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We proudly  present our second podcast, Postdigital Publishing.

Twitter to police abuse in major shift

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United States

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Waymo's Uber Lawsuit May Be Start Of A Google Patent War

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United States

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IBM gets a patent on “out-of-office” e-mail messages—in 2017

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United States

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Date published: March 1, 2017Ars Technica"The "invention" represented in the '842 patent is starkly at odds with the real history of technology, accessible in this case via a basic Google search.

IIPL & CIS Joint Research Meeting on Pervasive Technologies of Mobile Internet

IIPL has been working diligently with its research partner Indian Center of Internet and Society (CIS) on the Issues in Mobile Internet and Access to Knowledge. The joint project has been going for two years. A couple of research exchanges, in-person meetings or virtual calls, have been arranged. Both parties have been working on four chapters on copyright, licensing, patent and anti-trust related issues on the Mobile Internet respectively in Chinese and Indian legal environment.

Open innovation in the public sector

Sabrina Diaz Rato in OpenDemocracy: “For some years now, we have been witnessing the emergence of relational, cross-over, participative power. This is the territory that gives technopolitics its meaning and prominence, the basis on which a new vision of democracy – more open, more direct, more interactive – is being developed and embraced.

From big data to smart data: FDA’s INFORMED initiative

Sean Khozin, Geoffrey Kim & Richard Pazdur in Nature: “….Recent advances in our understanding of disease mechanisms have led to the development of new drugs that are enabling precision medicine.

Research Ethics in Social Computing: A Discussion

This is a liveblog of the town hall discussion "CSCW Research Ethics Town Hall: Working Towards Community Norms" at CSCW 2017.

Panelists from the SIGCHI Ethics Committee

Why you should take 10 minutes to look at the Open Data Roadmap this Open Data Day

March 4th is Open Data Day! Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the seventh time in history, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities.
 

Five Global Challenges and the Role of University

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Berkman Faculty Associate, Juan Carlos De Martin with Berkman Klein founder, Charlie Nesson

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Five global, complex, interrelated and to some extent unprecedented challenges: in the coming years what can universities do to support society in addressing them?

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Feb
28
2017
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Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity: Cyber Attack Detection using Social Media

Paper by Rupinder Paul Khandpur, Taoran Ji, Steve Jan, Gang Wang, Chang-Tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan: “Social media is often viewed as a senso

Open Knowledge Greece release algorithm prototype for analysing budgetary data – and other 2016 updates!

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

ICANN Is Moving Toward Copyright Enforcement, Academic Says

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United States

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Fake News, Rumors & Online Content Regulation

Medianama and Mint organized #NAMApolicy open house on 'Fake News, Rumors & Online Content Regulation' on February 22, 2017 at the India Habitat Centre. Japreet Grewal and Amber Sinha attended the event.

Social Justice and Design panel at CSCW 2017

This is a liveblog of the Social Justice and Design panel at the CSCW 2017 conference.
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Open Data Privacy Playbook

A data privacy playbook by Ben Green, Gabe Cunningham, Ariel Ekblaw, Paul Kominers, Andrew Linzer, and Susan Crawford: “Cities today collect and store a wide range of d

Lessons from Fighting Swiss Right-Wing Populism: Flavia Kleiner and Operation Libero

In early 2016, Operation Libero, an anti-populist movement cofounded by history student Flavia Kleiner, 26, successfully defeated an anti-immigrant Swiss ballot initiative. The "enforcement" initiative, sponsored by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), would have ordered the deportation of immigrants in Switzerland for any criminal offense, no matter how minor.

Free and Open Source Software and Standards for Public Health Information Systems in India: “Making them Work” by Bridging the Policy Practice Gap

Anubha Sinha spoke at the ORF Health Policy Workshop on the panel: The policy landscape in India with respect FOSS software and standards in the public sector more generally. The event was organized by Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi on February 27 and 28, 2017 in New Delhi.

India To Let Private Companies Access Citizens’ Biometric Data

India, home to the world’s largest national biometric registry, plans to begin sharing citizens’ data with the country’s private companies and startups.
The blog post by Joshua Kopstein was published by Vocativ on February 21, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

T20 Mumbai 2017: Dialogue on the Emerging World Economy

Gateway House, Indian Council on Global Relations organized a dialogue on emerging world economy in Mumbai on 13 and 14 February 2017. Elonnai Hickok participated in the event.