National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi organized a seminar on quality of services in telecom and data in Delhi on September 21, 2016. Shyam Ponappa was a speaker.

NOTE: The title of the post was edited subsequent to the SC rejecting a plea to reexamine the meaning of Hindutva as interpreted in the 1996 Manohar Joshi judgment Today, a seven-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising of Chief Justice T.S Thakur and Justices Madan B. Lokur, S.A Bobde, A.K Goel, […]

“Recently, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP, a privacy and information policy think tank based in Brussels, London and Washington, D.C., and Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunications company in the world, issued a joint white paper on Reframing Data Transparency (the “white paper”).

“The real story on how citizens and businesses are driving smart cities” by the Economist Intelligence Unit: “Digital technologies are the lifeblood of today’s cities. They are applied widely in industry and society, from information and communications technology (ICT) to the Internet of Things (IoT), in which objects are connected to the Internet.

Early October 2016 was a blast for internet research in Berlin. We present you the highlights! Together with our partners at Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research we hosted #AoIR2016 – the prestigous... MORE

Book edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher T. Robertson: “Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver’s seatbelt isn’t fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed.

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O REGULAMENTO GERAL DE PROTEÇÂO DE DADOS
A aprovação do Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados – Regulamento (UE) 2016/679 do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho, de 27 de abril de 2016, publicado a 4 de maio – culmina um processo iniciado em 2012 e dá corpo a uma jurisprudência desenvolvida pelo Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia, particularmente nos últimos três anos.
É um texto longo e complexo, que foi muito debatido e de cuja aprovação já se duvidava.

Book by Jonathan Tepperman: “We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth is sputtering. Income inequality is rising around the world. And the threat of ISIS and other extremist groups keeps spreading. We are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible decline—or so we’re constantly being told.

Josh Lerner and Madeleine Pape in the Journal of Public Deliberation: “Participatory budgeting (PB) has expanded dramatically in the United States (US) from a pilot process in Chicago’s 49th ward in 2009 to over 50 processes in a dozen cities in 2015. Over this period, scholars, practitioners, and advocates have made two distinct but related claims about its impacts: that it can revitalize democracy and advance equity. In practice, however, achieving the latter has often proven challenging.

Cerca del 5 por ciento de la población es alérgica a algún medicamento, situación que se vuelve crítica para aquellos sujetos que necesitan de ellos para vivir. Es el caso de Magdalena González a quien el fármaco que la mantiene con vida, puede lastimarla. Ante esta situación un equipo del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH), realizó un inédito tratamiento para permitirle continuar con su medicación.

Los días 7, 8 y 9 de octubre se desarrollará en la sede Parque Forestal del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), la muestra enfocada en publicaciones editoriales realizadas en Chile.

En el Día Mundial del Docente, la académica del Departamento de Estudios Pedagógicos (DEP) Jacqueline Gysling

This piece is the final installment of a three-part series of posts from MyData 2016 – an international conference that focused on human-centric personal information management. The conference was co-hosted by the Open Knowledge Finland chapter of the Open Knowledge Network.

Licencje zamiast zharmonizowanych przepisów, tzw. podatek od linków i cenzura zamieszczanych przez użytkowników treści – to tylko niektóre pomysły Komisji Europejskiej dotyczące zmian w prawie autorskim. Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego zakończyło się właśnie konsultacje dyrektywy w sprawie praw autorskich na jednolitym rynku cyfrowym i  przygotowuje polskie stanowisko. W Centrum Cyfrowym przygotowaliśmy opinię o dyrektywie, którą przesłaliśmy do MKiDN. Mamy nadzieję, że nasze uwagi zostaną wzięte pod uwagę.

Licencje zamiast zharmonizowanych przepisów, tzw. podatek od linków i cenzura zamieszczanych przez użytkowników treści – to tylko niektóre pomysły Komisji Europejskiej dotyczące zmian w prawie autorskim. Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego zakończyło się właśnie konsultacje dyrektywy w sprawie praw autorskich na jednolitym rynku cyfrowym i  przygotowuje polskie stanowisko. W Centrum Cyfrowym przygotowaliśmy opinię o dyrektywie, którą przesłaliśmy do MKiDN. Mamy nadzieję, że nasze uwagi zostaną wzięte pod uwagę.

Reposted from IODC2016 (Spanish version) – by Stefaan G. Verhulst and Danny Lämmerhirt
Key take-aways from the Measurement Action Track at IODC 2016

Eleanor Goldberg at The Huffington Post: “…There are statistics that demonstrate how many girls are in school, for example.

Report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is on a winning streak. In 2005, five teams successfully completed the DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to spur development of autonomous vehicles. In 2011, IBM’s Watson system beat out two longtime human champions to win Jeopardy! In 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo system defeated the 18-time world-champion Go player.

TED: “Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today we increasingly rely on others, often strangers, on platforms like Airbnb and Uber and through technologies like the blockchain. This new era of trust could bring with it a more transparent, inclusive and accountable society — if we get it right.

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CopyrightX is a networked course that explores the current law of copyright; the impact of that law on art, entertainment, and industry; and the ongoing debates concerning how the law should be reformed. Through a combination of recorded lectures, assigned readings, weekly seminars, and live interactive webcasts, participants in the course examine and assess the ways in which the copyright system seeks to stimulate and regulate creative expression.

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