As the world’s infrastructure becomes increasingly grounded on the Internet for commerce and communication, the consequences of these attacks become more ominous. Worse still, the perpetrators are usually invisible and difficult to trace, be they individuals or state actors, and they often carry out their attacks remotely with a worldwide network of hijacked personal computers.
The activist, academic and co-founder of Global Voices shares a story about building cultural bridges, xenophilia and a little video game called War of Warcraft.
Google’s Open Source Program Manager, in a discussion about the future of open source software and its legal implications.
This talk reviews opportunities and challenges in establishing a market for cyber-insurance. It is argued that dealing with cyber-risks, regardless on which level (individual,organizational, national), needs some kind of risk transfer. However, lack of system diversity in network architectures imposes tight upper bounds on the supply of cyber-insurance, as homogeneous architectures share common vulnerabilities and this increases the variance of the loss distribution due to security incidents in insurers’ portfolios. Hence, network architecture – and behind it the market structure of the ICT industry – is a significant factor in society’s ability to manage and absorb cyber-risks. The talk outlines the basic economic models behind these arguments, presents conditions under which markets for cyber-insurance can exist, and discusses policy options to stimulate the adoption of cyber-insurance as well as possible alternative forms of cyber-risk transfer.
I participated in a square-table discussion… titled “How to Make Money in News: New Business Models for the 21st Century — An Executive Session sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy”, hosted by Harvard’s JFK School of Government. My panel was this:
Panel 2: Disruptive Technologies and their Impact on Business Models in Other Industries
Rob Faris will be moderating a panel on Media, Internet and Civil Society at the Harvard Arab Weekend, starting this Thursday, 11/12. The panel includes Evgeny Morozov, blogger at Foreign Policy, and now Yahoo! fellow at Georgetown:
Panelists will examine the impact of social media including blogs and twitter on the social and political discourse and developments in the Middle East.
Had the honor last week of speaking on a panel at the VRooM “Getting Personal With Data” panel, hosted by the typically brilliant and insightful Keith Hopper and Doc Searls. My fellow panelist was local entrepreneur Ben Rubin. His company, Zeo, is in the business of personal informatics — sleep, in particular. They produce slick alarm clock units that sync with a headset that the user wears at night. The machine tracks a variety of really neat stuff for the obsessive lifehacker in all of us: when you sleep, how much REM you’re getting, whether or not your sleep is being disturbed, and so on.
The Oxford Internet Institute had a Social Media Convention last month and has posted videos of some of the proceedings:
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