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No one wants to live in a “dumb” city.  But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either.  I’d prefer to just live in a smarter city -- one that puts my privacy and security first before rolling out ubiquitous sensors and broad-scale data collection in the name of some larger public good.
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Date: Tue, 02/21/2017

• Governments have a key role to play in advancing connectivity in the region
• Multiple opportunities for countries to collaborate in developing Internet infrastructure

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Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital

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Join Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital, for a discussion about the KINGS of Africa’s Digital Economy.

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NBER Working Paper by Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainatha: “We examine how machine learning can be used to improve and understand human decision-making. In particular, we focus on a decision that has important policy consequences.

‘Performance’s only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other... MORE

Tanvi Misra in CityLab: “I know it when I see it,” is as true for gentrification as it is for pornography. Usually, it’s when a neighborhood’s property values and demographics are already changing that the worries about displacement set in—rousing housing advocates and community organizers to action.

Marcos Hernando, Diane Stone and Hartwig Pautz in LSE Impact Blog: “Last month, the annual Global GoTo Think Tank Index Report was released, amid claims “think tanks are more important than ever before”.

We’ve recently received funding from Omidyar Network, which will allow us to further our commitment to civil society organisations!
Open Knowledge International has received a two-year grant amounting to $1.5 million from Omidyar Network to support the development and implementation of our new civil society-focused strategy. Running until the end of December 2018, this grant reflects Omidyar Network’s confidence in our shared vision to progress openness in society and we are looking forward to using the funds to strengthen the next phase of our work.

This week the Frictionless Data team at Open Knowledge International will be speaking at the International Digital Curation Conference #idcc17 on making research data quality visible. Dan Fowler looks at why the popular file format Excel is problematic for research and what steps can be taken to ensure data quality is maintained throughout the research process.

Page Type: EventL'edizione 2017 di Biennale Democrazia, che si svolgerà a Torino dal 29 marzo al 2 aprile, dedica ampio spazio al tema "Internet e Democrazia", proponendo una serie di incontri che anche quest'anno sono co-organizzati, in parte o interamente, dal Centro Nexa su Internet e Società del Politecnico di Torino.
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John M. Kamensky in Governing: “We hear a lot about “big data” and its potential value to government. But is it really fulfilling the high expectations that advocates have assigned to it? Is it really producing better public-sector decisions? It may be years before we have definitive answers to those questions, but new research suggests that it’s worth paying a lot of attention to.

A questão do jovem na Governança da Internet não é uma preocupação recente. Embora programas como o ICANN Next Gen e, principalmente, o Youth@IGF tenham atingido grande destaque e sucesso nos últimos anos, a necessidade de uma visão renovadora e refrescante para os principais problemas da Governança da Internet, somente proporcionada por jovens, sempre foi reconhecida.

Gabi Fitz and Lisa Brooks in Philantopic: “One of the key roles the nonprofit sector plays in civil society is providing evidence about social problems and their solutions. Given recent changes to policies regarding the sharing of knowledge and evidence by federal agencies, that function is more critical than ever.

Bea Schofield at Wazoku: “…RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce),…start off a journey towards a more innovative, inclusive and democratic policy-making model. The first in their series of three public Challenges has launched today, with a focus on how the economy can work for everyone.

David Martin Shaw, J. Valérie Grossand Thomas C. Erren in The Conversation: “Most people are aware they can donate their organs when they die.

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Date: Sat, 02/18/2017[Geneva, Switzerland] – Reflecting the increasing importance of cross-border collaboration in addressing cybersecurity issues, the Internet Society today announced that it has joined the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC). The goal of this global body is to develop proposals for norms and policy initiatives to improve stability and security in cyberspace.

The Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research invites applications for international postdoctoral research fellows from fields including, but not restricted to, computer and information science, communication and media studies, law, sociology and philosophy, who will conduct innovative research on the social and cultural impact of algorithms during stays of 3-12 months in Hamburg in the academic year 2017/2018.Call for ApplicationsThe Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany, is a publicly funded research institute that focuses on the study of mediated public communi

Kristen French at BackChannel: “…Today, Second Life is mostly forgotten by the broader public.

Jeremy Morgan at Lippincott: “One of the most consequential insights from the study of organizational culture happens to have an almost irresistible grounding in basic common sense. When attempting to solve the challenges of today’s businesses, inviting a broad slice of an employee population yields more creative, actionable solutions than restricting the conversation to a small strategy or leadership team.