyone who is old or sick in their family, neighbor, house, is responsible. Don't bring the virus home! Make them understand that the danger to them is very real! Make sure they have food, and if they don't, shop for them! Help them to be separate for the next two months! And do your best not to spread the virus, to reduce the load of health care. If we all take cov-19 seriously, we can avoid being sick at the same time. This is how supply and oxygen can remain for those who get serious infection. But if we don't do everything we can to slow down the disease, by the end of the year, a lot of us will be without parents and grandparents.

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Reuters: Special Report: Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics
by Luigi Scorca March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-response-specialre/it… Luigi

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Coronavirus, Chiesa e digitale
by don Luca Peyron March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020

Cari nexiani, condivido un lavoro di equipe che il servizio per l'Apostolato digitale della Diocesi ha realizzato rispetto a questo tempo ed all'uso del digitale. Alcuni aspetti sono più strettamente di "bottega", altri meno. Buona lettura a chi desidera. dl https://www.apostolatodigitale.it/riflessioni/coronavirus-digitale-vita-e-f… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Terry Fisher: “Emergency Online Pedagogy” - Berkman Klein Center Collection - Medium
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020

Consigli su didattica online da uno dei pionieri (oltre che studioso di grandissimo livello), il Prof. Terry Fisher di Harvard: https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/emergency-online-pedagogy-28a453570… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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autodichiarazione che "fa senso": basterebbe seguire l'esempio della Cina.
by Giovanni Biscuolo March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020

Interessante proposta: https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2020/03/12/coronavirus-forse-queste-autodi… --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- E non sarebbe per nulla impossibile procedere digitalmente nella raccolta delle dichiarazioni dei cittadini, anzi, dagli anni ’90 leggi italiane prevedono procedimenti amministrativi totalmente digitalizzati che avrebbero – attraverso appunto app sviluppate anche per l’occasione (ma che da tempo dovrebbero essere in uso nella nostra Pa) – velocizzato di molto procedure farraginose di acquisizione cartacea di informazioni. D’altronde basterebbe seguire l’esempio della Cina dove è possibile “autodichiarare” via app, tramite un QrCode, veloce e senza contatto fisico. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Magari una Smart App che via GPS tracci il tuo percorso e lo trasmetta ai server del Ministero dell'Interno che lo memorizzano per 20 anni - giusto il tempo della prescrizione - così che possano verificare l'autenticità dell'autodichiarazione, già che ci siamo. Seguire l'esempio della Cina: questa me la segno per quando l'emergenza sarà finita :-) Ah, i mitici anni '90! :-D Saluti, Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures

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Coronavirus divides tech workers into the 'worthy' and 'unworthy' sick | Technology | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-divides-tech…> When Josh Borden arrived for work at the Google offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday morning, it felt like arriving in a “ghost town”. The parking lot was deserted, there was no breakfast being served in the cafeteria, and the nap rooms were tagged with signs announcing their closure “as a precaution given the Covid-19 situation”. “The office is so empty,” he told me. “Even more so than when the Googlers have their ski trip.” The day before, Google had asked all its North American employees to begin working from home due to the coronavirus – a policy that has since been expanded to the rest of its global workforce. But Borden, a triage analyst who has worked for Google for about four years, is one of the approximately 135,000 people who make up Google’s “extended workforce”: temps and subcontractors who perform work for, but are not technically employed by, the $830bn company. And though Borden and his co-workers perform computer-based tasks that could just as easily be completed from home as those of other technical workers, Google does not allow them to access their work from home. “The FTEs [full-time employees] almost all seem to be heeding the recommendation to work from home, while we are sitting here in the Petri dish, with the choice of not getting paid, or maybe getting sick and then putting our family and friends at risk too,” Borden said. “I’ve heard from multiple people that they feel like we’ve been forgotten and abandoned – and that our health and safety is clearly less important than the Googlers’. “Our second-class status now has literal health implications,” he added. In many ways, the technology industry has been ahead of the curve in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Facebook and Google were quick off the mark in cancelling conferences, and the industry has for the most part adapted quickly to the global imperative for social distancing by encouraging employees to work from home. And it’s not only the higher-paid technical workers who are being considered. Microsoft was the first to commit to paying hourly workers such as shuttle drivers and food service workers, even if their work hours are reduced as a result of the disease, a policy that was then adopted by other companies. Gig economy companies such as Uber and Lyft have announced plans to fund 14 days of sick leave for drivers who are diagnosed with Covid-19 or placed under quarantine. Amazon initially announced that it would not penalize warehouse workers for taking unpaid time off if they were sick during the month of March. On Wednesday, it announced a new policy that will provide paid sick leave for all employees affected by the coronavirus, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Ministero della Giustizia e MS Skype: necessaria neutralità tecnologica
by Pier Paolo Franco March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

Buonasera, non è mia intenzione sollevare polemiche in un momento difficile. Vedasi il comunicato allegato, secondo il quale il Ministero della Giustizia ha deretato le modalità di videconferenza mediante i software proprietari e *non interoperabili con altre tecnologie* (oltre che a pagamento) Skype for Business e Teams, entrambi di Microsoft. Vorrei sottoporre alla lista il problema dell'attivazione delle videoconferenze mediante Skype. Sperando che nel prossimo futuro, se effettivamente andrà a regime, si possa far passare la necessità dell'individuazione di uno strumento tecnico quanto più neutro o quantomeno interoperabile tra i vari provider di videochat (Zoom, Cisco, Hangout di Google, ecc.) Cordiali saluti. Avv. Pier Paolo Franco

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