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François Dongier

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

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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

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
Djiezes Kraaijst

Enter the Cloud with Caution - 0 views

www.businessweek.com/...tc2008083_703047.htm

cloud computers computing future internet questions technology web

shared by Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • • What is your exit strategy? If you aren't satisfied with the cloud, how much will the migration in both directions have cost
  • • Do you want your employees getting advertising (perhaps from competitors, or for naughty products) along with their e-mail? Consider paying a little to be advertising-free.
  • • What's the access control? Does a single password provide access to everything, so that an intruder could delete your entire business? Is password strength industry-standard? Can you turn off access when you terminate an employee?
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  • Might some of them infringe copyrights?
  • • What does the cloud expect of you? Are any of your documents "discriminatory based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age?
  • • Does the cloud back up your data? A typical contract stipulates that you bear "sole responsibility for adequate security, protection, and backup."
  • • What if you do business abroad? Your memos and e-mail are subject to USA Patriot Act searches when they cross the border if the "cloud" is actually located in the U.S.
  • • What if you don't pay the bill? Might all your data get deleted abruptly
  • • Who else might see the data?
  • Enter the Cloud with Caution Here are nine questions to ask before trusting your company's data or computing tasks to an outside provider
Djiezes Kraaijst

Will the internet really improve the way we think? - 0 views

www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...net_really_change_way_we_think

culture future information internet media

shared by Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • It takes a very disciplined mind to resist the tendency to spin off into a digital void of unstructured meanderings(though sometimes you make the most wonderful discoveries that way). The sum of these things has the ability to reduce our capacity for sustained thinking.
  • Never in the field of human knowledge has so much information been available to so many. However, there is so much out there that it can tend to generate information overload and subsequent anxiety. This is usually accompanied by a tendency to snack or graze on snippets of information which, in turn, can affect attention spans and the capacity for joined-up thinking.
Djiezes Kraaijst

Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...15cable.html

freedom internet net neutrality politics technology web

shared by Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08 - No Cached
  • “As soon as you put serious uncertainty as to cost on the table, people’s feeling of freedom to predict cost dries up and so does innovation and trying new applications,” Vint Cerf,
  • “If all of a sudden our viewers are worried about some sort of a broadband cap, they may think twice about downloading or watching our shows.”
  • metering and capping network use could hold back the inevitable convergence of television, computers and the Internet.
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  • new distributors of online content — think YouTube — are relying on an open data spigot to make their business plans work.
  • at a time when video and interactive games are becoming popular, the experiments could have huge implications for the future of the Web.
  • Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic
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>
Matteo Busanelli

Help:Using SPARQL and RDF stores - semantic-mediawiki.org - 0 views

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SMW Semantic Web SPARQL stores RDF

shared by Matteo Busanelli on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • In SMW 1.6.0, stores are required to accept updates and queries that do not specify a graph but it is planned to remove this limitation in the future.
  • The first line tells SMW to use the SPARQL store implementation to store data (instead of the SMWSQLStore2 that is the default). The remaining lines provide the relevant service locations, where the last line can be omitted if not applicable. By default, SMW will use a generic SPARQL connector that is based on recent SPARQL documents. Some RDF databases might not be fully compatible with this or might need special tweaks to make use of advanced, non-standard features. For this purpose, it is possible to change the SPARQL connector that SMW uses by setting the variable $smwgSparqlDatabase. In SMW 1.6.0, there is only one special connector:
  • $smwgSparqlDatabase = 'SMWSparqlDatabase4Store';
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  • Missing experience regarding performance and stability: There are a number of industry-strength RDF databases available today, some of them free/open source. Yet, the experience of using these systems with SMW are still limited, so some testing is needed before deciding on a particular backend for a large-scale SMW application.
  • no named graphs are used in SMW queries
  • Matteo Busanelli on 05 Aug 11
     
    By default, SMW stores all data in the MySQL database that is used by MediaWiki. This ensures a simple setup but it is not an ideal solution for the data format and data access methods that SMW needs. A more natural data model for SMW data is RDF, a data format that organizes information in graphs rather than in fixed database tables. It is possible to use such systems in addition to the SQL database for managing SMW data and for answering queries. This page explains the details
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