Sisters in web is Khadi’s project: a community where you can learn how to build useful strategies to start a career in the virtual field.
The concept of sisterhood is very important as well as delicate and I believe it should be preserved so that it can retain its real value.
In this regard, I would directly quote Louisa May Alcott Helping one another is part of the religion of sisterhood.
Can you always count on someone in this sense?
Sister or brother, of course.
To return to Sisters, Sisters in web to be precise, I have virtually crossed paths with Khadi during my wanderings in search of advice for all the things I have to learn about blogging.
A peculiar feature totally against the trend: in a world ruled by the eagerness to appear, Khadi creates by putting her whole self into it but in a conceptual and not ‘photographic’ way.
Her speciality is ‘funnels.’
I confess I didn’t know what they were, did you?
‘I honestly love coffee madly, although I try to limit myself at least from 3pm onwards, otherwise I can’t sleep at night.’
… side effects … but I sleep anyway, don’t you?
I follow Khadi on several social media, always admiring the quality content, but recently I had a particular thunderbolt reading his latest newsletter.
The story of the realisation of her dream.
By now you know that I really care about people who chase their dreams with passion.
And in Khadi’s story, I found the enormous awareness of having lived a unique moment in life.
Sisters on the web work-wise but dreamers “offline” if I may say so: a dream realised without anyone knowing but at the same time with the generosity to share the emotion of such an important satisfaction.
I summarise by quoting directly:
Sometimes dreams come true not when you are ready, but when you finally stop thinking you have to be. Khadi Paolini
WIKIPEDIA When the Internet is a matter of life and death.
The Power of Knowledge kills the Knowledge of Power.
A sentence, a play on words, the key to a dream.
Aaron Swarzt’s dream, the dream of those who believe in freedom.
Pietro Ratto in his book Wikipedia When the Internet is a matter of life and death meticulously reconstructs the birth, history and evolution of the online encyclopaedia we all know.
Wikipedia content is added by voluntary users who contribute information that is shared as creative commons.
The idea was born from a dream, and is fuelled by a strong need for freedom.
Wikipedia’s aim is to spread knowledge and make it available to everyone, free of charge and universally.
The Power of Knowledge.
Can the Power of Knowledge really kill the Knowledge of Power?
Power is influence, power is domination.
How far can a dream be magnified?
Pietro Ratto’s valuable investigation reports on all the stages and, above all, all the stories of those who have been dreamers, those who have been creators and those who have been powerful …
The bibliography, or rather the sitography is extensive and very detailed.
In addition, every single link published in the book is available for consultation from the site of Pietro Ratto BoscoCeduo.
I am particularly grateful for the opportunity to hear Aaron Swartz’s story, which should be shared out of a sense of justice but also of freedom.
Here is a video from 2007 in which Aaron talks about network communication.
Are you in the habit of consulting Wikipedia?
Have you ever contributed to the writing and publishing of information?
In what way is this network ‘proximate’? What would you think of?
I found this description: proximity networks (the networks of friends, neighbours, work colleagues …) represent the potential of relational resources that today’s individual can draw on to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex society.
Pehi may perhaps have something to do with work, but it is independent of colleagues and certainly not a relational resource.
Pehi is a service, which was presented during Venditalia: Vending Exhibition held from 15 to 18 May.
Vending has to do with vending machines, with which I immediately associate coffee vending machines 🙂
This service is a project born from the collaboration between Confida: Italian Association of Automatic Vending and Illimity banking group as PSP: Payment service provider.
Payment service provider corresponds to what we are now used to know as PagoPA i.e. electronic payments by the public administration.
This is the proximity network: the possibility to pay through ATMs.
What do you think?
To do this all you have to do is access the ‘same app you use for food and beverage’ … app that I honestly didn’t know about, to get coffee I’m forever hunting for coins, and you?
I realise we’aren’t in the town here … tell me what the vending machines are like at your place.
If you have the app, just scan the QRcode and you pay ‘in the time of a coffee.’
What do you think?
Pehi is spelled with an h but sounds like the verb to pay.
Gaia derives from Greek mythology and represents the mother goddess of all gods, personification of the earth, but in this case she becomes the engine of digital innovation in Europe.
In September 2020, 22 companies and organizations (11 from Germany and 11 from France) have taken an important milestone and finally transferred the joint project into solid structures: The 22 founding members signed the notarial founding documents in order to establish an international non-profit association (French: association internationale sans but lucratif, in short: AISBL) under Belgian law, the GAIA-X, European Association for Data and Cloud, AISBL.
From reading these words the first thing that emerges, for me, is the absence …
But in November our Ministry also attended the summit and on May 28 Confindustria kicked off the Italian hub by defining it as the moment of starting a shared path, aimed at aggregating and coordinating all the subjects interested in the development of projects that aim to enhance data, and an opportunity to get to know the European project and the methods of implementation in Italy.
What exactly are we talking about? Gaia X is a federated data infrastructure for Europe.
Talking about:
Energy Health Smart living Industry 4.0 Portability Interoperability Interconnectivity Identity & Trust Federated catalogue Sovereing data exchange Compliance
The main objectives are to develop ecosystems, to bundle national initiatives, and to provide a central point of contact to interested parties on their respective countries.
In fact, it is evident that the amount of data on a digital level is increasing day by day, and it is no coincidence that a whole series of new figures are emerging, among which the demiurge of big data particularly fascinates me.
Not to mention the parallel growth of IoT: Internet of things which involves a further exponential increase in connected devices.
But how important can a European Data Cloud be? How is the data handled now?
It is clear that this is an ongoing situation, and as it happens in a fiscal way for the giants of the web, armed with fragmentary, incomplete, if not non-existent regulations, the companies that manage the server farms act in an almost undisturbed pseudo-monopoly regime.
The need that is underlined is to achieve an autonomy that allows one to no longer have to make use of American or Chinese structures.
For example, I found huge data centers that China has built in a semi-desert area of Mongolia, previously dedicated to the breeding of the famous horses: The Mongolian National Data Center, established by a government resolution issued on June 24, 2009.
Or the Data Foundry in Texas founded in 1994 as one of the top 50 ISPs in the United States.
The aspect that in my opinion is not sufficiently taken into account is that “not everything that glitters is green” …
Servers need to be cooled, and this operation, although it is presented as a continuous search for innovation, consumes large amounts of energy.
Google presents its renewable energy project with a photo gallery, while admitting the following:
the 100% renewable energy milestone means we buy enough renewable energy over the course of a year to cover our entire annual electricity consumption, however it doesn’t mean that all of our facilities are powered by clean energy every hour of every day. To compensate for times and places where the wind does not blow or the sun does not shine, we buy a surplus of renewable energy at other times and in other places. Our ultimate goal is to achieve CO2-neutral energy supply for our operations in all locations, at all times. We are actively exploring strategies to achieve 24/7 CO2-neutral power supply to all of our data centers, closely monitoring our progress towards achieving this goal.
I conclude with the thing that scares me the most: the more we move forward, the more the main operations we carry out, from bank transactions to public certificates, from tax returns, to the signing of contracts, depend on applications and on telematic accesses, without which we would be practically paralyzed.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not calm. Am I wrong?
In fact, an agreement has been signed between the Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale: APIG and Google France which provides for a remuneration for the license agreements of the publishers of newspapers within a new program: News Showcase.
The remuneration provided for in the license agreements between each newspaper publisher and Google is based on criteria such as, for example, the contribution to political and general information, the daily volume of publications or the monthly Internet audience.
This is also a very important step in the controversial issue of Copyright Law in Europe and sees France as the first country to adopt legal legislation.
The concept on the basis of which Google has always maintained that news does not bring advantages to the search engine, but only an indexing for the newspapers, is overturned.
It is the conclusion of a battle carried out by the French press which turned to the Competition and Market Authority and subsequently to the Paris Court of Appeal and opens the way to the other member states as well.
The Alliance de la Presse tweet speaks of the effective recognition of #droitvoisin or neighborhood law which, as the Irpa explains allows publishers to obtain fair compensation from search engines and online platforms, established through an agreement, resulting from the use of news extracts. These also include previews (snippets) widely exploited by the search engine.
It is now part of the common language: as the Accademia della Crusca indicates to us, Googling means doing an online search using the Google search engine.
How often do you use Google? For you is it just a tool like any other or do you find it indispensable?
According to Attorney General William Barr “Today, millions of Americans rely on the Internet and online platforms for their daily lives. Competition in this industry is vitally important, which is why today’s challenge against Google — the gatekeeper of the Internet — for violating antitrust laws is a monumental case both for the Department of Justice and for the American people.”
In particular, the subject of the dispute are the various exclusive or long-term agreements as in the case of Apple, which prohibit the pre-installation of any competing search service and at the same time impose applications in prime locations on mobile devices, making them also undeletable.
These anticompetitive practices are equated with the conditions under which the Department filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s.
In March 1998, Bill Gates testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capital Hill, then in May the Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming that the company had violated Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The court ruled in April 2000 that Microsoft was split into two separate companies: one for the operating system, ie Windows, and one for the other software programs.
Just on the same day, that is, Tuesday, October 20, faced with antitrust charges, and in response to the Department Files Complaint Against Google to Restore Competition in Search and Search Advertising Markets, Google released the following statement:
Google Search has put the world’s information at the fingertips of over a billion people. Our engineers work to offer the best search engine possible, constantly improving and fine-tuning it. We think that’s why a wide cross-section of Americans value and often love our free products. Today’s lawsuit by the Department of Justice is deeply flawed. People use Google because they choose to, not because they’re forced to, or because they can’t find alternatives. This lawsuit would do nothing to help consumers. To the contrary, it would artificially prop up lower-quality search alternatives, raise phone prices, and make it harder for people to get the search services they want to use.
What do you think about it? Do you feel compelled to use Google?
I have already expressed my opinion on the websoft giants, and in this case I personally cannot understand one thing: why should they possibly raise the phone prices?
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