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Government Insights - Homepage. Microsoft smart cities strategy: Platforms, partners and people first. 3 000 euros d'amende pour avoir trop bien cherché sur Google. Open Government Data: The Book by Joshua Tauberer. The San Francisco municipal administrative code on Open Data Policy, adopted November 8, 2010, was the first to adopt language from the 8 Principles of Open Government Data and possibly the first open data law in the United States.

Open Government Data: The Book by Joshua Tauberer

It called for technical requirements to be created for the purpose of “making data available to the greatest number of users and for the greatest number of applications,” with “non-proprietary technical standards,” and a “generic license” such as a Creative Commons license. Here is the part that requires open data: 2. a. Facebook se ve obligado a desactivar el reconocimiento facial en Europa.

Corrían los tiempos del 2010, cuando Facebook sorprendió a los usuarios de EEUU con una “mejora”.

Facebook se ve obligado a desactivar el reconocimiento facial en Europa

¿Qué es y qué significa para el internauta Big Data? Vivimos una era en la que el verdadero poder está en la información.

¿Qué es y qué significa para el internauta Big Data?

Esto ha sido así desde tiempos inmemoriales, desde que el hombre conquistó el fuego, pasando por las estrategias militares y el espionaje, hasta la actualidad, donde el uso masificado del cloud computing y el social media permite a las empresas segmentar la publicidad siguiendo criterios obtenidos por un medio tierra de nadie entre la moralidad y la legislación. Eso es el Big Data. Quand la recherche « like » Facebook. Une application pour Facebook, développée par des sociologues, sensibilise aux données recueillies par l'entreprise et aidera à mieux comprendre le rôle des outils numériques sur les interactions sociales.

Quand la recherche « like » Facebook

LE MONDE SCIENCE ET TECHNO | • Mis à jour le | Par David Larousserie. The Foundation on Economic Trends. Tarcher/Putnam, 2000Buy this book » Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a "paid for" experience.

The Foundation on Economic Trends

It's all part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin. On the horizon looms the Age of Access, an era radically different from any we have known. In the hypercapitalist economy, buying things in markets and owning property become outmoded ideas, while "just-in-time" access to nearly every kind of service, through vast commercial networks operating in cyberspace, becomes the norm. We increasingly pay for the experience of using things-in the form of subscriptions, memberships, leases, and retainers-rather than for the things themselves.

Commodifying Human Experience: An Interview with Jeremy Rifkin. March 31, 2000 | Like this article?

Commodifying Human Experience: An Interview with Jeremy Rifkin

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Jeremy Rifkin believes one day soon you will wake up and find that virtually every activity outside your immediate family has become a paid-for experience. Alessandro Acquisti: La importancia de la privacidad. The Government Is Spying On Us Through Our Computers, Phones, Cars, Buses, Streetlights, At Airports And On The Street, Via Mobile Scanners And Drones, Through Our Smart Meters, And In Many Other Ways Washington's Blog. Take a Peek at How Widespread Spying Has Become Even now – after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers – spying apologists say that the reports are “exaggerated” or “overblown”, and that the government only spies on potential bad guys.

The Government Is Spying On Us Through Our Computers, Phones, Cars, Buses, Streetlights, At Airports And On The Street, Via Mobile Scanners And Drones, Through Our Smart Meters, And In Many Other Ways Washington's Blog

In reality, the government is spying on everyone’s digital and old-fashioned communications. For example, the government is photographing the outside information on every piece of snail mail. The government is spying on you through your phone … and may even remotely turn on your camera and microphone when your phone is off. As one example, the NSA has inserted its code into Android’s operating system … bugging three-quarters of the world’s smartphones.

Moreover, Google knows just about every WiFi password in the world … and so the NSA does as well, since it spies so widely on Google. But it’s not just the Android. The Digital City (Fall 2013) SimCity guide: 10 essential tips for building the ultimate city. With the servers now functioning properly, hundreds of thousands of gamers have amassed millions of hours in Maxis' city-builder.

SimCity guide: 10 essential tips for building the ultimate city

Guía de SimCity: 10 consejos básicos para construir tu ciudad. SimCity, la quinta entrega del simulador urbano de Maxis, viene cargada de novedades y opciones para gestionar tu ciudad.

Guía de SimCity: 10 consejos básicos para construir tu ciudad

De hecho tiene tantas que es posible que al principio te sientas un tanto abrumado. En esta sencilla guía, pensada para los poco iniciados en el universo SimCity, te vamos a dar diez consejos y trucos básicos para empezar con buen pie en tu ciudad y que te irán bien para no cometer esos errores típicos de alcalde novato. 1. Una buena planificación es importante. Smart Cities and Economic Development: What to Consider. As metropolitan areas across the globe embark on “smart city” initiatives, new research points to areas of concern — and provides recommendations to move forward.

Smart Cities and Economic Development: What to Consider

Rio de Janeiro is one of a growing number of cities that want to become smarter about what is happening and is about to happen within their city limits. “Smart cities” are popping up around the globe — from China, where 193 smart cities are being piloted as part of the country’s urban renewal plan, to Europe, the U.K., and the U.S. The development of smart cities involves a wide scope of technology, everything from renewable energy, green buildings and smart grids to traffic management, urban security and medical technology.

The goal: urban sustainable development and economic growth. Opportunities abound for businesses and entrepreneurs to be part of this global urban revitalization effort. A recent paper, The Real-Time City? Kitchin isn’t recommending the abolition of smart cities. IJALTI.