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IGF a Parigi c/o UNESCO
by Andrea Cai Nov. 10, 2018

Nov. 10, 2018

Cari tutti, la prossima settimana qui al quartier generale dell'UNESCO a Parigi avremo l'onore di accogliere l'IGF2019 https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/678… Immagino che alcuni di voi verranno. Chi volesse passare per un saluto il mio ufficio è al 5o piano (5.013) o, visto che sarò per lo più in giro tra i vari meeting, il mio WhatsApp è +393384744556 Magari una delle sere post-IGF organizziamo una birra tra NEXA's alumni&friends. Approfitto anche per condividere una final draft degli Internet Universality Indicators che dopo una ampia consultazione sono in dirittura d'arrivo: https://en.unesco.org/internetuniversality Spero a presto Andrea Andrea CAIROLA Programme Specialist / Spécialiste du programme Division for Freedom of Expression and Media Development / Division pour la liberté d’expression et le développement des médias Communication and Information Sector / Secteur de la communication et de l’information United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 7, place de Fontenoy 75007 Paris, France Tel.: +33 (0) 1 4568 1044 a.cairola(a)unesco.org

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Will the population become redundant? | Eurozine
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 10, 2018

Nov. 10, 2018

https://www.eurozine.com/will-population-become-redundant/ Automated technology and the digital economy have revived old fears about mass redundancy, but also inspired visions of a productive symbiosis between human and mechanized labour. Economic historian Robert Skidelsky surveys both the pessimistic and optimistic traditions of economic thought on mechanization and asks how policy can offset the effects of the rapid technological changes underway today. (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Biometrics and video-surveillance for crime prevention
by Stefano Leucci Nov. 10, 2018

Nov. 10, 2018

Il trend è chiaro, non altrettanto i pesi sulla bilancia: - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/07/facial-image-matching-system-… - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/eu-border-lie-detection-syste… - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recognition-uk-polic… Come intervenire? È forse un terreno in cui la (tanto recentemente acclamata) Digital Ethics potrebbe avere un ruolo determinante, beyond the law? Curioso di opinioni e idee in merito, Stefano

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Community Network Manual published by FGV, ITU and ISOC
by Luca Belli Nov. 9, 2018

Nov. 9, 2018

Buongiorno, Condivido l'email qui di seguito sperando possa interessare Un caro saluto Luca Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting) It is a pleasure to announce the release of “The Community Network Manual: How to Build the Internet Yourself”, which is published in partnership by FGV<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.fg…>, ITU<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.itu.i…> and ISOC<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inter…> and is the 2018 outcome of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3)<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.intgo…> The Community Network Manual features a series of analyses providing guidance on how to build Community Networks and how to make them scalable, sustainable and law-compliant. The volume will be launched at the IGF, on Monday 12 November, at 11:20, during the DC3 Session: When the Unconnected Build Connectivity<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.intgo…> Community Networks are crowdsourced networks structured to be open, unrestricted, and to respect net neutrality. They rely on the active participation of local communities in the design, development, deployment, and management of shared infrastructure as a common resource. They are managed democratically by group of individuals and entities such as NGOs, local businesses, and/or public administrations. This is the third volume of a trilogy. Previous DC3 reports were dedicated, in 2017, to “Community networks: the Internet by the people, for the people<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunityc…>” and, in 2016, to “Community Connectivity: Building the Internet from Scratch<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F…>”. All volumes are freely available, under Creative Commons License. Below, you will find the table of contents of the Community Network Manual as well as the early praise by Bruno Ramos (ITU) and Andrew Sullivan (ISOC). Feel free to share this email through your networks Best regards Luca “Community networks represent a valuable alternative model that deserves to be explored to improve access to Information and Communication Technologies to underserved communities worldwide. ITU is committed to connecting the entire world’s people and this book and the work of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity offer inspiring and transparent guidance to foster digital inclusion.” Bruno Ramos, Director for the Americas Regional Office of the International Telecommunication Union “Community Networks offer a credible solution for building a digital future that puts people first. This volume is a testament to the excellent work of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity. It is a long-awaited guide that will allow many to participate in the Internet’s evolution, building an Internet for everyone..” Andrew Sullivan President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Society CONTENT PREFACE by Bruno Ramos................................................................................................................................ 9 ABOUT THE AUTHORS......................................................................................................................................... 13 1 Community Networks: Bridging Digital Divides through the Enjoyment of Network Self-determination...................................................... 23 Luca Belli PART I: How to Build your Community Network..................................................................... 41 2 Building Community Wireless Networks: A How-to Guide for the Curious................................................................................................................................ 43 Steven Mansour and Sascha Meinrath 3 Building Community LTE Networks with CoLTE....................................... 75 Spencer Sevilla, Pathirat Kosakanchit, Matthew Johnson and Kurtis Heimerl 4 The MAZI Toolkit for Do-It-Yourself Networking....................................... 103 Harris Niavis, Stavroula Maglavera, Aris Dadoukis and John Mavridis 5 LibreRouter: the Hardware and Software Platform for Community Networking........................................................................................................ 119 Nicolas Echániz and Florencia López Pezé PART II: Scalable, Sustainable and Law-compliant Community Networks.......... 131 6 Multiple Dimensions of Community Network Scalability................... 133 Roger Baig Viñas, Leandro Navarro and Ramon Roca i Tió 7 Federating Community Networks: A Case-study from France................................................................................................. 159 Félix Tréguer 8 Fostering Sustainability of Community Networks: Guidelines to Respect the European Legal Framework..................... 177 Virginie Aubrée and Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay 9 Complementary Networks Meet Complementary Currencies: Guifi.net Meets Sardex.net ............................................................................................... 189 Panayotis Antoniadis, Jens Martignoni, Leandro Navarro and Paolo Dini 10 What Could Blockchain do for Community Networks......................... 223 Panayotis Antoniadis and Jens Martignoni 11 DECLARATION ON COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY........................................................ 248 [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio.jpg] Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_tel.jpg]+55 21 3799 5763 t @1lucabelli<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio_map.j… de Botafogo, 190 13º andar Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP: 22250-900 [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_email.jpg] luca.belli(a)fgv.br<mailto:luca.belli@fgv.br> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]inter… <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finternet-…>

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UN Special Rapporteur analyses AI’s impact on human rights
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 9, 2018

Nov. 9, 2018

https://edri.org/un-special-rapporteur-report-artificial-intelligence-impac… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Partecipare da Roma ai mercoledì di NEXA
by de petra giulio Nov. 9, 2018

Nov. 9, 2018

Mi fa piacere comunicarvi che, nell'ambito della collaborzione tra il CRS (Centro per la Riforma dello Stato) e il centro NEXA, a partire dal prossimo mercoledì 14 novembre, dedicato all'incontro con Ugo Mattei ed Alessandra Quarta, sarà possibile partecipare insieme da Roma ai mercoledì di Nexa. L'appuntamento per i nexiani romani o di passaggio è alla sala AAMOD (Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico) in via Ostiense 106 alle 17,30. A presto Giulio

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NYT: "A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 9, 2018

Nov. 9, 2018

*A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley** * /“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”// / By Nellie Bowles Oct. 26, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO — The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children anywhere near them. A wariness that has been slowly brewing is turning into a regionwide consensus: The benefits of screens as a learning tool are overblown, and the risks for addiction and stunting development seem high. The debate in Silicon Valley now is about how much exposure to phones is O.K. “Doing no screen time is almost easier than doing a little,” said Kristin Stecher, a former social computing researcher married to a Facebook engineer. “If my kids do get it at all, they just want it more.” [...] Continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html

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How a Month without Computers Changed Me
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 9, 2018

Nov. 9, 2018

Resoconto molto interessante ... <https://dev.to/iskin/how-a-month-without-computers-changed-me-1ho4> No emails left for me to read. Nor write. I’ve sent a message to my family and delegated my open source projects (Autoprefixer and PostCSS) to my friends. With my last tweet sent, I turn off my laptop, phone, and tablet. My Digital Sabbath begins in 10 minutes: no digital devices for the next month. The Month of Ramadan It began with a post <https://sajjadi.livejournal.com/158713.html> about the Islamic month of Ramadan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan>, when one is not allowed to drink or eat until ‘the first star appears in the sky’ (imagine how difficult it must be fasting like that in Norway, during the polar day). The Ambassador explained that religious people deny themselves what everyday life has to offer to understand how great God’s grace is. This idea gave birth in my imagination to a technocratic state where people do without soy and genetically modified foods for a year just to see: natural agriculture is costly and might lead to global hunger. Then I asked myself if ‘technological fasting’ could do one good in modern society. Technology has changed the world in the blink of an eye, leaving us no time to reflect on it. What if a month without modern technology could ‘travel’ you to the past? What if there is a way you could compare your technology-relying self to what you once were? I had doubts. My love of IT and addiction to digital overload were not going to make it easy. But then I learned about this effort of a computer-weary <https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-online-after-a…> The Verge journalist. My life, he wrote, had become so much better without the computers. To me, his report seemed not without bias, and I decided to take my own journey into the pre-digital world—this time to be seen through the eyes of a programmer. [...] Digital technologies are something more than routine tools we use without thought. The digital world has grown into our souls, created whole new worlds for our imagination and creativity, introduced us to so many people we would have never met otherwise—without us noticing it. The digital world needed no neuro-interfaces or cyberpunk-books to become part of us. The most painful thing about my Digital Sabbath was the feeling of something missing deep down inside. I came to the conclusion that IT hadn’t changed the world around, but created another, a parallel one. The reason we are always nervous and never have enough time is that we are living two lives now. It’s without a doubt difficult, yet how interesting it is to be living two times as much! [...]

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Microsoft’s president says we need to regulate facial recognition tech before ‘the year 2024 looks like the book “1984”’
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 9, 2018

Nov. 9, 2018

<https://www.recode.net/2018/11/7/18072048/facial-recognition-regulation-bra…> Facial recognition software is already prevalent in a lot of mainstream technology products. You may even use a few of them, like Facebook photo tagging, Snapchat or Instagram face filters, or the iPhone’s Face ID, which uses facial recognition to unlock the phone. Future uses of the technology may not be so harmless. Microsoft President Brad Smith laid out a frightening scenario in which facial recognition technology, if left unchecked, could totally change the way we live and what privacy people are able to retain, if any. “It potentially means every time you walk into a store, a retailer knows when you were in there last, what good you picked out, what you purchased,” he said at Web Summit, a tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday. “I think even that frankly pales in comparison to what it could do to relationships between individuals and the state.” Smith went on to describe what sounds like a total doomsday scenario for facial recognition technology, a scenario on par with the idea that automation will replace all jobs, or Elon Musk’s projected AI apocalypse <https://www.recode.net/2017/7/25/16026184/mark-zuckerberg-artificial-intell…>. Here’s Smith’s concern: For the first time, the world is on the threshold of technology that would give a government the ability to follow anyone anywhere, and everyone everywhere. It could know exactly where you are going, where you have been and where you were yesterday as well. And this has profound potential ramifications for even just the fundamental civil liberties on which democratic societies rely. Before we wake up and find that the year 2024 looks like the book “1984,” let’s figure out what kind of world we want to create, and what are the safeguards and what are the limitations of both companies and governments for the use of this technology. Microsoft does build facial recognition technology, and Smith has been public in the past about the need for regulation <https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/07/13/facial-recognition-tec…>. Facebook and Apple do, too. Amazon sells its facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, an arrangement that has angered some of the company’s employees <https://www.recode.net/2018/11/5/18062008/amazon-ice-we-wont-build-it-all-h…> who are worried about how it’s used for surveillance purposes. The logical move to prevent this is to put regulations or rules in place to limit how the technology can be used. The problem is that, at least in the U.S., politicians haven’t shown an ability to agree on much tech regulation. Even with some new leadership in place following this week’s U.S. midterms, it’s unclear if there is any kind of consensus to keep tech companies in check. Smith isn’t the only one concerned about tech regulation. Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, who joined Smith onstage at Web Summit, also stressed the importance of tech regulation. “I don’t think the governments are yet equipped to understand [these issues], but I think they need to be,” Blair said. “It really is necessary for those in the tech world ... to educate the policy makers as to what this means.” Blair believes there is a real pessimism around technology right now — which also means an opportunity for politicians to lean into regulation and use that to shape a positive story around how technology will impact people’s lives moving forward. “The first group of politicians to seize that opportunity and to create that narrative will be the ones that [own] the future of politics,” he said.

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Awful AI
by Giacomo Tesio Nov. 8, 2018

Nov. 8, 2018

> *Awful AI* is a curated list to track *current* scary usages of AI - > hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society > > Artificial intelligence in its current state is unfair > <https://github.com/rockita/criticalML> and easily susceptible to attacks > <http://www.cleverhans.io/security/privacy/ml/2016/12/16/breaking-things-is-…>. > Nevertheless, more and more concerning the uses of AI technology are > appearing in the wild. This list aims to track *all of them*. We hope > that *Awful AI* can be a platform to spur discussion for the development > of possible contestational technology (to fight back!). > https://github.com/daviddao/awful-ai Raccolta interessante, sebbene sicuramente parziale. Al momento mancano, per esempio, tutte le applicazioni robotiche autonome che hanno effettivamente ucciso esseri umani. Giacomo

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