Left to right: Geert Lovink, Miriam Rasch, Inte Gloerich, Max Dovey, Patricia de Vries, Leonieke van Dipten, Leila Ueberschlag.

 

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We are thrilled to announce the 2017 cohort for the Berkman Klein Assembly pilot program launching January 2017! The cohort is made up of seventeen diverse participants with deep experience working on a wide range of areas across the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations. Click to see a summary of the 2017 cohort! 

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Kelsey Wiens at Creative Commons: “Open Policy is when governments, institutions, and non-profits enact policies and legislation that makes content, knowledge, or data they produce or fund available under a permissive license to allow reuse, revision, remix, retention, and redistribution.

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Policy Positions on SOPA/PIPA Before and After the Internet Blackout

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In this paper, researchers investigate the role that public attention plays in determining the effect that campaign contributions funded by interests groups have on legislators’ policy positions.

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12 Dec 2016
External Links: Download from SSRN

Emerald Literati Award for Excellence

Hamburg, 15.12.2016, 10-11:30 pm. Workshop with Nick Diakopoulos, University of Maryland, at the Hans-Bredow-Institut, Registration requiredAlgorithms now adjudicate decisions in nearly all facets of the public and private sector, from employment practices, to criminal sentencing, and of course the media system itself.

Durante sesión mensual del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech), realizado en la U. de Magallanes, el Rector de la U. de Chile y presidente del Consorcio, se refirió a cómo los planteles públicos han propiciado el debate profundo respecto a la Educación Superior.

En el marco del Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer, la vicepresidenta electa de la FECh, Barbara Brito, sitúa el hito que da sentido a esta conmemoración -el asesinato de las hermanas Maribal que enfrentaron la dictadura de Trujillo en República Dominicana-, relevando el carácter colectivo de la lucha contra la violencia de género, problema del que, plantea, el Estado es uno de los actores responsables.El 25 de noviembre es un día internacional contra la violencia hacia la mujer cuya historia tiene por protagonistas a las hermanas Mirabal “M

La Casa de Bello mantuvo su sitial en la tradicional medición de la revista, que se encarga de ponderar datos en ámbitos como infraestructura, cuerpo docente, calidad de estudiantes, investigación, vinculación con la comunidad e inclusión, entre otros.

Rui Pedro Lourenço, Susana Jorge and Helena Rolas at Electronic Government: “Several open government initiatives have been launched to make available online data enhancing accountability of public officials towards ordinary citizens.

FastCoExist: “If you don’t have extra money or time to give to charity, a new startup suggests donating something else: yourself. More specifically, your (anonymized) shopping data.

Mike Orcutt at MIT Technology Review: “The government should play a bigger role in developing new tools based on artificial intelligence, or we could miss out on revolutionary applications because they don’t have obvious commercial upside.

Które kraje to liderzy we wdrażaniu polityk otwartości, a które się z tym ociągają? W jakich obszarach otwartość wdrażana jest najczęściej, a w jakich najrzadziej?

Które kraje to liderzy we wdrażaniu polityk otwartości, a które się z tym ociągają? W jakich obszarach otwartość wdrażana jest najczęściej, a w jakich najrzadziej?

IIC: “France’s regulator, Arcep, says it is taking another step towards crowdsourcing to reflect users’ experience as accurately as possible, as part of a data-centric approach to regulation. It says it has decided to bring changes to its scoreboards on network and service coverage and quality, to provide users with more reliable and more representative measurements of fixed internet access and telephone services.

Book edited by Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, and John Markoff: “At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social change and other emerging scholars and practitioners

Book by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe: “The future,” as the author William Gibson once noted, “is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.” WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future.

Updated report by the McKinsey Global Institute: “Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report highlighting the transformational potential of big data. Five years later, we remain convinced that this potential has not been overhyped. In fact, we now believe that our 2011 analyses gave only a partial view. The range of applications and opportunities has grown even larger today.

Christopher M. Kelty at Current Anthropology: “Participation is a concept and practice that governs many aspects of new media and new publics. There are a wide range of attempts to create more of it and a surprising lack of theorization.

Daniel Sarewitz at the New Atlantis: “Science, pride of modernity, our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble. Stoked by fifty years of growing public investments, scientists are more productive than ever, pouring out millions of articles in thousands of journals covering an ever-expanding array of fields and phenomena.