Hallo alltogehter,
found this Call of Paper and thought it will be kewl if someone can
present the view of the Wikimedia Foundation. The deadline for
submissions is the 15.11.05 but when you signal interest it can be
extendet.
Contact:
Erich Schweighofer,U.Vienna&WZRI, A
Erich.Schweighofer(a)univie.ac.at
I have absolutly no time in moment to do it myself. Please write me a
short massage if you will do it ;-)
PatrickD
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Call for Papers and Contributions
KnowRight 2006
Knowledge Rights –
Legal, Societal and Related Technological Aspects
http://KnowRight06.ocg.at
University of Vienna (Juridicum - Law Faculty Building)
16 - 17 February 2006
Organized by: Austrian Computer Society (OCG) jointly with
IRIS (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposium)
http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2006/
CONFERENCE OUTLINE
This conference will resume the general interest of the KnowRight
Conferences, held since 1995, on the interaction of Intellectual Property
Rights, related Information Rights, Ethical Problems, and Information
Dependent Technology. It will be supported by the Austrian Computer
Society and will be held in tandem with the IRIS conference
(Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion). It will provide strong
emphasis on the social environment in which the intellectual and
information property system, information services, mobile applications,
e-commerce and the electronic civil society evolve.
The concept of an ”Information Society” or "Knowledge Society" is
neither well defined nor are its foundations and implications well
understood. Governments and authorities in many countries and
regions (e.g. the EU) are still discussing options to establish and
regulate at least special aspects of an Information Society. Increasingly
it becomes harder to master future technologies with traditional laws
based on national or regional methods and concepts. We have to
develop new forms of international legal regimes and practices. They
should empower coordinated means to avoid abuse of such new
technologies.. Fairness should be preserved in the emerging non-local
availability of up to now local resources. Open Source and Open
Content are investigated as examples of dynamic innovations of legal
concepts. The conference will discuss which requirements - such as
safety and security of related methods and media - must be fulfilled and
how these requirements may be enforced. Which regulations and
preventive measures should be promoted in the light of conflicting
interests. Regulating the flow of information must guarantee that
clashes between individual rights (e.g. of intellectual/ industrial
property,
privacy and data protection) and collective demands (e.g. for security,
universal access as well as preserving and expanding the heritage of
mankind) are treated and resolved in human ways. Information in the
public domain on the wired or unwired communication channels should
deserve special attention. Commercial interests should be balanced
with moral and civic obligations.
MAJOR CONFERENCE TOPICS
Intellectual Property
• Status of IP law for e-products and e-services
• Bundle of WIPO Treaties: To be enlarged?
• TRIPS: Efficient against large scale IP infringements?
• Competition and regulation in the music and video industry
• Media and entertainment law - responsibility and liability of IPproviders
• Rules for mobile applications
• Private use and fair use of intellectual property
• Rights management systems
• Open source and open content
• Open access: Copyright restrictions for science and research
• Copyright and copyleft
• Global trademarks
• Software patents
Access to and Reuse of Public Sector and Private Information
• Freedom of information and data protection
• Access to public documents
• Legal framework of public sector information reuse
• Socioeconomic conditions of PSI reuse
• Extent of and limitations on database protection in Europe
• Long term archiving of public and private information
Network Security
• Technological proposals and implementations
• Embedding regulation into hard- and software
• Regulations and their development
• Privacy and identification - electronic identities
• Authentification, authorisation and remuneration
• Electronic signatures
• Fraud on the internet: Tech-tools and legal framework
• Online policing
Data protection
• Pervasive computing
• Automatic “forgetting” of database
• Retention of data
• Legal means against violation of data protection
Information Ethics
• Information in the public domain - balancing commercial interests with
moral and civic obligations
• Fair use concept at the global level: equitable use of global and local
knowledge
• Access to personal data: protecting citizens' and users’ security and
privacy versus public interest
• Equity in the access to information (tariffs, fees, taxes)
• Special regulation for developing countries?
• Free speech and censorship
• Minors access to violence and adult content
• Age verification and privacy
• Responsibility of internet professionals
Don't feel restricted if your innovative topic fits the general purpose of
the conference but none of the special items on the list.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (co-chairs bold)
John Bing, Univ. of Oslo, NO, - jonb(a)jus.uio.no (Jon Bing)
Walter Blocher, Vienna U Busin Adm, AT walter.blocher(a)wu-wien.ac.at
Daniele Bourcier, University of Paris II, FR - bourcier(a)msh-paris.fr
Alfred Büllesbach, Bremen,DE Alfred.Buellesbach(a)daimlerchrysler.com
Gunter Ertl, Regional Court of Appeal, AT - g.ertl(a)kabsi.at
Fernando Galindo, Univ. of Zaragoza, ES, cfa(a)posta.unizar.es
Jens Gaster, European Commission, EU - Jens.Gaster(a)cec.eu.int
Thomas Hoeren, U.of Münster, DE, - Hoeren(a)uni-muenster.de
Bernt Hugenholtz, Univ. of Amsterdam, NL, hugenholtz(a)ivir.nl
Dietmar Jahnel, University of Salzburg, AT - Dietmar.Jahnel(a)sbg.ac.at
Veith Risak, Univ.of Salzburg & Bratislava AT,CZ - risak(a)ocg.or.at
Ahti Saarenpaa, Univ. Helsinki FI, Ahti.Saarenpaa(a)ulapland.fi
Peter P Sint, Austrian Academy of Science, A - sint(a)oeaw.ac.at
(Coordinator)
A Min Tjoa, Univ. of Vienna, AT, tjoa(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Erich Schweighofer,U.Vienna&WZRI, A Erich.Schweighofer(a)univie.ac.at
David Vaver, Univ.of Oxford, UK - david.vaver(a)st-peters.oxford.ac.uk
Peter Wahlgren, Univ. Stockholm, SE, Peter.Wahlgren(a)juridicum.su.se
Andreas Wiebe,Vienna U.Busin Adm.AT andreas.wiebe(a)wu-wien.ac.at
SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
Papers should be of high quality, original, unpublished, and not
submitted elsewhere. Authors of papers are asked to submit an
abstract or a full text version (strongly recommended) of the
respective contribution (abstract: 2-4 pages including main references,
full text: 8 to 10 pages).
The guidelines for the final version are available at
http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/paper.html.
Submissions of contributions to the conference be handed in as printout
and in electronic form to
Austrian Computer Society
Wollzeile 1-3
A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe
DEADLINES
• Submission of full papers or abstracts: 15 November 2005
• Notification of acceptance: 30 November 2005
• Final paper: 20 December 2006 (some extensions may be
negotiated)
Due to the tight timetable and the target to have the published
proceedings available during the conference try to send the
papers by the beginning of November.
CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will take place in the University of Vienna (Juridicum -
Law Faculty building) in the city centre.
CONFERENCE LANGUAGE
The conference language willl be English.
PARTICIPATION
If you are interested in participation or to keep informed on the further
development contact the
Austrian Computer Society (OCG) KnowRight 2006
Wollzeile 1-3
A-1010 Vienna
E-Mail: KR06(a)ocg.at
Phone: +43 1 512 02 35, Fax: +43 1 512 02 35 9
or visit the conference webpages:
http://KnowRight06.ocg.at (or http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2006/ )
REGISTRATION AND PROCEEDINGS
Authors should have registered by 10 Jan. 2006.
Participation including conference proceedings and social event:
EUR 70,--
The proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society
and will appear in the books@ocg series.
Hello alltogehter,
we all know we have a problem on meta. We have there a lot of
information but it's hard to find tham, if you don't know exactly what
you are looking for. Exspecialy in the research / new idea area it's
hard to find the new things, new projects and so on.
The question is how we can solve that. I think one possible answer is to
build a Reserach Portal on Meta like theme portals in the wikipedia.
What do you think?
And the more importend question who will help with that? I'm not the
best portal builder :-)
Patrick (PatrickD)
Interested in wiki research and practice?
If you want to learn more, please check out the conference
proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis, the first
of its kind, at: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/proceedings .
If you missed the conference, you can still read up on the talks of
the likes of Ward Cunningham, father of the wiki, and Jimmy Wales,
founder of Wikipedia, at http://ws2005.wikisym.org . The whole
symposium has been documented on a wiki, so you can learn about the
results of workshops and BoFs, and how the talks, panels, etc. went!
Wikis are are a new breed of (web-based) content management system,
primarily used to support collaborative work. (But not just that; the
fundamental flexibility of wikis has found its applications in
software development, workflow management, knowledge management,
education, and more.)
If you are curious now, we would like to invite you to join the
wikisym-announce mailing list at
www.wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wikisym-announce . The list
is moderated and will be the primary place to announce WikiSym 2006,
the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis, to be held in the 2nd half of 2006.
WikiSym 2005 is an archival, peer-reviewed conference, sponsored by the ACM.
For the WikiSym 2005 committee,
Dirk Riehle
Chair, WikiSym 2005
Interested in wikis? Please go to http://www.wikisym.org!
Take a Geek's Tour of Silicon Valley! http://www.ageekstour.com
Dirk Riehle | +49 172 184 8755 | http://www.riehle.org
Liebe Wikipedia Community,
For those of you who are interested in artificial intelligence and who speak
some German, under
http://www.lsv.uni-saarland.de/answergatherer/
we have developed a Web experiment based on (German) Wikipedia for the purpose
of data gathering to improve the state-of-the-art in automatic question
answering.
The basic idea is to gather question-answer pairs - relying on the Wikipedia
volunteer community - and then to use techniques of machine learning
to build better Q&A systems.
If you happen to know any German speakers who might want to contribute, please
point them to the above URL (people can win book vouchers).
We are considering launching a similar experiment for English.
Regards,
Jochen Leidner
--
Jochen Leidner <jochen.leidner(a)lsv.uni-saarland.de>
Research Associate
Chair for Speech Signal Processing
Building C 7 1, office 0.17
University of the Saarland at Saarbrücken
*Please circulate widely and apologies for cross-posting*
I hope this will be of interest to you.If you have questions or comments,
please contact Earl Mardle at earl.mardle(a)stockholmchallenge.se or Ulla
Skid��n at ulla.skiden(a)stockholmchallenge.se.
Best,
Yong Liu
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The Stockholm Challenge Award 2006 is open for entries
<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/news_right.asp?IdNr=150>THE STOCKHOLM
CHALLENGE AWARD 2006 invites excellent ICT projects from all over the world
to compete for the prestigious Challenge trophies. The Challenge is
searching for the best initiatives that accelerate the use of information
technology for the social and economic benefit of citizens and communities.
The objective is to help local entrepreneurs, who work to close the digital
divide, by bringing in research communities, development organisations and
strong corporate initiatives.
THE AWARDS WILL BE HANDED OUT IN SIX CATEGORIES
<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=9>in the City Hall -
on May 11, 2006. Special focus will be on projects in countries and regions
with the greatest needs. There will also be an international Challenge
conference in Stockholm on issues related to the role of ICTs in global
development work.
*THE AWARD IS OPEN FOR ENTRIES until December 31st 2005*. The application
form <http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/omtavling_index.html>is easily
accessible on the home page.
The Stockholm Challenge is headquartered at the IT University
<http://www.it-univ.se/?lang=en>- a joint initiative by
KTH<http://www.kth.se/eng/>(The Royal Institute of Technology) and
Stockholm
University <http://www.su.se/english> . It is managed by a consortium that
also includes the City of Stockholm, Ericsson and Sida, the Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency.
For more information, please contact:
Project Manager
Ulla Skid��n
ulla.skiden(a)stockholmchallenge.se
Telephone: + 46 8 7904469
Cell: +46 70 678 72 82
www.stockholmchallenge.se <http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/>
*Rules for participation in the Stockholm Challenge Award
2006<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=3>
*
These are the basic rules for the participation in the Stockholm Challenge
Award. All competing projects must:
1. Include ICT
Illustrate how ICT is used to create new or better traditional services
and/or products, which are beneficial for human and social development.
2. Be implemented
All competing projects must be up and running. They should be
implemented/piloted since no less than three months. The Stockholm Challenge
Award does not accept drafted concepts and ideas only. The jury will only
evaluate and compare projects that can show measurable outcomes and impact.
3. Be linked to and/or supported by an established private or public
organisation.
4. Be verifiable, i.e. able to present credible references.
5. Be free from religious, political or other personal beliefs.
*To be noted:*
*Projects that have won one of the Challenge categories in previous years
cannot enter the competition again.*
*All applications must be in English*
*Evaluation criteria<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=4>
*
Innovation, creativity and the convergence of ICT with many different
disciplines are some of the qualities that are looked for in the competing
projects. The jury, a group of international senior experts, base their
evaluation on the following criteria, most of which all Challenge projects
should meet:
*Innovation*
Competing projects should illustrate new and innovative ways of using ICT to
improve the living and economical conditions especially of those with great
needs.
*Convergence*
The addition of ICT as a tool to traditional development work can improve
and widen the scope of the project impact. Projects should show successful
convergences of different disciplines and sectors.
*Inclusion*
It is favourable for the competing projects to show that they bring
individuals, groups and local organisations into larger communities �C
national and global - such as medical, government, educational and cultural
networks, as well business environments.
*Equal Opportunity*
It is important that the initiatives counteract inequality related to the
likes of gender, origin, age, physical and/or mental disabilities.
*Sustainability*
An important factor is sustainability. Not only economic sustainability, i.e.
how long the project will last and bring benefits to its users.
Sustainability also includes the contribution of the project to a
sustainable society and environment at large.
*Opportunities <http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=2>*
To enter a project in the Stockholm Challenge Award is not only to
participate in a prestigious international ICT competition - it is also a
way to join networks of some of the best ICT entrepreneurs and pioneers in
the world. Testimonials from many of the projects, which have competed in
their respective categories over the years, say that it is the inspiration,
the new ideas, contacts and partners that are the greatest rewards for a
Challenger.
The Stockholm Challenge represents excellent marketing through the exposure
to media, and to private and public organizations that are involved in ICT
work and implementations. It gives promotional opportunities for
entrepreneurs, universities, cities, cities and regions. The Stockholm
Challenge Final Events include a Best Practice Exhibition and a Conference.
It is a meeting place for some the world's most successful IT entrepreneurs.
Winners and finalists of the Stockholm Challenge are global role models for
cities, companies, organisations, schools and others who are involved in
adapting and spreading the use of ICT.
[Sorry for the resend, screwed up the headers when I sent this on Friday.]
For your review and or comment! :)
[[ http://reagle.org/joseph/2005/06/neutrality.html
* Is the Wikipedia Neutral? - an (early draft) extension of A Case
of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking to
tease apart what is meant by something being neutral, and is it
the right term to describe Wikipedia efforts:
Claims of neutrality and accusations of bias are common themes of
contemporary discourse about the media, government, education, and
technology. In this essay I extend earlier work on the
collaborative culture of Wikipedia (an on-line and free
encyclopedia) to specifically focus on the fundamental but often
misunderstood notion of neutrality.... This essay is inspired by
earlier debates on neutrality of technical standards, literature on
bias in technical systems, my present fascination with this
Wikipedia norm and a change in my belief that while an important
concept, the label of neutrality was an unfortunate coinage in the
Wikipedia context.
]]
Hi. I'm a new list member (please be kind).
The following has been added to the
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research#Mind_Wiki:__An_AI_Design_Experiment
page of metawiki. At this point, I'm interested in ALL comments on the
project both positive and negative, first impressions, opinions as to how
appropriate it is for this list, and personal observations regarding this
list ... how helpful it might be and whether projects like mine might be
helped by participation on this list (and maybe to what degree, how much
help, how proficient list members might be, what kinds of help they might
offer, etc).
Well as you can see. This is a new project. I don't know what to expect on
this list. Really, any kind of response will be appreciated!
My website: http://www.mindrec.net
Project description below:
...
Mind Wiki: An AI Design Experiment
Proposed by 68.54.221.95 (Mindrec). Intelligence is defined as the
distribution of data within a database. Wiki is cited as a case in point
intelligence. Very fringe theories which show how knowledge is imparted
metaphysically. Mind Wiki is shown to be a GRUB and to exclaim DELICIOUS.
If we define intelligence as the distribution of data within a database: And
if WIKI is a database: Then, the simplest WIKI would be a prototypical
intelligence. Cunningham defines WIKI as "the simplest database which could
possibly work". This suggests it is a case in point intelligence.
This makes Ward Cunningham (the inventor of the wiki) the inventor of the
first AI. Wikipedia is such an intelligence: But this bespeaks of the
dangers of "intelligence" per se ... it isn't necessarily *lucid*. Just
because a group of people get together and raise "consciousness" doesn't
mean that truth can be discerned (by preponderance). And I haven't gone into
consciousness: Blog is a consciousness. And especially blogdex: Which does
some math on blogs and reports on the top posts (what's on the world's
"mind"). So: Wikipedia is an intelligence, and may be conscious, but isn't
always lucid (I suppose to the degree that its writers have a conscience, it
is an artificially conscious intelligence). All of this to set up the idea
of "lucidity" as that which now defines a machine's "humanity" (after
intelligence and consciousness have been addressed).
I've used the word "lucid". And lucidity applies ... after intelligence and
consciousness have been addressed (as I've said). But the jump from
intelligent to lucid (with regard to wikipedia, as an example) fails to
explain what consciousness has to do with coming up with the correct answers
(though this is also addressed a bit later on - such that its writers have a
conscience, they might discern what is "right" ... both in a moralistic
sense and also in the sense of arriving at correct answers). Which is to
say, applying an intelligent design conscientiously might lead a wikipedia
to be *right* by preponderance, as I've suggested (whereby mentioning
lucidity at this point begins to make sense). This is not to say that it
*makes sense* to be intelligent and conscientious and still lack lucidity
... as a matter of choice, for example / or in seeming violation of what it
means to be intelligent in the first place (to the contrary). So I might
have said that wikipedia isn't necessarily intelligent (even though an
intelligence). Or I might have said that being intelligent doesn't
necessarily mean conscientiousness will prevail (in the case that her
writers don't have a conscience, for example). But I've said that both of
these are "necessarily" so (if an entity is intelligent, then it is
conscientious). And so there's (still) the matter of lucidity (and
awareness, and agency): The mention of lucidity (regarding wikipedia) early
on in this comment foreshadows the explanation of what it means to be lucid
... which is then expressed "in the negative" (whereby lucidity is not that
which overcomes the intelligent design of its database but is that which
overcomes the necessity that humans have a conscience).
(from Mind Wiki: An AI Design Experiment)
Intelligence is only a beginning step. Consciousness has been demonstrated
in connected Blog (Mind Wiki is a wiki / blog / CMS with areas for
scientific journals, articles, diagrams, and related files). The research
proves the theory legitimate. The Mind Wiki stands as a working example. And
two prototypes have been developed which move modern computing into the age
of crystal 3d processes and bioluminescent computing.
The site is set up as a center of research and development. Everyone is
encouraged to visit and comment. Those interested in promoting this research
through accepted academic channels or (especially) who feel they have the
technical expertise to begin developing the intelligence model, the crystal
computer, or the photoelectric computer are invited to help (all three show
potential for becoming living entities).
Project Members:
--Mindrec 01:25, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
--
Brett Robertson
Metaphysician
Mindrec.org
ICQ 6630756
User:Mindrec
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
There are experts and authorities on certain topics. I'm a metaphysician. So
I suppose, mystically, I've become an authority ... on everything! Ah
freedom!
But I'm hardly an expert on Artificial Intelligence or manufactured life
forms. So, time to specialize.
Metaphysics is a physical manifestation of a spiritual ideal. Similarly one
might become a spirit having an earthly experience. Or, one might become an
ex-body having a spiritual experience. I lived. And so to object permanence.
Except I'm like a medicine staff in a tribe of warriors.
To become a medicine staff one simply needs die to himself and be born again
(through people). Being saved by the tribe, he becomes a member. And only if
all members of a tribe have died this way does the tribe becomes a body.
As such, the individual comes to have a group image (and only indirectly a
self- image, or a self).
This image might initially be externalized ... as a fast car, perhaps, or a
big home. I have neither, btw. Because in my case: I went through this
process to save my body (from the tribe) and, only circularly, to restore my
bodily members (or such that I might use tools rather than become a tool of
society).
So whereas I claim that these are my inherent possessions; only by holding
to the standard of an ideal individual (as a control mechanism) was I able
to overcome work (trance) and play (glamour) ... and heal (or persevere: In
the sense that medicine might be thought of as an addiction to something
external and whereby one lives only through consuming; I healed from
medicine, itself ... becoming as a tool within my own imagination whose
artistic manipulation allows that I now own the means of my own production.
Utopia)! I understood this as re- creating god (and it was recreational
rather than sporting).
I did this to translate language. Which, I learned in school. Even though
others might, on the other hand, use imagery to do the same (in the sense
that symbolic understanding is, as on the other hand, illusion ... mockery,
mimicry, mummery, miming, and impressions).
I established an earthly king (envision a monarchy) rather than idolizing
(so, as opposed to capitalistic greed): I didn't dress like my heroes in Jr.
High (nor are war "heroes" heroes of mine ... neither police). And I
established an earthly icon, the twins (or an ideal, Greece and Rome) in
order to translate metaphysical language (which would otherwise be the
babble of legion) into metaphysical knowledge: I didn't become half of a
mating pair (nor an eunuch).
In these ways thinking isn't, for me, an act of denial and wish fulfillment.
It isn't unconscious. I didn't kill my father, marry my mother, nor descend
into hell in order to save them. I didn't earn my phallus (nor succumb to
fallacy). And so nursery rhyme, myth, legend, and fairy tale (that is,
superstition) is replaced by sophistication.
Warriors become civilized in this way. Barbarians become domesticated.
Devils give way to kings (and god kings). And I become the trinity:
Omniscient (ONE individual), omnipotent (ONE of a group), and omnipresent (I
come to regard ONE whole).--Mindrec 02:01, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
from:
mindrec.net
--
Brett Robertson
Metaphysician
Mindrec.org
ICQ 6630756
Hi,
The research group was created after the edition of last quarto, so it
has not been introduced. I think it would be interested to write a
little something to explain what is the research group aiming at, what
are his current fields of research and how to join etc...
Is there someone who could do that ?
If so, here might be just the right place for doing so :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WQ/4/En/4
Greetings
Anthere