#Carto #Alep : Mémoire de destruction, destruction de mémoire... ▻http://bit.ly/2hzAUGo Ou l’impact urban du conflit armé en cours
#Carto #Alep : Mémoire de destruction, destruction de mémoire... ▻http://bit.ly/2hzAUGo Ou l’impact urban du conflit armé en cours
@reka Je ne sais pas si tu as vu ça
Yes, merci beaucoup, on me l’a signalé hier ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/550887 mais c’est toujours bien d’avoir deux ou plusieurs entrées, j’ai eu du mal à retrouver le lien, j’avais oublié de mettre les hashtags...
@reka : Ah oui ! J’en ai parlé ici ►http://bit.ly/Desidedata3 et y ai également ajouté la base carto de l’UNITAR. Il y encore des choses à dire sur ce genre d’initiatives, mais une prochaine fois :)
CIA declassified its map collection on Flickr and it is totally awesome - Geoawesomeness
▻http://geoawesomeness.com/cia-declassified-map-collection-flickr-totally-awesome
Impressionnant.
“An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information and intelligence in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives” we can read on Wikipedia. Looking at this definition it’s clear that there is no intelligence agency without maps.
CIA realized that quite early and launched its Cartography Center back in October 1941. Since the beginning the mission of the unit was to provide a full range of maps, geographic analysis, and research in support of the Agency, the White House, and policy makers.
Over the years The Cartography Center produced thousands of maps. As you might imagine almost all of them were classified. Recently in honor of the unit’s 75th anniversary, the agency has released an amazing collection of declassified maps. These collection of 130 maps and over 200 images of old cartographic tools possibly played an important role in many significant events in the world’s history.
Il tricote des virus informatiques contre les virus de l’hiver
Venu du glitch et du circuit bending, l’artiste américain Jeff Donaldson utilise le code de logiciels malveillants pour tricoter des écharpes. Une manière de rendre visible l’invisible. Je vous raconte ça par le menu chez Makery : ▻http://www.makery.info/2016/11/28/il-tricote-des-virus-informatiques-contre-les-virus-de-lhiver
Dans un registre comparable, le « planned pooling » :
▻http://www.twistcollective.com/collection/35-articles/features/1537-the-art-and-science-of-planned-pooling
Ah, c’est excellent ! Merci pour le lien, @ktche
"Minding the gap, blind" - Leading vulnerable populations into a data-fostered power disbalance (yet again)?
An interesting piece caught my eye today: a feature published at Ars Technica UK quite sympathetically describes how Bluetooth beacons guide visually impaired (blind and partially sighted) people in the London metro.
The idea is great, no doubt. The author tested the technology and acknowledged how seamless it is to navigate the busy tunnels of the tube with its assistance.
▻https://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/10/london-underground-blind-beacons
However, further down I was reading, more upset I felt. The piece names the two companies — WayFindr and UsTwo — developing the technology and links to their respective websites. Then, it goes on interviewing London Underground’s director for operational support who praises the technology and explains that Google.org, Google’s charity arm, has co-funded the project. I went on to check out the two startups, and what I found concerns me.
Or, it’d be more appropriate to say, what I did not find, concerns me. Indeed:
– I found no trace whatsoever of technical specification for an alleged “open standard” developed by WayFindr: ▻https://www.wayfindr.net Amongst the few social networks featured (footer of the website), no GitHub or similar is listed. Moreover, there is no mention whatsoever about how the data WayFindr collects are managed.
– The situation is similar with UsTwo. They have a page labelled ’Legal’ (▻https://ustwo.com/legal), but it contains nothing related to data management, data collection, etc. UsTwo has a GitHub account (▻https://github.com/ustwo), but it is the regular front-end/Ansible/etc. stuff. Correct me if I am wrong, but it does not contain anything related to data collection, data management or data security.
I am not familiar with this project. However, the very one-sided and sympathetic feature that Ars UK ran rings a bell: is this a sponsored content that does not have the appropriate label? Or, worse, is it a piece that praises a program with no publicly available privacy and data management programs? As a reminder, the data producers here, as well as the clients, are visually impaired people: these are vulnerable people. The power disbalance is truly striking and utterly concerning.
Amazon might become ISP in Europe, but laws make US launch unlikely
[EN] Amazon hasn’t commented publicly on the topic, which was raised today in a report by The Information (subscription required). The technology news site quotes “a person briefed on the discussion” as saying that Amazon is considering whether to offer Internet service over the networks of existing providers. Since Amazon reportedly doesn’t want to build its own network, it would have to purchase wholesale access, which isn’t available everywhere.
[FR] Apparemment, Amazon lorgne le marché européen des FAI grand public. Est-ce qu’Orange accepterait de fournir le même type de services que pour, disons, Free ?
▻http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/amazon-might-become-isp-in-europe-but-laws-make-us-launch-unlikely