Author: Dwi Aini Bestari (a.dwiainibestari@students.uu.nl)

The hearing in the petition challenging WhatsApp’s privacy policy continued today. Arguments made during the course of yesterday’s proceedings can be accessed here. Before the respondents could resume their arguments on maintainability, the Additional Solicitor General made a brief representation on behalf of the Central Government. He submitted that even if the Court finds that […]

Felipe Estefan at Positive Returns: “Right now you don’t have to look very hard to find evidence of the tense, often broken, relationship between between citizens and t

As the Central government continues to expand the scope and boundaries of the applicability of Aadhaar, the unique identification number, even before the Supreme Court’s verdict on its constitutional validity, reports suggesting that millions of Aadhaar numbers may have been leaked deliberately or inadvertently are a matter of grave concern.
The article was published in the Deccan Herald on May 11, 2017.

Este 3 de mayo, el Rector de nuestro plantel y Presidente del Consorcio de Universidades Estatales de Chile (CUECh), expuso en la Comisión de Educación por la indicación sustitutiva a la Reforma a la Educación Superior.

Tras la observación de los eventos sísmicos que derivaron en ocho movimientos telúricos con magnitud superior a 5.0 entre el 23 y el 28 de abril pasados en el litoral central, el Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN) de la Universidad de Chile concluyó que el mayor desplazamiento de las placas se concentró al este del epicentro, y que el escenario futuro más probable dentro de los próximos días es la continuación de la sismicidad de menor magnitud, aunque es imposible descartar de plano un evento de alta magnitud en un 100 por ciento.La noche del lunes 24 de abril de 2017 fue m

Un inédito estudio liderado por investigadores del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH), devela que una disfunción del Sistema Vestibular -ubicado en el oído- podría contribuir al déficit atencional en niños.

What kinds of online harassment do women in Pakistan face, and what can we learn from Pakistan for our efforts to protect people around the world?
(this liveblog was written with Mariel García M)

Book by Cynthia Savard Saucier and Jonathan Shariat: “Bad design is everywhere, and its cost is much higher than we think. In this thought-provoking book, authors Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier explain how poorly designed products can anger, sadden, exclude, and even kill people who use them. The designers responsible certainly didn’t intend harm, so what can you do to avoid making similar mistakes?

Editada há mais de 70 anos, as edições da revista estão na Biblioteca Produzida pela Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio) sob a editoria de Joaquim Falcão e Sérgio Guerra, a Revista de Direito Administrativo (RDA) obteve conceito A2 na última avaliação no Qualis da Capes (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior). Com esta nota, o periódico entrou na categoria “A” e figura entre as publicações mais qualificadas na área de Direito.  

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featuring John Schindler from the Federal Reserve, Jeff Bandman from the CFTC, and Valerie Szczepanik from the SEC

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Tuesday, May 16 at 12:00 pmBerkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Handbook edited by Morris Altman: “… a unique and original contribution of over thirty chapters on behavioural economics, examining and addressing an important stream of research where the starting assumption is that decision-makers are for the most part relatively smart or rational. This particular approach is in contrast to a theme running through much contemporary work where individuals’ behaviour is deemed irrational, biased, and error-prone, often due to how people are hardwired.

Maarit Kahila and Anna Broberg at FIG: “The need in urban planning to make knowledge-driven decisions has spurred the creation of new solutions to gather and utilize insight from residents. Participatory planning has often been realized through workshops and during face-to-face encounters, but little of the knowledge gathered in these situations is of use in further urban planning and city development.

Chapter by Christopher Pettit, Scott N. Lieske and Murad Jamal in Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures: “In an increasingly urbanised world, there are pressures being placed on our cities, which planners, decision-makers, and communities need to be able to respond to.

GAO Technology Assessment: “The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the technologies and devices that sense information and communicate it to the Internet or other networks and, in some cases, act on that information. These “smart” devices are increasingly being used to communicate and process quantities and types of information that have never been captured before and respond automatically to improve industrial processes, public services, and the well-being of individual consumers.

Nicolas Kayser-Bril is the former CEO and co-founder of Journalism++ (J++), a group of investigative journalists that specialises in data-driven reporting. As part of OKI’s own involvement in Openbudgets.eu, we had the good fortune of working with  J++ on the question how public budget and spending data can be used to tackle corruption.

Press Release: “the ‘Dubai Data Economic Impact Report’…provides the Dubai Government with insights into the potential economic impacts of opening and sharing data and includes a methodology for more rigorous measurement of the economic impacts of open and shared data, to allow regular assessment of the actual impacts in the future.

Zapraszamy na warsztat z Effie Kapsalis (Smithsonian Institution) poniedziałek 29 maja 2017.

This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across theOpen Knowledge Network and was written by the Open Knowledge Sweden Team. 

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