<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Very nice use of the technology:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide virtual visits of several World Heritage sites (see news below)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47015&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unesco%2Fnews-service+%28UNESCO+News+Service%29">http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47015&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unesco%2Fnews-service+%28UNESCO+News+Service%29</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Another history, when the tech touch people's lives:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-564039" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHLwC-vjTb8dfHzJ3IQyqoUDmyKHw','','0CAwQFjAA')"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">1. PI files complaint about </font></a><em><a href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-564039" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHLwC-vjTb8dfHzJ3IQyqoUDmyKHw','','0CAwQFjAA')"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Google Street View: </span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd">http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd</a>[347]=x-347-564039</span></font></em></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">2. </font><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml%3Fcmd%255B347%255D%3Dx-347-564268&ei=xW4aS7q8K9DdlAfvoZ3yCQ&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CA4QzgQoAA&usg=AFQjCNHm67nsz2RTe4UOELbZcuoAd-Ma1w"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">UK Information Commissioner rules against PI in favour of </font></a><em><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml%3Fcmd%255B347%255D%3Dx-347-564268&ei=xW4aS7q8K9DdlAfvoZ3yCQ&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CA4QzgQoAA&usg=AFQjCNHm67nsz2RTe4UOELbZcuoAd-Ma1w"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Google</span></font></a></em><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml%3Fcmd%255B347%255D%3Dx-347-564268&ei=xW4aS7q8K9DdlAfvoZ3yCQ&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CA4QzgQoAA&usg=AFQjCNHm67nsz2RTe4UOELbZcuoAd-Ma1w"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> ...: </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd">http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd</a>[347]=x-347-564268</font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">3. Swiss contend Google doesn't blur Street View enough: Switzerland's data protection authority said Friday it will sue </font><a href="http://www.idg.com/www/rd.nsf/rd?readform&t=search&q=Google"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Google</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">
for allegedly failing to obscure faces, license plates and other
sensitive images from its Street View photo mapping Web application. </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/11/13/urnidgns002570F3005978D80025766D0055EF32.DTL#ixzz0YpEerTWC">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/11/13/urnidgns002570F3005978D80025766D0055EF32.DTL#ixzz0YpEerTWC</a></font></div><div><div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div id="TixyyLink" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><h2><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide virtual visits of several World Heritage sites</span></font></h2><h2><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47015&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unesco%2Fnews-service+%28UNESCO+News+Service%29">http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47015&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unesco%2Fnews-service+%28UNESCO+News+Service%29</a></span></font></h2></div></div></div><div><h4 id="lead"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Sites of outstanding universal value inscribed on the
World Heritage List – the historic centre of Prague in the Czech
Republic and the old town of Cáceres in Spain, for example – can now be
explored online by internet users around the world, thanks to an
alliance signed by UNESCO and the international corporation Google.</span></font></h4>
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<!-- HEADING 2 --><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The agreement makes it possible for internet users to visit 18* of
the 890 World Heritage properties via Google’s Street View interface.
All the other sites on the List will be shown on the Google Earth and
Google Maps interfaces.
<br><br> The 19 sites are located in Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands,
the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Street View provides nearly
spherical panoramic (360° horizontal and 290° vertical) views taken by
cameras mounted on vehicles. Once obtained, these images are overlaid
on Google Maps’ satellite views – the process can take several months.
When the specially-equipped cars cannot reach sites to be photographed,
tricycles are used.
<br><br> “The alliance with Google makes it possible to offer virtual
visits of the sites to everyone, to increase awareness and to encourage
participation in the preservation of these treasures,” said UNESCO’s
Director-General, Irina Bokova.
<br><br> “Cultural and natural heritage sites are an irreplaceable source
of inspiration and fascination. This is an exciting project and we're
thrilled to be working with UNESCO to make more World Heritage sites
universally accessible and useful to all,” said Carlo d’Asaro, Google’s
Vice-President for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
<br><br> At UNESCO’s suggestion, Google will soon be visiting and
photographing other sites on the List. The focus is on harder-to-access
sites, which will be photographed with the permission of site managers.
They can then be appreciated by millions of people who might never have
the opportunity to visit them otherwise. The sites are located notably
in South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the Netherlands.
<br><br> In future, Google and UNESCO will also work together to provide
online access, via Google Maps, YouTube and Google Earth, to maps,
texts and videos pertaining to UNESCO’s Biosphere Reserves, to
documentary heritage inscribed on the Memory of the World Register and
to endangered languages.
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<br>*Spain: Santiago de Compostela (Old Town); Old Town of Cáceres;
Historic Walled Town of Cuenca; Old City of Salamanca; Old Town of
Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches; Old Town of Segovia and its
Aqueduct; Historic City of Toledo France: Paris, Banks of the Seine
Italy: Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre
Annunziata; Historic Centre of Siena; Historic Centre of Urbino;
Historic Centre of San Gimignano Netherlands: Mill Network at
Kinderdijk-Elshout Czech Republic: Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc;
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov; Historic Centre of Prague United
Kingdom: Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites; Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew
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About UNESCO:
<br>The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 and it has 193 Member States.
One of its main mandates is to encourage the identification, protection
and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world
considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is the goal of
the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and
Natural Heritage, an international treaty adopted by UNESCO in 1972.
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About Google:
<br>Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people
around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a
top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted
advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable
results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google
is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the
Americas, Europe and Asia.</font>
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