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Djiezes Kraaijst

Macworld | Researchers help define next-generation social networking - 0 views

www.macworld.com/...socialnetworking.html

community future internet networking social web web2

shared by Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • “The people I fly with as a pilot could care less about my … amateur radio work. They should have the ability to say they’ll be my friend in this context and not necessarily in another context,” said R & H Security Consulting President and CEO Howard Schmidt, a former academic who also consults for the government. “This is something we have to fine-tune as we build out social networking.”
  • “People want to create villages and they’re being forced into cities
  • Many social-networking sites essentially force users to become part of a huge community, or they force users to choose whether someone else is a friend or not, with no other subtleties defining that relationship
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  • The next generation of social networking will give people more tools for defining smaller online communities in a way that mimics the real world
  • “One thing that’s very broken in the social tools we have right now is context and boundaries and a sense of who I want to share what with,”
  • Researchers help define next-generation social networking
François Dongier

Speech on Building Britain's Digital Future | Number10.gov.uk - 0 views

www.number10.gov.uk/Page22897

Gordon Brown Institute of web science TBL semanticweb

shared by François Dongier on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • A transcript of a speech given by the Prime Minister on Building Britain’s Digital Future in London on 22 March 2010.
  • Underpinning the digital transformation that we are likely to see over the coming decade is the creation of the next generation of the web - what is called the semantic web, or the web of linked data. This next generation web is a simple concept, but I believe it has the potential to be just as revolutionary - just as disruptive to existing business and organisational models - as the web was itself, moving us from a web of managing documents and files to a web of managing data and information - and thus opening up the possibility of by-passing current digital bottlenecks and getting direct answers to direct requests for data and information. It will change fundamentally the way we conduct business - with new enterprises by-passing traditional media communications and governmental organisations: new enterprises spun off from the new data, information and knowledge that flows more freely. And in both the content and delivery of public services the next stage of the web will transform the ability of citizens to tailor the services they need to their requirements, to feedback constantly on their success, to interact with the professionals who deliver them and to put the citizen not the public servant in control. Today I can announce the first funding for the next stage of this research - £30m to support the creation of a new institute, the institute of web science - based here in Britain and working with government and British business to realise the social and economic benefits of advances in the web. It will assemble the best of world scientists and researchers and be headed by Sir Tim Berners Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web - and the leading web science expert Professor Nigel Shadbolt. This will help place the UK at the cutting edge of research on the semantic web and other emerging web and internet technologies, and ensure that government is taking the right funding decisions to position the UK as a world leader. And we will invite universities and private sector web developers and companies to join this collaborative project.
  • also looking at how the new technologies can open the door to a reinvention of the core policy-making processes and towards a renewal of politics itself.
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  • it will enrich our democracy by giving people new ways of communicating complaining and challenging vested interests.
  • we must use this technology to open up data with the aim of providing every citizen in Britain with true ownership and accountability over the services they demand from government.
  • Building on the outstanding work Sir Tim and Nigel Shadbolt who have been leading on ‘making public data public’, I can now announce that we are determined to go further in breaking down the walled garden of government, using technology and information to provide greater transparency on the workings of Whitehall and give everyone more say over the services they receive.
  • Revitalising our politics, our governance and our democracy means going beyond simply increased openness about previously secret information - it requires the policy-making monopoly of ministers and the civil service to be challenged - where practicable - through a step change in the opportunities for people to engage with and interact with government in its policy proposals.
  • open the door to new ways of enabling people to influence and even decide public policy
Djiezes Kraaijst

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - 1 views

homes.eff.org/...Declaration-Final.html

1996 barlof cyberspace eff industry internet manifesto www

shared by Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
  • Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
    • Djiezes Kraaijst
      Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08
       
      great quote (barlow, 1996)
  • Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you.
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  • I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us
  • We have no elected government
  • I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone.
  • A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow <barlow@eff.org>
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