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ajay tambay

BBC - dot.life: Teenage hackers: Making a better world - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...ge_hackers_making_the_wor.html

SOCIAL equality globalization IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business education ITGS

shared by ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Around 70 teenagers had gathered for this weekend event which is the brainchild of Rewired State - an organisation thinking of clever ways to free up public data.
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      Social - Equality , Globalization
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
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  • One group was seeking a way to scrape bus timetable information from the Transport For London website
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      IT Systems - comm sys (internet)
  • they mingled, discussed software, the rights and wrongs of file-sharing, how to get free access to Spotify's premium music streaming service - and how they'd found out about the event through a friend or some enthusiastic teacher
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      Impact - education
  • Sunday afternoon, they presented their ideas to a panel of government officials and web luminaries. Among the winners was that group trying to free up London bus data - TFHell won the "Most Likely to be Bought By Google" award. One of the judges, Ben Hammersley of Wired UK, said he "found the standard of the work produced by 15-18-year-olds in many cases infinitely superior to that produced by government professionals."
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      Impact - Business
Chalana Perera

Facebook privacy lawsuit & child protection - 1 views

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SOCIAL privacy people control policies IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Chalana Perera on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • a Facebook account that was opened without the knowledge or consent of his parents."
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --> Control & Privacy/Anonymity
  • the minor's medical information may have been stored
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS --> Comm. Systems/ SOCIAL --> Privacy & Control
  • Facebook makes reasonable efforts to remove accounts of children where there is evidence they are under 13,
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --> Equality
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  • of an 11-year-old child because he disclosed that he had swine flu
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      IMPACT --> Health / SOCIAL --> Privacy & Anonymity
  • Like all reputable social networking sites, Facebook complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by not allowing children under 13 to have accounts (COPPA does make provisions for accounts for children under 13 but imposes certain conditions including parental consent). The only way for this young man to obtain a Facebook account would be to lie about his date of birth.
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --> Policies
  • Once on Facebook, anything a person posts can, by default, be seen only by his friends or people in his network. If Xavier's profile was available to additional people, it was because he changed his default privacy settings.
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --.> Privacy & Control
Farah Alam

BBC NEWS | Technology | Where tech and philosophy collide - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8194854.stm

shared by Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "At the moment, people live longer, healthier and for the most part happier lives than they used to because of medical technology.
    • Farah Alam
      Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact- health
  • Laurie thinks the future will see a class divide between those who can afford the latest technology and those who can't.
    • Farah Alam
      Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
       
      social and ethical issue- equality of access.
  • Among the futures envisaged is a world where human consciousness can be uploaded onto storage devices to live inside virtual environments.
    • Farah Alam
      Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
       
      It systems in a social context-applications
Eunice Vincent

Nations May Reuse More Electronics Than Thought - 0 views

www.greenercomputing.com/...reuse-more-electronics-thought

SOCIAL globalization equality IT SYSTEMS basics IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "At least 85 percent of discarded computers imported to Peru are reused, as opposed to going directly to recycling. [... Thus,] the image of the trade in e-waste as mainly being about dumping unusable junk is, at least for Peru, inaccurate."
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social: Globalization
  • "highly dynamic flow [that] reuses and recycles almost every part and material found in a computer,"
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 31 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: basics
  • that it is possible to stop the environmentally damaging practices without diluting or eliminating informal dismantling and collection. This informal reuse and recycling sector is valuable for generating employment in the country and in making computing technology more accessible to low-income families and small businesses, the paper contends.
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 31 Aug 09
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT: business, science&the environment
Chalana Perera

West Africa looses and regains internet connection - 0 views

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SOCIAL reliability equality people policies IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business education health arts politics ITGS

shared by Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A cable fault that caused a major blackout
  • causing severe problems for its banking sector, government and mobile phone networks.
  • Services were severely disrupted or knocked out in Togo, Niger and Benin.
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  • Countries had to either reroute traffic overland or use expensive satellite links to maintain connectivity.
  • Nigeria was particularly badly hit because around 70% of its bandwidth is routed through neighbouring Benin.
  • SAT-3 cable lands in eight West African countries as it winds its way between Europe and South Africa.
  • by Suburban Telecom, was set up to bypass Nigeria's principal telecoms operator Nitel which runs the SAT-3 branch cable which lands in Nigeria.
Eunice Vincent

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony to back open e-book format - 0 views

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SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business education ITGS SEP3-BM3

shared by Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context-software & application
  • Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. Most Sony Readers can already handle books in the ePub format.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact-science and the environment
  • This may not mean the end of all locks on books readable on Sony's device as the ePub format has an option to implement copyright controls.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues-intellectual properties
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  • The common format would give Sony Reader owners much more choice about where they get their e-books from.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      Areas of impact business
  • "Consumers should not have to worry about which device works with which store," said Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, in a statement.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues reliability areas of impact education
  • Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
     
    Asia-Pacific\n
  • Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
     
    Asia-Pacific
Joe Chiverton

Vide game futures - 0 views

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SOCIAL authenticity equality globalization people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT arts business

shared by Joe Chiverton on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • • Games are getting larger, which meant longer development time and larger staff costs.
Shih-Chen Chiu

'Facebook Lite' gets public debut - 0 views

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ITGS SOCIAL & ETHICAL ISSUES reliability IT SYSTEMS IN CONTEXT software AREAS OF IMPACT business art entertainment

shared by Shih-Chen Chiu on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
  • Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context-software & applications
  • "Facebook Lite is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept friend requests, write on people's walls, and look at photos and status updates," the statement continued.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues- globalization, equality of acces
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  • The site is currently on trial in India and it is thought there are plans to extend this to China and Russia.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact- business
  • In a statement Facebook said the new service would be a "faster, simpler version similar to the Facebook experience you get on a mobile phone".
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues people and machines
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online politics reserved for rich - 2 views

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SOCIAL equality of access IT communication systems IMPACT politics and government SEP6-BM3

shared by iman mustafa on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    Online civic engagement remains in the hands of richer, better educated Americans, a US study finds.
Chalana Perera

BBC News | Sci/Tech | Search engine seeks billion URLs - 0 views

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ITGS PP health int systems equality

shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • But size is not everything and while alltheweb seemed lightning fast when I tried it, it did not appear to match the relevancy of a much smaller search engine now
  • find more of these highly rated gems and place them on the first or second page of search results, resulting in a better and more satisfying search experience."
  • the result of more than a decade of research into optimising search algorithms and architectures in a project initiated at the
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  • storage subsystems, operating in parallel to distribute user queries, search the catalogue and spider the Web.
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