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		<title>AMS GGD #8 • Jane Chadwick • Geology rocks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting fired up about studying Volcanoes

Date: Tuesday, 31 August, 2010
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Getting fired up about studying Volcanoes</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Date: Tuesday, 31 August, 2010<br />
Time: 7-11 PM<br />
Location: <a href="http://www.flexbar.nl/">Flexbar</a> (<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pazzanistraat%201,+Amsterdam,+Noord%20Holland++Netherlands&#038;hl=en">Pazzanistraat  1, Amsterdam</a>)<br />
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<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>In the field of Science, Geology is often regarded as a bit of a soft option. Geologists typically have to make do with less than complete information and often have to use educated guesses to fill in the gaps. There is no Nobel Prize for geology but as far back as the time of the ancient Greeks, geologists have busied themselves with finding solutions to some mind-blowing questions like: How old is the Earth? How do you get coral reefs at the top of a mountain? And What really happened to the dinosaurs? I have personally busied myself with: Why do volcanoes erupt? And specifically: Why do some volcanoes erupt more violently than others? Finding possible solutions to these questions has taken me around the world and required not only scientific testing but, in the grand tradition of my “pseudo-science”, significant mounts of imagination too.</p>
<p><strong>Speaker Bio</strong></p>
<p>Jane Chadwick works at the Vrije Universiteit where she is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (FALW).  She gives lectures, takes students on excursions to see geology “in the field” as well as carrying out her own research.<br />
She is a specialist in volcanic systems but is also interested in other aspects of geology including the mechanics of mountain building and how geological processes can be replicated and tested in a lab.  Her work takes her to many different locations including Ireland, Scotland, the Alps of Germany, Austria and Italy, Serbia and Montenegro, The Canary Islands, and Indonesia to name a few. Her recent work has focused possible triggers for explosive eruptions in active volcanoes. Jane finished her PhD at the University of Dublin, Ireland in 2008, and has also worked at the Danish Lithosphere Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.falw.vu.nl/nl/onderzoek/earth-sciences/petrology/department-members/chadwick.asp" target="_blank">Jane Chadwick&#8217;s website</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Vijfendertig girl (en enkele boy) geeks schuiven dinsdag 22 juni bij Setup aan tafel tijdens Utrechts eerste Girl Geek Dinner. Op het menu geen feministisch betoog over vrouwen die achterstanden moeten inhalen; spreker Marianne van den Boomen, bezig met een proefschrift over internetmetaforen, wil het vooral &#8216;leuk houden&#8217;. Dus laat ze zien hoe mannen met [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Vijfendertig girl (en enkele boy) geeks schuiven dinsdag 22 juni bij Setup aan tafel tijdens Utrechts eerste Girl Geek Dinner. Op het menu geen feministisch betoog over vrouwen die achterstanden moeten inhalen; spreker Marianne van den Boomen, bezig met een proefschrift over internetmetaforen, wil het vooral &#8216;leuk houden&#8217;. Dus laat ze zien hoe mannen met computers worden afgebeeld als jochies vergroeid met hun speelgoed, en doet ze voor hoe een als G. I. Joe gehackte Barbie klinkt.  </strong></p>
<p>Ondanks de ruime opkomst en geeky gespreksonderwerpen tijdens het diner – de nieuwste generatie iPhones bijvoorbeeld, en de vraag wanneer je precies kunt spreken van een game – is vanavond toch enige verontrusting te bespeuren. Na het buffet van nasi, bami en een scala aan bijgerechten vraagt Van den Boomen zich in haar presentatie af waarom er nog steeds zo weinig vrouwen in de ICT werken. En vooral: waarom het vrouwelijke aandeel sinds midden jaren tachtig – de periode waarin de pc ingeburgerd raakte – zelfs dalende is. </p>
<p><strong>Roze laptop </strong><br />
De schuld van Barbie is het in elk geval niet, benadrukt Van den Boomen. Het duurde dan wel vijftig jaar voordat het anorectische popje de carrièremove naar &#8217;software engineer&#8217; maakte, inclusief roze laptop en nerdbril; zij is juist van onschatbare waarde voor de emancipatie. Barbie is namelijk geen baby of peuter die verschoond moet worden, maar een rolmodel waarop allerlei grote mensenrollen geprojecteerd kunnen worden. Haar variatie aan verschijningsvormen straalt uit dat &#8216;girls can be anything!&#8217; </p>
<p>Barbie&#8217;s nieuwste beroep werd anno 2010 gekozen via een poll op Twitter en Facebook. Wat veel mensen ook niet verwachten is dat Barbie World, de roze tegenhanger van World of Warcraft, in enkele jaren tijd 18 miljoen leden heeft opgebouwd (WoW heeft er 12 miljoen). Op internet worden door gebruiksters volop cheat codes uitgewisseld, waarin Van den Boomen de stelling bevestigd ziet dat Barbie minder soft en braaf is dan je denkt.</p>
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<p><strong>Toys versus tools </strong><br />
Een andere mogelijke verklaring van het relatief lage aantal vrouwelijke techneuten ligt in de manier waarop vrouwen met technologie omgaan. Waar mannen in hun vrije tijd graag mogen &#8216;klooien&#8217; met hun technische toys, zien vrouwen technologie eerder als praktisch werkgereedschap. Een gadget of programma moet vooral gemakkelijk zijn en altijd doen wat je wil. Dat staat haaks op de houding van geeks die, zoals een GGD-bezoeker het verwoordt, &#8216;willen begrijpen hoe iets werkt en het willen verbeteren of veranderen.&#8217; </p>
<p>Van den Boomen is van deze verklaring niet overtuigd. Naar aanleiding van gesprekken die zij voerde met vrouwen en praktijken die ze observeerde, vermoedt de cyberantropoloog een tweede &#8217;stille revolutie&#8217;. Anders dan de beeldvorming doet vermoeden, zijn vrouwen volgens haar helemaal niet bang voor technologie. De eerste &#8216;computers&#8217;, waarmee verwezen werd naar de personen die de apparatuur bedienden, waren zelfs vrouwen! Ook in het hacken van Barbies ziet zij een stap in de goede richting. </p>
<p>De recente ontwikkelingen zitten alleen niet mee. &#8216;Cloud computing&#8217; zorgt ervoor dat steeds meer persoonlijke controle uit handen gegeven wordt. Gebruiksvriendelijke technologie noemt Van den Boomen dubbelzinnig; het gebruik ervan wordt voor veel groepen eenvoudiger, maar tegelijkertijd is moeilijker te achterhalen hoe het werkt en hoe je kunt ingrijpen. Ze beschouwt de computer als een taal, waarmee je iets kunt bewerkstelligen. Daarvoor is het nodig je die taal eigen te maken. Om de geekcultuur in stand te houden roept zij zowel mannen als vrouwen op vooral te blijven &#8216;klooien&#8217;.  </p>
<p>Na deze avond vol &#8216;geekettes&#8217; ligt voor Setup de vraag voor de hand hoe wenselijk het eigenlijk is een event speciaal voor vrouwen te organiseren. De geschiedenis van de Girl Geek Dinners laat zien dat technologie minnende vrouwen wel degelijk iets zoeken dat ze op door mannen gedomineerde bijeenkomsten niet vinden. Sinds de eerste editie in 2005 in Londen is het &#8217;social event&#8217; immers uitgegroeid tot een wereldwijd netwerk in meer dan 25 landen, waaraan in 2008 Amsterdam al werd toegevoegd. Het enthousiasme waarmee deze eerste Utrechtse editie werd ontvangen doet vermoeden dat Girl Geek Dinners gewoon heel gezellig zijn. Maar het gevarieerde gezelschap vrouwen met verschillende interesses, talenten en leeftijden laat vooral ook zien dat helemaal geen sprake is van een &#8216;categorie&#8217;.</p>
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<p>Mariannes presentatie staat <a href="https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Afuu0dXSwhHAZHE0OXN6Zl8xMzBkdzI2cmpjcA&#038;hl=en&#038;authkey=COLr6qQP">hier</a>.</p>
<p>De <a href="http://photos.girlgeekdinner.nl/thumbnails.php?album=17">foto&#8217;s</a> zijn genomen door <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/setuputrecht"> SETUP Utrecht</a>.</p>
<p>De live-opname van de avond staat <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7829014">hier</a>.</p>
<p>De link voor het eth0 geek fest staat <a href="http://eth-0.nl">hier</a>.</p>
<p>Verslag geschreven door <a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/suzekrijnen">Suze Krijnen</a>.</p>
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		<title>Mathematics: a love story by Ionica Smeets</title>
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Our 7th Girl Geek Dinner was taken in the reign by the Queen of Sciences - Mathematics. As all participants could discover themselves during that evening, Mathematics is not an old rigid woman talking in Greek symbols, pressing her complicated formulas wherever she can and using theorems as her strongest argument. It turned out, she [...]]]></description>
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<p>Our 7th Girl Geek Dinner was taken in the reign by the Queen of Sciences - Mathematics. As all participants could discover themselves during that evening, Mathematics is not an old rigid woman talking in Greek symbols, pressing her complicated formulas wherever she can and using theorems as her strongest argument. It turned out, she can be like a girl next door, a friend always happy to share tips with you on the complex issue of relationships. This friendly image of Maths was thanks to Ionica Smeets, the co-author of <a class="external free" title="http://www.wiskundemeisjes.nl/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wiskundemeisjes.nl/">http://www.wiskundemeisjes.nl/</a>.</p>
<p>Ionica made all the intricacies of maths, irrespectively of  whether she was talking about game theory, optimization or differential  equations, seem really simple. First, she explained how game theory and  Nash equilibrium can be used to find the best strategy for a group of  friends that want to hit on some girls in a bar. In brief, it would be  unwise of them, if they all try to pick up the prettiest one. She would  become stuck-up and none of the guys would have any success with her.  What&#8217;s worse, her girl friends would hate to be the second-choice; the  guys would leave the bar alone. Solution: leave the prettiest girl  alone, and let each of the guys hit on one of her girl friends. This  way, each of the man has a chance of getting a girl&#8217;s number. What  happens with the prettiest girl then? Well, George Clooney always gets  the prettiest one, doesn&#8217;t he? <img src='http://girlgeekdinner.nl/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p>If you are wondering whether your partner is the right one,  mathematics can also be handy. As Ionica showed us, a little bit of  probability calculus and optimization can help you estimate the number  of the partners you should meet before you decide on settling down  knowing that there are high chances that the chosen one is appropriate  for you. The two most important slides to remember are: (1) <cite>Try  twelve and keep the first one who is better than all the previous ones,</cite> (2) <cite>This strategy yields a 75% probability of a good partner.</cite></p>
<p>With little help of mathematics it can also be modeled how strong  a relationship is and who will be the first to break it up. As Ionica  mentioned, John Gottman Institute created even a successful business  around equation of marital interactions, that she presented during her  talk. It looked like maths can be applied to almost any aspect of our  romantic sphere of life and the dinner attendees were eager to hear more  on the topic. So Ionica was forced to tell us about the peculiar  behaviour of mating spiders. Apparently, male spiders of a particular  species have found a strategy of giving presents that appeal to a female  spider only if she likes the giver as well as the present. Sounds like a  graph theory again? You&#8217;re correct.</p>
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<p>It was a really interesting evening and we were very happy to have Ionica as our speaker of the evening. Ionica&#8217;s slides can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Afuu0dXSwhHAZHE0OXN6Zl8xMGNndGNyNGQ1&amp;hl=en">here</a> (as PPT) and <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_uu0dXSwhHAMTk1NzhlNTktMjBlMS00YzMyLWJhNGUtMzMzZWExNGJjM2Iy&amp;hl=en"> here</a> (as PDF).</p>
<p>Photos were taken by <a href="http://photos.girlgeekdinner.nl/thumbnails.php?album=10">Arthur de Smidt</a>.<br />
Post written by <a href="http://www.few.vu.nl/~ania">Ania Chmielowiec</a>.</p>
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Tijd: 19:00-23:00
Locatie: Setup (Neude 4, Utrecht)
Kosten: 12,50 euro inclusief diner, exclusief drankjes
Aanmelden: Tot 21 juni, via organizers@girlgeekdinner.nl
Inhoud
PC&#8217;s, Internet en smart phones behoren inmiddels zo vanzelfsprekend tot onze dagelijkse attributen en gewoontes dat we (M/V) nauwelijks nog stilstaan bij deze &#8216;automagische&#8217; apparaten en wat zij vermogen. Een lezing over waarom computers zo [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Datum: Dinsdag 22 juni 2010<br />
Tijd: 19:00-23:00<br />
Locatie: <a href="http://www.setuputrecht.nl/content/contact">Setup</a> (Neude 4, Utrecht)<br />
Kosten: 12,50 euro inclusief diner, exclusief drankjes<br />
Aanmelden: Tot 21 juni, via organizers@girlgeekdinner.nl</strong></p>
<p><strong>Inhoud</strong></p>
<p>PC&#8217;s, Internet en smart phones behoren inmiddels zo vanzelfsprekend tot onze dagelijkse attributen en gewoontes dat we (M/V) nauwelijks nog stilstaan bij deze &#8216;automagische&#8217; apparaten en wat zij vermogen. Een lezing over waarom computers zo leuk zijn, en de huidige pogingen tot verduistering en verwolking zo geniepig. Over Internet-metaforen en het gevaar van gefeminiseerde interfaces, over het hacken van Barbies en computers, en de lange roemruchte geschiedenis van geek girls.</p>
<p><strong>Bio</strong></p>
<p>Marianne van den Boomen werkt in Utrecht als docent-onderzoeker Nieuwe Media en Digitale Cultuur aan het Departement Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen van de Universiteit Utrecht. Daarvoor werkte zij als zelfstandig webredacteur en internetadviseur voor onder meer de Groene Amsterdammer, Infodrome en het Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (IIAV). Zij was betrokken bij de Digitale Stad en publiceerde onder andere Internet ABC voor vrouwen<br />
(1995), Leven op het Net (2000) en Digital Material (2009).  Momenteel werkt zij aan haar proefschrift over Internet-metaforen en is zij lid van de commissie e-cultuur voor de Raad van Cultuur. Website: <a href="http://metamapping.net/blog/" target="_blank">www.<span class="il">Meta BlogNote</span>.nl</a>.</p>
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		<title>Girl Geek Dinner #7 • Ionica Smeets • Love and mathematics</title>
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Date: Wednesday, 12 May, 2010
Time: 7-11 PM
Location: Flexbar (Pazzanistraat 1, Amsterdam)
Cost: 22.50 Euros (buffet dinner, excluding drinks)
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The Flexbar is located on the Westergasfabriek terrain.
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Men want to know: Which gifts impress a woman?  What is the best strategy for approaching a group of women in a pub?   And women might wonder:  How [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Date: Wednesday, 12 May, 2010<br />
Time: 7-11 PM<br />
Location: <a href="http://www.flexbar.nl/">Flexbar</a> (Pazzanistraat 1, Amsterdam)<br />
Cost: 22.50 Euros (buffet dinner, excluding drinks)<br />
Subscription possible until: Sunday, 9 May</strong></p>
<p>The Flexbar is located on the <a href="http://www.westergasfabriek.nl/">Westergasfabriek</a> terrain.</p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>Men want to know: Which gifts impress a woman?  What is the best strategy for approaching a group of women in a pub?   And women might wonder:  How do you know if your partner is the right one?  And is it possible to predict whether your relationship will last with the help of a formula? Love and mathematics hardly seem related but mathematician Ionica Smeets will answer these pressing matters of the heart with the help of some mathematics.</p>
<p><strong>Speaker Bio</strong></p>
<p>Ir. Ionica works for &#8220;Public Understanding of Science&#8221; (Leiden University). Half of the week she researches there - with Bas Haring - how science can best be explained to a general audience. The rest of the week she writes articles, gives lectures and presents science days. On June 16 2010 she will defend her thesis &#8220;On continued fraction algorithms&#8221;. Website: <a href="www.ionica.nl" target="_blank">www.<span class="il">ionica</span>.nl</a>.</p>
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		<title>Karin Spaink tells a cautionary tale about our privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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On the 18th of February Karin Spaink was our guest. And we were very happy to have her!
By the month our privacy becomes more endangered. So many things are happening right now that constrain or violate our privacy, but the general public and the politicians don&#8217;t seem to care much. Karin shed some light on [...]]]></description>
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<p>On the 18th of February Karin Spaink was our guest. And we were very happy to have her!</p>
<p>By the month our privacy becomes more endangered. So many things are happening right now that constrain or violate our privacy, but the general public and the politicians don&#8217;t seem to care much. Karin shed some light on all that is happening right now and gave us all a good fright.</p>
<p>Information is stored digitally more and more. Because it hardly costs anything to store digital information, it&#8217;s saved longer. Before, no-one knew what you had seen on TV. When you are watching digital TV, Big Brother is watching right back at you.<br />
Digitilization also makes it easier than ever before to piece together bits of information from different sources.<br />
Karin and others hacked the Electronic Patient Dossier to demonstrate how unsafe it was. If she had wanted to, she could have easily killed people, simply by changing their blood type.</p>
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<p>Centralization of data means that data is stored on more levels, every level vulnerable to unauthorized access. It also turns out that the higher up your information is stored, the more lax the security gets.<br />
This development also means that more obsolete data about you is around, because the data always trickles upwards with some delay.</p>
<p>Function creep is the term Karin used for the phenomenon that f.e. laws are implemented with the reason being terrorism, and later used to track down copyright infringements.</p>
<p>Monitoring people is no longer done based on the risk that they are to society, or on the higher chance of success that monitoring will lead to. Monitoring is done simply because it can be done. The general feeling is that society will always be safer with than without monitoring. And not only that, more and more parties are doing it.<br />
Karin showed us a Google Street View picture of a man taking out the garbage, with food wrappers and other telltale signs of his lifestyle on display for the whole world. And, as Karin pointed out, it might not even be his own house, it could also be his mistresses&#8217;!</p>
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<p>Our rights are decreasing. For example for paper mail there is a post secret; no-one is allowed to open your mail and read it. Since paper mail has as good as dissapeared this right has too. For e-mail we have no such right.<br />
One of the reasons it&#8217;s very difficult to do anything about all this is that more and more of our legislation is made on a European level. And some of the rules are not even in legislation but in trade agreements, which is very strange.<br />
Karin told us about the <a href="http://www.spaink.net/2009/04/14/drie-maal-is-vals-recht">&#8216;3 strikes and you&#8217;re out&#8217;-bill</a>, where the mere suspicion of copyright infringement could lead you to loose the right to use the internet.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t seem to mind all this, because we have nothing to hide, don&#8217;t we? In fact we are giving away lots of information voluntarily.<br />
But while we are becoming ever more visible to our governements, governments are making themselves less transparent. Karin concludes with the question: If I should have nothing to hide, why does my government?</p>
<p><img src="http://photos.girlgeekdinner.nl/albums/userpics/10001/dscf4457.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Photos were taken by <a href="http://photos.girlgeekdinner.nl/thumbnails.php?album=10">Arthur de Smidt</a>.<br />
Post written by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/216/6b3">Marjon Wiendels</a>.</p>
<p>Karins slides can be found <a href="http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Afuu0dXSwhHAZHE0OXN6Zl8wYzI0cTQ5Zzk&amp;hl=en">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Girl Geek Dinner at Women Inc Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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On the 6th of March the third Women Inc Festival will take place. And the Girl Geeks will be there! We are part of the market place and will share a stand with  Femtech and  Genderchangers.
Check out  our page on the Women Inc website, more will be revealed there later.
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<p>On the 6th of March the third Women Inc Festival will take place. And the Girl Geeks will be there! We are part of the market place and will share a stand with <a href="http://www.femtech.nl/"> Femtech</a> and <a href="http://www.genderchangers.org/"> Genderchangers</a>.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://www.womeninc.nl/page/18179/en"> our page on the Women Inc website</a>, more will be revealed there later.</p>
<p>And&#8230;&#8230; if you attend the next Girl Geek Dinner you can win one of the 8 festival tickets that we are going to give away!</p>
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		<title>Girl Geek Dinner #6 • Karin Spaink • On Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a &#8220;zomerstop&#8221; the AMS Girl Geek Dinner is baaaaaaaaaack!
Email organizers if you want to attend.

Date: Thursday, 18 February, 2010
Time: 7-11 PM
Location: Flexbar (Pazzanistraat 1, Amsterdam)
Cost: 22.50 Euros (buffet dinner, excluding drinks)
The Flexbar is located on the Westergasfabriek terrain.
Abstract
Data about our communication, our health, our whereabouts, our financial transactions, etc. are kept all over the [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Date:</span> Thursday, 18 February, 2010<br />
Time:</span> 7-11 PM<br />
Location: <a href="http://www.flexbar.nl/">Flexbar</a> (Pazzanistraat 1, Amsterdam)<br />
Cost: 22.50 Euros (buffet dinner, excluding drinks)</strong></p>
<p>The Flexbar is located on the <a href="http://www.westergasfabriek.nl/">Westergasfabriek</a> terrain.</p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>Data about our communication, our health, our whereabouts, our financial transactions, etc. are kept all over the place and it&#8217;s increasingly difficult to understand who uses what data for which purpose. Who is allowed access to such data, who makes decisions about us on the basis of it? How do privacy matters affect us? Karin <span class="il">Spaink</span> will present trends in the collecting / use of personal data.</p>
<p><strong>Speaker Bio</strong></p>
<p>Karin Spaink (1957) is a columnist and writer. Her main subjects are politics, medicine, technology, internet and civil rights. Website: <a href="http://www.spaink.net/" target="_blank">www.<span class="il">spaink</span>.net</a>.</p>
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