No dia 24 de abril de 2017, o Marco Civil da Internet (MCI), completará três anos de sua promulgação. Com objetivo de comemorar essa data, este texto faz uma breve explicação da história de criação da Lei 12.965/14 e, em seguida, busca destacar como o MCI trouxe avanços na promoção da liberdade de expressão na internet do Brasil. Para isso, analisaremos quais os dispositivos legais de proteção estão presentes na lei, e, em seguida, citamos duas decisões dos tribunais que utilizam esse texto normativo de forma a promover uma internet mais livre e aberta.

One month after releasing subsidystories.eu a joint project of Open Knowledge Germany and Open Knowledge International, we have some great news to share. Due to the extensive outreach of our platform and the data quality report we published, new datasets have been directly sent to us by several administrations. We have recently added new data for Austria, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom.

GSA/AI-Assistant-Pilot: “Welcome to GSA’s Emerging Citizen Technology program’s pilot for the effective, efficient and accountable introduction and benchmark of public service information integration into consumer-available AI Personal Assistants (IPAs) including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, and Facebook Messenger’s chatbot service — and in the process lay a strong foundation for opening our programs to self-servic

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La necesidad de contar con profesionales preparados para una correcta gestión de archivos en nuestro país, en un contexto donde esta labor se enlaza con el ejercicio de derechos ciudadanos y en la construcción de memorias e identidades, se encuentra en la base del acuerdo que nuestro plantel, a través del Archivo Central Andrés Bello de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones, y de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, firmó con la Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (Dibam), a través del Archivo Nacional de Chile para impartir este programa.Con la simbólic

Nathaniel Persily in the Journal of Democracy: “…The actual story of the 2016 digital campaign is, of course, quite different, and we are only beginning to come to grips with what it might mean for campaigns going forward. Whereas the stories of the last two campaigns focused on the use of new tools, most of the 2016 story revolves around the online explosion of campaign-relevant communication from all corners of cyberspace.

Ladislav Kristoufek, Helen Susannah Moat and Tobias Preis in EPJ Data Science: “Data on the number of people who have committed suicide tends to be reported with a substantial time lag of around two years. We examine whether online activity measured by Google searches can help us improve estimates of the number of suicide occurrences in England before official figures are released.

Paper by Benjamin Y. Clark and Jeffrey L. Brudney: “The attention on coproduction and specifically technology-enabled coproduction has grown substantially. This attention had provided findings that highlight the benefits for citizens and governments.

Piret Tõnurist at the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation: “The draft report “Working with Change: Systems Approaches to Public Sector Challenges” is now available online.

Michelle Marshall  at the Inter-American Development Bank: “The challenges faced in the development and public policy arenas are often complex in nature. Devising relevant, practical, and innovative solutions requires intensive research, analysis and expertise from multiple sectors. Could there be a way to streamline this process and also make it more inclusive? 

As India makes Aadhaar compulsory for a range of services, concerns about potential data breaches remain more than six years after the govt started building the world’s largest biometric identification system.
The article by Komal Gupta, Apurva Vishwanath and Suranjana Roy was published in Livemint on April 21, 2017. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Un grupo de cosmólogos del Departamento de Física de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile analizó una serie de datos recopilados por telescopios espaciales y del desierto de Atacama, los que serían tan antiguos que provendrían de la época previa a la explosión que habría dado origen a nuestro universo.Este lunes 10 de abril fueron publicadas por la revista científica Physical Review D las conclusiones de la investigación elaborada por los estudiantes de postgrado Bastián Pradenas y Wálter Riquelme, el inv

Acompañado de una docena de embajadores de países de América Latina, además del director Ejecutivo Adjunto de la Cepal, Antonio Prado, el Rector planteó que son los Estados de la región los que "deben hacerse responsables de sus universidades, de qué quieren pedirles, y si tienen un proyecto para ellas". Asimismo, anunció la realización este 20 y 21 de abril en la U. de Chile de la VIII Asamblea de Rectores de la Red de Macrouniversidades Públicas de América Latina y el Caribe, que reunirá a integrantes de más de 30 planteles.

Establecimientos de la Región Metropolitana participarán en un estudio conjunto del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) de la U. de Chile, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y la agencia canadiense International Development Research Centre, que busca identificar buenas prácticas de Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) y aprendizaje en América Latina.
“Francisco compró 250 flores para vender. Al final del día, le quedaron 125. ¿Qué operación matemática nos permitiría saber cuánto le quedó?”

Hollie Russon Gilman at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Since the 2016 US presidential election, everyone—including the President and those protesting outside his office—has been talking about bringing the voices of everyday citizens into public life.

Book by Robin Wagner-Pacifici: “We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life’s inevitable moments—birth, death, love, and war—are almost always a surprise.

Book by Stephen Coleman: “From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. If hundreds of millions of people could be the producers as well as receivers of political messages, could that invigorate democracy? If political elites fail to respond to such energy, where will it leave them?

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

O conceito de neutralidade de rede já foi debatido neste blog, mas envolve certas nuances que normalmente são negligenciadas em debates mais midiáticos. É importante refletir sobre esse tema, porque as respostas e conceitos envolvidos não são meramente dicotômicas, como se esperaria em um debate simplório de “sim x não” quanto à implementação da neutralidade de rede nos mais diferentes ordenamentos jurídicos do globo. Então, quais seriam essas variantes?

Primeiramente: existe a necessidade de regular neutralidade de rede?

Introduction The recent shooting in Cleveland live streamed on Facebook has brought the social media company’s regulatory responsibilities into question. Since the launch of Facebook Live in 2016, the service’s role in raising political awareness has been acknowledged. However, the service has also been used to broadcast several instances of graphic violence. The streaming of […]