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Genetics

Worldbank: “The Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance project is an initiative of the World Bank’sGlobal Indicators Group, which produces a range of datasets and benchmarking products on regulations and business activity around the world. These datasets include Doing Business,Enterprise Surveys, Enabling the Bus

With bunnie huang, Author, Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering and Edward Snowden. Liveblog by Sam Klein, Erhardt Graeff, and myself.
Introduction and overview from Snowden

Report by Rachel Sinha and Tim Draimin:”As we hurtle towards a human community of 9.7 billion people by the year 2050, coupled with new technologies and the growing challenges of our planet’s carrying capacity, there is more and more discussion of systems and how they change or are created.

Amidst an economic and political turmoil, Brazil gave a significant step towards protection of network neutrality – the principle that keeps the Internet an open space, free from undue control by Internet service providers (ISPs). A Presidential Decree issued right before Dilma Rousseff was temporarily removed from power on May 10 consolidates the regime established by the Marco Civil – a Federal Statute known as the “Internet Bill of Rights” in Brazil - and brings clarity to the application of meaningful rules that may effectively preserve network neutrality.

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Joi (director of the Media Lab), Opening

Nabeel Abdur Rehman et al at Science Advances: “Thousands of lives are lost every year in developing countries for failing to detect epidemics early because of the lack of real-time disease surveillance data. We present results from a large-scale deployment of a telephone triage service as a basis for dengue forecasting in Pakistan. Our system uses statistical analysis of dengue-related phone calls to accurately forecast suspected dengue cases 2 to 3 weeks ahead of time at a subcity level (correlation of up to 0.93).

  The irony of internet freedom was on full display shortly after midnight July 16 in Turkey when President Erdogan used FaceTime and independent TV news to call for public resistance against the military coup that aimed to depose him....

Department of Commerce: “More than 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. Yet just yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker addressed developers, data scientists, and designers who are using Department of Commerce data to build new tools and products aimed at ending the pay disparities that still disadvantage women in today’s economy.

Smart Cities on 21 July 2016 at 14:06PM Not all networks have geographic information (e.g., friendship networks, hyperlink networks, etc.). However, for networks that do have geographic data (such as networks of commuting or migration), geography can be a powerful way to position the nodes in a visualization. Geographic position allows viewers to interpret the network in a geographical [...]

Beth Noveck in Forbes: “With the announcement of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn last week comes the prospect of new tech products that can help us visualize more than ever before about what we know and can do.

Oliver Ralph at the Financial Times: “More sophisticated use of data could create an “underclass” of people who cannot afford insurance. According to a new report from the Chartered Institute of Insurance, consumers could miss out on some types of cover altogether if insurers deem them too risky.

CopyCamp czyli konferencja o przyszłości prawa autorskiego, do 31 lipca czeka na zgłoszenia wystą

CopyCamp czyli konferencja o przyszłości prawa autorskiego, do 31 lipca czeka na zgłoszenia wystą

In the weeks leading up to the finalisation of the CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 1 Report, we traced the evolution of each recommendation. While things have been quiet on the drafting front, there has been a lot of activity towards completing and implementing Work Stream 1 recommendations, to clear the path for Work Stream 2. Over […]

Today, 126 academics from Europe and around the world published an open letter to European telecom regulators urging them to protect the open Internet in Europe. Regulators are currently working on guidelines that will determine how Europe’s new net neutrality law will be applied in practice.Related Topics: Network Neutrality

Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2016, 699 pp.
ISBN 9789041128799.

See table of contents here.
See list of authors here.
A sample chapter on the EU Database Directive, by Prof. P.B. Hugenholtz, is available here.

En el marco de la visita del Presidente de la República Federal de Alemania, Joachim Gauck, a nuestro país, la Asociación por la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos Colonia Dignidad interpuso una querella criminal que busca aclarar la desaparición de prisioneros políticos en dicho lugar. Además, conminaron a los estados de Chile y Alemania para que asuman su responsabilidad ante las múltiples violaciones a los DD.HH.

La negación a la solicitud elevada por la periodista Catalina Gaete para acceder a una serie de actas del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional motivó a la Cátedra de Derechos Humanos de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones a dar un paso al frente en la discusión, y problematizar sobre los documentos públicos, la Ley de Transparencia, el rol de las Fuerzas Armadas en los procesos de acceso a la información y el derecho a la verdad. Esto motivó un debate, que congregará a nueve representantes de diversas áreas, y que será transmitido online este 13 de julio desde las 16:00 hrs.

Entre los más de 450 artistas, académicos y performistas de todo el mundo que están en nuestro país para ser parte del Encuentro eXcéntrico, se encuentran los chilenos Eli Neira, Alexander del Re, Gonzalo Rabanal, Ernesto Orellana, Alberto Kurapel, María José Contreras, Ramón Griffero, Isabel Torres, entre otros, quienes han podido compartir su experiencia y su arte con los participantes extranjeros en esta actividad que se desarolla entre el 17 y el 23 de julio.Malestar contra la clase política, cuestionamientos respecto a los problemas fronterizos con los países vecinos,