<p dir="ltr">Very important debate. Happy that .br government is attending.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Have you seen this crazy resilient, mutating virus app:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"The self-replicating smartphone app that’s ready for the apocalypse – and the censors"</p>
<p dir="ltr">...software that has genuine ‘survival skills’, and which can effectively replace infrastructure to keep relatively widespread groups connected, and – in the case where the oppression is political rather than natural – to diffuse ‘dissident’ messaging so widely that it cannot be repressed or erased by controlling regimes....</p>
<p dir="ltr">... The source code for the app is available via GitHub, and the report notes that it is the first self-compiling Android app capable of replicating itself and mutating its source rather than its compiled code....</p>
<p dir="ltr">Source: https://thestack.com/world/2015/11/05/the-self-replicating-smartphone-app-thats-ready-for-the-apocalypse-and-the-censors/</p>
<p dir="ltr">Rock on, Belisário! Will try to show up! </p>
<p dir="ltr">X</p>
<p dir="ltr">Joana</p>
<div class="quote">On 5 Nov 2015 23:56, Carlos Afonso <ca@cafonso.ca> wrote:<br type='attribution'><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">[apologies for possible duplications]
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<br>
IGF 2015 – Roundtable 188
<br>
Spectrum allocations: challenges & opportunities at the edge
<br>
When: November 10th, 11:00 - 12:30 (*)
<br>
Where: IGF Workshop Room 1
<br>
<br>
The organization should enable facilities for remote participation for
<br>
those who cannot go to João Pessoa. The roundtable is co-organized by
<br>
Nupef Institute and CGI.br.
<br>
<br>
What are the topics of this dialogue on the subject? Recent advances in
<br>
digital radio technologies and the transition (already carried out or
<br>
soon to take place depending on the country) to digital TV open
<br>
significant opportunities for local governments, local entrepreneurs,
<br>
communities and movements to create innovative applications at the edge
<br>
of the network. Of special interest to our dialogue are the following
<br>
topics:
<br>
<br>
- Monitoring of real/effective use of spectrum at the local level;
<br>
<br>
- Opportunities and challenges dervied from of the global transition to
<br>
digital TV, in relation to community use of spectrum in the VHF/UHF
<br>
bands relocated or released by this transition;
<br>
<br>
- Regulatory and legislative processes that can affect various forms
<br>
of spectrum use (light licensing, shared spectrum, secondary use)
<br>
regarding local entrepreneurs, communities and local governments, in
<br>
light of recent advances in cognitive radio technologies.
<br>
<br>
The table will be open to different points of view related to these
<br>
matters. We will minimize the initial presentations to spare more time
<br>
for dialogue. We will have up to six initial presentations of no more
<br>
than seven minutes each:
<br>
<br>
- A representative of academia (Dr. Catherine Middleton, Ryerson
<br>
University, Canada)
<br>
- Up to three representatives of regulatory agencies (to be confirmed)
<br>
- A representative of civil society (Professor Adriano Belisario, Brazil)
<br>
- A representative of the business sector with a vision of local
<br>
services (Steve Song, Village Telco, South Africa / USA)
<br>
<br>
The moderator will be Maximiliano Martinhão, from the Brazil's Ministry
<br>
of Communications and an expert in wireless technologies, who will make
<br>
a brief preamble. The total number of presentations should not go beyond
<br>
45 minutes, leaving 45 minutes for dialogue between attendees.
<br>
<br>
Participation of members of regulatory agencies may be difficult by the
<br>
fact that the ITU has already started (on Nov.02) the World
<br>
Radiocommunication Conference, which will last for almost a month. We
<br>
are trying our best to minimize this problem.
<br>
<br>
Fraternal regards
<br>
Carlos A. Afonso
<br>
rapporteur
<br>
Nupef -- www.nupef.org.br
<br>
<br>
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(*) Note on Brazilian summer time
<br>
<br>
Since October 19th, 2015, Brazil's official time for Southern,
<br>
Southeastern and Center-West states is summer time -- clocks have
<br>
advanced one hour. This *does not* apply to Norhteastern and Northern
<br>
states, like Paraiba. So, now when it is 12:00 noon in Brasilia, it is
<br>
11:00 AM in João Pessoa.
<br>
<br>
--
<br>
<br>
Carlos A. Afonso
<br>
Instituto Nupef - https://nupef.org.br
<br>
CGI.br - http://cgi.br
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