Paper by Mila Gascó in Government Information Quarterly: “Public sector innovation is an important issue in the agenda of policymakers and academic

Paper by Johns,Melissa Marie and Saltane,Valentina for the World Bank: “… presents a new database of indicators measuring the extent to which rulemaking processes are transparent and participatory across 185 countries. The data look at how citizen engagement happens in practice, including when and how governments open the policy-making process to public input.

Book edited by Sherzod Abdukadirov: “This collection challenges the popular but abstract concept of nudging, demonstrating the real-world application of behavioral economics in policy-making and technology. Groundbreaking and practical, it considers the existing political incentives and regulatory institutions that shape the environment in which behavioral policy-making occurs, as well as alternatives to government nudges already provided by the market.

La Dirección de Deportes y Actividad Física de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios, junto al Centro Deportivo de Estudiantes, organizaron los 46° Juegos Olímpicos Estudiantiles, en los que participarán cerca de dos mil estudiantes de todas las unidades académicas de nuestra institución, con el objetivo de entregarle a los jóvenes un espacio de encuentro y competencia deportiva.

Pilar Moraga, investigadora del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2 plantea en esta columna referida a la firma del COP21 -un tratado internacional relativo a cambio climático- que si bien esto constituye un avance, "no existen vías a nivel internacional que puedan ser utilizadas por los afectados por el cambio climático" y que el contexto actual "exige una redefinición legal de los derechos, poderes y responsabilidades, a través de un nuevo marco constitucional" en este ámbito.El 12 de diciembre de 2015, 195 países y la Unión Europea adoptaron el Acuerdo de

Un grupo de 14 estudiantes de distintas unidades académicas de nuestro plantel, pertenecientes al Sistema de Ingreso Prioritario de Equidad Educativa (SIPEE) y de los Hogares Universitarios (HHUU), participaron recientemente en un taller realizado junto a una excursión a la nieve y dinámicas de desarrollo personal, en una exitosa jornada tanto para sus organizadores como para los participantes.

Daniele Quercia in Built Environment: “It is well known that the layout and configuration of urban space plugs directly into our sense of community wellbeing. The twentieth-century city planner Kevin Lynch showed that a city’s dwellers create their own personal ‘mental maps’ of the city based on features such as the routes they use and the areas they visit. Maps that are easy to remember and navigate bring comfort and ultimately contribute to people’s wellbeing.

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Arguing that a defendant’s conviction for website hacking should be overturned because legitimate, highly valuable security and privacy research commonly employs techniques that are essentially identical to what the defendant did and that such independent research is of great value to academics, government regulators and the public even when – often especially when — conducted without a website owner’s permission.

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United States

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Arguing that the information publicly available on the NSA's Upstream program, combined with an understanding of how the Internet works, means plaintiff Wikimedia has met its burden of proving standing to challenge Upstream.

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United States

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United States

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Author(s): Jennifer GranickRiana PfefferkornPublication Date: March 3, 2016Publication Type: Litigation Brief

Arguing that if the court should not compel Apple to create software to enable unlocking and search of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, it will jeopardize digital and personal security more generally.

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United States

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Środowisko edukacyjne z nadzieją oczekiwało na europejską propozycję reform prawa autorskiego – Komisja zobowiązała się do doprecyzowania zakresu swobód dla edukatorów (tak zwanego dozwolonego użytku edukacyjnego) i dostosowania prawa do realiów cyfrowego świata.  Oczekiwaliśmy, że Komisja zaproponuje wyjątek od prawa autorskiego, który skutecznie odpowiadałby na wyzwania związane z nauczaniem online.

Środowisko edukacyjne z nadzieją oczekiwało na europejską propozycję reform prawa autorskiego – Komisja zobowiązała się do doprecyzowania zakresu swobód dla edukatorów (tak zwanego dozwolonego użytku edukacyjnego) i dostosowania prawa do realiów cyfrowego świata.  Oczekiwaliśmy, że Komisja zaproponuje wyjątek od prawa autorskiego, który skutecznie odpowiadałby na wyzwania związane z nauczaniem online.

No dia 22 de março, o Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade – IRIS e o GNet deram início ao Café & Chat, uma série de encontros mensais com o objetivo de aprofundar os debates sobre Direito de Internet na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Da propriedade intelectual à sociedade da informação, os temas a serem tratados nesses encontros existem muito além da prática jurídica, refletindo transformações sociais decorrentes das novas tecnologias.

Daniel Castro at Center for Data Innovation: “Changing demographics in Europe are creating enormous challenges for the European Union (EU) and its member states. The population is getting older, putting strain on the healthcare and welfare systems. Many young people are struggling to find work as economies recover from the 2008 financial crisis.

Linda Poon in CityLab: “Harnessing the power of open data is key to developing the smart cities of the future. But not all governments have the capacity—be that funding or human capital—to collect all the necessary information and turn it into a tool. That’s where Mapbox comes in.

Localization is one of the less glamorous aspects of computing. Despite the fact that less than 6% of the world speaks English, a majority of projects don't feel inclined to accommodate the rest of the population. One of the primary reasons for sticking to English is the steep learning curve and the lack of standardization in various aspects of the localization process.
The post by Mayank Sharma was published by Opensource.com on October 3, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.

This post originally appeared on Scroll.in on 19th September 2016. On September 7, Seema (name changed) became the youngest person in India to get an Aadhaar number, after she was enrolled within five minutes of her birth in Khajuwala, Rajasthan. The government’s biometric-based identification system, which assigns each citizen a unique number, covers 98% of […]

New Report by William J. Drake about the Risk of Internet Fragmentation