NRK Joakim Reigstad Norden-korrespondent
rapporterer fra Lappeenranta, Finland
Publisert 9. feb.
Eija Piispanen ombestemte seg da hun hørte at presidentkandidat Alexander Stubb vil tillate lagring og transport av atomvåpen i Finland. Nå går stemmen hennes til motkandidaten.
The EU Council formalised its position on the European digital identity at the Telecom Council meeting on Tuesday (6 December).
The European digital identity is intended to create a public version of digital wallets in each member state that can be used to identify, authenticate or verify certain aspects such as age in any other EU country.
These wallets will take the form of apps for smartphones. In the digital sphere, the EU’s ambition is to compete with the identification systems currently offered by Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook.
“We are looking at a massive advancement in how people use their identity and credentials in everyday contact with both public and private entities, and in how they use digital services,” said Ivan Bartos, Czech Deputy Prime minister for digitalisation.
Biblioteken runtom i Finland utvecklar operativa modeller med hjälp av vilka biblioteken kan fungera som plattformar för deltagande, möten och en trygg diskussion. I riksdagens budgetbehandling anvisades en miljon euro för vidareutveckling och spridning av koncepten i statsbudgeten för nästa år.
ur DB:s blogg, t ex "Danmarks Biblioteksforening har lanceret ideen om at biblioteker i samtlige landets kommuner er med til at lave Danmarks Største Vælgermøde den 26. okt. kl 19.30."
The Panthers' Capitol 'invasion' all came about as a result of an American racial divide that existed 50 years ago and in some measure continues today.
The Fantasyland of ‘The Spirit Level’ and the Limitations of the Health and Well-Being Industry. After years of the Thatcherite free market rhetoric has The Spirit Level turned things round? Not surprisingly things are a little less clear-cut than the thesis put forward by the authors. Essay by Gerry Hassan in Open Democracy 2010
As Facebook and Twitter are purging alternative media outlets, a neoconservative operative at a US government-funded think tank says more censorship is on its way. Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague discuss how scaremongering over Russia and China is being exploited to silence dissent on social media
Resumé of Leggett's lecture by Nafeez Ahmed (June 2018) "Late last year, Dr. Jeremy Leggett — solar energy entrepreneur, former oil man and government advisor — gave an eye-opening talk where he for the first time laid out his vision for two possible futures facing human civilisation. Speaking at an event hosted by Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, he told a gripped audience that the world had approached a major convergence point in which our choices would rapidly close off either one of these possible futures. One scenario heralds the promise of a successful transition to a new, more evolved kind of civilisation. Another scenario warns of a future plunged increasingly into scarcity, despotic chaos and conflict."
Screpanti, Department of Political Economy and Statistics, University of Siena. This is a modified version of the Preface to the book (in Greek): C. Lapavitsas, T. Mariolis and K. Gavrielidis, “Economic Policy for the Recovery of Greece” Athens: Livanis, 2018.
by RUTH W. GRANT, Duke University, and ROBERT O. KEOHANE
Princeton University
"Debates about globalization have centered on calls to improve accountability to limit abuses of power in world politics. How should we think about global accountability in the absence of global democracy? Who should hold whom to account and according to what standards? Thinking clearly about these questions requires recognizing a distinction, evident in theories of accountability at the nation-state level, between “participation” and “delegation” models of accountability. The distinction
helps to explain why accountability is so problematic at the global level and to clarify alternative possibilities for pragmatic improvements in accountability mechanisms globally. We identify seven types of accountability mechanisms and consider their applicability to states, NGOs, multilateral organizations, multinational corporations, and transgovernmental networks. By disaggregating the problem in this
way, we hope to identify opportunities for improving protections against abuses of power at the global level."
There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy.
by Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath
"Targeted advertising allows a campaign to say completely different, possibly conflicting things to different groups. Is that democratic?"
"Cambridge Analytica isn’t the only company that could pull this off -- but it is the most powerful right now. Understanding Cambridge Analytica and the bigger AI Propaganda Machine is essential for anyone who wants to understand modern political power, build a movement, or keep from being manipulated. The Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine it represents has become the new prerequisite for political success in a world of polarization, isolation, trolls, and dark posts. "