Towards a Humanistic Conception of Cyberspace. A Twofold Challenge for Netizens Mobilizing for a Democratic Internet Governance

I am happy to point you to the article i co-authored with Elena Pavan and Konstantinos Komaitis for the GIGANET Symposium 2008. It has just been published @ Fascicle I. Economics and Applied Informatics (The Annals of Dunărea de Jos University)

UDATE: Here is the full paper we presented @ the giganet symposium as Script or as pdf download

please reference as: Pavan, E., Senges, M., & Komaitis, K. (2009). Towards a Humanistic Conception of Cyberspace. A Twofold Challenge for Netizens Mobilizing for a Democratic Internet Governance. The Annals of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. Economics and Applied Informatics, 1.



and here is the abstract and bibliography from the journal:

Towards a Humanistic Conception of Cyberspace. A Twofold Challenge for Netizens Mobilizing for a Democratic Internet Governance

http://www.ann.ugal.ro/eco/Doc2009/ElenaPavan_MaxSenges_KonstantinosKomaitis.pdf

Modular Human Readable Privacy Policies Initiative

a multistakeholder group of privacy, internet & new media experts (including me:) are working on developing an approach to have modular human-readable privacy policies. The idea pretty much is to do what creative commons has done to copy-right -- make it possible to really easily see what is happening with your data when you sign up for a service and thereby making it a relevant business point for marketing / quality-branding / differentiator.

Please review our wiki-site, spread the word and join the team @ the privacy OS wiki!

I tried to visualize the situation:

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the long term vision is to start and work with privacy - and then move to other rights like Freedom of Expression