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Open Mesh Project - Don't let governments shut down the Internet

Open Mesh Project - Don't let governments shut down the Internet

Issuu - You Publish How You Can Directly Help the People of Egypt, Tunisia, and Others When Governments Control Communications The Tor relay system allows individuals to access the internet while protecting their privacy and anonymity. This is of crucial importance to those whose governments are blocking access to their internet resources. You can install a Tor relay on your personal computer and directly assist those in other countries who are struggling for their freedom against their government oppressors. Here are some resources to get you started: Campaign Access: Help the People of Egypt Help Egypt: Join the Cloud Tor Project: Relay Configuration Instructions The presence of numerous Tor relays will be an important service for the Egyptian people once internet service is again available. Ham Radio: There is discussion about trying to form an ARES type of emergency network via ham radio. Faxes: Faxes may be another way of communicating.

Congrès "Démocratie & Participation" : État des savoirs et chantiers de recherche Congrès du GIS Démocratie & Participation 18-21 octobre 2011 Amphithéâtre François Furet 105, boulevard Raspail, Paris 6 Le GIS Participation du public, décision, démocratie participative, constitué en novembre 2009, organise les 19, 20 et 21 octobre 2011 son premier Congrès. Objectifs du Congrès Le Congrès se propose de tirer un premier bilan des recherches portant sur la participation du public aux processus décisionnels. L’enjeu de ce premier Congrès est donc triple : Il s’agit dans un premier temps de tracer une première cartographie des mondes dispersés de la recherche sur la participation en établissant des ponts entre approches disciplinaires et cadres théoriques. Il s'agit enfin de mobiliser la communauté des chercheurs francophones en sciences humaines et sociales autour de la discussion collective de l’agenda de recherches sur la participation et la démocratie participative. Chantiers de recherche Journées sur l'état des savoirs (mercredi 19 et jeudi 20 octobre 2011)

Cubelets: Modular Robot Toy-Kit Cubelets is the name of the very first product of “Modular Robotics” – a spin-off from the famous “robot”-Carnegie Mellon University. It is a kit of free combinable, small robot modules. The website goes: By combining sensor, logic and actuator blocks, young kids can create simple reconfigurable robots that exhibit surprisingly complex. This project looks really interesting and the just moved beyond the first beta-testing phase. if you are interested in more modular-robotic stuff, check the modular-tag at our partner-blog Eggshell Robotics.

Code for America: Hackers Helping Municipalities Evidently corporate America needs to encourage a hacker culture to bounce back, and now local governments need hackers to help them solve their ever-increasing problems using their ever-decreasing budgets. Modeled after Teach for America, Doctors Without Borders and Architecture for Humanity, Code for America (CfA) officially launched on January 5, 2011. The brightest minds on the Internet frontier commit to an 11-month fellowship working with cities to use technology to build solutions for urban problems that are effective, cost-effective and can be duplicated in other cities around the country in the future. Could this be the beginning of a Gov 2.0 boom? Out of 360 applications, 20 fellows were selected to work in four cities: Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. The problems vary from city to city, but are common to other cities throughout the country. How did the idea for CfA come about? Scroll down to see comments.

The Evolution of People-Powered Markets: 60 Resources There is a growing movement towards peer-to-peer value exchange and production, prompted by a variety of things, like economic conditions, shifting cultural values, exploration into collective intelligence, and further enabled by social technologies. I’ve been tracking the online marketplaces that have been cropping up for sharing, swapping, gifting and renting, as well as sites that give people different kinds of opportunity to share skills and knowledge, innovate, and work collaboratively both on and offline. Below are a few sites I’ve come across, please add any I’ve missed. People-Powered Markets for Gifting / Sharing / Swapping / Renting / Value Exchange What sites have you seen that are offering new ways to exchange or create value? Upcoming will be a post on People-Powered Capital, exploring platforms for crowdfunding, investment, and lending. Like this: Like Loading...

Project management software, online collaboration: Basecamp 'Hacktivist' takes credit for WikiLeaks attacks via Twitter | Technology | Los Angeles Times A self-proclaimed "hacktivist" is apparently taking some credit for the Internet attacks that shut down many pages on WikiLeaks.org today. The hacker, who goes by the name Jester, claims on his blog to have used distributed denial of service attacks to bring down websites in the past -- the same method WikiLeaks says it was hampered by on Sunday and today. Jester often claims responsibility for bringing down websites on his Twitter account using the phrase "tango down," which is used by the military to indicate that an enemy has been eliminated in a firefight. Today, he sent multiple tweets directed at WikiLeaks: "www.wikileaks.org - TANGO DOWN - for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations #wikileaks #fail""If I was a wikileaks 'source' right now I'd be getting a little twitchy, if they cant protect their own site, how can they protect a src?"" WikiLeaks says it's been hacked, crashed pages include U.S. diplomatic cables -- Nathan Olivarez-Giles

«De la gestion de signets au social bookmarking. Delicious, Diigo, Zotero et quelques autres » Bien que totalisant des centaines de milliers d’utilisateurs, les agrégateurs de signets, nés avec le web 2.0, tels que Diigo ou Delicious, n’ont pas fait l’objet d’une littérature abondante et peu nombreux sont les ouvrages qui leur sont entièrement dédiés. Cette pratique de gestion sociale des signets - social bookmarking en anglais - offre pourtant des fonctionnalités essentielles : une organisation et une indexation propres à l’utilisateur, un enregistrement rapide et simple, un accès nomade, des processus de travail collaboratif et, enfin, la possibilité de récupérer les ressources d’utilisateurs qui ont les mêmes centres d'intérêt. Cet ouvrage pratique, destiné à tous les professionnels qui « veillent » sur Internet, permettra à la fois aux débutants de s’approprier les outils du social bookmarking et aux plus expérimentés d’approfondir leur pratique. De la gestion de signets au social bookmarking.

Hacks make Internet look lawless, but security just hasn't caught up to spear-phishers yet The No-Duh Headline of the Day has to be Reuters' " Hacker attacks threaten to dampen cloud computing's prospects." There isn't a thing wrong with either the headline or the story except that it's too narrow. Successful data breaches at Google, Epsilon, Sony, Sony, Sony, Sony, U.S. Rep Anthony Weiner, Lockheed Martin, HotMail, Yahoo,HTC and Sony don't just make consumers and businesses nervous about using the cloud. They make people nervous about using any kind of computer or network. They don't stop, of course, or even change to more secure passwords, use different usernames and passwords for different sites, try to avoid giving their credit-card or Social-Security or other ultra-sensitive data to every Web site they intend to either buy from or return to. First, the cloud and the Internet aren't the same thing. Consumers don't know that, and the finance execs that write the checks for big IT systems don't care. Spear-phishing victims aren't like that.

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