Mike Orcutt at MIT Technology Review: “Congressman David Schweikert is determined to enlighten his colleagues in Washington about the blockchain. The opportunities the technology creates for society are vast, he says, and right now education is key to keeping the government from “screwing it up.”
In an interesting development in the US Department of Justice is dropping all charges in a child porn case to keep TOR hack code secret. According to DOJ “disclosure is not an option”.
AI in Asia event was organised by the Digital Asia Hub on March 6 and 7, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The event partners were Waseda University, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, NICT, NTT and the Japan Society of Information and Communication Research. Udbhav Tiwari attended the event.
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy organized a brainstorming session on net neutrality on February 8, 2017 and a public seminar on surveillance in India the following day on February 9, 2017 in New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash gave a talk.
Pranesh presented a narrative of the current state of surveillance law, our knowledge of current surveillance practices (including noting where programmes like Natgrid, CMS, etc. fit in), and charted a rough map of reforms needed and outstanding policy research questions.
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with Natalie Gyenes and Anushka Shah
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The recent US election, and related conversations about misinformation, have brought questions about media influence to the forefront of internet research and communications agendas. We use the Media Cloud suite of tools to ask the following question: How can we deconstruct the topic of media influence to reconstruct better narratives?
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"Cambio Climático y desafíos del futuro" es el nombre del diálogo enmarcado en la actual edición de la Escuela de Temporada, en la que el decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas expuso sus visiones sobre cómo se enfrenta hoy la discusión de las variaciones ambientales y puso énfasis en la necesidad de una ética que asegure la sustentabilidad del territorio.“Yo voy a ir a contracorriente de lo que normalmente se difunde sobre cambio climático, que es siempre una mirada hacia delante, amenazante, con la lógica de que el hombre es capaz de producir cambios que
Este viernes culmina este evento universitario organizado conjuntamente por las universidades de Chile y Tarapacá y el Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, con un carnaval cultural con música, danza y la intervención de la académica María Emilia Tijoux. Jóvenes, profesionales de la educación, estudiantes universitarios y representantes de organizaciones sociales han sido parte de este encuentro que reúne a los ariqueños con el mundo académico para reflexionar sobre temas de interés local.
En una ceremonia encabezada por la directora del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de Alimentos Dr. Fernando Mönckeberg Barros (INTA), Verónica Cornejo, se presentó la cuarta edición del volumen "Errores Innatos en el Metabolismo del Niño", cuyas autoras principales son -además de la Dra. Cornejo- las destacadas académicas del INTA, Marta Colombo y Erna Raimann (QEPD).“Tenemos la obligación de dar a conocer todo aquello que nosotros estudiamos y los resultados a los que llegamos. Eso es algo que ha ido ocurriendo en el tiempo.
Report by David Cuillier: “People must have access to reliable public information to make informed decisions and hold their elected officials accountable. Without transparent government at all levels—local, state and federal—representative democracy is threatened. For a generation, presidents of both parties have in different ways tightened controls on government information.
Rohini Lakshané took part in a workshop organized by Centre for Innovation Intellectual Property & Competition in New Delhi from March 9 to 11, 2017.
Even as the Centre plans to link as many as 500 schemes to Aadhaar, concerns over data safety are rising. Richa Mishra reports.
The article by Richa Mishra was published in the Hindu Businessline on March 13, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Jenn Gustetic: “Implementing an innovative approach within the federal government takes relentlessness, stamina, and strategy. It can be incredibly lonely. You are often your own best champion. It can feel impossible– like being the underdog trying to win a sporting match. But after all the frustrations and setbacks, when you win that first match it is also overwhelmingly satisfying.
In order to manufacture internet connectivity, network operators around the globe make a joint effort. As of today, they have interconnected more than 55,000 Autonomous Systems. By the measure of... MORE
Adele Peters in Fast Company: “On March 11, in a state parliament election in West Australia, 24 candidates made only one campaign promise: If they won, they promised to vote on every bill according to the wishes of their constituents, as determined via an app called
Anupam Datta in The Conversation: “People who apply for a loan from a bank or credit card company, and are turned down, are owed an explanation of why that happened.
Anthony C. Robinson et al in the International Journal Of Cartography; “Geospatial big data present a new set of challenges and opportunities for cartographic researchers in technical, methodological and artistic realms. New computational and technical paradigms for cartography are accompanying the rise of geospatial big data.
Stephen Goldsmith in Government Technology: “Appealing to the nuances of the human mind has been a feature of effective governance for as long as governance has existed, appearing prominently in the prescriptions of every great political theorist from Plato to Machiavelli.
Antonio López, Premio Luka Brajnovic de Comunicación 2017 de la Universidad
La Facultad de Comunicación otorga este premio a comunicadores que destaquen por defender los valores de libertad, tolerancia y solidaridad
Antonio López.
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