Book by Gillian Hadfield: “… picks up where New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman left off in his influential 2005 book, The World is Flat. Friedman was focused on the infrastructure of communications and technology-the new web-based platform that allows business to follow the hunt for lower costs, higher value and greater efficiency around the planet seemingly oblivious to the boundaries of nation states.

Andrew Schrock at the International Journal of Communication: “We are awash in predictions about our data-driven future. Enthusiasts believe big data imposes new ways of knowing, while critics worry it will enable powerful regimes of institutional control. This debate has been of keen interest to communication scholars. To encourage conceptual clarity, this article draws on communication scholarship to suggest three lenses for data epistemologies.

More and more people and institutions communicate via Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and co. The rules of platforms for sorting and blocking, for liking and sharing determine whose voices get heard,... MORE

Jenni Bergal at Pew Charitable Trusts: “As Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Anthony Griffin patrolled an area near Murfreesboro one morning in January 2014, he gave a young woman a ticket for driving her Geo Prizm without wearing a seat belt.

Fear and Loathing of the Online Self–A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures
Call for Participation
Conference, Rome, May 22-23, 2017
http://networkcultures.org/online-self/
We would like to invite artists and researchers to submit proposals to join this event hosted by  John Cabot University and Universita degli Studi RomaTre in Rome, and organized in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.

Paper by David Watson and Luciano Floridi: “Recent years have seen a surge in online collaboration between experts and amateurs on scientific research. In this article, we analyse the epistemological implications of these crowdsourced projects, with a focus on Zooniverse, the world’s largest citizen science web portal.

O Poder Judiciário e as Violações de Direitos no Sistema Prisional Brasileiro13h30 até 18h00O Evento: 

Location

United States

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W tym numerze Kserokopii przedstawiamy pierwsze komentarze dotyczące poprawek zaproponowanych przez Komisję Kultury i Edukacji Parlamentu Europejskiego do dyrektywy o prawie autorskim. Zachęcamy również do zapoznania się z nowymi orzeczeniami zarówno krajowymi, jak i europejskimi (w tym TSUE na temat zgodności z prawem dwukrotności stosownego wynagrodzenia przewidzianego w prawie autorskim). Z ciekawostek prezentujemy artykuły o domenie publicznej, wykorzystaniu CC0 przez Metropolitan Art Museum z Nowego Jorku i o otwartej nauce jako jedynej możliwości rozwoju. Dobrej lektury!

W tym numerze Kserokopii przedstawiamy pierwsze komentarze dotyczące poprawek zaproponowanych przez Komisję Kultury i Edukacji Parlamentu Europejskiego do dyrektywy o prawie autorskim. Zachęcamy również do zapoznania się z nowymi orzeczeniami zarówno krajowymi, jak i europejskimi (w tym TSUE na temat zgodności z prawem dwukrotności stosownego wynagrodzenia przewidzianego w prawie autorskim). Z ciekawostek prezentujemy artykuły o domenie publicznej, wykorzystaniu CC0 przez Metropolitan Art Museum z Nowego Jorku i o otwartej nauce jako jedynej możliwości rozwoju. Dobrej lektury!

Report released at the World Government Summit (Dubai): “… the “Best Government Emerging Technologies” recognises governments that are experimenting with emerging technologies to provide government services more e ciently, e ectively and have proven results showing how they have created greater public value and transformed people›s lives.

Lynsey Chutel at Quartz: “On any given day in South Africa’s cities the daily commute can be chaotic and unpredictable. A new open source data platform hopes to bring some order to that—or at least help others get it right.

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 Research Conference on 
Communications, Information and Internet Policy
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TPRC45
: September 8 and 9, 2017

Pre-conference activities September 7, 2017

Antonin Scalia Law School George Mason University,
Arlington, VA
Call for Submissions

Submissions Accepted March 1-31

 The 2016 edition of the Measuring the Information Society Report was prepared by the ICT Data and Statistics Division within the Telecommunications Development Bureau of ITU. The team comprised Susan Teltscher (Head of Division), Fredrik Eriksson, Vanessa Gray, Esperanza Magpantay, Lourdes Montenegro and Ivan Vallejo. David Souter, consultant to ITU, provided substantive contribu ons to Chapters 1, 2 and 3. Halvor Sannæs and Josie Sephton from Strategy Analytics Ltd. provided substantive inputs to Chapter 4.

 Dr Krishna Oolun is the latest eminent former regulator to join the advisory board of Research ICT Africa, an ICT policy and regulatory think tank based in Cape Town, that hosts an African wide research network. Dr Oolun was Chief Executive of the ICT Authority of Mauritius, the national regulatory authority between 2005 and 2015. Prior to that he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Mauritius. Dr Oolun was involved in the drafting of the White Paper in Telecommunication in 1997 following the commitment of Mauritius to liberalise the sector.

Location

United States

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Location

United States

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Book by Anna Simpson: “This book explores five cultural traits – Diversity, Integrity, Curiosity, Reflection, and Connection – that encourage the birth and successful development of new ideas, and shows how organizations that are serious about innovation can embrace them.

Report by the OECD: “Innovation in government is about finding new ways to impact the lives of citizens, and new approaches to activating them as partners to shape the future together. It involves overcoming old structures and modes of thinking and embracing new technologies and ideas. The potential of innovation in government is immense; however, the challenges governments face are significant.