Safer Internet Day 2010, 9 February
Think B4 U post!
Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.
On Safer Internet Day 2010 , INSAFE launches the campaign “Think B4 U post”.
What’s new?
New technologies have turned all of us, and mostly young people, into publishers of information, pictures, videos: photos and videos can be taken at any time with a mobile phone, they can be sent to a list of contacts and uploaded on a blog or a social networking profile in a minute. Photos, once online, remain online and can be seen by anybody, even years after they have been posted.
The possibility of tagging people in pictures, offered by most social networking services, makes it very easy to search for a person’s photos online . We can also manage our online identity in a way which may turn us into “celebrities”.
What’s the problem?
New technologies give tremendous opportunities for creativity. Children and teenagers, who are major users of social networking sites and other new online services, use them to express their identity. But, at the same time, children and young people are in the process of developing their personality and may be particularly vulnerable to gossip and bullying.
Young people do not always realize that the personal information they post remains online and it can be accessed by anyone (including their parents, teachers, future employers, predators…). Many employers now check their job candidates online. Personal information contained in social networking profiles can be used by unscrupulous individuals for purposes which may include grooming.
Innocent pictures can easily be displayed in a completely different context, leading to embarrassement, or even bullying. Because of the digital nature of the photos, they can be cut, pasted, altered or distorted.
What can we do?
Children and teenagers need to be empowered to manage their online identity, including publishing of pictures and videos, in a responsible way. This is why INSAFE decided to launch the campaign “Think B4 U post !” on Safer Internet Day 2010. Children and teenagers should be made aware that they can control their online identity, by using the privacy settings offered by social networing services, selecting friends online that they can trust, publishing their own photos after thinking carefully about the potential consequences, and pictures of their friends with their permission.
Info: INS@FE
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The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation. We are striving towards a world-class corporate governance system where values are as important a basis as rules. Our motto is ‘entrepreneurship in the global public interest’. We believe that economic progress without social development is not sustainable, while social development without economic progress is not feasible.
Our vision for the World Economic Forum is threefold. It aims to be: the foremost organization which builds and energizes leading global communities; the creative force shaping global, regional and industry strategies; the catalyst of choice for its communities when undertaking global initiatives to improve the state of the world.
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INCA – Origine e misteri delle civiltà dell’oro – Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia – 4 Dicembre 2009 – 27 Giugno 2010
Attraverso una panoramica di splendidi reperti, l’esposizione ripercorre le tappe principali delle civiltà che si sono susseguite in Perù e documenta le loro straordinarie realizzazioni.
Sono presentati oltre duecentosettanta reperti: grandi opere in ceramica, raffinate lavorazioni in oro, turchese, legno, nonché tessuti con applicazioni di penne, in una straordinaria varietà di espressioni artistiche.
È un percorso ricco e articolato, un viaggio alla scoperta della visione sacra del mondo che caratterizzò le culture dell’antico Perù. La mostra evoca la magia e il mistero che ancora avvolge queste civiltà, svelando i riti e le celebrazioni che ne hanno ritmato la vita.
Scopriamo il profondo rapporto che legava i popoli preispanici alla natura che li circondava e che essi osservavano, rispettavano e veneravano. Emerge la spiritualità quale elemento portante di queste civiltà intimamente legate alle forze che controllavano l’ordine dell’universo e che garantivano la stessa sopravvivenza dell’uomo.
Di tutto questo la mostra è un racconto per immagini. Un’occasione unica per vedere riuniti insieme tumi (coltelli) sacrificali, maschere funerarie, narigueras, orecchini, collari, diademi e vestiti ricoperti di placche dorate.
I reperti esposti richiamano le celebrazioni, i riti, le musiche e le danze che accompagnavano i momenti salienti della vita di questi popoli. Tra le sale espositive risuona un senso del sacro irriducibilmente “altro” ma, al contempo, sorprendentemente vicino, in un dispiegarsi di materiali di rara bellezza. Così le civiltà dell’oro si svelano in tutto il loro splendore: un tripudio di espressioni, forme, stilemi, simboli per sempre capaci di affascinare.
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Fonte: Incabrescia
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The public domain, as we understand it, is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually associated with copyright protection, either because it is free from any copyright protection or because the right holders have decided to remove these barriers. It is the raw material from which new knowledge is derived and new cultural works are created.
After decades of measures that have drastically reduced the public domain, typically by extending the terms of protection, it is time to strongly reaffirm how much our societies and economies rely on a vibrant and ever expanding public domain. The role of the public domain, in fact, already crucial in the past, it is even more important today, as the Internet and digital technologies enable us to access, use and re-distribute culture with an ease and a power unforeseeable even just a generation ago. The Public Domain Manifesto aims at reminding citizens and policy-makers of a common wealth that, since it belongs to all, it is often defended by no-one. In a time where we for the first time in history have the tools to enable direct access to most of our shared culture and knowledge it is important that policy makers and citizens strengthen the legal concept that enables free and unrestricted access and reuse.
We invite you to read the Manifesto and sign it, if you wish to show your support. We also invite you to share this site (http://publicdomainmanifesto.org) with your contacts and friends. The Public Domain Manifesto is also on Facebook. Also remember to celebrate the Public Domain Day every year on New Year’s Day.
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A day in a differtent universe è quello che si vivrà partecipando alla quarta edizione del Javaday Roma, sabato 30 gennaio 2010.
Una full immersion di cinque ore ad altissima velocità verso nuovi universi di conoscenza. Un evento che permetterà a studenti, utenti esperti ed a semplici appassionati sia di approfondire la tecnologia sia di conoscere le ultime novità del mondo Java.
La manifestazione, organizzata direttamente dai membri della community Java romana in maniera volontaria, ha coinvolto nelle scorse edizioni migliaia di professionisti.
Durante l’evento si potrà consegnare alle aziende Sponsor il proprio curriculum vitae per avere nuove opportunità professionali.
E’ possibile partecipare anche come relatori dei seminari sottoponendo la propria proposta al comitato tecnico tramite la Call for paper pubblica.
E’ indetto un concorso per i laureati in Ingegneria Informatica di tutte le Università italiane. Possono partecipare al bando sia le tesi magistrali che triennali sviluppate con la tecnologia Java.
L’ingresso al Javaday Roma è come sempre gratuito.
Per ogni informazione: http://roma.javaday.it/
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Personal Learning Environments (PLE) include the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. The idea of the PLE represents a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a textbook, or an LMS, moving instead to a model where students draw connections from a growing matrix of resources that they select and organize. Because they emphasize relationships, PLEs can promote authentic learning by incorporating expert feedback into learning activities and resources. A PLE also puts students in charge of their own learning processes, challenging them to reflect on the tools and resources that help them learn best. By design, a PLE is created from self-direction, and therefore the responsibility for organization—and thereby for learning—rests with the learner. (7 things you should know about Personal Learning Environments, Educause 2009).
The PLE Conference is intended to produce a space for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experience and research around the development and implementation of PLEs including the design of environments, sociological and educational issues and their effectiveness and desirability as (informal) learning spaces.
Whilst the conference includes a traditional research paper strand, we also encourage proposals for sessions in different formats including workshops, posters, debates, cafe sessions, hands on sessions and demonstrations. There will be a Spanish strand, so contributions in Spanish are also welcome!
We will also provide opportunities for unconferencing events, including the provision of spaces for informal meetings and discussions. Although the main conference takes place on 8th and 9th of July, there will be an informal launch event (with wine and tapas!) on the evening of Wednesday 7th.
As well as the face to face sessions, the conference will be supported by a variety of different online spaces. You can join the YouTube group for the PLE conference at http://www.youtube.com/group/PLE2010CONF. The YouTube group will also be used for the Mediacast Contest: a celebration of User Generated Content with awards for the best three mediacast productions on Personal Learning Environments.
Selected papers will be published by the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments..
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Sign the Free Software pact
Welcome to the Free Software Pact Initiative!
Free Software advocacy associations April (the main French advocacy association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre Software) and “Associazione per il software libero” (Italy) have launched a joint campaign aimed at the European Parliament elections in early June 2009.
The campaign invites citizens to ask candidates to sign the Free Software Pact.
The Free Software Pact is a simple document with which candidates can inform the voting public that they favor the development and use of Free Software, and will protect it from possible threatening EU legislation.
The Free Software Pact is also a tool for citizens who value Free Software to educate candidates about the importance of Free Software and why they should, if elected, protect the European Free Software community.
Free Software is worth protecting because it offers a way for European computer users to reclaim the essential freedoms that proprietary software denies them. There are four of these freedoms: to run the program as you wish, to study the source code and change it to do what you wish, to redistribute copies, and to distribute your modified versions. With these freedoms, the users are in control of the program. Without them, the developer controls the program, and indirectly controls its users.
Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, declares: “Big dangers threaten the freedoms of Free Software in Europe: software patents, DRM, bundled sales, treacherous computing … I call on all European citizens who value Free Software to join this campaign, contact their candidates and have them sign the Free Software Pact.”
We have a special platform that we are willing to leave at your disposal for the campaign management: GPT (Grassroot Platform Technology). It is packaged and ready for multilinguism. We also had the “Free Software Pact” translated into several languages so as to ease the job for anyone would like to use it. We also put online some guides to help you and your volunteers handle the campaign and the relationship with the candidates.
Since 2007, French association April has sensitized candidates to political elections about Free Software related issues through the Candidats.fr initiative. The Candidats.fr initiative was part of the presidential and legislative campaigns in 2007, and continued during the 2008 campaign for city and department elections. Today 74 signatories are members of the French National Assembly. Associazione per il software libero started the campaign caro candidato in 2006 The campaign was first updated in occasion of the 2008 political elections and further in 2009 in occasion of the Sardinia regional elections. Joining forces was a natural step for the 2 free software associations that offer their technological platform to allow the spreading of the campaign in other european nations.
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In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. To keep the process on the line there is an urgent need for a new climate protocol. At the conference in Copenhagen 2009 the parties of the UNFCCC meet for the last time on government level before the climate agreement need to be renewed.
Therefore the Climate Conference in Copenhagen is essential for the worlds climate and the Danish government and UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes.
The Climate Conference will take place in the Bella Center. The conference centre is placed not far from Copenhagen and near the Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup.
Governmental representatives from 170 countries are expected to be in Copenhagen in the days of the conference accompanied by other governmental representatives, NGO’s, journalists and others. In total 8000 people are expected to Copenhagen in the days of the climate meeting.
Minister for Climate and Energy, Connie Hedegaard. Photo: Jakob Dall |
The host of the meeting in Copenhagen is the government of Denmark represented by Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister of Climate and Energy and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. The official sekretariat is placed in connection to The Prime Ministers Office in Copenhagen. Originally the hosting of the climate conference was initiated by the former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Photo: Hung Tien Vu |
The Danish Government has decided that not only the subject of the conference should be focused on the climate but also the conference itself. Among other initiatives the organizers work on mounting af windmill near the Bella Center to produce climate friendly electricity for the conference.
The conference in Copenhagen is the 15th conference of parties (COP15) in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The recent meeting in United Nations Climate Change Conferences was held in December 2007 in Bali.
Danish Prime Minister
Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
The secretary for the climate conferences is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC - based in the German city Bonn.
An important part of the scientific background for the political decisions taken on the conferences is made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
The IPCC is Established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In 2007 the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Price).
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is organized in cooperation between the Ministry of Climate and Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister’s Office.
The adress of the secretariat for the Climate Conference is:
COP15
The Climate Secretariat
The Prime Minister’s Office
Christiansborg
Prins Jørgens Gård 11
1218 København K
Denmark
Tel (+45) 33 92 33 00, Fax (+45) 33 11 16 65
The Official secretariat of the 15th Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen Climate Network
Ehlersvej 11
2900 Hellerup
Denmark
Tel (+45) 39 48 18 10, Fax (+45) 39 48 18 01
A Danish network that will underpin the Copenhagen Climate Summit, thus making the 2009 UN climate summit a success for the benefit of sustainable climate policy. The network will use the period before, under and after the Copenhagen Climate Summit to establish networks among businesses, individuals and organisations supporting a climate policy focusing on the environment.
Copenhagen Climate Council
c/ Mandag Morgen
Valkendorsgade 13
Box 1127
1009 Copenhagen K
Tel (+45) 33 93 93 23, Fax (+45) 33 14 13 94
An initiative founded in May 2007 by a group of business leaders and scientists with the aim of helping make the case for a new global climate treaty that will come into force when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end in 2012.
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Sabato, 28 Novembre 2009, ore 10-18
Centro Congressi “Torino Incontra”, Via Nino Costa 8
La prima conferenza NEXA su Internet & Società sarà un momento di presentazione, in forma divulgativa, di alcuni dei principali temi toccati di recente dal Centro NEXA insieme a esperti, policy makers, professionisti, appassionati e semplici cittadini. L’incontro includerà anche CCIT2009, una sessione sullo stato di Creative Commons in Italia, riprendendo la tradizione degli incontri annuali CC-IT. Sempre in tema Creative Commons, in serata avrà luogo il Creative Commons Music Party. La partecipazione alla conferenza NEXA è gratuita, ma occorre registrarsi entro il 25 Novembre, fino a esaurimento posti disponibili.
Si segnala che il giorno precedente, venerdi’ 27 novembre 2009, il Sistema Bibliotecario del Politecnico di Torino terrà nell’Aula Magna di Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 l’OpenAccessDay@Polito, composto, al mattino, di un minicorso sul diritto d’autore (organizzato e offerto dal Centro NEXA) e, al pomeriggio, di un convegno sul tema del Open Access (maggiori informazioni qui).
Fonte: Nexa Conference
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12 settembre 2009 – 05 aprile 2010
Da martedì a domenica, dalle 9.30 alle 18.30; lunedì non festivi chiuso.
La biglietteria chiude un’ora prima.
Chiuso 25 e 31 dicembre 2009 e 1° gennaio 2010.
Per acquistare i biglietti on line: clicca qui
Ingresso: intero 7 euro; ridotto 6 euro; ridotto speciale scuole 3 euro
Informazioni per biglietteria, visite guidate e laboratori:
02 43353522 | servizi@civita.it
Per la prima volta in Italia i visitatori possono sfogliare pagina per pagina su megaschermi i più importanti codici di Leonardo:
il Codice del Volo, il Manoscritto B e il Codice Atlantico. Ma non solo. L’aspetto più importante è che i disegni prendono vita grazie a straordinarie interpretazioni interattive e tridimensionali che li rendono facilmente comprensibili. Per il Manoscritto B tutte le pagine sono state restaurate digitalmente e si presentano come quando Leonardo le aveva appena scritte. Nel Codice del Volo è analizzato il volo degli uccelli, ma soprattutto è contenuto il progetto di una macchina volante (e le istruzioni per pilotarla!) scoperta e ricostruita dopo 500 anni dagli studiosi di Leonardo3. In mostra sono presenti anche ricostruzioni fisiche inedite delle macchine e delle invenzioni di Leonardo, come il Leone Meccanico in scala reale (tre metri), realizzato per camminare al cospetto del re di Francia e offrirgli dei gigli. Tra gli strumenti musicali disegnati dal Grande genio ne esiste uno che è un suo progetto unico e senza eguali. Si tratta di un clavicembalo portatile che emette il suono di una viola: la Clavi-Viola. In mostra è visibile il primo modello di studio, realizzato dai laboratori di Leonardo3. Sempre in tema di volo si possono ammirare le ricostruzioni del Pipistrello Meccanico del Codice Atlantico, una macchina volante che si differenzia per la sua linea e leggerezza da tutte le altre ricostruzioni realizzate sinora, della Vite Aerea nella sua configurazione corretta con motore a molla centrale e base fissa, oltre al modello di studio dell’Uccello Meccanico. Un’altra anteprima assoluta è la ricostruzione inedita del Soldato Meccanico, un vero e proprio robot del XV secolo.
La mostra è realizzata sotto l’Alto Patronato del Capo dello Stato.
Informazioni:
Fonte: Leonardo & Vigevano
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