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Gaps in the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures in India

  Sowmya Karun In a previous post, we critically examined the legislative and institutional framework for the protection of critical information infrastructures (“CIIs”) in India. The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (“NCIIPC”) has since revamped its website. This is a heartening move towards transparency and increased public engagement. According to “data shared by a […]

Zero Infinite, the new INC podcast series is live!

The INC has a new publication format: the Zero Infinite podcast!

The GovLab Selected Readings on Algorithmic Scrutiny

By Prianka Srinivasan, Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst
As part of an ongoing effort to build a knowledge base for the field of opening governance by organizing and disseminating its learnings, the GovLab Selected Readings series provides an annotated and curated collection of recommended works on key opening governance topics. In this edition, we explore the literature on Algorithmic Scrutiny. 

Citizens give feedback on city development via Tinder-style app

Springwise: “CitySwipe is Downtown Santa Monica Inc’s opinion gathering app. The non-profit organization manages the center of the city and is using the app as part of the local government’s consultation on its Downtown Community Plan.

Information for accountability: Transparency and citizen engagement for improved service delivery in education systems

Lindsay Read and Tamar Manuelyan Atinc at Brookings: “There is a wide consensus among policymakers and practitioners that while access to education has improved significantly for many children in low- and middle-income countries, learning has not kept pace.

Digital Nudging: Altering User Behavior in Digital Environments

Tobias Mirsch,Christiane Lehrer, and Reinhard Jung in Wirtschaftsinformatik: “Individuals make increasingly more decisions on screens, such as those on websites or mobile apps. However, the nature of screens and the vast amount of information available online make individuals particularly prone to deficient decisions. Digital nudging is an approach based on insights from behavioral economics that applies user interface (UI) design elements to affect the choices of users in digital environments.

NTU Singapore and Ben-Gurion University ink partnership to combat advanced cyber threats​​

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The City as a Lab: Open Innovation Meets the Collaborative Economy

Introduction to Special Issue of California Management Review by , , and : “This article introduces the special issue on the increasing role of cities as a driver for (open) innovation and entrepreneurship.

Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

Geo Developers Blog: “We are excited to announce that we are open-sourcing Google Earth Enterprise (GEE), the enterprise product that allows developers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. With this release, GEE Fusion, GEE Server, and GEE Portable Server source code (all 470,000+ lines!) will be published on GitHub under the Apache2 license in March.

Not Bugs, But Features: Hopeful Institutions and Technologies of Inequality

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featuring Dan Greene, Postdoctoral Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England

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FGV Direito Rio lança segundo volume de livro sobre superendividamento dos brasileiros

Publicação mostra um raio-x da população endividada no paísA FGV Direito Rio acaba de lançar o volume II do livro “Superendividamento no Brasil”. A obra, fruto de pesquisa dos professores Antônio José Maristrello Porto, Danielle Borges, Melina de Souza Rocha Lukic e Patrícia Regina Pinheiro Sampaio, tem entre seus objetivos dar uma ideia mais clara da capacidade de pagamento das famílias e quais são os fatores determinantes do superendividamento dos consumidores de crédito.

Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/Innen zur Promotion im Medienrecht

Gemeinsam mit dem Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg schreiben wir aktuell mehrere Positionen zur wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeit aus. Das Hans-Bredow-Institut wird zu den renommiertesten Medienforschungsinstituten Deutschlands gezählt. Das interdisziplinäre Team forscht an den... MORE

Open State Foundation Netherlands wins OGP 2016 award for work to advance fiscal transparency through OpenSpending

Open State Foundation is a non-profit based in the Netherlands, working on digital transparency by opening up public information as open data and making it accessible for re-use. Last December, the organization received one of the seven Open Government Partnership 2016 Awards for its work on OpenSpending at the OGP Global Summit in Paris, France. The awards celebrated civil society initiatives that are using government data to bring concrete benefits.

Open State Foundation Netherlands wins OGP 2016 award for work to advance fiscal transparency through OpenSpending

Open State Foundation is a non-profit based in the Netherlands, working on digital transparency by opening up public information as open data and making it accessible for re-use. Last December, the organization received one of the seven Open Government Partnership 2016 Awards for its work on OpenSpending at the OGP Global Summit in Paris, France. The awards celebrated civil society initiatives that are using government data to bring concrete benefits.

Direito Rio oferece bolsa para curso de verão na Áustria

Curso engloba 30 diferentes sistemas jurídicosA FGV DIREITO RIO seleciona alunos da graduação para o curso de verão “Summer School European Private Law”, que ocorrerá de 03 a 15 de julho de 2017, em Salzburg na Áustria. A Escola poderá indicar até um aluno, que terá isenção na taxa de inscrição. Os demais alunos interessados farão parte do processo seletivo e, sendo aprovados, não terão isenção da taxa de inscrição. Os interessados devem se inscrever até dia 20 de fevereiro.

How States Engage in Evidence-Based Policymaking

The Pew Charitable Trusts: “Evidence-based policymaking is the systematic use of findings from program evaluations and outcome analyses (“evidence”) to guide government policy and funding decisions.

M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Disclosure online

Um dos conceitos mais instigantes mencionados durante o Internet Governance Forum 2016 foi o M.A.D. – Mutual Assured Disclosure (Divulgação Mútua Assegurada, em português).

What Does Big Data Mean For Sustainability?

Saurabh Tyagi at Sustainable Brands: “Everything around us is impacted by big data today.

Documenting Hate

Shan Wang at NiemanLab: “A family’s garage vandalized with an image of a swastika and a hateful message targeted at Arabs. Jewish community centers receiving bomb threats.

Mass Observation: The amazing 80-year experiment to record our daily lives

William Cook at BBC Arts: “Eighty years ago, on 30th January 1937, the New Statesman published a letter which launched the largest (and strangest) writers’ group in British literary history.