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Online communities are just like real worlds: control is necessary to make for a pleasant society. This does not automatically imply government or company control. In many virtual communities there has been a kind of social control for many years now that adequately maintains order in their public virtual space. Does this mean that laws are unnecessary? Some people cry out for an Internet police that...
A new service-oriented information architecture is presented that can help the communication-disabled to socialize in their private and public environment. The service is designed for physically handicapped people who cannot communicate without expensive custom-made tools. Statistics show that, e.g., in Belgium 1:500 persons suffer from some form of motor or speech disability, mostly due to stroke...
A Virtual Identity is the representation of an identity in a virtual environment, consisting of a property of objects allowing these objects to be distinguished from each other. It can exist independently from human control and can (inter)act autonomously in an electronic system. Since the Internet virtual identities (VIDs) are step by step interwoven in (trans)actions of persons but neglected in...
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