If public information was actively put in the public (say through timely website updates that serve rss), most of these services would lose their brokerage lordship. They fill the structural hole left by weak public information networks.

Good write up @ericbuijs@lemmy.ml.

Change on this things cannot be led by the same ideologies that put us in them. Most folks leading government and businesses are led by ideas of centralization and winner-takes-all, while open standards seek to flatten the field, as much as possible. So sad it failed not because of the weakness of the idea but by the implementation process.

I have not followed up with the project and would like to know the reasons for the failure.

Reminds me of GAIA (EU’s infrastructure project): https://www.data-infrastructure.eu/GAIAX/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html

This community is reserved for announcing new communities and admin tasks. Consider c/privacy, may be? You should also link to the original article. Your link here is to a copy-pasta website.

There is a much bigger argument that was being made in that article – that most of the public prosecution of RMS is driven by corporates who would want to see a weakened argument against surveillance but open-source stuff. You will notice most of the organizations and individuals taking a stand on this so passionately say almost nothing when Facebook and Google and Amazon commit all manner of ongoing atrocities around the world. RMS and the sexual consent contest is a major issue and deserves everyone’s attention – but we can also do both things; fight for kid’s safety + fight for free software/society. Both are mutually inclusive, but the pitchfork public prosecutors would want to use the kids issue to argue that anything RMS has touched is dirty – and that is how these money people win the public.

“Kenya, the Maldives and like-minded coastal nations only fish in the Indian Ocean, so if the stocks get depleted we are the ones who suffer,” said Stephen Ndegwa, assistant director of fisheries at Kenya’s agriculture ministry. “We will have nothing for future generations.

“The foreign fishing vessels, like the EU vessels, will move to other oceans, but we won’t be able to move – and we will be stuck with no fish.”

Indeed. They also maintain a firm grip on the countries they ravaged, by propping dictators. See Senegal protests this week against French companies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/7/pressure-mounts-on-senegals-president-after-deadly-protests

What existing renewables are in production mode? I remember this partnership in Nairobi, where Strathmore University uses its campus buildings to harvest solar and sell to the national grid: https://www.strathmore.edu/news/strathmore-university-and-kenya-power-sign-solar-energy-purchase-deal/

Very relevant with the so called ‘health passport’ (unhealthy is more in line). I recently read this interesting paper on the emergence of the passport from the Cholera conferences which makes an aligned argument:

Valeska Huber, “The Unification of the Globe by Disease? The International Sanitary Conferences on Cholera, 1851-1894”

This is very promising – the post office system is quite extensive in some of these countries. Some of the pressing e-commerce demands may not work with this (like night time food delivery, or e-taxi). Perhaps all this goes to show individual efforts at maintaining privacy can only work minimally. This is a structural issue needing collective effort.

Pretty interesting It also seems that if the words are not changing, it can be easily converted to a fixed GPS location (one hop away from the real GPS address).

The conversion part is the tricky bit. If a third party decides to use their own system to convert GPS location to deliveries, that is out of your control. But you can perhaps use delivery locations that do not necessarily point to your exact location. It is a hard problem to both have a fixed location address and still keep some privacy.

I did not know of Plus Codes but I do know of GhanaPostGPS. I see how this can be worked on to offer a better addressing system without taking too much information away from the individual. Something like a GPS location that is hashed. Then time-sensitive address tokens can be used depending on use case. If you buy a product and should be delivered in three days, you can give a token with one week expiration. That way, the company cannot use your purchase details to link to your address since the token has not real GPS location on it. But there are many loopholes that can be exploited in many ways.

That is the claimed dilemma – how do you facilitate e-commerce and government service delivery without reliable location precision.

I think it is a good thing that such addressing systems do not exist in some of these countries but the reality is that their non-existence is not a conscious decision to uphold privacy but rather an institutional delay to implement them. The pandemic seems to have revitalized the need to have national addressing systems. My worry is that they may get too invasive compared to existing ones since they may be linked digitally to more characteristics at the point of initial addressing.

Postal services are popular but not as active in e-commerce. The government uses them now for service delivery (renewing documents etc).

“The cause of Hamad’s death was not disclosed but on January 31 he had told journalists that he had been hospitalised at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar after testing positive for Covid-19.”

Their president insists on prayers, perhaps because “Maybe we have wronged God somewhere.”

Regarding Africom, I do know they were among the first clients of ‘Cambridge-Analytica’ style Internet psycho-ops with AlShabaab in Somalia.

Saw this too late. I wonder if we should have an /c/events community that covers all communities. Event flair/tag is automatically posted to the main /c/events from where we can rss directly or we can add a calendar link. I’ll hopefully add this as a request on Lemmy after I think about it’s potential.

“The app’s verification of negative Covid-19 tests and generation of a certificate is only compatible with AOK Pass partner laboratories, which in France include Cerballiance and Biogroup.”

I wonder how these apps are supposed to actually mitigate asymptomatic transmission and future unknown mutations. I smell a lot of layered tech + bureaucratic solutions that are really about ‘opening’ the economy without much worry about what will happen with these programs.