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2024-09-09 4:50 pm
Hello Everyone,
I'm Alistair Kelman. I asked Bill to join me to this Forum because I like to extend the working life of what would otherwise be redundant equipment.
I am a retired barrister and technologist with a number of granted patents. I also teach and help people - I was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics in London. To find out a bit more about me please go to my personal website (https://sites.google.com/view/alikelman&source=gmail&ust=1725985221909000&usg=AOvVaw1ofSX5NBEMmTH70lwOiFN Q"> https://sites.google.com/view/alikelman ). There is stuff to download - and it is all free because I make it available for my students and the public at large.
I am currently working on making the internet safe for children through the use of technical standards without censorship. I have therefore being doing a lot of work on the UK Online Safety Act 2024 and I have been engaging with other people working in these areas all over the world.
On the subject of making use of old equipment, one person I know and have corresponded with is Professor Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra
Professor Emeritus, NIIT University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India
(Retd. 2019) Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
(Former 2012) Visiting Professor, MIT Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Winner of the Dewang Mehta Prize for Innovation in IT, 2003
Winner of the first ever USD 1 million TED Prize, 2013
Website:http://www.cevesm.com&source=gmail&ust=1725985739125000&usg=AOvVaw0OmX3nwkeQvK1azpY8__Z 7">www.cevesm.com
Sugata conducted the Hole in the Wall (HIW) experiment, where in the year 1999 a computer was embedded within a wall in an Indian slum at Kalkaji, Delhi and children were allowed to freely use it. The experiment aimed at proving that kids could be taught computers very easily without any formal training. Sugata termed this as Minimally Invasive Education (MIE). The experiment has since been repeated at many places.
As an introduction to this topic Sugata's 2007 TED talk is worth 20 minutes of your time
Please feel free to contact me.
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2024-09-09 8:24 pm
@alikelman I would be very interested in how you will make the internet safer for kids when both google, and youtube host lots of porn easily accessible. The same is true of reddit, X (formerly twitter) and likely a few more.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.
2024-09-09 8:59 pm
Glad to have you here, sir.
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2024-09-10 7:20 am
@zander My solution is based around Digital Sovereignty and Standards.
In December 2019 I had a video conference with Ed Richards, the ex-CEO of Ofcom, where I outlined some original ideas and then followed this up in a Paper (copy attached) which my wife, Diana, and I wrote on the topic. SafeCast, our company, then met with Piers Harrison and his team on 23 January 2020 at the Home Office. Piers was the Head of the “Combating Online Child Sexual Exploitation” team within the “Tackling Exploitation and Abuse Unit” of the Serious and Organised Crime Directorate at the Home Office. We put forward the following outline: "Digital Sovereignty and Children - Protecting children from being harmed on the internet - without censorship"
We propose a universal free metadata pre-labelling system for content to enable effective child protection to be seamlessly embedded within the internet - without censorship. We also propose that the pre-labelling system is incorporated within the international video standards so that it can be implemented within the normal software release cycle without additional costs or burdens on consumers and stakeholders.
We do not believe that the inclusion of these measures needs new legislation or an abrogation of existing rights and duties. Instead these changes can be brought about through the cooperation of organisations working for the commonweal with the tacit support of regulatory authorities through the medium of technical standards.
It was a good meeting that happened just before the COVID-19 crisis broke. Following on from this we concentrated on discussing our proposals with regulators such as Ofcom and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Our paper has since been widely circulated.
Kind regards
Alistair
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2024-09-10 1:51 pm
- I have uploaded it in the Open Document Format
2024-09-10 11:10 pm
@alikelman How does any of that administrivia, do-goodery, and inept government and civil servant employees make any company especially if outside a countries jurisdiction change anything. Are you so brain washed that you actually believe that writing a paper has any effect? The most popular website yesr in and year out is pornhub. Are you aware it's HQ is in Canada? Why Canada? Because we have real freedom like the UK and unlike the USA and all other suppressed nations.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.