New Report by the OECD: “Trust plays a very tangible role in the effectiveness of government. Few perceptions are more palpable than that of trust or its absence. Governments ignore this at their peril. Yet, public trust has been eroding just when policy makers need it most, given persistent unemployment, rising inequality and a variety of global pressures.
Gareth Lloyd at the NCVO: “One of the most important questions for voluntary sector organisations of all sizes is how their work can be supported by technology.
Book edited by Thomas R. Klassen, Denita Cepiku, T. J.
“Special edition of ITU news magazine (PDF)… about:
Katie Welford: “Publish What You Fund has launched a new online tool that allows aid and development finance publishers to independently check the quality of their data before they publish it to IATI.
The latest INC Longform; Digital Desolation; Amateurs, Aesthetics and the Aging of Web’s Architecture by Tatjana Seitz should come with a disclaimer for 90’s web nostalgia. As historians abandon master narratives and other disciplines deny historical models of explanation, there has never been a more paradoxical topic than the vernacular web and the authenticity of 90’s web pages to revoke a historical narrative.
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.
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I have been thinking about my fingerprints and the secrets that may lie within my eyes — and whether I want to share them with the Indian government. I may not however have a choice.
The article by Amy Kazmin was published in the Financial Times on March 27, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Book edited by Kawash, Jalal, Agarwal, Nitin, Özyer, Tansel: “This book addresses the challenges of social network and social media analysis in terms of prediction and inference. The chapters collected here tackle these issues by proposing new analysis methods and by examining mining methods for the vast amount of social content produced.
Paper by Rehm, Sebastian, Foth, Marcus, & Mitchell, Peta: “The mobile internet provides new and easier ways for people to organise themselves, raise issues, take action, and interact with their city.
The recent spat of Washington D.C. leaks is "unusually active," according to FBI Director Mr. James Comey. Even if the leaks are as normal as they are in an allergic nose dealing with New Orleans spring pollen, what are the legal and ethical issues in leaking such confidential information, unknowingly reverse engineering it, or in publishing the leaks?
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Imagine a world, not as distant as we might like to think, where our individual thought processes are aided and improved by technologies external to the biologically-bequeathed neural matter that sits within our skulls and throughout our nervous systems. Further, these technologies are designed and optimized to perform these functions in such a way as to become automatic or invisible to their user. And rather than act as simple one-way conduits or repositories, they actively drive their user's thinking in a manner that creates a two-way, symbiotic interaction between human and device.
Steve Schwartz at Tableau: “For most people, asking about the price of a bag of rice is inconsequential. For Moustapha Toure, it is a question of life and death for thousands.
Paper by Karen E. C. Levy: “…critiques blockchain-based “smart contracts,” which aim to automatically and securely execute obligations without reliance on a centralized enforcement authority. Though smart contracts do have some features that might serve the goals of social justice and fairness, I suggest that they are based on a thin conception of what law does, and how it does it.
iNaturalist: “…is a place where you can record what you see in nature, meet other nature lovers, and learn about the natural world.
La historia del universo, los agujeros negros y la conformación del Sistema Solar serán algunos de los temas que se tratarán en las cuatro charlas que durante este mes se realizarán en la Sala Sazié de la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile.
Bajo el lema "Universidades Chilenas: hacia territorios libres de acoso sexual", la Casa de Bello conmemoró este 8 de marzo, con una ceremonia que apuntó a reposicionar y reafirmar los esfuerzos de nuestro plantel por la igualdad de derechos entre hombres y mujeres.La reflexión y el compromiso de la U. de Chile contra la violencia de género, y particularmente contra el acoso sexual, marcaron la ceremonia de conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer en el Salón de Honor de Casa Central este mediodía.
A satellite session at RightsCon in Brussels is being organized by the Tactical Technology Collective on March 28, 2017. Rohini Lakshané is a speaker at this event.
Tactical Tech is interested in the problem of online harassment as a barrier to political participation in quantified societies, and in terms of the harm it causes those targeted. We have been working to customise tactics of resistance and support to communities/individuals who are working online and are exposed to, or are at risk of, harassment.
National Institute of Public Finance & Policy organized a round-table on privacy and data protection on March 24, 2017 in New Delhi.
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For more details visit http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/round-table-on-privacy-and-data-protection-at-nipfp