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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Feb 08, 2017
The Shattered Mirror, Part Two: The Underwhelming
Recommendation for Open Licensing at the CBC
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Michael Geist has authored a two-part review of The
Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital
Age (108 page PDF)
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released by the Public Policy Forum in January (part one
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part two). The report itself is a mixed bag, on the one had
seeking to strengthen revenue for news media (partially by
extending copyright), and on the other hand seeking to
address local needs (partially by helping CBC reduce
reliance on advertising). Geist's first article attacks
(quite rightly) the recommendations on copyright. And in
his second posts he applauds opening CBC content under
Creative Commons but wonders why the authors would
recommend the "no-derivatives" clause, which would prevent
people from making anything new with CBC content.
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The Path to Prosperity
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The Canadian Government's Advisory Council on Economic
Growth has released a set of five papers under the heading
of 'The Path to Prosperity'. Here they are:
The Path to Prosperity: Executive Summary (PDF 356 KB)
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Unlocking Innovation to Drive Scale and Growth (PDF 697 KB)
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Building a Highly Skilled and Resilient Canadian Workforce
through the FutureSkills Lab (PDF 1.04 MB)
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Unleashing the Growth Potential of Key Sectors (PDF 1.4 MB)
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Positioning Canada as a Global Trading Hub (PDF 730 KB)
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Tapping Economic Potential through Broader Workforce
Participation (PDF 506 KB)
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The second (FutureSkills Lab) and Fifth (Workforce
Participation) have the greatest impact on education and
training. The latter is the 'skills gap' argument for 2017,
with a focus on reskilling and workforce integration. The
former would "solicit, select, and co-finance innovative
pilot programs in skills and competency development. I can
think of a few things I'd propose for such a program.
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The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception
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The state of web security is, um, awful. Specifically, with
respect to HTTPS, here's what this pointed study reports:
"we find more than an order of magnitude more interception
than previously estimated, ranging from 4–11%." This
was determined by studying different browsers, e-commerce
sites, and content distribution networks. But worse,
software installed by corporations to increase security may
be making the network more vulnerable. "62% of traffic that
traverses a network middlebox has reduced security and 58%
of middlebox connections have severe vulnerabilities. We
investigated popular antivirus and corporate proxies,
finding that nearly all reduce connection security and that
many introduce vulnerabilities." Via O'Reilly
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Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta
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Creative Commons has launched a new search service. "The
new CC Search harnesses the power of open repositories,
allowing users to search across a variety of open content
through a single interface. The prototype of this tool
focuses on photos as its first media and uses open APIs in
order to index the available works.... we selected the
Rijksmuseum, Flickr, 500px, the New York Public Library as
our initial sources." The beta, I think, needs to be
refined - none of my 36K Creative-Commons licensed photos
on Flickr appear to be findable
https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/?search=Downes&page=1&per_page=20&search_fields=title&search_fields=creator&search_fields=tags&work_types=photos&providers=500px&providers=flickr&work_types=cultural&providers=met&providers=nypl&providers=rijksmuseum.
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CLOs, Move From Conduit to Curator
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A CLO is a 'Chief Learning Officer' and the point of this
article is to suggest that CLOs shift their role from being
a 'conduit' of knowledge and information to being a
'curator'. This is a three step process:
Personalize employee learning experiences - "deliver
content in a way that’s personalized and similar to
the content employees view on their personal devices; think
Netflix and Facebook."
Enable the (l)earning curve - encourage learners "who are
always ready to learn and evolve to meet new challenges"
Crowdsource employee knowledge - "have learning technology
in place that can capture and store employee knowledge on
the business"
Of course none of these is nearly as simple as the quick
one-paragraph form suggests. And I thin k the process
involves far more than mere curation.
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