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Countries democracy on the Internet
14
Oct
A broaden study published by Freedom House, entitled Freedom in The World in 2013: Democratic Breakthroughs
in the Balance, shows the variations of democratic freedom with internet use varies in different countries, with highlights improvements in two countries that have made their “spring Arab “and highlight negative in countries where political struggle embarked on paths undemocratic.
It is a demonstration that the numerical and analytical Internet freedom correlates with democratic and indicates that the future free and democratic components will have the freedom to use this new medium that is the internet and its applications on the Web
The study shows that civil liberties have suffered setbacks last year also in Latin America, especially in Ecuador, Paraguay and Suriname.
But we can celebrate that a total of 90 countries can be considered truly free and democratic, an increase of three countries in relation to 87, 2011.
Worldwide, about 3 billion people, 43 percent of the population, has indeed all civil liberties, while 1.6 billion lived in countries where these freedoms are partially or almost completely limited.
This gives an index d remaining 34% who live in countries considered no liberties by Freedom House, which totals 2.3 billion people who suffer oppression in the world.
With a methodology that applies a three-pillar approach to capture the level of the Internet and freedom of ICT: barriers to entry, limits content and violations of user rights (surveillance, privacy and extra-legal harassment) content limits ( filtering and blocking content) and violations of user rights (includes up to prison).
The following table shows that advanced improvements in countries and countries that are declines:
| Declines | Improvements |
| Mali 46 | Libya 35 |
| Madagascar 23 | Tunisia 35 |
| The Gambia 20 | Burma 21 |
| Guinea-Bissau 20 | Tonga 18 |
| Bahrain 18 | Egypt 13 |
| Ukraine 16 | Zimbabwe 13 |
| Ethiopia 15 | Guinea 11 |
| Eritrea 10 | Moldova 10 |
| Rwanda 10 | Côte d’Ivoire 9 |
| Yemen 10 | Georgia 9 |
| Burundi 9 | Thailand 9 |
| Ecuador 9 | Tanzania 8 |
| Honduras 9 | Montenegro 6 |
| Sri Lanka 9 | Sierra Leone 6 |
E-voting experiment in Norway
18
Sep
Norway held parliamentary elections this week and had the opportunity to 
hold its second pilot project for e-voting (electronic voting online).
The pilot follows the previous evaluation, which was done during the local elections in 2011.
According to statistics released by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, the ministry responsible for running elections in Norway, participation and voting rights has increased significantly compared to 2011.
In this year’s election, 28 percent of all voters voted municipalities trial via the Internet, up from 16 percent in the 2011 pilot.
To prove both the reliability and transparency of the pilot project, the source code of the e-voting system this year was placed in the public domain, allowing citizens to download and study.
Electronic voting mechanism used a public key (encryption) for delivery.
Also the Italian province of Salento held this year its e-voting experiment, and evaluation has been published in various media
The repercussion also led prof. Marco Mancarella, as head of international research project “Salento eVoting“, the constituency of North America, invited by Mr. Fuchsia Nissoli to report on electronic voting under the “Seminar on Reforms District abroad,” organized by House of Representatives, on July 4th, 2013, moderated by Dr. John Lattanzio of the Association of “Dialogues”.
Curiosities the IFA 2013th
11
Sep
The fair that ends this end of week in Berlin, the IFA 2013 presented several novelties, one of them is 
a camera Sony Cyber-shot QX10 or QX100 whose lenses-camera, that can be used connected to smartphones with iOS or Android via Wi-Fi.
Another novelty of Samsung was the Galaxy Note 3, the size went from 5,5 to 5.7 inches, but when using the device during few seconds can-if notice the difference in image quality given pel the native resolution of 1920×1080 pixels.
The Samsung reinvented the way the pen S Pen acts in daily use transforming it into a phablet, that gives ability to provide quick access to functions most useful of the appliance in the system christened as Air Command.
Num radial menu there are five customization options: Action Memo, Scrapbook, Screen Capture, S Finder and Pen Window
Action memo is a notepad, Scrapbook is a system that makes a kind screen capture, a little different than Screen Capture, S Finder enables that you ache easily the contents present in the handset and Pen Window: simply draw a rectangle and arises the menú of the appliance.
Digital devices in the Brazilian book Biennial
09
Sep
According declared Marcus Antônio Parise, responsible for the content of Iba, a company specializing in e-books: “The digital market in Brazil had a forecast of a boom in 2013, which did not happen. But digital has grown in an organized and conscious . and that’s good for publishers, players and consumers. ”
The giant market e-books Amazon will also be at the fair, but its new e-reader (see our post) is only in the domestic market in November.
Another company will present the canadian Kobo, its director Samuel Vissoto, says the domestic
market varies 2-4% compared to the U.S.A., which now has a share of 26% of all books sold, Vissoto said: “We have a long way to go. has space for everyone to make money, grow and consumers enjoy the digital book market. travels and takes you a thousand books with you. ”
The provisions of these companies begin to have more affordable prices to the Brazilian public, ranging from R$ 289 to R$ 699.
The International Book Fair, ended on Sunday in RioCentro, West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
New Kindle is announced
05
Sep
Amazon, the giant global online sales, and that generates many conflicts in the publishing market, announced a new device with the highest quality from their devices: the paperwhite, sense of color and light in the printed electronic device.
The advertised price is also inviting, the price of the sixth generation of the Kindle e-reader Paper, the United States will arrive on September 30 to $ 119, according to the website The Verge.
Among the new features of the device include the antireflective of sunlight and the ability to take notes in marl leaves of digital books, the long-awaited features.
Two other big news is a vocabulary list, and being able to make footnotes that appear as a pop-up, it is possible to keep active new words while reading, and is connected to a dictionary with Wikipedia X-Ray built.
Amazon recently acquired Goodreads, which is a social network for shared reading lists 
and comments on them.
The new Kindle device Paperwhite, weighs 206 grams (less than the iPad mini 312 grams) with battery “lasts for weeks, not hours” as stated by the manufacturer and processor promises to be “25% faster”, we hope to give .
The American version 3G (cost U $ 189) will have a free data plan included, and the unit has 212 ppi resolution and measures 16.9 cm high and 11.7 cm in length, with 9.1 mm thick.
Use of computers in the classroom
02
Sep
The discussion about the good and bad use of
computers in the classroom is old but in brazilian city Maceio´s discussion took a new direction in terms of a kind of agreement between teachers and students, as write news portal G1.
.
There a group of students from the 2nd year of high school in Maceió, started using mobile phones, tablets and social networks as allies seek to exchange content and information on the topics of the classroom.
According to testimony by Matheus Borges, 16, and Maria Julia, 16 explained their preferences: “When we go to write a text, prefers to use the computer. It is easier to type on the keyboard because it goes faster. Besides which, when we study or do some work, have the ability to use content more interactive, “said students reporting portal.
Already a librarian Jaqueline Silva Verçosa told that the technology part of everyday life of children and adolescents did not alter the motion of the library, which has a project for students to not untie the books and to encourage students to grade 5 read more.
In his statement he said: “The use of books is important for them to continue reading and improving writing. Proof that they like is that students always wanting to participate, but it takes discipline. “
Die F. W. Lancaster
28
Aug
Is much discussion today about the semantics of the data, the Web tries to remake t
he way to organize your content via the Semantic Web, but these studies are present in Information Science and reference name is JW Lancaster.
His book ” Indexação e Resumos: teoria e prática” (Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, with Brazilian translation made by Briquet Lemos, now in 2nd. Edition) was the first American edition awarded in 1991 by the American Society for Information Science, as best book of the year in the area.
Frederic Wilfrid Lancaster was born in 1933 in England, studied at the Newcastle School of Librarianship from 1950 to 1954, following his career in the public library system of Newcastle. In 1959, he immigrated to the United States, where he worked in private firms and specialized libraries in the development and evaluation of information retrieval systems.
It was one of the first to work the evaluation of databases and do fundamental work in information retrieval, with the classic work called the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS), who performed at the end of the 1960s, to the National Library of Medicine U.S. (Jackson, 2005).
Went to the University of Illinois in 1970, where he was professor ma Graduate School of Library and Information Science from the University, where he continued advising on development of information retrieval in automated systems, having rendered service to the CIA.
In an article published in 1978, Toward paperless information systems, 1978, and in later works, the author argued for the inevitability of change of publications on paper to a paperless society, perhaps the first person to write about this.
He was a teacher and mentor of the first Brazilian Masters course in the area in the 1970s,
A “cloud” of books
27
Aug
An entrepreneur’s of Gol, brazilian air enterprise, Jonas Suassuna, which has books in one of his passions, beloved nephew of popular northest brazilian writer Ariano Suassuna, is responsible for the Cloud Books, a project in partnership with mobile operator Vivo, for providing educational content without downloading.
The entrepreneur who confesses to a “nonconformity” lack of access to books in public schools, especially in remote regions within the country, to seven years proposed to assist a project that came to be implanter after two years of the project started.
The businessman points out that despite the phone numbers and access the internet already impress, there is still a large gap in the Brazilian public school.
Said: “The Brazilian government signed a law that says that by 2020, all
Brazilian schools, public and private, must have a library with at least one book per student (Law School Library). Who knows the reality of the Brazilian public school knows that it will be very difficult, “it takes an effort in the dissemination of books.
The Cloud Books is an online library, totally platform, which offers content without the need
to download, but it is charged, costs U.S. $ 2.00 per month per student and private customers pay about £ 8 per month to get unlimited access to contents
The library now has a collection of 10 000 content for free also on tablets and phones, according to the website terra the service had already won 1 million users in Brazil.
Facebook and relevance of news
26
Aug
Facebook and relevance of news Facebook announced on its blog post that
had your News Feed´s algorithm modified to highlight the “quality” of the news, your News Feed.
Earlier this month, the “Face” had announced the change in the news feed algorithm, which decides which system should prioritize the publications page of social network users, was promised to improve the way that old posts will reappear in the feed Facebook.
The grade of the post says: “The system uses thousands of different factors such as the frequency with which the content of a particular page is reported as low quality (for example, hiding a publication), how complete the profile page and as the fan base of a page overlaps the base of a page known as a high quality, “says the post explaining the novelty.
The change was made based on users questions, ask where the relevance of content, reliability of supply, the desire to share om friends and complain if he saw that content in your feed.
The login is also undergoing change where the user can decide on its contents and determine whether to publish them.
Common screen now is touch too
08
Aug
With the arrival of Windows 8 and html5 facilities beyond the photos,
videos and sounds, touch interactivity also here to stay.
But what to do with the common screens that still use a pen came to turn them into touch screens too.
The device Apen Touch 8, E Fun, is secured with a small device with magnets in the corners of the screen and connected via USB to the computer, which has a pen at the other end “optics”.
So the movement of the pen on the screen makes iterative identical to a touch screen, no need for any software or any device more.
Actually the pen is not optical, but ultrasound, as it uses the technology of motion capture by infrared rays, the play on the monitor attached, it captures the movements of the pen and creating the feeling that the commands are triggered by touch on the screen.
The device is sold in the U.S. since the beginning of the year at a price of R $ 160 (U$ 89), and is present at CES 2013 as one of the news.
