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Johann Höchtl

Home - IMMI - 0 views

  • Home From IMMI Jump to: navigation, search The International Modern Media Institute is working towards rethinking media regulation for the digital age.
  • The Icelandic Parliament unanimously agreed to task the government with implementing the protections we proposed, and this work is now in progress.
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    International modern media institute - an adivsor to the Island parliament to harness public creativity in co-drafting a collaborative constiution
Johann Höchtl

Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 1 - 0 views

  • Such free cooperation can only be hindered ‘artificially’, through either legal means ( intellectual property regimes) or through technical restrictions such as  Digital Rights Management, which essentially hinder the social innovation that can take place.
  • The expansion of peer production is dependent on cultural/legal conditions. It requires;open and free raw cultural material to use; participative structures to process it; and commons-based property forms to protect the results from private appropriation.
  • In most cases, distribution beats decentralization and centralization as the best way to deal with  complexity.
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  • The sphere of commons-oriented peer production, based on stronger links between cooperators, think Linux or Wikipedia, usually combines a self-governing community, with for-benefit institutions (Apache Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, etc…), which manage the infrastructure of collaboration, and a  ecology of businesses which create scarcities around the commons, and in return support the commons from which they derive their value.
  • Finally,  crowdsourcing occurs when it is the institutions themselves which attempt to create a framework, where participation can be integrated in their value chain, and this can take a wide variety of forms. This is generally the field of co-creation.
  • We must note that monetary value that is being realized by the capital players, is – in many if not most of the cases, not of the same order as the value created by the social innovation processes.
  • peer governance requires a priori consensus on the common object. But society as a whole lacks such consensus by definition: it is a decentralized collection of competing interests and worldviews, rather than a distributed network of  free agents. Therefore, for society at large, there is no alternative to a revitalized democratic political scenario based on representation.
Johann Höchtl

Problems and Opportunities in Government Data - Input Output - 1 views

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  • data loss privatization mis-publication greater respect for privacy and other citizen concerns, and excessive secrecy
Johann Höchtl

Wikileaks publishes documents on plan to curb free software in the European Union - 0 views

  • Wikileaks (website) publishes documents that show a plan to curb the free software in the European Union.
  • This file shows that Jonathan Zuck, president of Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) –an organization with close ties to Microsoft–, and founder of Americans for Technology Leadership, had influenced the change of working documents of the European Union.
  • This publication shows how pressure groups influence or attempt to influence the decisions made by the European institutions, but in this case is particularly striking one of these groups trying to influence against free software (ACT) has close ties Microsoft,
Johann Höchtl

U.S. unveils plan to make online transactions safer - Technology & science - Security -... - 0 views

  • In a draft plan released Friday, the White House laid out an argument for a yet-undeveloped, voluntary identification system and set up a website to gather input from experts and everyday Internet users on how it should be structured.
  • In a draft plan released Friday, the White House laid out an argument for a yet-undeveloped, voluntary identification system and set up a website to gather input from experts and everyday Internet users on how it should be structured.
  • Ari Schwartz, vice president at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said the unfettered openness of the Internet is what allowed it to grow and prosper but also created security gaps that need to be addressed.
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  • the opportunity is there to make things more interoperable and more uniform
  • The draft plan is part of an administration effort to promote cyber security both within the government and among society as a whole.
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YouTube - ‪Reich: How Unequal Can America Get ?‬‏ - 0 views

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    Robert Reich, a visiting professor at the UC, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor talks about the inequality of income, wealth and opportunity in the United States and asks his audience to speculate on what will happen if these trends continue. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [5/2005] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 9521]
Johann Höchtl

EU Calendar - The European Commission proposes an open data strategy - 0 views

  • The European Commission will adopt an Open Data Strategy - a set of measures aimed at increasing government transparency and creating a €32 billion a year market for public data.
Johann Höchtl

KoopTech » Innovation » CDU-Politiker für Open Data - 0 views

  • CDU-Politiker Michael Kretschmer versucht aus der starren Abwehrhaltung der Union in der Internetpolitik auszubrechen
  • Die Politik müsste weniger Regulierung und mehr Freiräume für Innovation schaffen – sowie flexible Förderinstrumente für kleine und kleinste Software-Unternehmen und zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen im Bereich IT.
  • Wenn Kretschmer es schaffen könnte, die Union für ein data.gov.de zu bewegen, wäre aber auch schon viel gewonnen.
Parycek

APA-ZukunftWissen - Österreichs Netzwerk für Wissenschaft, Bildung, Technolog... - 2 views

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    THEMA | Government 2.0: Impulse für eine Reform des öffentlichen Sektors durch Open Innovation - Von Dennis Hilgers und Frank T. Piller
Johann Höchtl

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace - by IdeaScale - 0 views

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    Draft @ http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf Die Identifikation wird Jahre nach der Erklärung jetzt in den USA angegangen. Fokus auf good practice aus der Wirschaft übernehmen, prinzipielles Layout, noch keine wesentlichen technischen Details.
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Digital Society Award - 0 views

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The taming and domestication of religious faith is one of the unceasing chores of civil... - 0 views

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    "A recent blizzard of liberal columns has framed the debate over American Islam as if it were no more than the most recent stage in the glorious history of our religious tolerance. This phrasing of the question has the (presumably intentional) effect of marginalizing doubts and of lumping any doubters with the anti-Catholic Know-Nothings, the anti-Semites, and other bigots and shellbacks. So I pause to take part in a thought experiment, and to ask myself: Am I in favor of the untrammeled "free exercise of religion"?"
Johann Höchtl

Hacker News | Facebook is not worth $33 billion - 0 views

  • The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.
  • The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.
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    Lenghty read Spolsky vs. dhh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky about the valuation of Facebook and SNS
Parycek

Open Government Data: Rückenwind durch Apps - 0 views

  • Als Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors gelten alle Arten von Daten, die von öffentlichen Einrichtungen generiert werden, wie beispielsweise Karten und Informationen zum Wetter, zum Recht, zur Verkehrslage sowie zu Finanzen und zur Wirtschaft. Diese sollen offen gelegt werden, wie es die Unterstützer von "Open Government Data"-Initiativen rund um den Erdball (Hier finden Sie einige Videos zu dem Thema) bereits länger fordern. Diese Daten könnten dann beispielsweise für Smartphone-Apps wiederverwendet werden, so die EU-Kommission in einer Aussendung. Scheinbar könnte der App-Boom dem Konzept Open Government Data Auftrieb verleihen.Mit der kostenlosen oder gebührenpflichtigen Wiederverwendung öffentlicher Daten wird einer Studie von 2006 zufolge ein Umsatz von schätzungsweise mindestens 27 Mrd. Euro pro Jahr in der EU erzielt. Beiträge, die zu dieser Konsultation bei der EU-Kommission eingehen, fließen in die Überprüfung der PSI-Richtlinie mit ein und sind Teil der Digitalen Agenda für Europa, die einen Beitrag zu den Zielen der EU – höhere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, mehr Innovation und Arbeitsplätze – leisten soll. Die Konsultation läuft bis zum 30. November 2010.
  • rden Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors besser und stärker genutzt, eröffnet sich ein enormes Potenzial für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Arbeitsplätze, und die Verbraucher haben eine größere Auswahl und bekommen mehr für ihr Geld. Der Markt für mobile Apps, die sich zum Teil auf PSI-generierte Daten stützen, könnte bis 2013 auf 15 Mrd. Euro anwachsen.
  • Die Überarbeitung der zugrunde liegenden PSI-Richtlnie ist der Kommission zufolge "eine der wichtigsten Maßnahmen der Digitalen Agenda für Europa. Regierungen könnten beispielsweise die Märkte für Inhalte fördern, indem sie Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors unter "transparenten, effektiven und nichtdiskriminierenden Bedingungen" bereitstellen.
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  • Auch verweist sie auf praktische Probleme, wie das fehlende Bewusstsein dafür, welche Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors vorhanden sind und welches wirtschaftliche Potenzial in den Daten der öffentlichen Stellen steckt.
  • Die Kommission kam zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Richtlinie von 2003 in ihrer jetzigen Form ihre Wirkung noch nicht voll entfaltet hat, und hat beschlossen, spätestens 2012 eine weitere Überprüfung vorzunehmen, wenn mehr Daten über die Auswirkungen, Folgen und Anwendung der EU-Regeln für Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors vorliege
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    Die Europäische Kommission führt derzeit eine Konsultation zur Wiederverwendung von Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors durch.
Johann Höchtl

Open Data Manual - 1 views

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    DAS open data manual der Open Knowledge Foundation
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