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Bytes de Informação: Regras de Competência Internacional

Neste Bytes de Informação, você confere como a internet tem desafiado as tradicionais regras de competência para a solução de controvérsias jurídicas. Bruno Biazatti e Pedro Vilela respondem quais seriam os caminhos mais adequados para resolvermos a competência de demandas transfronteiriças que surgem online. Assista:

For Whose Benefit? The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation

Book by Patrik Lindenfors: “… takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism.
Cooperation is one of life’s fundamental principles. We are all made of parts – genes, cells, organs, neurons, but also of ideas, or ‘memes’. Our societies too are made of parts – us humans. Is all this cooperation fundamentally the same process?

51° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Software Heritage: Archiving the Software Commons for Fun and Social Benefit

Page Type: Eventlunch24 maggio 2017
Stefano Zacchiroli (Università Paris-VII)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 24/05/2017 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

A Data-driven Approach to Assess the Potential of Smart Cities: The Case of Open Data for Brussels Capital Region

The Governance Report 2017

Report by The Hertie School of Governance: “Looking at recent developments around the world, it seems that democratic values — from freedom of association and speech to fair and free elections and a system of checks and balances — have come under threat. Experts have, however, disproportionately focused on the problems of democracy in the West, and pointed to familiar sets of shortcomings and emerging deficiencies.

Amazon’s Kodi Box Ban and Copyright Liability for Device Distributors

Amazon’s latest effort to mitigate IP infringement in its third-party seller program is a ban on the sale of streaming media devices (“Kodi boxes”) that promote piracy. In addition to banning sales of the devices, Amazon reserves the right to destroy any offending physical inventory in its warehouses. The new policy raises not-so-new questions about the ability of copyright holders to control the distribution of dual-use technologies that can (but needn’t necessarily) be used to infringe copyrights. 
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United States

Generando conocimiento para una alimentación y nutrición saludable

El Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos Dr. Fernando Mönckeberg Barros de la Universidad de Chile (INTA), nació con el objetivo de combatir la desnutrición en nuestro país, y de mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas. Erradicada esta problemática, su investigación, docencia y extensión se enfoca en revertir la obesidad, el sobrepeso, la diabetes y otras enfermedades relacionadas con la nutrición y la alimentación, aportando además a la elaboración de políticas públicas en la materia.

Hannah Labotka, de la Facultad de Derecho, gana el concurso La Voz de tu Facultad

Hannah Labotka, de la Facultad de Derecho, gana el concurso La Voz de tu Facultad
La final tuvo lugar durante la segunda edición de la Noche en Blanco

Concierto final La Voz de tu Facultad

31/03/17 16:59
María Carbó

Accountability Lab Celebrated Open Data Day Mapping Migration in Nepal

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.

RightsCon 2017

The sixth edition of RightsCon 2017 hosted by Access Now was held in Brussels from March 29-31, 2017. The conference included over 1,200 participants from across industries and the intersection of tech and human rights, and featured more than 180 sessions, meetings and workshops.
Digital Asia Hub Executive Director Malavika Jayaram was a speaker at the conference and participated in the following panels:

Is Your Aadhaar Number Confidential?*

Earlier this week, an agency entrusted with enrolling individuals under the Aadhaar scheme inadvertently published Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s personal information online. When it was pointed out this amounted to a gross violation of privacy, the government released a statement confirming that such publication was illegal and that the agency had accordingly been blacklisted. Another post […]

Access to New Data Sources for Statistics: Business Models and Incentives for the Corporate Sector

Report by Thilo Klein and Stefaan Verhulst: “New data sources, commonly referred to as “Big Data”, have attracted growing interest from National Statistical Institutes. They have the potential to complement official and more conventional statistics used, for instance, to determine progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other targets. However, it is often assumed that this type of data is readily available, which is not necessarily the case.

Will Computer Science become a Social Science?

Paper by Ingo Scholtes, Markus Strohmaier and Frank Schweitzer: “When Tay – a Twitter chatbot developed by Microsoft – was activated this March, the company was taken by surprise by what Tay had become. Within less than 24 hours of conversation with Twitter users Tay had learned to make racist, anti-semitic and misogynistic statements that have raised eyebrows in the Twitter community and beyond. What had happened?

Relanzamiento del Circuito Cultura Santiago Poniente

Este sábado 18 de marzo regresa el proyecto de asociatividad entre diez instituciones del eje comprendido entre Alameda, Matucana y el Parque Quinta Normal creado el 2009 y que cuya misión es relevar, dar a conocer y entregar una cartelera de actividades en conjunto para toda la comunidad de este sector capitalino. La iniciativa ahora vuelve con nueva firma y la presentación de la compañía Arte Ballet que representará los clásicos "Cascanueces" y "Don Quijote".

U. de Chile llama a reestructurar el sistema de Educación Superior

Financiamiento basal para instituciones estatales, refuerzo a las universidades regionales, además de un sistema de dotación mixto que planifique la matrícula asociada a necesidades del país e incorpore a universidades, centros de formación técnica e instituciones de formación intermedia, son algunos de los planteamientos vertidos en el informe que el Comité Institucional para la Reforma de la Educación Superior (CIRES) de la Casa de Bello entregó al Rector Ennio Vivaldi.33 grandes propuestas emanaron de los encuentros que académicos, funcionarios, estudiantes y egr

Brexit:¿En qué consiste la salida de Reino Unido de la Unión Europea?

La retirada del bloque que reúne actualmente a Inglaterra, Gales, Escocia, e Irlanda del norte comienza a ser una realidad tras la aprobación por el Parlamento británico del proyecto de ley que le permitirá a la Primera Ministra, Theresa May, activar las negociaciones para separarse de la Unión Europea y generar un nuevo tratado internacional que regule las relaciones entre ambas partes.

97° Mercoledì di Nexa - Viralità e immaginario tra vecchi e nuovi media

Page Type: Eventmercoledi10 maggio 2017
Antonio Santangelo (Università degli Studi di Torino)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 10/05/2017 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

Digital Health @ Harvard, March 2017 – Using Mobile Phone Data to Map Migration and Disease: Politics, Privacy, and Public Health

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featuring Dr. Caroline Buckee

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Mobile phone data are providing unprecedented insights into human migration and behavior with relevance for containment of epidemics and response to natural disasters, but what are the implications for individual privacy and the prospects for routine use of this data in public health?

Parent Event

Digital Health @ Harvard | Brown Bag Lunch Series

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FGV Direito Rio oferece programa de bolsa de pesquisa para doutores e doutorandos

Interessados devem se inscrever até 30 de abrilDoutores e doutorandos brasileiros e estrangeiros têm até o dia 30 de abril para candidatar-se a bolsas de pesquisa do Fellows in Rio 2017-2018. O programa, promovido pela Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio), está em sua 4ª edição e selecionará pesquisadores em Direito ou em áreas correlacionadas a essa disciplina.

Berkman Klein Center Welcomes Three New Directors

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The Berkman Klein Center announces the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors, enhancing the Center’s expertise on subjects ranging from computer systems research to the policies governing intellectual property in developing countries.

Ruth Okediji

Photo: Robins Kaplan LLP/Dan Owen & Travis Wilhelmi

Margo Seltzer

Photo: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Rebecca Tushnet

Photo: Georgetown University Law Center

March 30, 2017