Notes from the course Network Society: Social Changes, Organizations and Citizens, Barcelona, 15-17 October, 2008.
Citizenry in the Network SocietyCarol Darr, Harvard Kennedy School
One American in then tells the other nine how to vote, where to eat, and what to buy. They are The Influentials (Ed Keller & Jon Berry).
Obama had little influence, short experience, etc. to have rallied for being the democrat candidate to the presidency of the US: to raise votes and, most important, to raise money. What did happen so that he could be a candidate to the primary elections and, actually, to end being the candidate to the presidential elections? Everybody can buy products, but not everybody does: how do you make people buy your product? There’re some people that influence others to do...
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Carol Darr,
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Research seminar by professor Miquel Peguera at UOC headquarters about cyberlaw, focussing on ISP liability related to Intellectual Property Rights (mainly under the Spanish law).
Webs with links to P2P files
The case of Sharemula.com: main entertainment firms claim IP violation, because the site links (eD2k links) to files protected by copyright, shared in P2P networks. As Sharemula does not host itself the files, the site is not liable for copyright infringement.
Google Cache
The case of Megakini.com: quoting text in the search results is fair use; forbidding caching would be extending authors’ rights beyond its purpose.
(Surface) links
The case of Iura Rech: linking a web site is not a crime, but the link should be removed under petition.
Adwords
The conflict between organic...
Notes from the 4th Internet, Law and Politics Congress.Session I
Opening speech
Eben Moglen
Living Apart Together: Social Networking in the Free World
Capitalism produces inherently defective technology, mainly because of the short sightedness of the whole process. Global heating and the combustion engine being one of the most present short sightedness examples of capitalism today.
Social networking software might be at stake and be another good example of such defective technology, which will potentially cause social harm in the future as these technologies will deviate from appropriate, optimum, goals.
The Net was created with a socialist ideology: Absence of advertising, absence of surveillance, absence of tracking what one was doing (reading, writing) on the Net, a collaborative...
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e-Government, e-Administration
For the fourth time — see here some notes about last year’s congress — at the School of Law and Political Science, Open University of Catalonia, we organize our Internet, Law and Politics Congress, this year’s tagline quite an appealing one: Social Software and Web 2.0: Legal and Political Implications.
Programme (abridged)
Monday, 2 June 2008
Living Apart Together: Social Networking in the Free World. Eben Moglen. Professor of Law and Legal History, Columbia University Law School, and Chairman, Software Freedom Law Center, New York.
Regulation of audiovisual content in the age of digital convergence. Mónica Ariño, Joan Barata
Content on the internet: regulation or self-regulation?. Gonzalo Díe, Mónica Ariño, Amadeu Abril, Miguel Pérez Subías, Raquel Xalabarder....
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Cyberlaw, governance, rights,
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Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism,
e-Government, e-Administration
The first one to greet me when I stepped out the car in Pabbo IDP Camp, was this little boy. First pointing at me with his toy gun, then posing with a huge smile for a photo. I thought; 'That is almost too perfect, we all want to shoot a photo like that...'. I pushed the thought in the back of my head. Instead I tried to put him in the category 'children'. I sent a thought to my 4 year old nephew in Iceland, who has all options of making anything he wants. I sent a thought to the refugee children from Screbrenica I worked with in Tuzla in 1997, wishing that they have overcome the turmoils of their childhood.
On Tuesday I visited Pabbo IDP Camp, about 20 km north east of Gulu. Pabbo IDP Camp is the home of about 50,000 internally displaced persons - the biggest camp in northern Uganda....
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What does a development worker do?,
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Trying to catch the deluge in a papercup,
No-go-area,
LRA,
Peace Talks,
IDP
Monday and Tuesday I visited Gulu and Pabbo IDP Camp about 25 km north of Gulu. I went there a bit out of the extraordinary, as I was invited to Gulu by Willy Akena from the Diocese of Northern Uganda to help him promote news from their work - online.
It was my first time to Gulu - the second-largest town in Uganda. From the distance you can't help noticing the signs of conflict; the signposts alerting food security, land mine warnings or various NGO activities. For me the recent development of the Peace Talks in Juba has meant that I can drive the direct route from Arua to Gulu, just about 4½ hours on relatively good tarmac. As you see on the map the area I usually work in - West Nile and Adjumani - surrounds Gulu to the West. Due to the LRA I have driven Kampala - Masindi - Paraa -...