Jimmy Wales, founder of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, Buenos Aires highlighted the need to promote access to a "free culture" based on traditional social values such as faith and responsibility.
In a lecture entitled "Wikipedia, Wikia and the future of free culture," Wales said digital work in a community made up of many people means supporting the same values that operate in society.
"We must rely on faith and hope that everyone is responsible for their own actions," Wales said, adding that if it is wrong to members of a real or digital community "will never move forward."
Wales, who was today awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Empresarial Siglo XXI de Argentina, said the international success of Wikipedia is based on "all people on the planet free access to knowledge and the ability to edit information.
"We are an NGO, a project with the globalized world we foster knowledge with a strong sense of responsibility", he analyzed.
Wales, who reflected on the reliability problems waking Wikipedia maintenance by their nature collective, stressed that it is important to validate the information before applying for academic purposes.
"Wikipedia has to function as a starting point when working, but then it is very important to validate the information," he said.
The encyclopedia, which currently has 800 million users worldwide, consists of more than 500,000 articles written in various languages and under the premises of "simplicity, neutrality and usefulness."
It is also an advertising-free site with the aim, according to its founder, to "maintain the purity of spirit that makes him a humanitarian mission," so that its funding comes exclusively from private donations and institutional.
Currently the most viewed topics are related to pop culture, especially in Europe and Japan, geography and gender.
Wikipedia founder calls for social values in the network
Jimmy Wales, founder of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, Buenos Aires highlighted the need to promote access to a "free culture" based on traditional social values such as faith and responsibility.
In a lecture entitled "Wikipedia, Wikia and the future of free culture," Wales said digital work in a community made up of many people means supporting the same values that operate in society.
"We must rely on faith and hope that everyone is responsible for their own actions," Wales said, adding that if it is wrong to members of a real or digital community "will never move forward."
Wales, who was today awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Empresarial Siglo XXI de Argentina, said the international success of Wikipedia is based on "all people on the planet free access to knowledge and the ability to edit information.
"We are an NGO, a project with the globalized world we foster knowledge with a strong sense of responsibility", he analyzed.
Wales, who reflected on the reliability problems waking Wikipedia maintenance by their nature collective, stressed that it is important to validate the information before applying for academic purposes.
"Wikipedia has to function as a starting point when working, but then it is very important to validate the information," he said.
The encyclopedia, which currently has 800 million users worldwide, consists of more than 500,000 articles written in various languages and under the premises of "simplicity, neutrality and usefulness."
It is also an advertising-free site with the aim, according to its founder, to "maintain the purity of spirit that makes him a humanitarian mission," so that its funding comes exclusively from private donations and institutional.
Currently the most viewed topics are related to pop culture, especially in Europe and Japan, geography and gender.
sSocial network veto access to sexual harassment
The U.S. Attorney in New York, Andrew Cuomo, announced that thirteen of the major social networking sites will veto the access to users with a history of sexual harassment through the e-STOP.
"It's no secret that sexual harassment and abuse of social networks to find and manipulate their victims, so these companies have taken an important step in making the Internet a safer place through the use of e-STOP," said Cuomo in a statement today.
After the popular social networks Facebook and MySpace announced last week it had eliminated 3,500 sexual predators among its users, the companies AOL, Google and Yahoo take the same measures to their websites dedicated to communication and information exchange .
AOL's social network, Bebo, that of Google, Orkut, and the multiple sites of Yahoo such as Flickr, BlackPlanet, Classmates, Flixster, Fotolog, hi5, MyLife, Stickam and tagged, form the list of portals that join the fight against sexual abuse with Multiply, and Imeem, recently acquired by MySpace.
Despite the welcome of the initiative, websites Friendster, Buzznet, hawthorn, Habbo and LiveJournal have not yet joined the e-STOP program, which offers a database of abusers.
"What some companies still refuse to use the database of e-STOP is not only inexcusable but poses a potential danger," the prosecutor said.
The e-STOP, launched by Cuomo and entered into force in 2008, became the first such law requiring sex offenders to report to the relevant record from upstate New York for their email addresses as well as other user names that are identified in the network.
Furthermore, pedophiles who are on probation and who contacted their victims via Internet, will be prohibited access to any social network, pornographic material and contact with children under eighteen.
Cuomo invited Since the December 1 seventeen social networks to use the database e-STOP to eliminate sexual harassment from their websites, twelve of these companies have welcomed the initiative and another has requested access to the system.
Also, major U.S. internet providers for the first time pledged last year to rid their servers of Web sites devoted to child pornography.
"It's no secret that sexual harassment and abuse of social networks to find and manipulate their victims, so these companies have taken an important step in making the Internet a safer place through the use of e-STOP," said Cuomo in a statement today.
After the popular social networks Facebook and MySpace announced last week it had eliminated 3,500 sexual predators among its users, the companies AOL, Google and Yahoo take the same measures to their websites dedicated to communication and information exchange .
AOL's social network, Bebo, that of Google, Orkut, and the multiple sites of Yahoo such as Flickr, BlackPlanet, Classmates, Flixster, Fotolog, hi5, MyLife, Stickam and tagged, form the list of portals that join the fight against sexual abuse with Multiply, and Imeem, recently acquired by MySpace.
Despite the welcome of the initiative, websites Friendster, Buzznet, hawthorn, Habbo and LiveJournal have not yet joined the e-STOP program, which offers a database of abusers.
"What some companies still refuse to use the database of e-STOP is not only inexcusable but poses a potential danger," the prosecutor said.
The e-STOP, launched by Cuomo and entered into force in 2008, became the first such law requiring sex offenders to report to the relevant record from upstate New York for their email addresses as well as other user names that are identified in the network.
Furthermore, pedophiles who are on probation and who contacted their victims via Internet, will be prohibited access to any social network, pornographic material and contact with children under eighteen.
Cuomo invited Since the December 1 seventeen social networks to use the database e-STOP to eliminate sexual harassment from their websites, twelve of these companies have welcomed the initiative and another has requested access to the system.
Also, major U.S. internet providers for the first time pledged last year to rid their servers of Web sites devoted to child pornography.
Less than 10% of Hispanic Internet users shop online
About ten percent of Internet users in Latin America using e-commerce, although it is expected that over the next five years this figure will rise to 30 percent.
This is manifested in Lima Peru's representative in the Internet portal Mercado Libre, Constanza Abdala, citing recent studies by U.S. consultancy Pyramid Research.
During the presentation of the report "Ten years of free markets in Latin America," Abdala said Internet penetration in the region, 30 percent of the population is low compared to 74 and 49 percent on record, respectively in North America and Europe.
For electronic commerce to be increased in the region need better and more broadband connections, personal computers and Internet devices, and ease of online payment and e-commerce laws, said Abdullah.
Free Market, the largest electronic market in Latin America, has 40 million users accumulated at 30 September 2009 and 6960 million in transactions since its inception in 2009, company sources said.
Although it operates in 12 countries in Latin America, its main markets are in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, according to company sources, some 40,000 people remain from the sale of their products through the electronic market.
This is manifested in Lima Peru's representative in the Internet portal Mercado Libre, Constanza Abdala, citing recent studies by U.S. consultancy Pyramid Research.
During the presentation of the report "Ten years of free markets in Latin America," Abdala said Internet penetration in the region, 30 percent of the population is low compared to 74 and 49 percent on record, respectively in North America and Europe.
For electronic commerce to be increased in the region need better and more broadband connections, personal computers and Internet devices, and ease of online payment and e-commerce laws, said Abdullah.
Free Market, the largest electronic market in Latin America, has 40 million users accumulated at 30 September 2009 and 6960 million in transactions since its inception in 2009, company sources said.
Although it operates in 12 countries in Latin America, its main markets are in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, according to company sources, some 40,000 people remain from the sale of their products through the electronic market.
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