Worldviews

What kind of rights are possible

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The below linked article from the Economist supports my opinion that it is inappropriate to speak about the right of housing, the right of food, and so on. Limiting essential rights to a few, will make it easier to enforce them:
- free expression of opinions
- not being jailed without a proper legal treatment by the authorities
- protection against violence from others
- state of law
this are basic principles that also can be enforced by a simple decision of will.

Kochi in February 2007

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Important Resources Hotels in Fort Cochin The Koder House, old Jews Patrician house, finely restored directly in front of the fishing nets www.koderhouse.com koderhouse@sify.com (150 - 300) 0091 4842218485/6/7/8/9 Hotel Arches Hotel simpler but with nice rooftop restaurant that serves also beer (hidden) 00914842215050 www.hotelarches.com reservations@hotelarches.com Old Harbour Hotel One of the Hotels I liked most, also directly in Fron of the Fishing Nets.

International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries

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From February 20 -23 I participated in the ICSD in Bangalore, organized by ARD Prasad from the Documentation, Research and Training Center of the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore. My group presented the Ontology based electronic FNA journal and the proposal for an AGRIS OAI architecture. I was furthermore Theme Speaker in the session on "Institutional Repositories and Case Studies" and participated in the concluding Panel discusion on "Semantic Web and Digital Libraries:Research & collaborations".

Keynote Speech at the eFarmer central Europe conference

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I was invited to deliver a keynote at the Central Europe Conference of the eFarmer project (eFarmer Central European Conference 2007). The title of my presentation is "Knowledge Exchange Infrastructure for Agricultural Research and Technology" (see attached file). The eFarmer project has been granted by the EC in the context of the eContent Program.

The problem is not globalization! A new distribution campaign in the industrialized world is necessary..

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There are new reasons for a traditional leftist approach to social politics!  Reasons to defend globalization and capitalism!   If globalizations leads to the impoverishment of the lower middle classes and to the outrageous enrichment of the upper 10%, the consequence will be that the rage of the impoverished will  not go against the rich, but against the developing countries which are taking their place in the world economy. So the "struggle of class" becomes new sense in the developed world.

The Paper Route

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This chapter is mostly about his experiences in the States, but very interesting as an Indian view on the USA

p.69

..My school was 80% "white" when I arrived and 80 percent black" when I left three years later"..
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p.70
The classroom was filled eith lathes, tools and machines, and we learned to work with our hands. We learned to repair a window, make a table, unclog a sink. At the end of the year , we ha lost our fear of technology.

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Europe Africa Concertation Meeting

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I am today participating in the Europe-Africa concertation meeting. This meeting is organized by the START IST, project.
The START program is a specific support action within FP6 for promoting to get Subsaharan African Organizations into the FP7 Framework programs. There are 1 European and 2 African Partners in Start. It is a 2 years program and they will publish in October 2007 a strategic Framework.

Poor Italy - Any Hope?

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"This countries worst maladies are the rejection of rules and an aversion to change" says Guido Rossi, the new Chairman of Telecom Italia. Rossi is a well known lawyer and business manager. Lack of civil sense and an outrageous conservatism - this is what hampers any development in Italy and which had brought Italy to the very end of the queue of all countries in the European Union

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