Ö1 matrix: Land ohne TikTok (Folge: 4)

Der #Whistleblower aus Wien. Wie setzt man eine #TikTok-Sperre technisch um? Die albanische Regierung hüllt sich diesbezüglich lange in Schweigen, bis sich im März 2025 ein albanischer Cybersicherheitsexperte namens Besmir Semanaj zu Wort meldet.

Er hat jahrelang für den größten Telekommunikationsanbieter Albaniens gearbeitet und lebt mittlerweile in Wien.

In einem #Facebook-Posting enthüllt Semanaj, dass die Regierung ein Verfahren namens
Deep Package Inspection" (#DPI) umsetzt.

Autoritäre Staaten nützen seit Jahren DPI, um das Netz zu zensurieren oder bei Protesten das Internet zu drosseln.

Webseite der Episode: https://sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/oe1-matrix/land-ohne-tiktok-4

Mediendatei: https://podcast.orf.at/podcast/oe1/oe1_matrix/items/di_oe1_matrix_clk_b1b15ed5141d4ca7a2a67ec3da851427.mp3?etag=a87ce3f894ca38ddd96f7fd6d60b099e

#JusticeInternationale : entre promesse et réalité | entretien avec #JohannSoufi, juriste

https://onuinfogeneve.podbean.com/e/lindispensable-role-de-la-justice-internationale-dialogue-avec-johan-souffy/

#droitInternational #DIH #DPI #CIJ #CPI #tribunauxInternationaux #ONU @palestine @israel

#SaveTheDate #DPI

For our next event #DPIinConversation, we are honored to host Desire Kachenje, Senior Principal at Lets Codevelop, who will bring her expertise on inclusive digital infrastructure to the July 9 session, “Public-by-Design: Ensuring Open-Source and Community-driven DPI.

As we race towards a digital future, join this crucial conversation.

Register now: https://form.sflc.in/dpi-in-conversation/

Event Details:
🗓️ July 9, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM IST
📍Online

Stay Tuned!

#DigitalDivide #tech #DigitalIndia

“We need to shift the narrative from competition to democracy and collaboration, from domination to DPI. With AI, that imperative gets even stronger, with a central word: trust. 🇮🇳 is building a model for trustworthy AI. We can build a model that is not monopolised by big tech, nor centralised by the State. I believe that 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇳 share this goal and can establish global leadership on #DPI that is rooted in trust.” — Debjani Ghosh
#In_Fra_Structures

“Let's be serious here. Yes, Google makes 10 billions a month. But European pension funds accounts for more than 4000 billion euros. These companies are not too big to fail, and they are certainly not too big to be regulated. If we are to see #DPI succeed, we need regulatory intervention.” — Mike Bracken
#In_Fra_Structures #DSA #DMA

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“When designing #UPI #DigitalPayments, we wondered: who can we get rid of? The answer was: data aggregators! These actors intermediate transactions, and they make choices that advantage themselves, not either end of the transaction. Google makes 10 BILLION US$ a month. These are extremely powerful companies. If we don't disintermediate them with #DPI, we will be having the same conversation 10 years from now.” — Sharad Sharma
#In_Fra_Structures
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“The more politically correct way to say is #DigitalSovereignty, but in India we talk about digital colonisation. The digital world is colonised by companies from the USA or from China. We should outlaw any unauthorised flow of data, we have to keep control of our digital infrastructure and personal data.”
#In_Fra_Structures #GDPR #DPI

“🇮🇳 accounts for 9% the world’s economy; 17% of the world population; but 50% of the world’s digital transactions. If you had told me that in 2022, I wouldn’t have believed it.” — Sharad Sharma from iSpirit
#UPI #digitalpayments #DPI #In_Fra_Structures

“To illustrate the relevance of digital public infrastructure and open #In_Fra_Structures 3: 🇫🇷 made FranceConnect, 🇮🇳 made Aadhar, and both use #OpenID, a 🇯🇵-led standard.” — @HenriVerdier
#DPI #DigitalCommons

#SaveTheDate #DPI

For our next event #DPIinConversation, we are honored to host Ashish Aggarwal, Vice President at Nasscom, who will bring his expertise in digital policy and governance. Join him as he will share insights on open-source and community-led innovation in the session “Public-by-Design – Ensuring Open-Source and Community-driven DPI on July 9.

Register now: https://form.sflc.in/dpi-in-conversation/

Event Details:
🗓️ July 9, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM IST
📍 Online

Stay Tuned!

#DigitalDivide #DigitalInclusion

Oh, wow! The German IT Planning Council decided yesterday to consolidate a bunch of disparate communication tools into a unified system based on Matrix and MLS.

Here's the record of their decision and the other options they considered: https://gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungsrat/fit-ab/zapuk/-/blob/main/Zielarchitektur/Architekturentscheidungen/ADR-0011-Kommunikationsschicht.md

#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #DPI #DPG

#SaveTheDate #DPI

For our event #DPIinConversation, we are honored to host Aditi Agrawal, an independent journalist known for her incisive reporting on privacy and tech regulation. She will share her insights in the Day 1 session, “DPI and the Digital Divide,” on July 7.

Register now: https://form.sflc.in/dpi-in-conversation/

Event Details:
🗓️ July 7, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM IST
📍 Online

Stay Tuned!

#DigitalDivide #DigitalInclusion #techforgood #techforall #Tech4All #tech #DigitalIndia

“In participating health providers (clinics, pharmacy…) across 🇮🇳, citizens eligible to healthcare support can just come with their aadhar card and the payment is handled by government directly to the provider. Could this has been done without #DPI? Absolutely not.”
Mmh… most 🇪🇺 countries show that you can have direct health insurance payment (and affordable healthcare ✌️) with non-sovereign payment infrastructure.
#IGF25

“Even if the implementation of #DPI in 🇮🇳 was done by foundations, with great involvement from the software community, only the State could enable adoption: aadhar was mandated for all welfare, connected to UPI. But is DPI truly independent from Big Tech? The majority of UPI volume is handled through Google Pay, by Phone Pay, to the point that many users don’t see UPI anymore but think of it as ‘GPay’. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale.” — Sabhanaz Radhid Diya
#IGF25

“In 🇿🇦, one third of GDP is spent on online gambling. The transaction costs for those are a sort of hidden digital tax taken by foreign actors. The information is kept private. With #DPI, we can make inclusion metrics much more visible. We can get a reliable credit score. We can make register holders accountable.” — Keith Breckenridge
#IGF25

“Most people don’t realise that Visa and Mastercard are not payment companies anymore, they are information processing companies. They make more revenue from data collection on their infrastructure than from the transaction fees, and declare that derived revenue in tax havens.” — Luca Belli
#DPI is tax-funded, but does it really cost more? Can we truly measure the opportunity value to society?
#IGF25

“In 🇧🇷, the Visa-Mastercard duopoly that charged 3–5% for each transaction was broken and open to competition not thanks to more regulation, but by creating an alternative as Digital Public Infrastructure by the central bank: #Pix. The idea was taken from 🇮🇳 UPI, but with one major improvement: UPI is made by a foundation, on the idea that public sector can’t deliver well. The drawback is there is no transparency and limited accountability. Pix is subject to FoI requests.” — Luca Belli
#IGF25 #DPI

Mixed DPI in X11

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/

#HackerNews #MixedDPI #X11 #Technology #Linux #Display #DPI #Graphics

🌎 «Latin American countries understood very early on that technology is political»
💬 @avilarenata @okfn

You can now watch the recording of this morning's #IGF2025 panel discussion, 'The relevance of #DPGs for advancing regional #DPI approaches'.

👉🏾 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KNHav1vnxA

One of the often repeated claims is that you need #Wayland to support multiple monitors with different #DPI and have correct #scaling, because there's no way in #X11 to do it.

Well, that's always been a myth. Now there's some nice blog post demonstrating that with actual code:

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed

Yes it requires an extension, #XRandR, but that's been a "standard" extension in #Xorg for a LONG time. It's exactly what I'm still planning to also support in #Xmoji, as soon as I find the time.