Paper by Cristiano Faria & Malena Rehbein in The Journal of Legislative Studies:”…analyse the implementation of an open parliament policy that is taking place at the Chamber of Deputies, in accordance with the guidelines of the Open Government Partnership international programme (OGP), regarding the action plan of the Opening Parliament
Springwise: “A few months ago, Seoul City launched a month long campaign during September and October asking people to help correct poorly translated street signs. For examples, the sign pictured below has incorrectly abbreviated “Bridge,” which should be corrected to “Brg.” Those who find mistakes can submit them via email, including a picture of the sign and location details.
Mr. Desai resumed his arguments from the previous day on the interplay of Sections 98 and 99 of the RPA. His submission has been that proceedings under Sections 98 and 99 are two independent and separate proceedings. According to him, proceedings under Sections 98 and 99 are civil in nature and are not criminal or […]
Book by Peter Hirshberg, Dale Dougherty, and Marcia Kadanoff: “Maker City, or the Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive set of case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City Playbook is committed to going beyond stories to find patterns and discern promising practices to help city leaders make even
Pérdida de legitimidad de la clase política, fortalecimiento de la democracia y participación ciudadana, fueron parte del diálogo que se instaló este 14 de octubre en el foro "Si Nadie Vota, ¿Cómo Cambiamos Las Cosas?", organizado por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Chile y la Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente.
Cerca del mediodía de este 16 de octubre, luego de una relativamente extensa enfermedad, falleció el destacado dramaturgo chileno Juan Radrigán Rojas, autor de obras memorables de la escena chilena y Premio Nacional de Artes de la Representación 2011.
Acompañada por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, la ministra de Salud, Carmen Castillo, y la subsecretaria de Redes Asistenciales, Gisela Alarcón, la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet visitó esta mañana el Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH), para dar a conocer que el plan de inversión proyectado por el HCUCH será financiado por el Estado y que éste permitirá la renovación del equipamiento del recinto.
The free and open source software (FOSS) enthusiasts just celebrated the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 17 all across the world. This year, a small group of six of us gathered to celebrate SFD in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The group consisted of open source contributors from communities such as Mozilla, Wikimedia, Mediawiki, Open Street Map, and users of FOSS solutions.
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Date published: October 26, 2016Inverse"The kind of remotely operated weapons Sadowski is talking about likely wouldn’t fall under the proposed autonomous weapons ban, says Peter Asaro, Co-Founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and supporter of a “killer robot” ban.
Day 4 began with the constitutional bench rejecting a plea filed by an activist Ms Teesta Setalvad who requested the Court to redefine the meaning of ‘Hindutva’ as interpreted in the 1996 Manohar Joshi judgment and also sought a ban on the use of this term by the candidates while contesting elections. The constitutional bench […]
Science Magazine: “For years, researchers at the MIT Media Lab have been developing a database of images captured at regular distances around several major cities.
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Shorenstein Center Speaker Series
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Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School, and director of the Poliak Center for the study of First Amendment Issues at Columbia Journalism School. Wu’s best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His book The Master Switch has won wide recognition and various awards.
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Germany’s first Legal Hackathon »Building Standards of Privacy- and Security-by-Design for the IoT” took place in Berlin at the AoIR 2016: Internet Rules!, the annual conference of the worldwide biggest... MORE
On Friday 28 October 2016 Robert Spano, judge at the European Court of Human Rights, gave a presentation at IViR. He spoke about intermediary liability for online user comments – the Delfi jurisprudence. The Delfi case raised a lot of discussion and is one of the first on the role of intermediaries in today’s information society. Robert […]
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Introduction Online extremism and hate speech on the internet are growing global concerns. In 2015, the EU signed a code of conduct with social media companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter to effectively regulate hate speech on the internet. The code, amongst other measures, discussed stricter sanctions on intermediaries (social media companies) in the form […]
