• Crimes of Solidarity and Humanitarianism

    https://www.crimesofsolidarity.org
    #délit_de_solidarité #solidarité #criminalisation_de_la_solidarité #database #données #statistiques #chiffres #cartographie #monde #base_de_données #asile #migrations #réfugiés #visualisation

    La base données n’a pas l’air d’être vraiment à jour et fiable, mais l’approche est intéressante, ce qui est évident en regardant la carte pour France/Italie :

  • « A shallow dive into DataScript internals » by Nikita Tonsky, 23.02.2015
    https://tonsky.me/blog/datascript-internals

    Excellent article, concis et instructif, par l’auteur et contributeur principal de Datascript.

    An overview of DataScript code base. Without going into much detail, it paints the overall picture of how code is structured, what parts it’s built of and what purpose they serve. If you’re interested in studying DataScript sources, this is a great place to start.

    For those who are using DataScript this post may help to get better understanding of machinery behind public APIs and make better use of them. […]

    Autres articles utiles pour mettre le pied à l’étrier:

    @tonsky/datascript › Wiki › Getting started
    https://github.com/tonsky/datascript/wiki/Getting-started

    @tonsky/datascript › Wiki › API Overview
    https://github.com/tonsky/datascript/wiki/API-overview

    #clojure #javascript #database #datomic #datalog

  • Report a Missing Migrant

    If you know someone who went missing crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, please fill out this form as a first step to submitting a missing persons report with the Colibrí Center for Human Rights.

    If you wish to report someone in the desert who is in need of emergency assistance, please call 911. If you wish to report someone who disappeared in recent days or weeks, please see our “Active Search” guide before filling out the form.

    Once you complete and submit this online form, #Colibrí staff will be in touch with you to take the full report. It may take up to a week for you to receive this call, but you can be sure that Colibrí staff will call you back as soon as possible.

    Colibrí staff take every precaution to ensure the privacy and security of families. The information you report will remain confidential and will only be used to find missing people and help identify people who have died. Colibrí is not a law enforcement agency and does not inquire about immigration status.

    Colibrí does not charge for its services. All of its efforts are completely free for the families.

    If your loved one disappeared crossing the border through California, New Mexico, Texas, or within Mexico, please understand that Colibrí has limited ability to help find your loved one. Even so, Colibrí would like to include you in the Family Network, where you might find support.

    https://colibricenter.org/missing-migrant-form

    #missing_migrants #formulaire #décès #morts #frontières #migrations #réfugiés #database #base_de_données #USA #Mexique #morts_aux_frontières #Colibri #recherche #celleux_qui_restent

  • Tecnologie per il controllo delle frontiere in Italia: identificazione, riconoscimento facciale e finanziamenti europei


    Executive summary

    L’utilizzo documentato di un sistema di riconoscimento facciale da parte dell’amministrazione comunale di Como o da parte della Polizia di Stato italiana ha aperto anche in Italia il dibattito su una tecnologia che all’estero, già da tempo, si critica per la sua inaccuratezza algoritmica e per la poca trasparenza. Un tema sicuramente preoccupante per tutti ma che certamente assume caratteristiche ancor più pericolose quando interessa gruppi o individui particolarmente vulnerabili come migranti, rifugiati e richiedenti asilo. In questo caso i dati e le informazioni sono processati da parte di agenzie governative a fini di sorveglianza e di controllo, con tutele assai minori rispetto ai cittadini europei ed italiani. Ciò comporta un grande rischio per queste persone poiché le procedure di identificazione al loro arrivo in Italia, effettuate all’interno degli hotspot, rischiano di essere un’arma a doppio taglio per la loro permanenza nel nostro Paese (o in Europa), determinando uno stato di sorveglianza continuativa a causa della loro condizione. Ancora una volta alcune categorie di persone sono costrette ad essere “banco di prova” per la sperimentazione di dispositivi di controllo e sorveglianza, a dimostrazione che esistono e si reiterano rapporti di potere anche attraverso la tecnologia, portando alla creazione di due categorie distinte: chi sorveglia e chi è sorvegliato.

    Da questa ricerca emerge che le procedure di identificazione e categorizzazione dei migranti, rifugiati o richiedenti asilo fanno ampio utilizzo di dati biometrici—la polizia italiana raccoglie sia le impronte digitali che la foto del loro volto—ma non è sempre facile comprendere in che modo vengano applicate. Nel momento in cui viene effettuata l’identificazione, le categorie sopra citate hanno ben poche possibilità di conoscere appieno il percorso che faranno i loro dati personali e biometrici, nonché di opporsi al peso che poi questo flusso di informazioni avrà sulla loro condizione in Italia e in tutta l’Unione Europea. Quest’ultima, infatti, promuove da alcuni anni la necessità di favorire l’identificazione dei migranti, stranieri e richiedenti asilo attraverso un massiccio utilizzo di tecnologie: a partire dal mare, pattugliato con navi e velivoli a pilotaggio remoto che “scannerizzano” i migranti in arrivo; fino all’approdo sulla terraferma, dove oltre all’imposizione dell’identificazione e del fotosegnalamento i migranti hanno rischiato di vedersi puntata addosso una videocamera “intelligente”.

    Ampio spazio è lasciato alla trattazione di come lo stato italiano utilizzi la tecnologia del riconoscimento facciale già da alcuni anni, senza che organizzazioni indipendenti o professionisti possano controllare il suo operato. Oltre alla mancata trasparenza degli algoritmi che lo fanno funzionare, infatti, non sono disponibili informazioni chiare sul numero di persone effettivamente comprese all’interno del database che viene utilizzato proprio per realizzare le corrispondenze tra volti, AFIS (acronimo di Automated Fingerprint Identification System).

    Nelle intenzioni della polizia italiana, infatti, c’era l’impiego di un sistema di riconoscimento facciale, SARI Real-Time, per riconoscere in tempo reale l’identità delle persone a bordo di un’imbarcazione durante le fasi di sbarco sulle coste italiane. Il sistema SARI Real-Time, acquistato originariamente per l’utilizzo durante manifestazioni ed eventi pubblici, è stato reso inutilizzabile a seguito della pronuncia negativa del Garante della Privacy: rischierebbe di introdurre una sorveglianza di massa ingiustificata. La decisione del Garante tutela quindi non solo coloro che vivono nel nostro paese ma anche chi, in una situazione di estrema vulnerabilità, arriva sulle nostre coste dopo un viaggio interminabile e si vede sottoposto a un controllo sproporzionato ancor prima di ricevere supporto medico e valutazione dello status legale.

    Come Centro Hermes per la Trasparenza e i Diritti Umani Digitali dal 2011 ci interroghiamo sul funzionamento e sullo scopo delle innovazioni in campo tecnologico, analizzandole non solo da un punto di vista tecnico ma anche attraverso la lente dei diritti umani digitali. Negli ultimi anni la datificazione della società attraverso la raccolta indiscriminata di dati personali e l’estrazione di informazioni (e di valore) relative al comportamento e alle attività svolte da ognuno di noi sono il tema centrale di ricerca, analisi e advocacy dell’associazione. Siamo convinti infatti che vada messa in dubbio non solo la tecnologia digitale creata al presunto scopo di favorire il progresso o di dare una risposta oggettiva a fenomeni sociali complessi, ma anche il concetto di tecnologia come neutra e con pressoché simili ripercussioni su tutti gli individui della società. È importante a nostro parere che qualunque discorso sulla tecnologia racchiuda in sé una più ampia riflessione politica e sociologica, che cerchi di cogliere la differenza tra chi agisce la tecnologia e chi la subisce.

    Principali risultati:

    https://protecht.hermescenter.org
    #rapport #Hermes #frontières #Italie #reconnaissance_faciale #réfugiés #asile #migrations #contrôles_frontaliers #identification #financements_européens #technologie #complexe_militaro-industriel #Côme #surveillance #biométrie #données_biométriques #catégorisation #photos #empreintes_digitales #AFIS #algorythmes #Automated_Fingerprint_Identification_System #SARI_Real-Time #database #base_de_données

    sur la mise en place de reconnaissance faciale à Côme:
    https://seenthis.net/messages/859963

    ping @etraces

    • Il casellario delle identità AFIS: una banca dati discriminatoria usata dalle forze di polizia

      AFIS è un database nel quale sono raccolti i dati (impronte digitali e foto) di persone italiane e straniere sottoposte a procedimenti penali e dei soli cittadini non europei nell’ambito delle procedure amministrative di rinnovo e conversione del permesso di soggiorno.

      In applicazione di un decreto del Ministero dell’Interno del 24 maggio 2017, i dati amministrativi dei cittadini e delle cittadine extra UE vengono inseriti, confrontati e trattati come dati di polizia per il solo fatto di appartenere a persone straniere, con l’ulteriore paradosso che questi dati non vengono cancellati neanche quando le stesse ottengono la cittadinanza italiana.
      Potere di accesso ai dati degli stranieri senza motivazione?

      ASGI, dopo una serie di accessi agli atti e di accessi civici generalizzati al Ministero dell’Interno, ha rilevato che:

      i cittadini stranieri non possono cancellare i loro dati se non dopo 20 anni dal loro inserimento anche se nel frattempo la loro condizione giuridica è mutata, i loro dati sono verificati e trattati con pochissime limitazioni e da un alto numero di autorità amministrative.

      – I dati delle persone straniere sono confrontati sistematicamente con migliaia di altri dati senza motivazioni specifiche al fine di essere utilizzati per finalità di polizia ed indagine.

      - In particolare i confronti delle foto sono esposti ad un alto tasso di errori a causa della mancanza di un algoritmo in grado di mettere a confronto immagini di cittadini con la pelle di colore scuro.

      - I dati contenuti in AFIS appartenenti a cittadini con la cittadinanza non europea sono la netta maggioranza.

      Diversità di trattamento per milioni di persone

      La Direzione centrale anticrimine della Polizia di Stato, ha precisato il numero dei dati in loro possesso.

      “il numero di cartellini fotosegnaletici acquisiti e conservati all’interno della banca dati del Casellario Centrale d’Identità del Servizio Polizia Scientifica (AFIS), corrispondenti a cittadini di paesi terzi, con specifica indicazione: Cartellini acquisiti a soggetti che hanno dichiarato nazionalità: A) di paese terzo dell’Unione Europea 13.516.259, B) di stato membro dell’Unione Europea (Italia esclusa) 1.654.917, C) italiana 3.289.196. I dati sono riferiti al 28 luglio 2022”.

      Infatti, i cittadini stranieri sono foto segnalati diverse volte nell’arco della loro permanenza in Italia: al momento del loro arrivo sul territorio, nei casi di rinnovo, rilascio, conversione del titolo di soggiorno e tutte le volte che vengono foto segnalati, i loro dati confluiscono nella banca dati del Casellario AFIS.

      Per i cittadini italiani non funziona allo stesso modo: i dati di questi ultimi, rilasciati in occasione dell’ identificazione per finalità amministrative (es. per il rilascio del passaporto o della carta d’identità), sono conservati in registri appositi e non confluiscono nella banca dati AFIS (né possono essere in alcun modo utilizzati per scopi di indagine o altre finalità di polizia).
      Causa antidiscriminatoria

      ASGI, insieme all’Associazione Progetto Diritti ONLUS e due cittadini stranieri naturalizzati italiani, ha presentato un ricorso al Tribunale civile di Roma chiedendo l’accertamento del carattere discriminatorio del comportamento del Ministero dell’Interno, consistente nella conservazione e nel trattamento dei dati riguardanti i cittadini stranieri (raccolti in occasione delle pratiche amministrative di rilascio e rinnovo del permesso di soggiorno) all’interno di una banca dati di polizia utilizzata per la repressione dei reati. La conservazione e il trattamento di dati sensibili non può essere differenziata in ragione della nazionalità, salvo una espressa disposizione di legge, avendo i cittadini stranieri diritto alla parità di trattamento nei diritti civili rispetto agli italiani.

      Inoltre, la raccolta di dati biometrici, anche se dovesse ritenersi effettuata per finalità di polizia o per interesse pubblico, deve essere regolata – secondo la disciplina italiana e euro-unitaria – da leggi o da regolamenti che disciplinino il trattamento alla luce della specifica funzione perseguita e che tutelino i diritti dei titolari, mentre nella situazione contestata la raccolta e l’inserimento in banca dati di polizia avviene in via di fatto, in assenza di un espresso e motivato atto normativo.

      Tra le richieste che i ricorrenti hanno formulato al giudice, vi è la cancellazione dalla banca dati AFIS di tutti i dati appartenenti ai cittadini di Paesi non UE identificati per finalità di rilascio, rinnovo o conversione del permesso di soggiorno, nonché la cancellazione dei dati appartenenti ai cittadini stranieri naturalizzati italiani e la modifica del decreto ministeriale del 2017 che ha previsto l’obbligo di inserimento di tali dati in AFIS.

      Infine, i ricorrenti ritengono che l’ attuale trattamento illegittimo possa essere superato solo laddove il Ministero adotti un apposito e separato registro in cui siano conservati esclusivamente i dati dei cittadini stranieri raccolti all’atto del loro fotosegnalamento per il rinnovo e la conversione del titolo di soggiorno, con conseguente cancellazione del registro AFIS dei dati di cittadini extra-UE raccolti per finalità amministrative e pertanto anche dei dati dei ricorrenti.

      https://www.asgi.it/discriminazioni/casellario-afis-una-banca-dati-discriminatoria-forze-di-polizia

  • NocoDB | Turns your SQL database into a Nocode platform. Free & Open Source.
    https://nocodb.com

    Open Source #Airtable Alternative
    NocoDB is an open source NoCode platform that turns any #database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite & MariaDB) into a smart #spreadsheet

    – Search, sort, filter, hide columns with uber ease
    – Create Views : Grid, Gallery, Kanban, Gantt, Form
    – Share Views : public & password protected
    – Personal & locked Views
    – Upload images to cells (Works with S3, Minio, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, OVH, BackBlaze)
    – Roles : Owner, Creator, Editor, Viewer, Commenter, Custom Roles.
    – Access Control : Fine-grained access control even at database, table & column level.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oy-U6mmN-8

  • ryangjchandler/orbit: A flat-file database driver for Eloquent.
    https://github.com/ryangjchandler/orbit

    Orbit is a flat-file driver for Laravel Eloquent. It allows you to replace your generic #database with real #files that you can manipulate using the methods you’re familiar with.

    Orbit is a driver-based package, making it very easy to change the storage format of your data.

    Out of the box, Orbit provides the following drivers:
    – md -> Orbit\Drivers\Markdown
    – json => Orbit\Drivers\Json
    – yaml => Orbit\Drivers\Yaml
    – md_json => Orbit\Drivers\MarkdownJson

    Orbit comes with convenient #Git integration out of the box. This means that any changes made to your content can be automatically persisted back to your Git repository, keeping everything up-to-date.

    #php #flat_file_database

  • Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages (or any static file hoster) - Apr 17, 2021

    I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar. But if you want to use a database, you either need to write a backend (which you then need to host and maintain forever) or download the whole dataset into the browser (which is not so great when the dataset is more than 10MB).

    In the past when I’ve used a backend server for these small side projects at some point some external API goes down or a key expires or I forget about the backend and stop paying for whatever VPS it was on. Then when I revisit it years later, I’m annoyed that it’s gone and curse myself for relying on an external service - or on myself caring over a longer period of time.

    Hosting a static website is much easier than a “real” server - there’s many free and reliable options (like GitHub, GitLab Pages, Netlify, etc), and it scales to basically infinity without any effort.

    So I wrote a tool to be able to use a real SQL database in a statically hosted website. Here’s a demo using the World Development Indicators dataset - a dataset with 6 tables and over 8 million rows (670 MiByte total).

    ...

    – article https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs
    – lib https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages

    #git #database #sql #api

  • Glocal Climate Change

    Global warming is not only about melting icebergs or expanding deserts. It is something which does happen in our backyard as well. Data and estimates on the mean temperatures at the local level indicate that climate change has been affecting almost every corner of Europe, as mean temperatures have increased by more than 2°C in half a century in multiple areas.

    https://climatechange.europeandatajournalism.eu/en/map

    Les données sont présentées au niveau de la commune, ici par exemple Grenoble :

    #carte #cartographie #visualisation #changement_climatique #climat #local #Europe #températures #données #database #statistiques #chiffres #commune

    ping @reka @visionscarto @simplicissimus

  • EU : One step closer to the establishment of the ’#permission-to-travel' scheme

    The Council and Parliament have reached provisional agreement on rules governing how the forthcoming #European_Travel_Information_and_Authorisation System (#ETIAS) will ’talk’ to other migration and policing databases, with the purpose of conducting automated searches on would-be travellers to the EU.

    The ETIAS will mirror systems such as the #ESTA scheme in the USA, and will require that citizens of countries who do not need a #visa to travel to the EU instead apply for a “travel authorisation”.

    As with visas, travel companies will be required to check an individual’s travel authorisation before they board a plane, coach or train, effectively creating a new ’permission-to-travel’ scheme.

    The ETIAS also includes a controversial #profiling and ’watchlist’ system, an aspect not mentioned in the Council’s press release (full-text below).

    The rules on which the Council and Parliament have reached provisional agreement - and which will thus almost certainly be the final text of the legislation - concern how and when the ETIAS can ’talk’ to other EU databases such as #Eurodac (asylum applications), the #Visa_Information_System, or the #Schengen_Information_System.

    Applicants will also be checked against #Europol and #Interpol databases.

    As the press release notes, the ETIAS will also serve as one of the key components of the “interoperability” scheme, which will interconnect numerous EU databases and lead to the creation of a new, biometric ’#Common_Identity_Repository' on up to 300 million non-EU nationals.

    You can find out more about the ETIAS, related changes to the Visa Information System, and the interoperability plans in the Statewatch report Automated Suspicion: https://www.statewatch.org/automated-suspicion-the-eu-s-new-travel-surveillance-initiatives

    –------

    The text below is a press release published by the Council of the EU on 18 March 2020: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021/03/18/european-travel-information-and-authorisation-system-etias-council-

    European travel information and authorisation system (ETIAS): Council Presidency and European Parliament provisionally agree on rules for accessing relevant databases

    The Council presidency and European Parliament representatives today reached a provisional agreement on the rules connecting the ETIAS central system to the relevant EU databases. The agreed texts will next be submitted to the relevant bodies of the Council and the Parliament for political endorsement and, following this, for their formal adoption.

    The adoption of these rules will be the final legislative step required for the setting up of ETIAS, which is expected to be operational by 2022.

    The introduction of ETIAS aims to improve internal security, prevent illegal immigration, protect public health and reduce delays at the borders by identifying persons who may pose a risk in one of these areas before they arrive at the external borders. ETIAS is also a building bloc of the interoperability between JHA databases, an important political objective of the EU in this area, which is foreseen to be operational by the end of 2023.

    The provisionally agreed rules will allow the ETIAS central system to perform checks against the Schengen Information System (SIS), the Visa Information System (VIS), the Entry/Exit System (EES), Eurodac and the database on criminal records of third country nationals (ECRIS-TCN), as well as on Europol and Interpol data.

    They allow for the connection of the ETIAS central system to these databases and set out the data to be accessed for ETIAS purposes, as well as the conditions and access rights for the ETIAS central unit and the ETIAS national units. Access to the relevant data in these systems will allow authorities to assess the security or immigration risk of applicants and decide whether to issue or refuse a travel authorisation.
    Background

    ETIAS is the new EU travel information and authorisation system. It will apply to visa-exempt third country nationals, who will need to obtain a travel authorisation before their trip, via an online application.

    The information submitted in each application will be automatically processed against EU and relevant Interpol databases to determine whether there are grounds to refuse a travel authorisation. If no hits or elements requiring further analysis are identified, the travel authorisation will be issued automatically and quickly. This is expected to be the case for most applications. If there is a hit or an element requiring analysis, the application will be handled manually by the competent authorities.

    A travel authorisation will be valid for three years or until the end of validity of the travel document registered during application, whichever comes first. For each application, the applicant will be required to pay a travel authorisation fee of 7 euros.

    https://www.statewatch.org/news/2021/march/eu-one-step-closer-to-the-establishment-of-the-permission-to-travel-sche

    #interopérabilité #base_de_données #database #données_personnelles #migrations #mobilité #autorisations #visas #compagnies_de_voyage #VIS #SIS #EU #UE #union_européenne #biométrie

    ping @etraces @isskein @karine4

    • L’UE précise son futur système de contrôle des voyageurs exemptés de visas

      Les modalités du futur système de #contrôle_préalable, auquel devront se soumettre d’ici fin 2022 les ressortissants de pays tiers pouvant se rendre dans l’Union #sans_visa, a fait l’objet d’un #accord annoncé vendredi par l’exécutif européen.

      Ce dispositif, baptisé ETIAS et inspiré du système utilisé par les Etats-Unis, concernera les ressortissants de plus de 60 pays qui sont exemptés de visas pour leurs courts séjours dans l’Union, comme les ressortissants des Etats-Unis, du Brésil, ou encore de l’Albanie et des Emirats arabes unis.

      Ce système dit « d’information et d’autorisation », qui vise à repérer avant leur entrée dans l’#espace_Schengen des personnes jugées à #risques, doit permettre un contrôle de sécurité avant leur départ via une demande d’autorisation sur internet.

      Dans le cadre de l’ETIAS, les demandes en ligne coûteront 7 euros et chaque autorisation sera valable trois ans pour des entrées multiples, a indiqué un porte-parole de la Commission.

      Selon les prévisions, « probablement plus de 95% » des demandes « donneront lieu à une #autorisation_automatique », a-t-il ajouté.

      Le Parlement européen avait adopté dès juillet 2018 une législation établissant le système ETIAS, mais dans les négociations pour finaliser ses modalités opérationnelles, les eurodéputés réclamaient des garde-fous, en le rendant interopérable avec les autres systèmes d’information de l’UE.

      Eurodéputés et représentants des Etats, de concert avec la Commission, ont approuvé jeudi des modifications qui permettront la consultation de différentes #bases_de_données, dont celles d’#Europol et d’#Interpol, pour identifier les « menaces sécuritaires potentielles, dangers de migration illégale ou risques épidémiologiques élevés ».

      Il contribuera ainsi à « la mise en oeuvre du nouveau Pacte (européen) sur la migration et l’asile », a estimé le porte-parole.

      « Nous devons savoir qui franchit nos #frontières_extérieures. (ETIAS) fournira des #informations_préalables sur les voyageurs avant qu’ils n’atteignent les frontières de l’UE afin d’identifier les risques en matière de #sécurité ou de #santé », a souligné Ylva Johansson, commissaire aux affaires intérieures, citée dans un communiqué.

      Hors restrictions dues à la pandémie, « au moins 30 millions de voyageurs se rendent chaque année dans l’UE sans visa, et on ne sait pas grand chose à leur sujet. L’ETIAS comblera cette lacune, car il exigera un "#background_check" », selon l’eurodéputé Jeroen Lenaers (PPE, droite pro-UE), rapporteur du texte.

      L’accord doit recevoir un ultime feu vert du Parlement et des Vingt-Sept pour permettre au système d’entrer en vigueur.

      https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/fil-dactualites/190321/l-ue-precise-son-futur-systeme-de-controle-des-voyageurs-exemptes-de-visas
      #smart_borders #frontières_intelligentes

    • Eurodac, la “sorveglianza di massa” per fermare le persone ai confini Ue

      Oggi il database conserva le impronte digitali di richiedenti asilo e stranieri “irregolari”. La proposta di riforma della Commissione Ue vuole inserire più dati biometrici, compresi quelli dei minori. Mettendo a rischio privacy e diritti

      Da più di vent’anni i richiedenti asilo che presentano domanda di protezione in un Paese europeo, così come i cittadini stranieri che attraversano “irregolarmente” i confini dell’Unione, sono registrati con le impronte digitali all’interno del sistema “Eurodac”. L’acronimo sta per “European asylum dactyloscopy database” e al 31 dicembre 2019 contava oltre 5,69 milioni di set di impronte cui se ne sono aggiunti oltre 644mila nel corso del 2020. Le finalità di Eurodac sono strettamente legate al Regolamento Dublino: il database, infatti, era stato istituito nel 2000 per individuare il Paese europeo di primo ingresso dei richiedenti asilo, che avrebbe dovuto valutare la domanda di protezione, ed evitare che la stessa persona presentasse domanda di protezione in più Paesi europei (il cosiddetto asylum shopping). 

      Nei prossimi anni, però, Eurodac potrebbe diventare uno strumento completamente diverso. Il 23 settembre 2020 la “nuova” Commissione europea guidata da Ursula von der Leyen, infatti, ha presentato una proposta di riforma che ricalca un testo presentato nel 2016 e si inserisce all’interno del Patto sull’immigrazione e l’asilo, ampliando gli obiettivi del database: “Eurodac, che era stato creato per stabilire quale sia il Paese europeo competente a esaminare la domanda di asilo, vede affiancarsi alla sua funzione originaria il controllo delle migrazioni irregolari e dei flussi secondari all’interno dell’Unione -commenta Valeria Ferraris, ricercatrice presso il dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell’Università di Torino (unito.it)-. Viene messa in atto un’estensione del controllo sui richiedenti asilo visti sempre più come migranti irregolari e non come persone bisognose di protezione”.

      “Oggi Eurodac registra solo le impronte digitali. La proposta di riforma prevede di aggiungere i dati biometrici del volto, che possono essere utilizzati per il riconoscimento facciale tramite apposite tecnologie -spiega ad Altreconomia Chloé Berthélémy, policy advisor dell’European digital rights-. Inoltre si prevede di raccogliere anche le generalità dei migranti, informazioni relative a data e luogo di nascita-nazionalità. Sia per gli adulti sia per i minori a partire dai sei anni di età, mentre oggi vengono registrati solo gli adolescenti dai 14 anni in su”. Per Bruxelles l’esigenza di aggiungere nuovi dati biometrici al database è motivata dalle difficoltà di alcuni Stati membri nel raccogliere le impronte digitali a causa del rifiuto da parte dei richiedenti asilo o perché questi si procurano tagli, lesioni o scottature per non essere identificati. La stima dei costi per l’espansione di Eurodac è di 29,8 milioni di euro, necessari per “l’aggiornamento tecnico, l’aumento dell’archiviazione e della capacità del sistema centrale” si legge nella proposta di legge. 

      Le preoccupazioni per possibili violazioni dei diritti di migranti hanno spinto Edri, il principale network europeo di Ong impegnate nella tutela dei diritti e delle libertà digitali, e altre trenta associazioni (tra cui Amnesty International, Statewatch, Terre des Hommes) a scrivere lo scorso settembre una lettera aperta alla Commissione Libe del Parlamento europeo per chiedere di ritardare il processo legislativo di modifica di Eurodac e “concedere il tempo necessario a un’analisi significativa delle implicazioni sui diritti fondamentali della proposta di riforma”. 

      “Lungi dall’essere meramente tecnico, il dossier Eurodac è di natura altamente politica e strategica”, scrivono le associazioni firmatarie nella lettera. Che avvertono: se le modifiche proposte verranno adottate potrebbe venire compromesso “il dovere dell’Unione europea di rispettare il diritto e gli standard internazionali in materia di asilo e migrazione”. Eurodac rischia così di trasformarsi in “un potente strumento per la sorveglianza di massa” dei cittadini stranieri. Inoltre “le modifiche proposte sulla banca dati, che implicano il trattamento di più categorie di dati per una serie più ampia di finalità, sono in palese contraddizione con il principio di limitazione delle finalità, un principio chiave Ue sulla protezione dei dati”.

      “Si rischia di estendere il controllo sui richiedenti asilo visti sempre più come migranti ‘irregolari’ e non come persone bisognose di protezione” – Valeria Ferraris

      Le critiche delle associazioni firmatarie si concentrano soprattutto sul possibile uso del riconoscimento facciale per l’identificazione biometrica che viene definito “sproporzionato e invasivo della privacy” si legge nella lettera. “Le leggi fondamentali sulla protezione dei dati personali in Europa stabiliscono che l’interferenza con il diritto alla privacy deve essere proporzionata e rispondere a un interesse generale -spiega Chloé Berthélémy-. Nel caso di Eurodac, l’utilizzo delle impronte digitali è sufficiente a garantire l’identificazione della persona garantendo così il principio di limitazione dello scopo, che è centrale per la protezione dei dati in Europa”. 

      “Noi siamo contrari all’uso di tecnologie di riconoscimento facciale e siamo particolarmente radicali su questo -aggiungono Davide Del Monte e Laura Carrer dell’Hermes Center, una delle associazioni firmatarie della lettera-. Una tecnologia può anche avere un utilizzo corretto, ad esempio per combattere il terrorismo, ma la potenza di questi strumenti è tale che, a nostro avviso, i rischi e i pericoli sono molto superiori ai potenziali benefici che possono portare. Inoltre è molto difficile fare un passo indietro una volta che le infrastrutture necessarie a implementare queste tecnologie vengono ‘posate’ e messe in funzione: non si torna mai indietro e il loro utilizzo viene sempre ampliato. Per noi sono equiparabili ad armi e per questo la loro circolazione deve essere limitata”. Anche in virtù di queste posizioni, Hermes Center è promotore in Italia della campagna “Reclaim your face” con cui si chiede alle istituzioni di vietare il riconoscimento facciale negli spazi pubblici.

      “La potenza di questi strumenti è tale che, a nostro avviso, i rischi e i pericoli sono molto superiori ai potenziali benefici che possono portare” – Laura Carrer

      Ma non è finita. Se la riforma verrà adottata, all’interno del database europeo finiranno non solo i richiedenti asilo e le persone intercettate mentre attraversano “irregolarmente” le frontiere esterne dell’Unione europea ma anche tutti gli stranieri privi di titolo di soggiorno che venissero fermati all’interno di un Paese europeo e verrebbe anche creata una categoria ad hoc per i migranti soccorsi in mare durante un’operazione di search and rescue. Verranno inoltre raccolti i dati relativi ai bambini a partire dai sei anni di età: ufficialmente, questa (radicale) modifica al funzionamento del database europeo è stata introdotta con l’obiettivo di tutelare i minori stranieri. 

      Ma le associazioni evidenziano come raccogliere e conservare i dati biometrici dei bambini per scopi non legati alla loro protezione rappresenti “una violazione gravemente invasiva e ingiustificata del diritto alla privacy, che lede i principi di proporzionalità e necessità”. Dati e informazioni che verranno conservati più a lungo di quanto non accade oggi: per i “migranti irregolari” si passa dai 18 mesi attuali a cinque anni.

      A complicare ulteriormente la situazione c’è anche l’entrata in vigore nel 2018 del nuovo “Regolamento interoperatività”, che permette di mettere in connessione Eurodac con altri database come il Sistema informativo Schengen (Sis) e il sistema informativo Visti (Vis), il Sistema europeo di informazione e autorizzazione ai viaggi (Etias) e il Sistema di ingressi/uscite (Ees). 

      “In precedenza, questi erano tutti sistemi autonomi, ora si sta andando verso un merging, garantendo una connessione che contraddice la base giuridica iniziale per cui ciascuno di questi sistemi aveva un suo obiettivo -spiega Ferraris-. Nel corso degli anni gli obiettivi attribuiti a ciascun sistema si sono moltiplicati, violando i principi in materia di protezione dei dati personali e diventando progressivamente sempre più focalizzati sul controllo della migrazione”. Inoltre le modifiche normative hanno esteso l’accesso a questi database sempre più integrati tra loro a un numero sempre maggiore di autorità.

      “Quello che chiediamo al Parlamento europeo è di fare un passo indietro e di ripensare l’intero quadro normativo -conclude Berthélémy-. La nostra principale raccomandazione è quella di realizzare e pubblicare una valutazione di impatto sull’estensione dell’applicazione di Eurodac per delineare le conseguenze sui diritti fondamentali o su quelli dei minori causati dalle significative modifiche proposte. Si sta estendendo in maniera enorme l’ambito di applicazione di un database, e questo avrà conseguenze per decine di migliaia di persone”.

      https://altreconomia.it/eurodac-la-sorveglianza-di-massa-per-fermare-le-persone-ai-confini-ue

  • Machine-Readable Refugees

    Hassan (not his real name; other details have also been changed) paused mid-story to take out his wallet and show me his ID card. Its edges were frayed. The grainy, black-and-white photo was of a gawky teenager. He ran his thumb over the words at the top: ‘Jamhuri ya Kenya/Republic of Kenya’. ‘Somehow,’ he said, ‘no one has found out that I am registered as a Kenyan.’

    He was born in the Kenyan town of Mandera, on the country’s borders with Somalia and Ethiopia, and grew up with relatives who had escaped the Somali civil war in the early 1990s. When his aunt, who fled Mogadishu, applied for refugee resettlement through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, she listed Hassan as one of her sons – a description which, if understood outside the confines of biological kinship, accurately reflected their relationship.

    They were among the lucky few to pass through the competitive and labyrinthine resettlement process for Somalis and, in 2005, Hassan – by then a young adult – was relocated to Minnesota. It would be several years before US Citizenship and Immigration Services introduced DNA tests to assess the veracity of East African refugee petitions. The adoption of genetic testing by Denmark, France and the US, among others, has narrowed the ways in which family relationships can be defined, while giving the resettlement process the air of an impartial audit culture.

    In recent years, biometrics (the application of statistical methods to biological data, such as fingerprints or DNA) have been hailed as a solution to the elusive problem of identity fraud. Many governments and international agencies, including the UNHCR, see biometric identifiers and centralised databases as ways to determine the authenticity of people’s claims to refugee and citizenship status, to ensure that no one is passing as someone or something they’re not. But biometrics can be a blunt instrument, while the term ‘fraud’ is too absolute to describe a situation like Hassan’s.

    Biometrics infiltrated the humanitarian sector after 9/11. The US and EU were already building centralised fingerprint registries for the purposes of border control. But with the start of the War on Terror, biometric fever peaked, most evidently at the borders between nations, where the images of the terrorist and the migrant were blurred. A few weeks after the attacks, the UNHCR was advocating the collection and sharing of biometric data from refugees and asylum seekers. A year later, it was experimenting with iris scans along the Afghanistan/Pakistan frontier. On the insistence of the US, its top donor, the agency developed a standardised biometric enrolment system, now in use in more than fifty countries worldwide. By 2006, UNHCR agents were taking fingerprints in Kenya’s refugee camps, beginning with both index fingers and later expanding to all ten digits and both eyes.

    Reeling from 9/11, the US and its allies saw biometrics as a way to root out the new faceless enemy. At the same time, for humanitarian workers on the ground, it was an apparently simple answer to an intractable problem: how to identify a ‘genuine’ refugee. Those claiming refugee status could be crossed-checked against a host country’s citizenship records. Officials could detect refugees who tried to register under more than one name in order to get additional aid. Biometric technologies were laden with promises: improved accountability, increased efficiency, greater objectivity, an end to the heavy-handed tactics of herding people around and keeping them under surveillance.

    When refugees relinquish their fingerprints in return for aid, they don’t know how traces of themselves can travel through an invisible digital architecture. A centralised biometric infrastructure enables opaque, automated data-sharing with third parties. Human rights advocates worry about sensitive identifying information falling into thehands of governments or security agencies. According to a recent privacy-impact report, the UNHCR shares biometric data with the Department of Homeland Security when referring refugees for resettlement in the US. ‘The very nature of digitalised refugee data,’ as the political scientist Katja Jacobsen says, ‘means that it might also become accessible to other actors beyond the UNHCR’s own biometric identity management system.’

    Navigating a complex landscape of interstate sovereignty, caught between host and donor countries, refugee aid organisations often hold contradictory, inconsistent views on data protection. UNHCR officials have long been hesitant about sharing information with the Kenyan state, for instance. Their reservations are grounded in concerns that ‘confidential asylum-seeker data could be used for non-protection-related purposes’. Kenya has a poor record of refugee protection. Its security forces have a history of harassing Somalis, whether refugees or Kenyan citizens, who are widely mistrusted as ‘foreigners’.

    Such well-founded concerns did not deter the UNHCR from sharing data with, funding and training Kenya’s Department of Refugee Affairs (now the Refugee Affairs Secretariat), which since 2011 has slowly and unevenly taken over refugee registration in the country. The UNHCR hasconducted joint verification exercises with the Kenyan government to weed out cases of double registration. According to the anthropologist Claire Walkey, these efforts were ‘part of the externalisation of European asylum policy ... and general burden shifting to the Global South’, where more than 80 per cent of the world’s refugees live. Biometrics collected for protection purposes have been used by the Kenyan government to keep people out. Tens of thousands of ethnic Somali Kenyan citizens who have tried to get a Kenyan national ID have been turned away in recent years because their fingerprints are in the state’s refugee database.

    Over the last decade, biometrics have become part of the global development agenda, allegedly a panacea for a range of problems. One of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is to provide everyone with a legal identity by 2030. Governments, multinational tech companies and international bodies from the World Bank to the World Food Programme have been promoting the use of digital identity systems. Across the Global South, biometric identifiers are increasingly linked to voting, aid distribution, refugee management and financial services. Countries with some of the least robust privacy laws and most vulnerable populations are now laboratories for experimental tech.

    Biometric identifiers promise to tie legal status directly to the body. They offer seductively easy solutions to the problems of administering large populations. But it is worth asking what (and who) gets lost when countries and international bodies turn to data-driven, automated solutions. Administrative failures, data gaps and clunky analogue systems had posed huge challenges for people at the mercy of dispassionate bureaucracies, but also provided others with room for manoeuvre.

    Biometrics may close the gap between an ID and its holder, but it opens a gulf between streamlined bureaucracies and people’s messy lives, their constrained choices, their survival strategies, their hopes for a better future, none of which can be captured on a digital scanner or encoded into a database.

    https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/september/machine-readable-refugees
    #biométrie #identité #réfugiés #citoyenneté #asile #migrations #ADN #tests_ADN #tests_génétiques #génétique #nationalité #famille #base_de_donnée #database #HCR #UNHCR #fraude #frontières #contrôles_frontaliers #iris #technologie #contrôle #réinstallation #protection_des_données #empreintes_digitales #identité_digitale

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    via @isskein

  • Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals

    Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas: attempts to reduce or eliminate rights and protections in the law governing deportations; the expansion and interconnection of EU databases and information systems; and the increased budget, powers and personnel awarded to Frontex.

    There has long-been coordinated policy, legal and operational action on migration at EU level, and efforts to increase deportations have always been a part of this. However, since the ‘migration crisis’ of 2015 there has been a rapid increase in new initiatives, the overall aim of which is to limit legal protections afforded to ‘deportable’ individuals at the same time as expanding the ability of national and EU authorities to track, detain and remove people with increasing efficiency.

    The measures and initiatives being introduced by the EU to scale up deportations will require massive public expenditure on technology, infrastructure and personnel; the strengthening and expansion of state and supranational agencies already-lacking in transparency and democratic accountability; and are likely to further undermine claims that the EU occupies the moral high ground in its treatment of migrants. Anyone wishing to question and challenge these developments will first need to understand them. This report attempts to go some way towards assisting with that task.


    https://www.statewatch.org/deportation-union-rights-accountability-and-the-eu-s-push-to-increase-fo
    #machine_à_expulser #expulsions #asile #migrations #réfugiés #renvois #UE #EU #rapport #union_européenne #renvois_forcés #rapport #Statewatch #Frontex #database #base_de_données #données_biométriques #Directive_Retour #return-opticon #Joint_return_operations (#JROs) #Collecting_return_operations #National_return_operations #Afghanistan #réfugiés_afghans #European_Centre_for_Returns #statistiques #chiffres #droits_fondamentaux #droits_humains #machine_à_expulser #machine_à_expulsion

    ping @isskein @karine4 @rhoumour @_kg_ @etraces

  • Le #joli_rouge

    Le Joli Rouge est animé par la volonté de transmettre et de faire découvrir des #ouvrages autour de l’#anarchisme, du #féminisme ou de l’#éthique_animale.

    Ici, vous trouverez bientôt une boutique proposant différents ouvrages sur ces thèmes.
    Cette page propose des articles, textes et ouvrages diponibles gratuitement.

    https://lejolirouge.fr

    Interview à l’initiateur du site :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNS46L4gcdo&feature=youtu.be

    #textes #documents #livres #database #base_de_données

  • Automated suspicion: The EU’s new travel surveillance initiatives

    This report examines how the EU is using new technologies to screen, profile and risk-assess travellers to the Schengen area, and the risks this poses to civil liberties and fundamental rights.

    By developing ‘interoperable’ biometric databases, introducing untested profiling tools, and using new ‘pre-crime’ watchlists, people visiting the EU from all over the world are being placed under a veil of suspicion in the name of enhancing security.

    Watch the animation below for an overview of the report. A laid-out version will be available shortly. You can read the press release here: https://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/july/eu-to-deploy-controversial-technologies-on-holidaymakers-and-business-tr

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    Executive summary

    The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has raised the possibility of widespread surveillance and location tracking for the purpose of disease control, setting alarm bells ringing amongst privacy advocates and civil rights campaigners. However, EU institutions and governments have long been set on the path of more intensive personal data processing for the purpose of migration control, and these developments have in some cases passed almost entirely under the radar of the press and civil society organisations.

    This report examines, explains and critiques a number of large-scale EU information systems currently being planned or built that will significantly extend the collection and use of biometric and biographic data taken from visitors to the Schengen area, made up of 26 EU member states as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. In particular, it examines new systems being introduced to track, analyse and assess the potential security, immigration or public health risks posed by non-EU citizens who have to apply for either a short-stay visa or a travel authorisation – primarily the #Visa_Information_System (#VIS), which is being upgraded, and the #European_Travel_Information_and_Authorisation_System (#ETIAS), which is currently under construction.

    The visa obligation has existed for years. The forthcoming travel authorisation obligation, which will cover citizens of non-EU states who do not require a visa, is new and will massively expand the amount of data the EU holds on non-citizens. It is the EU’s equivalent of the USA’s ESTA, Canada’s eTA and Australia’s ETA.[1] These schemes represent a form of “government permission to travel,” to borrow the words of Edward Hasbrouck,[2] and they rely on the extensive processing of personal data.

    Data will be gathered on travellers themselves as well as their families, education, occupation and criminal convictions. Fingerprints and photographs will be taken from all travellers, including from millions of children from the age of six onwards. This data will not just be used to assess an individual’s application, but to feed data mining and profiling algorithms. It will be stored in large-scale databases accessible to hundreds of thousands of individuals working for hundreds of different public authorities.

    Much of this data will also be used to feed an enormous new database holding the ‘identity data’ – fingerprints, photographs, names, nationalities and travel document data – of non-EU citizens. This system, the #Common_Identity_Repository (#CIR), is being introduced as part of the EU’s complex ‘interoperability’ initiative and aims to facilitate an increase in police identity checks within the EU. It will only hold the data of non-EU citizens and, with only weak anti-discrimination safeguards in the legislation, raises the risk of further entrenching racial profiling in police work.

    The remote monitoring and control of travellers is also being extended through the VIS upgrade and the introduction of ETIAS. Travel companies are already obliged to check, prior to an individual boarding a plane, coach or train, whether they have the visa required to enter the Schengen area. This obligation will be extended to include travel authorisations, with travel companies able to use the central databases of the VIS and ETIAS to verify whether a person’s paperwork is in order or not. When people arrive at the Schengen border, when they are within the Schengen area and long after they leave, their personal data will remain stored in these systems and be available for a multitude of further uses.

    These new systems and tools have been presented by EU institutions as necessary to keep EU citizens safe. However, the idea that more personal data gathering will automatically lead to greater security is a highly questionable claim, given that the authorities already have problems dealing with the data they hold now.

    Furthermore, a key part of the ‘interoperability’ agenda is the cross-matching and combination of data on tens of millions of people from a host of different databases. Given that the EU’s databases are already-known to be strewn with errors, this massively increases the risks of mistakes in decision making in a policy field – immigration – that already involves a high degree of discretion and which has profound implications for peoples’ lives.

    These new systems have been presented by their proponents as almost-inevitable technological developments. This is a misleading idea which masks the political and ethical judgments that lie behind the introduction of any new technology. It would be fairer to say that EU lawmakers have chosen to introduce unproven, experimental technologies – in particular, automated profiling – for use on non-EU citizens, who have no choice in the matter and are likely to face difficulties in exercising their rights.

    Finally, the introduction of new databases designed to hold data on tens of millions of non-citizens rests on the idea that our public authorities can be trusted to comply with the rules and will not abuse the new troves of data to which they are being given access. Granting access to more data to more people inevitably increases the risk of individual abuses. Furthermore, the last decade has seen numerous states across the EU turn their back on fundamental rights and democratic standards, with migrants frequently used as scapegoats for society’s ills. In a climate of increased xenophobia and social hostility to foreigners, it is extremely dangerous to assert that intrusive data-gathering will counterbalance a supposed threat posed by non-citizens.

    Almost all the legislation governing these systems has now been put in place. What remains is for them to be upgraded or constructed and put into use. Close attention should be paid by lawmakers, journalists, civil society organisations and others to see exactly how this is done. If all non-citizens are to be treated as potential risks and assessed, analysed, monitored and tracked accordingly, it may not be long before citizens come under the same veil of suspicion.

    https://www.statewatch.org/automated-suspicion-the-eu-s-new-travel-surveillance-initiatives

    #vidéo:
    https://vimeo.com/437830786

    #suspects #suspicion #frontières #rapport #StateWatch #migrations #asile #réfugiés #EU #UE #Union_européenne
    #surveillance #profiling #database #base_de_données #données_personnelles #empreintes_digitales #enfants #agences_de_voyage #privatisation #interopérabilité

    ping @mobileborders @isskein @etraces @reka

  • Datenbank der im Sklavenhandel involvierten Schweizer

    Cooperaxion fördert die nachhaltige Entwicklung und den interkulturellen Austausch entlang der einstigen Sklavenhandelsrouten.

    Die Datenbank von Cooperaxion dokumentiert auf einzigartige Weise die Geschäfte der verschiedenen Schweizer Akteure während des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts.
    Zur Zeit sind über 260 Datensätze veröffentlicht, bei weiteren stehen noch Recherchen an.

    Die Suchfunktion findet Stichwörter nach Name, Herkunftskanton, Tätigkeitsregion, Detailinformation oder dem Zeitraum.

    Sie können die Tabelle sortieren, indem Sie auf den entsprechenden Spaltentitel klicken.

    Mit dem Detail-Link gelangen Sie auf eine Seite mit ausführlichen Informationen zur Person oder (Personen-)Gruppe.

    Thematisch vertiefte Hintergrund-Informationen zur Rolle der Schweiz im transatlantischen Sklavenhandel und Kolonialismus finden Sie unter Dokumentation: https://cooperaxion.org/?lang=fr.

    https://www.cooperaxion.ch

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    Avec des fiches pour chaque entrée, ici par exemple Auguste de Stael :

    #esclavage #commerce_triangulaire #Suisse #base_de_données #database #commerce_d'esclaves #histoire #liste

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    Ajouté à la métaliste sur la Suisse coloniale :
    https://seenthis.net/messages/868109

    ping @reka @cede

  • List of nuraghi

    https://www.tharros.info/sites/Nuraghi/Nuraghi002.jpgdf

    Lavorando al mio sito web Tharros.info sulla Sardegna mi è venuta l’idea di realizzare un database degli innumerevoli nuraghi che si trovano sull’isola. Un censimento esauriente delle torri dell’età del bronzo non esisteva ancora. Secondo le stime di alcuni archeologi si contano dai 6000 agli 8000 nuraghi in tutta l’isola. I censimenti eseguiti in passato hanno interessato territori più o meno delimitati senza estendersi comunque all’intero territorio della regiona Sardegna. Appassionati di archeologia hanno preso l’iniziativa di segnalare tutti i nuraghi utilizzando il sito di Wikimapia, una mappa pubblica dove si possono segnalare luoghi di interesse culturale, di bellezza naturale o di utilità economica. Nel 2009 ho cominciato a lavorare al database e a annotare la posizione geografica dei nuraghi sia su una mappa Google che in un elenco, creando la possibilità di ritrovare i monumenti basandosi sui nomi di questi o sul nome del comune di appartenenza. In questo articolo spiego il metodo di ricerca che ho attuato per compilare l’elenco dei nuraghi di Tharros.info.

    https://www.tharros.info/NuraghiMap.php?lng=en

    https://www.tharros.info/ViewNuraghi.php?lng=en

    #Nuraghe #sardaigne #archéologie #carte #database #cartographie

  • Impacts of COVID-19 on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Insights from the ground

    Delve has organized this dedicated COVID-19 space to share information and resources about the impacts on the ASM sector. The space will also profile initiatives by partners to assist small-scale miners and their communities during the pandemic. We are organizing an exploratory COVID-19 Working Group to further share information. The Working Group’s first meeting was convened on April 6th and will continue to share information on an ongoing basis.

    https://delvedatabase.org/about/news-and-events/impacts-of-covid-19-on-artisanal-and-small-scale-mining-insights-from

    #mines #covid-19 #coronavirus #artisanal_miner_or small-scale_miner (#ASM) #Orpaillage #database #base_de_données

    ping @albertocampiphoto @reka

  • Migrants contributing to #covid-19 responses

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    We are collecting data/stories from across the world on #migrants contributing to #COVDI19 response, in #healthcare and beyond.
    Excited to work with @fedfragapane towards a visualization, in the meantime here is the tracker-use it and send us suggestions
    https://twitter.com/martaforesti/status/1250815038149005321

    Voici le doc partagé :
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yrhvW80BzVU7-3bsTY7l8PDSYB9Q4XztHHLQ8Oy69NY/edit?ts=5e9572e8#gid=0

    #migrations #asile #réfugiés

    #database #données
    ping @reka @fil @simplicissimus @isskein @karine4

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    Ajouté à ce fil de discussion :
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  • Coronavirus : l’Allemagne se tourne vers les migrants pour anticiper une pénurie de soignants

    Bastion de l’AfD, le parti nationaliste et anti-migrants allemand, la région #Saxe se tourne vers ses #médecins_étrangers n’ayant pas encore obtenu de licence pour exercer afin de prévenir une #pénurie de #soignants en pleine pandémie de coronavirus. Plusieurs centaines d’entre eux se sont déjà portés volontaires pour aider.

    « Je suis extrêmement heureux de voir que je peux faire quelque chose pour le pays dans lequel je vis. » A 29 ans, Shadi Shahda se tient prêt à intervenir en pleine pandémie de coronavirus. Le jeune Syrien a expliqué à Reuters être arrivé en Allemagne en avril dernier avec un visa pour les demandeurs d’emploi hautement qualifiés et une expérience de trois ans comme médecin interne en ORL.

    Avant de pouvoir commencer à exercer en Saxe, sa province d’adoption, il ne lui restait plus qu’à passer un examen de langue ce moi-ci, lequel a été annulé pour cause de coronavirus. C’est donc tout naturellement que Shadi Shahda a répondu à une annonce du Sächsischen Landesärztekammer, le Conseil médical de la région de Saxe. « J’ai envoyé ma candidature, j’attends leur appel », s’est réjoui le jeune Syrien, soulagé de pouvoir mettre ses compétences à profit.

    Safwan aussi attend des nouvelles. Cet autre jeune migrant a fait des études de médecine générale en Syrie avant de s’installer à Leipzig, il y a trois ans. Il devait également passer son test de langue prochainement. « Je ne m’imagine pas rester les bras croisés, si j’ai voulu faire médecine, c’est avant tout pour aider les gens », explique-t-il à InfoMigrants.

    Alors que le gouvernement allemand se veut rassurant en affirmant notamment qu’il est en capacité de doubler son nombre de lits en soins intensifs et de produire davantage de respirateurs, le manque de #personnels_soignants apparaît comme le point faible de sa stratégie de lutte contre le coronavirus.

    C’est dans ce contexte que le Sächsischen Landesärztekammer a lancé, sur sa page Facebook, un appel aux migrants ayant des compétences de soignants. « Les docteurs étrangers qui se trouvent déjà en Saxe mais qui n’ont pas encore reçu leur licence pour pratiquer dans la région peuvent nous aider dans les soins pour combattre le coronavirus », a écrit l’organisme dans une publication datant du 17 mars.

    https://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/23691/coronavirus-l-allemagne-se-tourne-vers-les-migrants-pour-anticiper-une
    #réfugiés #intégration_professionnelle #travail #Allemagne #asile #migrations #médecins #soins #santé #pénurie

    ping @karine4 @isskein @thomas_lacroix @_kg_

    • Refugees to the rescue? Germany taps migrant medics to battle virus

      Five years ago the arrival of a wave of refugees caused much consternation and fuelled support for Germany’s far-right. Now, the country is turning to its migrant community to plug an anticipated shortage of medical staff battling the coronavirus.

      The German government says it can double its number of intensive care beds, and even produce more ventilators but a medical staffing crunch is shaping up as the Achilles heel of its strategy to fight the coronavirus.

      In Saxony, the heartland of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), the regional medical board is advertising for migrant doctors to help tackle an expected rise in cases.

      “Foreign doctors who are in Saxony but do not yet have a license to practice medicine can help with corona(virus) care,” read a Facebook appeal. here

      The push to tap migrant medics in Saxony comes despite the AfD enjoying a surge in support in a regional election there last year, harnessing voter anger over refugees to come second behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.

      Merkel’s 2015 decision to open Germany’s borders to some 1 million migrants fleeing war in the Middle East - the defining moment of her chancellorship - was widely criticised by the AfD and even many of her own conservatives.

      A new film, ‘Merkel - Anatomy of a Crisis’, also takes a critical look at her handling of the refugee influx.

      But the coronavirus epidemic means medics of all backgrounds are in demand.

      Saxony’s regional medical board reported on Monday that 300 volunteers had responded to its appeal for help, including “many foreign doctors whose licensing procedures are not yet completed, whose help is very welcome.”

      As of Tuesday, there were 31,554 cases of coronavirus in Germany, with 149 deaths, the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said. The government says Germany is still at the beginning of the epidemic.

      Shadi Shahda, 29, is one migrant medic ready to help.

      He came to Germany last April on a visa for highly-qualified job seekers and with three years’ experience as an ENT (ear, nose, throat) medical resident in Syria. But a language exam he needed to take this month to work as a doctor in Saxony was cancelled due to the coronavirus.

      He jumped at the medical board’s Facebook post and says: “I am waiting for their call ... I was very happy when I saw that I could do something in the country where I am living.”

      https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-germany-refugees/refugees-to-the-rescue-germany-taps-migrant-medics-to-battle-virus-idUKK

    • Berliner Behörde überlastet - Ausländische Mediziner trotz Coronakrise ohne Arbeitserlaubnis
      Von Claudia van Laak
      5-6 Minuten

      Allein in Berlin warten aktuell 1.058 ausländische Ärzte und 1.180 Pflegekräfte auf Anerkennung ihrer Berufsabschlüsse – manche sogar schon seit Jahren. Doch trotz Corona-Krise und dringend benötigten medizinischen Fachpersonal wird sich daran wohl so schnell nichts ändern.

      https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/media/thumbs/3/340e4ca5ae39e761de447f9c0a17f2a8v1_max_755x425_b3535db83dc50e27c1bb1

      „Notruf: Mehr von uns ist besser für alle!“ steht bei einer Demonstration von streikendem Pflegepersonal an der Berliner Charite - Campus Virchow Klinikum auf einem Transparent. (imago images / Seeliger)

      Bereits vor der Corona-Krise herrschte in Deutschland der Pflegenotstand. Doch ausländisches medizinisches Fachpersonal wartet hierzulande oft sehr lange, bis die Arbeitserlaubnis kommt.

      Wir brauchen jede helfende Hand, bitte melden Sie sich bei den Landesärztekammern. Dieser flehentliche Appell von Ärztekammerpräsident Klaus Reinhardt richtet sich an pensionierte Mediziner und an Studierende. Doch was ist mit den ausländischen Ärzten? Ihre Abschlüsse – und auch die der Pflegekräfte – müssen zum Beispiel im Land Berlin vom Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales anerkannt werden. Auf den Schreibtischen der Entscheider liegen nicht weniger als 1.058 Anträge ausländischer Ärzte sowie 1.180 Anträge von Pflegekräften. Und diese Anträge liegen dort nicht erst seit gestern. Die Verfahren dauern viel zu lange, sagt Catherina Pieroth, gesundheitspolitische Sprecherin der Grünen-Fraktion im Abgeordnetenhaus.

      „Die Anerkennungsverfahren dauern zum Teil ein Jahr oder länger. In Einzelfällen sogar drei bis vier Jahre.“

      Bereits vor Corona gab es einen Ärzte- und Pfleger-Mangel, trotzdem mussten diese Fachkräfte Jahr für Jahr länger auf ihre Berufserlaubnis warten. Die entsprechende Abteilung im Berliner Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales LaGeSo ist überlastet. Tim Zeelen, gesundheitspolitischer Sprecher der CDU-Fraktion im Abgeordnetenhaus.

      „Es gibt den Aufruf auch des Bundesministers Jens Spahn, Rentner zu reaktivieren, wir wissen, dass Medizinstudenten jetzt geschult werden sollen, um Aufgaben im Gesundheitswesen zu übernehmen. Das sind alles gute Belege dafür, dass wir jeden brauchen, der qualifiziert ist mitzuhelfen. Und das gilt für Menschen, die im Ausland ihre Abschlüsse erworben haben, umso mehr. Auch die könnten jetzt ganz konkret unserem Gesundheitswesen in Berlin helfen.“

      Wer in Polen seine Ausbildung gemacht hat, hat das Nachsehen

      Noch eine weitere Gruppe könnte helfen – das sind Ärztinnen und Ärzte, die vor kurzem im Nachbarland Polen ihren Abschluss gemacht haben, darunter auch viele Deutsche. Sie erhalten von den Berliner Landesbehörden keine Approbation, weil Polen seine Medizinerausbildung zuvor verändert hatte.

      Catherina Pieroth von den mitregierenden Grünen:

      „Aktuell sind 60 Ärztinnen und Ärzte aus diesem Kontingent arbeitslos. Dieses Jahr werden weitere 350 Ärzte in Polen fertig, die gerne nach Deutschland kommen würden, dabei handelt es sich auch um Deutsche, die in Stettin studieren, weil sie in Deutschland keinen Medizin-Studienplatz bekommen haben.“

      Vorläufige Anerkennung gefordert

      Die oppositionelle CDU fordert vom rot-rot-grünen Berliner Senat eine schnelle Entscheidung. Ausländische Ärzte und Pflegekräfte müssen eine vorläufige Anerkennung erhalten, um sofort mit ihrer Arbeit beginnen zu können, sagt Tim Zeelen.

      „Jetzt geht es darum, in einem Ad-hoc-Verfahren diese Genehmigung sehr sehr schnell möglich zu machen.“
      Berliner Gesundheitsverwaltung stellt sich quer

      Die zuständige, von der SPD geleitete Gesundheitsverwaltung und das ihr unterstellte Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales lehnen das rundheraus ab. Auch in Krisenzeiten dürfe man nicht von den Regeln abweichen, die der Bund festgelegt habe. Zitat:

      „Die Anforderungen können landesrechtlich nicht verändert oder temporär angepasst werden. Derzeit gibt es bundesweit Überlegungen, ob und wie die Anerkennungsverfahren vereinfacht oder beschleunigt werden können.“

      Und weiter: Aus Gründen des Patienten- und auch des Gesundheitsschutzes sei es unverantwortlich, ohne entsprechende Prüfungen vorläufige Berufserlaubnisse für Ärzte und Pfleger zu erteilen. Der CDU-Gesundheitspolitiker Tim Zeelen sieht dies anders, denn:

      „Von den Menschen, die mit einem im Ausland erworbenen Abschluss kommen, ist die Anerkennungsquote nahezu 100 Prozent.“

      1.058 ausländische Ärztinnen und Ärzte warten allein im Land Berlin auf die Anerkennung ihres Abschlusses. Bei manchen fehlt nur noch die bestandene Fachsprachenprüfung. Diese Prüfungen finden allerdings gerade nicht statt – wegen der Corona-Epidemie.

      https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/berliner-behoerde-ueberlastet-auslaendische-mediziner-trotz.1773.de.

    • Refugees to the rescue? Germany taps migrant medics to battle virus

      Five years ago the arrival of a wave of refugees caused much consternation and fueled support for Germany’s far-right. Now, the country is turning to its migrant community to plug an anticipated shortage of medical staff battling the coronavirus.

      The German government says it can double its number of intensive care beds, and even produce more ventilators but a medical staffing crunch is shaping up as the Achilles heel of its strategy to fight the coronavirus.

      In Saxony, the heartland of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), the regional medical board is advertising for migrant doctors to help tackle an expected rise in cases.

      “Foreign doctors who are in Saxony but do not yet have a license to practice medicine can help with corona(virus) care,” read a Facebook appeal. here

      The push to tap migrant medics in Saxony comes despite the AfD enjoying a surge in support in a regional election there last year, harnessing voter anger over refugees to come second behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.

      Merkel’s 2015 decision to open Germany’s borders to some 1 million migrants fleeing war in the Middle East - the defining moment of her chancellorship - was widely criticized by the AfD and even many of her own conservatives.

      A new film, ‘Merkel - Anatomy of a Crisis’, also takes a critical look at her handling of the refugee influx.

      But the coronavirus epidemic means medics of all backgrounds are in demand.

      Saxony’s regional medical board reported on Monday that 300 volunteers had responded to its appeal for help, including “many foreign doctors whose licensing procedures are not yet completed, whose help is very welcome.”

      As of Tuesday, there were 31,554 cases of coronavirus in Germany, with 149 deaths, the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said. The government says Germany is still at the beginning of the epidemic.

      Shadi Shahda, 29, is one migrant medic ready to help.

      He came to Germany last April on a visa for highly-qualified job seekers and with three years’ experience as an ENT (ear, nose, throat) medical resident in Syria. But a language exam he needed to take this month to work as a doctor in Saxony was canceled due to the coronavirus.

      He jumped at the medical board’s Facebook post and says: “I am waiting for their call ... I was very happy when I saw that I could do something in the country where I am living.”

      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-refugees/refugees-to-the-rescue-germany-taps-migrant-medics-to-battle-virus-idUSKBN2

    • Germany calls on migrant medics to help tackle coronavirus

      Country has 14,000 Syrian refugee doctors waiting for qualifications to be approved.

      Germany’s health authorities are appealing to medically qualified migrants to help them tackle the coronavirus.

      As increasing numbers of doctors and nurses fall ill or are quarantined, the shortage of medical staff is putting pressure on a usually well-resourced health service.

      Government initiatives have already increased the number of intensive care beds from about 24,000 to 40,000, most of them with ventilators. Staff are being retrained and non-essential operations across the country have been cancelled.

      But the health system still needs more medical personnel to care for patients, increase the levels of testing, and track down people who have been in contact with those who are sick. The Robert Koch Institute, which advises the government on public health, has said 2,300 doctors are believed to be off sick or in quarantine. But with no central collation of data, the real figure is believed to be much higher. In the state of Bavaria alone, 244 doctors’ practices have had to close because of coronavirus infections.

      Match4Healthcare, a website backed by medical authorities which was created by a volunteer team of students and hackers, seeks to match healthcare workers and volunteers – both citizens and foreigners living in Germany – to clinics and care homes needing support.

      The eastern state of Saxony is at the forefront of a campaign calling on foreign doctors, including the thousands of refugees who arrived in 2015, to help. According to the Facebook group Syrian Doctors in Germany there are 14,000 Syrian doctors waiting for their qualifications to be approved.

      “We are keen for anyone to get in touch who is in a position to help,” said a spokesman for the medical association in Leipzig (SLAEK), the capital of Saxony. “It could be someone who does not yet have their medical licence, but is on their way to getting it,” he said. “To date around 400 have been in touch.”
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      Saxony, with a population of just over 4 million, has not been as badly hit by the virus as other regions, but concern is growing. By Friday, there were almost 4,000 confirmed cases and 76 of them had died. “Right now the situation is still under control, but as it gets worse we need to prepare for that,” the spokesman said.

      In its Facebook appeal the medical association calls on German-speaking “foreign doctors already living in Saxony but who have not yet got their medical licence to help with coronavirus support”.

      What makes Saxony’s plea salient is that it is the home of Pegida, the anti-Islam protest movement, and the heartland of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party. The AfD rose to prominence – becoming the largest opposition in parliament in 2017 – on the back of voter anger over Angela Merkel’s decision to allow almost 1 million refugees into the country in 2015.

      The chancellor’s resistance to closing Germany’s borders prompted a huge backlash against her Christian Democrats’ refugee policy, with many accusing Merkel of undermining national security. Now, although the government was initially reluctant to do so, closing the national border to most neighbouring countries is regarded as a matter of national safety, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

      Opponents of the government’s open door policy argued refugees would be a drain on the economy and compromise national security. Those in favour said that, as the majority were young, they would help plug a growing skills shortage caused by an ageing population.

      Safwan Adnan Ali arrived from Syria in July 2016. He studied general surgery in Latakia for four years, then moved to Iraq to avoid military service, where he worked as a general practitioner for a year.

      Since arriving in Germany as a refugee, he has been learning the language and preparing for exams which will allow his qualifications to be recognised.

      “I was waiting for the exam for medical language use, but then the coronavirus came and everything has ground to a halt,” the 37-year-old said. “When the appeal was announced … I thought I’d really like to help. I need to do something useful, and I’d like to give something back to the country which has helped me so much, so I sent off my CV immediately.”

      He has also applied to help Bavaria, one of the worst-hit regions, which recently announced that doctors without medical licences would be given immediate permission to work there for a year. In recent days other states have announced easier access to exam procedures and a relaxation on qualification rules.

      Adnan Ali said: “I’m prepared to go anywhere I’m needed. Although as I have my wife and one-year-old daughter in Saxony, I’d prefer to work here close to them if I can.”

      His WhatsApp group of Syrian doctors living in Germany has been debating whether access to the medical system due to the pandemic will shorten their wait to enter the profession.

      “I really hope this will make it easier by maybe cutting down some of the unwieldy bureaucratic procedures,” he said.

      Ahmad Dahhan, 35, said when he arrived in Germany from Syria in December 2015 he hoped to be able to resume his medical career as soon as possible. “Everyone has their dreams,” he said, “but bureaucracy has made things very difficult and slow, and it has been an extremely frustrating time.”

      Dahhan studied biochemistry at the University of Aleppo before training as a gynaecologist at Damascus University. “They say they are in need of doctors, even when there isn’t a health crisis, but it’s not at all straightforward to get into the profession.”

      He has studied German, spent two months working alongside doctors at a gynaecology department in Leipzig, and attended courses of advanced training for foreign doctors, but since the coronavirus struck, he has been confined to his apartment.

      “It is extremely discouraging to know that I could be doing something far more useful,” he said. “So I welcome the opportunity to be able to do so and hope that will help Germany recognise we can also be helpful even when there is not a crisis on.”

      Germany’s health ministry said it was in the process of “investigating all possible legal options” to speed up the applications of qualified doctors, especially those who only required a medical language exam.

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/germany-calls-on-migrant-medics-to-help-tackle-coronavirus

    • Aux #Etats-Unis...

      Governor Murphy Signs Executive Order to Remove Barriers to Health Care Professionals Joining New Jersey’s COVID-19 Response and Provide Protections for Front Line Health Care Responders

      Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 112, authorizing the Division of Consumer Affairs to temporarily reactivate the licenses of recently retired health care professionals and grant temporary licenses to doctors licensed in foreign countries. The executive order also temporarily permits certain health care professionals to perform acts outside of their ordinary scope of practice and grants broad civil immunity to health care professionals and facilities providing services in support of New Jersey’s COVID-19 response efforts who are acting in good faith.

      “My Administration is working tirelessly with our hospital systems and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to expand bed capacities, reopen closed hospitals, and erect field medical stations to prepare for additional COVID-19 cases,” said Governor Murphy. “We need trained, experienced medical personnel to ensure proper staffing as we build out this new capacity, which is why we have put out the call to retired health care professionals to join our fight and support our existing workforce. By signing this executive order, we are removing bureaucratic roadblocks to quickly bring more health care professionals into our efforts and provide additional flexibility and protections for our front line responders to aid in New Jersey’s response to COVID-19.”

      The executive order supplements the State’s existing health care workforce by:

      Authorizing the Division of Consumer Affairs to temporarily reactivate the licensees of healthcare professionals previously licensed in the State within the last five years. This will enable doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who have recently retired or have allowed their licenses to lapse to temporarily reactivate their license.
      Authorizing the Division of Consumer Affairs to grant temporary medical licenses to doctors who are licensed and in good standing in foreign countries.
      Temporarily waiving certain scope of practice restrictions on Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) related to physician collaboration, including a rule requiring that an APN enter into a joint protocol with a collaborating physician and a rule requiring APNs to obtain authorization from a collaborating physician in order to dispense narcotic drugs.
      Temporarily waiving certain scope of practice restrictions on Physician Assistants (PAs) related to physician supervision, including a rule requiring PAs to obtain physician authorization prior to prescribing a controlled dangerous substance.

      This order will take effect immediately.

      https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/20200401b.shtml
      #USA