It’s a dramatic, messy era on the internet. Everything is changing rapidly. There’s broad dissatisfaction with the dominant search engine, and activists are worried about the privacy implications of increasingly intrusive online surveillance. While investors prattle on about esoteric topics like digital currencies and virtual reality, back in the real world, users are concerned with how hard it is to message all their friends on the many different platforms that they’re using, and perhaps a bit curious about the new social networks that keep popping up. Amidst...
- 12/30/2023
- by Anil Dash
- Rollingstone.com
San Francisco, Feb 21 (Ians) The inventor of the World Wide Web (also known as the Web), Tim Berners-Lee said that in the future, people will have their own personal AI assistant, similar to ChatGPT.
In a recent episode of CNBC’s Beyond the Valley podcast, Berners-Lee said that his new company envisions people having online ‘pods’ where all of their personal data is stored.
Inrupt, a startup co-founded by Berners-Lee, aims to provide web users with a single login that can be used across multiple websites.
Inrupt intends to store individual users’ data in digital containers as part of its work on developing that technology.
The pods will be capable of granting websites or services access to some or all of a person’s personal information, ranging from sleeping patterns to shopping preferences, reports Fortune.
Berners-Lee proposed that once they became a reality, an advanced AI-powered chatbot — similar to the...
In a recent episode of CNBC’s Beyond the Valley podcast, Berners-Lee said that his new company envisions people having online ‘pods’ where all of their personal data is stored.
Inrupt, a startup co-founded by Berners-Lee, aims to provide web users with a single login that can be used across multiple websites.
Inrupt intends to store individual users’ data in digital containers as part of its work on developing that technology.
The pods will be capable of granting websites or services access to some or all of a person’s personal information, ranging from sleeping patterns to shopping preferences, reports Fortune.
Berners-Lee proposed that once they became a reality, an advanced AI-powered chatbot — similar to the...
- 2/21/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia ended on a hell of a note. Here’s what the ending could mean for the show’s future.
“You can almost imagine the pitch meeting for Ginny & Georgia: ‘What if we do Gilmore Girls, only with more sex and Lorelai’s a criminal mastermind?’ By the end of the 10-episode first season of the new Netflix series, that’s basically exactly what the drama has provided.”
Read more at Thrillist.
If you’ve accidentally deleted important photos off your iPhone, all is not lost. Here are some ways you can recover them.
“In today’s digital age, the camera roll of our smartphone is where many of us store our most treasured memories. Which means that browsing an iPhone album can quickly turn disastrous if you hit the wrong button. Fortunately, digital photos are harder to destroy than the physical kind—you...
“You can almost imagine the pitch meeting for Ginny & Georgia: ‘What if we do Gilmore Girls, only with more sex and Lorelai’s a criminal mastermind?’ By the end of the 10-episode first season of the new Netflix series, that’s basically exactly what the drama has provided.”
Read more at Thrillist.
If you’ve accidentally deleted important photos off your iPhone, all is not lost. Here are some ways you can recover them.
“In today’s digital age, the camera roll of our smartphone is where many of us store our most treasured memories. Which means that browsing an iPhone album can quickly turn disastrous if you hit the wrong button. Fortunately, digital photos are harder to destroy than the physical kind—you...
- 2/26/2021
- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
New Delhi, Jan 24 (Ians) As the News Media Bargaining Code triggers a bitter war between Google and the Australian government, the tech giant has detailed eight facts on why reaching a workable Code is important but serious concerns with the current draft remain.
Google said that it supports a fair Code but the current version remains unworkable.
"We believe that the concerns we and others have raised can be addressed with reasonable changes. We have proposed a solution that would see Google pay publishers for value under this new law -- without breaking Google Search," the company said in a statement.
Rod Sims, chair of the watchdog Competition and Consumer Commission (Accc), said on Friday that Google and Facebook just don't want the code to be implemented.
"Google and Facebook like to do things on their terms. I think the code does what it's intended to do. It is workable.
Google said that it supports a fair Code but the current version remains unworkable.
"We believe that the concerns we and others have raised can be addressed with reasonable changes. We have proposed a solution that would see Google pay publishers for value under this new law -- without breaking Google Search," the company said in a statement.
Rod Sims, chair of the watchdog Competition and Consumer Commission (Accc), said on Friday that Google and Facebook just don't want the code to be implemented.
"Google and Facebook like to do things on their terms. I think the code does what it's intended to do. It is workable.
- 1/24/2021
- by IANS
- GlamSham
The European Parliament passed a wide-ranging digital copyright directive Wednesday that will give film and TV writers, directors and performing artists the possibility of renegotiating their contracts for a bigger piece of the revenue pie.
The new legislation is expected to force streamers such as Netflix and Amazon to pay higher copyright fees to film and TV creatives. It also affects copyright fees for music streamers and user-generated platforms such as YouTube, and is expected to force large tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google to start using filtering systems to block copyrighted content.
Approval of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was immediately welcomed by top European organizations representing the creative side of Europe’s film, TV and music industries. A large contingent of prominent European filmmakers had appealed to parliament members to approve the new rules at the Venice Film Festival last week.
But...
The new legislation is expected to force streamers such as Netflix and Amazon to pay higher copyright fees to film and TV creatives. It also affects copyright fees for music streamers and user-generated platforms such as YouTube, and is expected to force large tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google to start using filtering systems to block copyrighted content.
Approval of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was immediately welcomed by top European organizations representing the creative side of Europe’s film, TV and music industries. A large contingent of prominent European filmmakers had appealed to parliament members to approve the new rules at the Venice Film Festival last week.
But...
- 9/12/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The internet has changed the world. From the time Tim Berners-Lee posited the idea of a world wide web of connected computers to today, the world around us is not what it once was. For all the problems there may be with the online sphere, it’s become an integral part of our lives. Whether it’s the way we communicate to how we entertain ourselves, the internet is at the centre of everything.
In fact, if you look beyond the likes of Facebook, Google and YouTube, the stats prove that we’re now more connected than ever. In 2005, Statista’s data shows that approximately 1 billion people were classed as “internet users”. A decade later, that figure has increased to 3.1 billion. Today, with the number topping 3.5 billion, it’s hard to escape the grip of the online arena.
For those with a money-making mindset, this infiltration into our everyday lives has been fantastic.
In fact, if you look beyond the likes of Facebook, Google and YouTube, the stats prove that we’re now more connected than ever. In 2005, Statista’s data shows that approximately 1 billion people were classed as “internet users”. A decade later, that figure has increased to 3.1 billion. Today, with the number topping 3.5 billion, it’s hard to escape the grip of the online arena.
For those with a money-making mindset, this infiltration into our everyday lives has been fantastic.
- 7/31/2018
- by James Smith
- Nerdly
Bodies accuse digital giants of investing millions of euros in “disinformation campaign”.
Organisations representing content creators across Europe have expressed dismay at the European Parliament’s rejection of a new EU copyright law aimed at updating existing legislation to fit the digital age.
European Parliament members voted 318 to 278 against the proposed rules, with 31 abstentions, at its Strasbourg seat on Thursday (July 5), in one of the final sessions ahead of the institution’s two-month summer recess.
The vote was preceded by an intense lobbying campaign pitting those who believe digital players are exploiting news and media content without properly remunerating the creators,...
Organisations representing content creators across Europe have expressed dismay at the European Parliament’s rejection of a new EU copyright law aimed at updating existing legislation to fit the digital age.
European Parliament members voted 318 to 278 against the proposed rules, with 31 abstentions, at its Strasbourg seat on Thursday (July 5), in one of the final sessions ahead of the institution’s two-month summer recess.
The vote was preceded by an intense lobbying campaign pitting those who believe digital players are exploiting news and media content without properly remunerating the creators,...
- 7/6/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Michael Reed Nov 28, 2017
Michael takes a look back at early days of the web, with a 28k modem, a GeoCities webpage, and a webcam stream of a coffee pot...
GeoCities websites, instant messaging, free AOL discs and blocking up the phone line - today we’re gonna party like we’ve just connected at 56 kbit/s. That is, we’re going to take a nostalgic look at the early days of the World Wide Web.
Okay, okay - we know that the Internet existed before the web and that there were other ways of connecting to distant computer networks before the Internet was even established. What we’re interested in is a period that began around the middle of the 90s when the World Wide Web first became a popular destination. Let’s get something straight though - just because we miss something, it doesn’t mean that we want it back.
Michael takes a look back at early days of the web, with a 28k modem, a GeoCities webpage, and a webcam stream of a coffee pot...
GeoCities websites, instant messaging, free AOL discs and blocking up the phone line - today we’re gonna party like we’ve just connected at 56 kbit/s. That is, we’re going to take a nostalgic look at the early days of the World Wide Web.
Okay, okay - we know that the Internet existed before the web and that there were other ways of connecting to distant computer networks before the Internet was even established. What we’re interested in is a period that began around the middle of the 90s when the World Wide Web first became a popular destination. Let’s get something straight though - just because we miss something, it doesn’t mean that we want it back.
- 10/20/2017
- Den of Geek
It’s been nearly seven decades since the Cleveland Indians won the World Series, and over 100 years since the Chicago Cubs were victorious, yet both teams have a chance to take home a trophy to their long-suffering fans starting Tuesday night.
The best-of-seven series kicks off in Ohio, giving the Indians their first chance since 1997 (they last won in 1948), and the Cubs their first appearance since 1945 (they famously last won way back in 1908). It’s safe to say a lot has happened in the time passed.
We lost one president to an assassination, and now we’re poised to elect...
The best-of-seven series kicks off in Ohio, giving the Indians their first chance since 1997 (they last won in 1948), and the Cubs their first appearance since 1945 (they famously last won way back in 1908). It’s safe to say a lot has happened in the time passed.
We lost one president to an assassination, and now we’re poised to elect...
- 10/25/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
October 21st, 2015 - the day that good old Marty McFly and Doc Brown will pop into our hoverboard-riding, fax-sending, flying car-driving world. Except... no, we don't do any of those things. Blame scriptwriters Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale - Back to the Future Day has forever skewed our expectations of 2015.
But then again, it's not all tech-based doom and gloom either. We might not have a Mr Fusion powering the Digital Spy servers yet, but we enjoy a few advances not predicted by Back to the Future II that would blow the minds of our beloved time-travelling cohorts. Such as...
1. A little thing called the internet
Let's kick things off with a biggy. Sure - predicting something that would immeasurably change every facet of the world, forever, is a toughie. But the Internet seems like a pretty big oversight in Back to the Future's view of 2015. Especially as, when...
But then again, it's not all tech-based doom and gloom either. We might not have a Mr Fusion powering the Digital Spy servers yet, but we enjoy a few advances not predicted by Back to the Future II that would blow the minds of our beloved time-travelling cohorts. Such as...
1. A little thing called the internet
Let's kick things off with a biggy. Sure - predicting something that would immeasurably change every facet of the world, forever, is a toughie. But the Internet seems like a pretty big oversight in Back to the Future's view of 2015. Especially as, when...
- 10/21/2015
- Digital Spy
Sony Computer Entertainment
When history begins to shift in a totally new direction, it tends to be down the intervention of singular figures with a singular version. At least, that’s how the textbooks tell it, from the teachings of Jesus Christ getting passed down for millenia to Adolf Hitler managing to convince a whole bunch of countries to embrace fascism to Ed Sheeran tricking people into thinking he’s cool.
In reality, these things were a long time coming, and there were a lot of other people involved in these huge, world-changing events, societal and cultural shifts. Ed Sheeran had a PR team, economic factors helped give rise to the right-wing, and Jesus didn’t actually write all of those books about himself, did he?
Then there are the other cases, where the people credited with changing the world actually being imposters. Or at least victims of mistaken identity.
When history begins to shift in a totally new direction, it tends to be down the intervention of singular figures with a singular version. At least, that’s how the textbooks tell it, from the teachings of Jesus Christ getting passed down for millenia to Adolf Hitler managing to convince a whole bunch of countries to embrace fascism to Ed Sheeran tricking people into thinking he’s cool.
In reality, these things were a long time coming, and there were a lot of other people involved in these huge, world-changing events, societal and cultural shifts. Ed Sheeran had a PR team, economic factors helped give rise to the right-wing, and Jesus didn’t actually write all of those books about himself, did he?
Then there are the other cases, where the people credited with changing the world actually being imposters. Or at least victims of mistaken identity.
- 3/17/2015
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
Prince William plans to be an air ambulance pilot, but he might be missing his calling as a great soccer coach. He certainly looked like one while visiting a Shanghai high school on Tuesday - a busy day in which he also attended the Chinese premiere of the British film Paddington. The prince, who's a fan of English team Aston Villa, was ready with a double-handed high-five for one enthusiastic youngster who ran over to greet the 32-year-old royal. Perhaps getting ready for his son George's foray into the sport, William looked thrilled to see schoolchildren learning soccer ("football" across...
- 3/3/2015
- by Sarah O'Meara
- PEOPLE.com
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Starring: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Taren Stinebrickner-Kaufmann, Corey Doctorow, Ron Wyden, Cindy Cohn
Directed by: Brian Knappenberger
Written by: Brian Knappenberger
USA, 2014
Sometimes there is a heavy price to pay for being a vocalized genius. In the case of the late computer programming prodigy and internet innovator in Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz the brilliance and the burden of a young man’s crusade for basic justice in computer-sharing information and technology reached a tragic ending. However, the triumph in Swartz’s shortened twenty-six years of existence is celebrated and remembered in the aftermath of this gifted online political activist whose shocking suicide quieted a vibrant voice in the cause for the power of freely attaining knowledge no matter how sensitive its revelation may be at large.
In writer-director Brian Knappenberger’s absorbing and conscious-minded documentary The Internet’s Own Boy:...
Starring: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Taren Stinebrickner-Kaufmann, Corey Doctorow, Ron Wyden, Cindy Cohn
Directed by: Brian Knappenberger
Written by: Brian Knappenberger
USA, 2014
Sometimes there is a heavy price to pay for being a vocalized genius. In the case of the late computer programming prodigy and internet innovator in Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz the brilliance and the burden of a young man’s crusade for basic justice in computer-sharing information and technology reached a tragic ending. However, the triumph in Swartz’s shortened twenty-six years of existence is celebrated and remembered in the aftermath of this gifted online political activist whose shocking suicide quieted a vibrant voice in the cause for the power of freely attaining knowledge no matter how sensitive its revelation may be at large.
In writer-director Brian Knappenberger’s absorbing and conscious-minded documentary The Internet’s Own Boy:...
- 11/15/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
An essential — and enraging — documentary about the life, career, and death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, a danger to corporate hegemony whose work could not be allowed to continue. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you don’t know who Aaron Swartz is, you should. If we manage to end up with an Internet — and a larger culture — that values freedom and creativity over corporate profits and mass surveillance, we will have Swartz, in part, to thank for it. And for his efforts, he was, basically, hounded into suicide in January 2013, at the age of 26, after the U.S. federal government decided to make an example of Swartz and pursue a malicious prosecution that could have resulted in 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine for an act of civil disobedience intended to highlight...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you don’t know who Aaron Swartz is, you should. If we manage to end up with an Internet — and a larger culture — that values freedom and creativity over corporate profits and mass surveillance, we will have Swartz, in part, to thank for it. And for his efforts, he was, basically, hounded into suicide in January 2013, at the age of 26, after the U.S. federal government decided to make an example of Swartz and pursue a malicious prosecution that could have resulted in 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine for an act of civil disobedience intended to highlight...
- 8/29/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Gawker
Pop culture is home to some of the greatest conspiracy theories of our time. What’s Soylent Green really made of? Who is the Manchurian Candidate? What is Shield up to? What happened in the X-Files again? What was that film Conspiracy Theory about? Potent though the adventures of Mulder and Scully and the films of Alan J Pakula were, though, they’re nothing compared to the tangled webs and shady powers-that-be that exist in the real world – and are controlling us through using the very pop culture we enjoy.
That’s what a bunch of wackos on the internet believe, anyway. The advent of the internet has been like the invention of the printing press for conspiracy theorists, only instead of Johannes Gutenberg allowing literacy, philosophy and religion to spread with ease, Tim Berners-Lee has instead made it simpler for people to make a website full of animated gifs,...
Pop culture is home to some of the greatest conspiracy theories of our time. What’s Soylent Green really made of? Who is the Manchurian Candidate? What is Shield up to? What happened in the X-Files again? What was that film Conspiracy Theory about? Potent though the adventures of Mulder and Scully and the films of Alan J Pakula were, though, they’re nothing compared to the tangled webs and shady powers-that-be that exist in the real world – and are controlling us through using the very pop culture we enjoy.
That’s what a bunch of wackos on the internet believe, anyway. The advent of the internet has been like the invention of the printing press for conspiracy theorists, only instead of Johannes Gutenberg allowing literacy, philosophy and religion to spread with ease, Tim Berners-Lee has instead made it simpler for people to make a website full of animated gifs,...
- 4/15/2014
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
"The Nsa is setting fire to the future of the internet, and the people in this room are firefighters," Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden told a packed room at SXSW via a virtual conversation presented by the Aclu's Christopher Soghoian and Ben Wizner, director of the Aclu Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.Snowden, who is in Russia where he was granted asylum from U.S. espionage charges, spoke against a projected backdrop of the U.S. Constitution. He was able to address the crowd using a Google Hangout through seven proxy servers -- unfortunately, the spotty connection occasionally made it difficult to follow the discussion.Soghoian said that no matter your personal feelings about Snowden, "his disclosures have improved internet security." World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee thanked Snowden and said his actions have served the public interest.Here are some highlights from his talk:On surveillance "We're monitoring everybody's...
- 3/10/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
The Internet's Own Boy was a film that sadly had to happen. From the moment programmer and hacktivist Aaron Swartz died in early 2013, the online community he fought so hard to connect and protect rallied behind him and his legacy. The passionate, bright young man – just 26 when he was found hung by his own belt – had already built Reddit, helped create RSS and and become a leader in the burgeoning online free-speech movement by leading the fight to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa).
Remembering the Brilliant Life and...
Remembering the Brilliant Life and...
- 1/21/2014
- Rollingstone.com
The peers' debate about the internet revealed how little they understand of the way the web has infiltrated our minds
Those who have spent a good percentage of their working lives without the internet never tire of telling the web generation of the quaint and limited physical world we once inhabited, consisting of such things as carbon paper, A-z maps, photograph albums, address and phone books, filing cabinets, even videos and CDs. That sense of wonder, together with the vertigo that rapid change prompts in the middle-aged mind, filled the House of Lords debate on the 25th anniversary of the world wide web, initiated by Baroness (Martha) Lane-Fox last week.
For civility, you can't do better than a Lords debate where there is absolutely nothing at stake. All they had to agree upon was the motion: "This House takes note of this year's 25th anniversary of the world wide web...
Those who have spent a good percentage of their working lives without the internet never tire of telling the web generation of the quaint and limited physical world we once inhabited, consisting of such things as carbon paper, A-z maps, photograph albums, address and phone books, filing cabinets, even videos and CDs. That sense of wonder, together with the vertigo that rapid change prompts in the middle-aged mind, filled the House of Lords debate on the 25th anniversary of the world wide web, initiated by Baroness (Martha) Lane-Fox last week.
For civility, you can't do better than a Lords debate where there is absolutely nothing at stake. All they had to agree upon was the motion: "This House takes note of this year's 25th anniversary of the world wide web...
- 1/19/2014
- by Henry Porter
- The Guardian - Film News
Intelligence agency's chauffeur failed to find Oscar-winning actor who played spy chief in seven James Bond movies
Dame Judi Dench has told how she was once late for lunch with the head of MI6 - because the driver sent by the intelligence service could not find where to pick her up.
The actor, who played the agency's fictional chief, M, in seven James Bond movies, had been invited to its London HQ to meet her real-life counterpart, Sir David Spedding.
But in an interview for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said she was issued with a special driver whose bungling led to her being 45 minutes late.
She was interviewed by Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5 who guest-edited the programme on Friday.
Dench said: "I did get to go to MI6 once - I was invited to lunch by Sir David Spedding.
"They asked me for 12.30 for 1 and I said,...
Dame Judi Dench has told how she was once late for lunch with the head of MI6 - because the driver sent by the intelligence service could not find where to pick her up.
The actor, who played the agency's fictional chief, M, in seven James Bond movies, had been invited to its London HQ to meet her real-life counterpart, Sir David Spedding.
But in an interview for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said she was issued with a special driver whose bungling led to her being 45 minutes late.
She was interviewed by Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5 who guest-edited the programme on Friday.
Dench said: "I did get to go to MI6 once - I was invited to lunch by Sir David Spedding.
"They asked me for 12.30 for 1 and I said,...
- 12/27/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
An innovative service that provides people with emergency mobile phone credit was the winner of an Orange-backed competition for start-up businesses at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
Comzafrica, which allows people who have no credit to make emergency calls from anywhere in the world, was awarded 37,000 Aed ($10,000) during the final session at the three-day event.
The service saw off competition from four other start-ups - Zaytouneh, Madfoo3at, Wixel Studios and dSquare - to scoop the investment, after each took part in a Dragon’s Den-style pitch in front of a panel of judges.
The experts analysed the pitches according to a series of criteria.
The panel included Jacky Abitbol, VP Corporate Development, Orange; Tamer Ahmed, Orange Cairo, iLab; Nathalie Boulanger, Orange Start-up Ecosystem Director; Ahmed El Alfi, Founder and Chairman, Sawari Ventures; Yousef Hamidaddin, Chief Executive Officer, Oasis 500; Gilles Lapierre, Svp Investment, Du; and Sherif Safwat, Executive Director, 21st Century Digital Arabia.
Comzafrica emerged...
Comzafrica, which allows people who have no credit to make emergency calls from anywhere in the world, was awarded 37,000 Aed ($10,000) during the final session at the three-day event.
The service saw off competition from four other start-ups - Zaytouneh, Madfoo3at, Wixel Studios and dSquare - to scoop the investment, after each took part in a Dragon’s Den-style pitch in front of a panel of judges.
The experts analysed the pitches according to a series of criteria.
The panel included Jacky Abitbol, VP Corporate Development, Orange; Tamer Ahmed, Orange Cairo, iLab; Nathalie Boulanger, Orange Start-up Ecosystem Director; Ahmed El Alfi, Founder and Chairman, Sawari Ventures; Yousef Hamidaddin, Chief Executive Officer, Oasis 500; Gilles Lapierre, Svp Investment, Du; and Sherif Safwat, Executive Director, 21st Century Digital Arabia.
Comzafrica emerged...
- 10/24/2013
- ScreenDaily
An innovative service that provides people with emergency mobile phone credit was the winner of an Orange-backed competition for start-up businesses at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
Comzafrica, which allows people who have no credit to make emergency calls from anywhere in the world, was awarded 37,000 Aed ($10,000) during the final session at the three-day event.
The service saw off competition from four other start-ups - Zaytouneh, Madfoo3at, Wixel Studios and dSquare - to scoop the investment, after each took part in a Dragon’s Den-style pitch in front of a panel of judges.
The experts analysed the pitches according to a series of criteria.
The panel included Jacky Abitbol, VP Corporate Development, Orange; Tamer Ahmed, Orange Cairo, iLab; Nathalie Boulanger, Orange Start-up Ecosystem Director; Ahmed El Alfi, Founder and Chairman, Sawari Ventures; Yousef Hamidaddin, Chief Executive Officer, Oasis 500; Gilles Lapierre, Svp Investment, Du; and Sherif Safwat, Executive Director, 21st Century Digital Arabia.
Comzafrica emerged...
Comzafrica, which allows people who have no credit to make emergency calls from anywhere in the world, was awarded 37,000 Aed ($10,000) during the final session at the three-day event.
The service saw off competition from four other start-ups - Zaytouneh, Madfoo3at, Wixel Studios and dSquare - to scoop the investment, after each took part in a Dragon’s Den-style pitch in front of a panel of judges.
The experts analysed the pitches according to a series of criteria.
The panel included Jacky Abitbol, VP Corporate Development, Orange; Tamer Ahmed, Orange Cairo, iLab; Nathalie Boulanger, Orange Start-up Ecosystem Director; Ahmed El Alfi, Founder and Chairman, Sawari Ventures; Yousef Hamidaddin, Chief Executive Officer, Oasis 500; Gilles Lapierre, Svp Investment, Du; and Sherif Safwat, Executive Director, 21st Century Digital Arabia.
Comzafrica emerged...
- 10/24/2013
- ScreenDaily
Abu Dhabi – Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has called for the protection of whistleblowers in the wake of the Nsa leaks scandal. Speaking on the first day of the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Berners-Lee said that the system of accountability had failed and that society had to rely on whistleblowers. “Whenever you have a police force, which has strong powers of any sort, you have to have an agency which has the power to hold them accountable," he told the summit Tuesday in a video conference from the U.S. "If we
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- 10/23/2013
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee has called on internet whistleblowers to be given special protection even if they break the law, in the wake of the Edward Snowden and Wikileaks scandals.
Speaking at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit via videolink from New York, Berners-Lee said that whistleblowers played a vital role in exposing wrongdoing when existing levels of accountability proved to be “not good enough”.
Berners-Lee said Snowden’s leak about transatlantic government surveillance last month raised difficult questions.
“It balances so many important values against each other” he said. “In the Us and the UK the systems of accountability have failed – only one group protects us from abuse, and that is whistleblowers.”
“We can’t trust the systems we have put together, even if they are done with goodwill. They go astray so we must rely on the whistleblower at the end of day.”
Berners-Lee added that Snowden had tried other avenues to raise his concerns...
Speaking at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit via videolink from New York, Berners-Lee said that whistleblowers played a vital role in exposing wrongdoing when existing levels of accountability proved to be “not good enough”.
Berners-Lee said Snowden’s leak about transatlantic government surveillance last month raised difficult questions.
“It balances so many important values against each other” he said. “In the Us and the UK the systems of accountability have failed – only one group protects us from abuse, and that is whistleblowers.”
“We can’t trust the systems we have put together, even if they are done with goodwill. They go astray so we must rely on the whistleblower at the end of day.”
Berners-Lee added that Snowden had tried other avenues to raise his concerns...
- 10/22/2013
- ScreenDaily
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee will deliver the opening keynote for the 2013 Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, will deliver the opening address at this year’s Abu Dhabi Media Summit (Oct 22-24) about “the state of the digital planet”.
The session, which will be delivered remotely, will be hosted the Matthew Garrahan of The Financial Times.
Another opening day speaker will be Walt Disney International chairman Andy Bird, talking about emerging markets and storytelling in a global marketplace.
Chairman of the 4th Abu Dhabi Media Summit and chairman of twofour54, H.E. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak said: “This year’s Summit will focus on the ways individuals and organizations can harness the limitless potential of digital technologies.
“People like Tim Berners-Lee have made that conversation possible, and I can’t think of a better way to open the Summit than with his insights.”
Berners-Lee added:...
Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, will deliver the opening address at this year’s Abu Dhabi Media Summit (Oct 22-24) about “the state of the digital planet”.
The session, which will be delivered remotely, will be hosted the Matthew Garrahan of The Financial Times.
Another opening day speaker will be Walt Disney International chairman Andy Bird, talking about emerging markets and storytelling in a global marketplace.
Chairman of the 4th Abu Dhabi Media Summit and chairman of twofour54, H.E. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak said: “This year’s Summit will focus on the ways individuals and organizations can harness the limitless potential of digital technologies.
“People like Tim Berners-Lee have made that conversation possible, and I can’t think of a better way to open the Summit than with his insights.”
Berners-Lee added:...
- 10/21/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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