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Building Trust in Data and Statistics

Shaida Badiee at UN World Data Forum: …What do we want for a 2030 data ecosystem?

Pachauri defamation suit: Court rejects interim gag order plea

The Patiala House court at Delhi has rejected R. K. Pachauri’s plea for an interim gag order against NDTV, Bennett Coleman and Co., and the India Today Group. The media houses had been made defendants in a defamation suit filed by him in 2016. In 2015, an FIR had been filed against Pachauri by a […]

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day X- Part II)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics

Laura Forlano at Public Books: “Over the past several decades, politicians and business leaders, technology pundits and the mainstream media, engineers and computer scientists—as well as science fiction and Hollywood films—have repeated a troubling refrain, championing the shift away from the material and toward the virtual, the networked, the digital, the online. It is as if all of life could be reduced to 1s and 0s, rendering it computable….

Open Belgium 2018: “Open Communities – Smart Society”

The next edition of Open Belgium, a community driven conference organised by Open Knowledge Belgium, is almost here! In less than 4 weeks, 300 industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders will gather and discuss current trends around Open Knowledge and Open Data in Belgium.

Republics of Makers: From the Digital Commons to a Flat Marginal Cost Society

Mario Carpo at eFlux: “…as the costs of electronic computation have been steadily decreasing for the last forty years at least, many have recently come to the conclusion that, for most practical purposes, the cost of computation is asymptotically tending to zero.

Basic income in the ‘long now’: three critical considerations for the future(s) of alternative welfare systems

: Many of today’s proposals for and experiments with Universal Basic Income (UBI) in so-called developed countries seem to be congruent with, and indeed in some instances explicitly catered towards maintaining the dominant political economic architecture and status quo imaginary.

The dangers of focusing all our attention on Donald Trump

Trump’s erratic presidency is a manifestation, not the cause, of democratic decay. The unfolding political crisis will outlast him. So must the resistance.

The United States Can – And Should – Prosecute the Killers of US Journalists and Aid Workers in Syria

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United States

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Seltene Erkrankungen: UKD-Mediziner Prof. Dr. Stephan vom Dahl erhält Bundesverdienstkreuz

Prof. Dr. Stephan vom Dahl arbeitet als Oberarzt in der Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie des UKD (Klinikdirektor: Prof. Dr. Dieter Häussinger). In der Ambulanz für angeborene Stoffwechselkrankheiten bei Erwachsenen der Klinik werden jährlich über 450 Patientinnen und Patienten betreut. Die Ambulanz war eine der ersten ihrer Art in Deutschland.

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day X- Part I)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Intermediary Liability 101

Attached to this post are Powerpoint slides introducing intermediary liability basics. This particular deck comes from a great CIDE program in Mexico City. It is descended from others I’ve used over the years teaching at Stanford and Berkeley, presenting at conferences, and training junior lawyers at Google. Ancestral decks that evolved into this one go back to at least 2012. (Which might explain why I struggle with fonts whenever I update them.)
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United States

Stanford CIS Privacy Counsel Lunch Series: Troy Sauro

RSVP is required for this free event. 
Join Troy Sauro, Senior Privacy Counsel, Google Inc., for a discussion about his journey from being a litigation attorney in a big law firm to becoming a Google privacy counsel. Sponsored by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. CIS Director of Privacy Albert Gidari will moderate the discussion.

Indigenous Connectivity Summit Participants Share Their Stories

Madeleine Redfern, the mayor of Iqaluit – the largest and only city in Nunavut, Canada – has a colorful way of describing how sparsely populated the territory is. “The seals outnumber the people.” With a population of just over 35,000 people spread out over an arctic 1,750,000 square kilometers, Internet access is a challenge. In fact, according to Redfern, her most favorited tweet was that she couldn’t tweet… because the connection was too slow.

Digitaler Salon: LOL war gestern

Cat falls off the sofa: Roflmao, epic fail! Dumbness prevails, deal with it! On 28 February, we are going to discuss memes and online humour at Digitaler Salon: What goes... MORE
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Media Migration, Signage, and Smoked Fish: the Library Consortium as Studio, Platform, and Metacommunity

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featuring Nate Hill, Executive Director of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)

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In this talk, Nate will give an overview of the programs at METRO/599, talk about the challenges associated with this organizational recalibration, seek input and ideas from the group, and extend an invitation to attendees to come take part in the fun.

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Future and uncertainty in the digital society

What does prediction by algorithms and AI mean? How does AI shift our understanding and production of knowledge? And how do algorithmic forecasts affect our relationship with the future? Elena... MORE
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Crowdsourcing Judgments of News Source Quality

Paper by Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand: “The spread of misinformation and disinformation, especially on social media, is a major societal challenge.

Civil report on the project MUSKAT

After the completion of the project Muskat which was funded by the BMBF a civil report by Marco Krüger was publically released online.download under: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/79947

‘CultureBanked®’ – Our Digital Cultural Commons?

Written by Liam Murphy and originally published in VoluntaryArts.org, this is a very important development, close to our CopyFair concerns.