Fundacja ePaństwo i 

By Natalia Adler (UNICEF) and Stefaan G. Verhulst (GovLab)
How do you tackle the world’s most complex socio-economic problems at a time of big data? It is widely recognized today that using data can greatly improve decision-making, optimize operations, and lead to new insights to address increasingly complex problems such as migration, obesity, urbanization, climate change amongst others.

Duncan Green at The Guardian: “With the occasional exception, my mood in conferences usually swings between boredom,

Media Change & Innovation @ ECREA 16

This semester, the Civic Media Collaborative Design Studio was focused on youth media and gentrification. For this version of the course, we wanted to develop media projects that respond to the current political, cultural, economic, and environmental crisis with youth-led visions of a more just and creative future. We partnered with ZUMIX and The Urbano Project, two youth arts and media organizations in the Boston area, and NuVu Studio, an innovation school for middle and high school students in Cambridge. 

Thursday 15th June 10.00-12.00. Room N4.3, Louise Weiss, European Parliament, Strasbourg.
an event organised by Neena Gill (S&D)
CBE and Member of the European Parliament
 
Elda Brogi  presented the results of the 2016 Media Pluralism Monitor. Jelena Dzakula, LSE and UK MPM2016 country team, expanded on the study’s warning of significant risks to media plurality in the UK.

Timo Luege at Social Media for Good: “In “From a Refugee Perspective” UNHCR shows how to conduct meaningful, qualitative social media monitoring in a humanitarian crisis.

John Morison at Oxford Journal of Legal Studies: “Consultation procedures are used increasingly in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. This account looks critically at consultation as presently practised, and suggests that consulters and consultees need to do much more to ensure both the participatory validity and democratic value of such exercises. The possibility of a ‘right to be consulted’ is examined.

Charo Sádaba, nueva decana de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad
“Estamos ante un momento único para la Comunicación, clave para ayudar en la transformación de la sociedad, con quien esta Facultad está comprometida”

FOTO: Manuel Castells

19/06/17 11:59
Álvaro Pérez

Location

United States

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Location

United States

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¿Qué hace un hombre al encontrar un automóvil abandonado en una carretera en plena noche? ¿Lo toma? ¿Lo abandona? ¿Llama a la policía?

En el día Mundial del Medio Ambiente, la académica del Departamento de Geofísica, explica en esta entrevista con Prensa Uchile las repercusiones de estos hechos y el liderazgo que pueden ejercer Europa y China ante este escenario tras el anuncio del líder norteamericano.

Event: Measuring Fake News in Germany
Time: June 27, 2017 from 18.00 – 20.00
Guest: Alexander Sängerlaub, Leader of the project Measuring Fake News at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV)
Moderator: Joanna Bronowicka, Director at the CIHR, European University Viadrina
Social media and digital technologies created a new media ecosystem that has become a challenge for democracy and its institutions – especially during elections. The fake news debate is symptomatic of this change.

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Author of the Book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn)

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Join Jonny Sun, the author of the popular Twitter account @jonnysun, for a conversation in celebration of his new book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn).

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Paper by Solon Barocas, Elizabeth Bradley, Vasant Honavar, and Foster Provost:  “Advances in data analytics bring with them civil rights implications. Data-driven and algorithmic decision making increasingly determine how businesses target advertisements to consumers, how police departments monitor individuals or groups, how banks decide who gets a loan and who does not, how employers hire, how colleges and universities make admissions and financial aid decisions, and much more.

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on cross-border data requests, featuring testimony from the Department of Justice, the U.K. government, Google, the Center for Democracy and Technology, state law enforcement, and Professor Andrew Woods. Everyone recognizes the problem: law enforcement outside the U.S. can’t get data for their legitimate investigations from U.S.
Location

United States

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The Pirate Bay (TPB), that perennial nemesis of copyright holders, is on the ropes again following the CJEU's decision this week in BREIN v. Ziggo. BREIN, the Dutch entertainment industry trade group, sued two ISPs—Ziggo and XS4ALL—seeking a court order to compel them to block the domain names and IP addresses of the legendary torrent sharing site.