Webcasts from workshops are online

Submitted by Engberg on Sat, 2012-07-21 09:42

Webcast from Security Workshop online
http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/eutv/portal/archive.html?viewConference=1646...

Links are not fully updated yet.

Linking Security with Economics - Re-Empower Citizens & Companies to Secure Economic Growth

Webcast:
http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/eutv/portal/ism/_v_fl_300_da/player/index_pl...

Cloud: From techology push to market recovery

Submitted by Engberg on Thu, 2012-07-05 10:33

Looking through the cloud presentations, I cannot help but suggesting that this area is dominated by technology-push and wishfull dreams without sanety checks,

I do not see a single slide depicting how people can remain in control of value chains in cloud - they all focus on tracking, profiling and managing people and processes in cloud.

The consequence being a MASSIVE SHIFT in power structures from people and companies to infrastructure. From the realworld to destabilizing power concentration in the digital space.

Digital by Default - One-size-fits-nothing?

Submitted by Engberg on Thu, 2012-06-21 07:32

eGovernment initiatives have grown quite happy about "Digital by Default" approaches.

Certainly digital solutions ought to have substantial potential for both improving services (e.g. instant answer) and cost-savings (e.g. saving postal mail).

Moral Examplars in Good Computing

Submitted by Engberg on Tue, 2012-06-19 07:49

A cross-Atlantic team of ethical experts decided to explore how and why some computer science experts incorporate ethics in their work. From that came some fascinating insights.

I was one of 24 the panel-selected interviewees subjected to lifestory profiling being interviewed over several days and answering questionaires trying to discover the motivations and background leading to peer-recogniced ethical behaviour.

From that came a fascinating article worth reading publiced in IEEE Technology & Society - quote (link below):