Rafael Alvarado and Paul Humphreys in the New Literary History: “In 2008, the phrase “big data” shifted in meaning.

Li Zhou at Politico: “Late last year, a St. Louis tech executive named Emre Şarbak noticed something strange about Google Translate. He was translating phrases from Turkish — a language that uses a single gender-neutral pronoun “o” instead of “he” or “she.” But when he asked Google’s tool to turn the sentences into English, they seemed to read like a children’s book out of the 1950’s.

CMPF director Pier Luigi Parcu was recently interviewed for an article in the newspaper of the European University Institute, EUI Times.
In the article ”Social media: Democracy’s poisoned chalice,” by EUI Times journalist Henry Goodwin, Parcu speaks about the effects of social media on democracy.

Now more then ever, the Internet Society believes in the need to preserve the values of openness, inclusiveness and transparency that have always been at the heart of the Internet. A coherent global governance model for the global Internet that includes everyone is key to achieving this vision. But how can we get more governments to embrace the kind of collaborative governance that has shaped the Internet we know and use today? How can we improve and expand the model so that it becomes more widely adopted around the world? How can YOU help that to happen?

We live in a time of terminal crisis for centralized institutions of all kinds, including the two most notable members of the genus: states and large corporations. Both a major cause and major symptom of this transition is the steady reduction in the amount of labor needed to produce a given level of output, and consequently in total aggregate demand for wage labor.

Still not familiar with Platform Coops? This article, written by MJ Kaplan and originally published in Yes! Magazine, does an excellent job explaining the concept. You can also check out our introduction to Open Coops, for a complementary perspective.

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Henry J. Farrell and Rick Perlstein at the New York Times: “….A program called Face2Face, developed at Stanford, films one person speaking, then manipulates that person’s image to resemble someone else’s. Throw in voice manipulation technology, and you can literally make anyone say anything — or at least seem to….

Hoje é o dia da internet segura e o Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade elaborou algumas dicas de navegação segura e proteção online. Com cada vez mais pessoas conectadas a necessidade de discutir e criar mecanismos para promoção da cidadania online são essenciais. Abaixo algumas dicas para uma navegação mais segura. #SID2018
1. Dicas Gerais para dispositivos móveis.

Experts say the new security features will significantly ensure there is no ‘large-scale theft of people‘s identity‘. Alnoor Peermohamed reports.
The blog post was published in Kaplan Herald on February 5, 2018.

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At Bilkent University in Ankara, students sit at desks littered with bookbags and bottles of water. It looks like a typical classroom, except for the makeup of the students – school-age girls – and when the instructor asks a question, the room comes alive. “Who wants to code again after today?”
The hands shoot up.
The students are participating in Coding Sisters, a program that teaches coding to girls. Soon they are grinning as they raise their certificates of completion into the air. They yell in unison, “Hello world!”

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 […]

Paper by Imanol Arrieta Ibarra, Leonard Goff, Diego Jiménez Hernández and Jaron Lanier: “In the digital economy, user data is typically treated as capital created by corporations observing willing individuals. This neglects users’ role in creating data, reducing incentives for users, distributing the gains from the data economy unequally and stoking fears of automation.

Report by the The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA): “…If people cannot trust that information about them is being handled properly, it may limit their willingness to share information – for example with their doctor, or on social media.

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Giulio Lughi, Ugo Pagallo, Enzo Veiluva
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To celebrate the launch of the Winter issue — Power — STIR Magazine are collaborating with Impact Hub Brixton to launch the magazine during Open Project Night on 19 February 2018.

Claudia Gómez-Portugal M: A number of families in the small Mexican town of Tepoztlán have taken the initiative to create a space for free and independent learning that provides meaning. Some of the 14,000 people who live in the town’s seven neighborhoods are indigenous or immigrants, and in keeping with a longstanding Mexican tradition, some land is communal property.

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 […]

Unauthorized printing of Aadhaar cards could render the QR (quick response) code dysfunctional or even expose personal data without an individual’s informed consent, UIDAI says.
The article by Komal Gupta was published by Livemint on February 7, 2017