The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is now accepting applications for a Senior Project Manager to join our team. She or he will drive forward a diverse portfolio of research projects; research at the intersection of new technologies, law, policy, and society; lead and initiate associated technical tasks and software development work; support critical institutional initiatives; and provide high level, strategic management to project teams.

Reposted from NYU Tandon School of Engineering
The School’s GovLab Is Helping Stakeholders Address Recidivism, Bail, Juveniles, and More
With more than 2 million people incarcerated in the nation’s prisons – a marked increase over previous decades – there is bipartisan support for improving public safety while reducing incarceration and making the criminal justice system fairer.

Danielle Borges é professora da graduação e pesquisadora do CPDEA professora da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), Danielle Borges, teve sua tese de doutorado publicada pela Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Una mayor participación de los trabajadores en huelgas extra-legales, la concentración de las paralizaciones en la zona central del país, y su carácter mayoritariamente pacífico son algunas de las conclusiones que se pueden extraer del Informe de Huelgas Laborales 2015, presentado este 16 de junio.

El director del Centro de microdatos del Departamento de Economía de la Casa de Bello, Jaime Ruiz-Tagle, invita a reflexionar y poner en valor el patrimonio estadístico del país, e indica que la Encuesta de Ocupación y Desocupación en el Gran Santiago que realiza la institución "es mucho más que una encuesta" y es "una herramienta de alto valor no solo por su trayectoria", respondiendo así a las inquietudes de las autoridades del Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas respecto al presupuesto asignado para realizar esta medición.A fines de mayo celebramos el Día del Patrimonio y

Según datos analizados por investigadores del Núcleo Milenio de Investigación de la Web Semantica (CIWS), si se mantuviera la tendencia actual se necesitarían dos meses de extensión en el plazo de inscripción de los Encuentros Locales Autoconvocados para que la mayoría de los chilenos participen en esta iniciativa.

The Educational Sector benefits from efficiency- and therefore has a pressure to digitise. On one hand, digital, interactive, and customizable teaching and learning materials can be used by teachers and... MORE

Now available: The Ends of the Internet by Boris Beaude, translated from the French by Patrice Riemens. If you are interested in a copy, fill out the form below.

The 6th APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance Forum was held on June 28-30, 2016, in Jinjiang, China. Prof. Xue, who was appointed on the Expert Council of the APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance, presented at the Forum on the International and Global e-Businesses and joined the Expert Council meeting. She was one of the primary drafters of the Jinjiang Proposal, a statement officially released at the Forum and later presented at APEC meetings.

Prof. Dr. Londaridze (von l.), das Abida-Team (Tim Jülicher, Charlotte Röttgen, Andreas Börding, Christian Döpke)

Political Bots on 30 June 2016 at 02:33AM Our work on Brexit Bots was featured in “Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote” on the website for the New Scientist: Watch out for the ballot bots. As the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union draws near, researchers are increasingly concerned about automated social media accounts that might [...]

Phil Howard on 30 June 2016 at 02:31AM Our work on Brexit Bots was featured in “Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote” on the website for the New Scientist: Watch out for the ballot bots. As the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union draws near, researchers are increasingly concerned about automated social […] [...]

Con la presencia del Rector Ennio Vivaldi, la decana de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Marcela Pizzi, y el profesor Mario Terán, director del Departamento de Arquitectura FAU, el pasado miércoles 14 de junio se llevó a cabo la firma de un convenio de colaboración entre la Universidad de Chile y el Istituto Internazionale del Marmo (ISIM) de Italia.El evento se realizó en la Embajada de Italia en Chile ante la presencia del Embajador Marco Ricci, y Paolo Morone, presidente del Istituto Internazionale del Marmo (ISIM).

Tras ser el primer país latinoamericano en participar de este encuentro, Chile asistirá a su próxima versión como invitado de honor y bajo la curatoría de la directora del Museo de Arte Popular Americano Tomás Lago (MAPA) de la U. de Chile y académica de la Facultad de Artes.

Lançamento da Parceria Fundação Getulio Vargas - Transparência Internacional e discussão do projeto do “Centro de Conhecimento Anticorrupção”17h00O Evento: A Transparência Internacional (TI) atua há 20 anos contra a corrupção e tem presença em mais de 100 países. Ao longo desses anos acumulou um vasto estoque de conhecimento sobre a corrupção e as suas soluções. Pesquisando e aprendendo com a prática, desenvolveu um amplo portfólio de publicações, bases de dados, índices, metodologias, métodos de treinamento e até mesmo um serviço de assistência para ativistas e profissionais.

Today, a division bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising of the Chief Justice Thakur and Justice Khanwalkar examined a public interest litigation petition seeking a ban on Whatsapp and analogous messenger apps. The petition, filed by Mr. Sudhir Yadav, states that the complete end-to-end encryption technology adopted by Whatsapp (and other messenger apps) […]

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Politecnico di Torino, Doctoral School
23, 27, 28, and 29 June 2016
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Thu, 23/06/2016 - 10:00 to Tue, 28/06/2016 - 13:00luogo: Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: June 29, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe US State Department and the Agency for International Development recently published a series of policy papers on the US approach to transitional justice.

Date published: June 29, 2016"And its odds of winning are high, said Daphne Keller, director of intermediary liability at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, who said many companies have successfully used the CDA as a defense."
Los Angeles Times

Date published: June 29, 2016"“The accused in this case could (and may well) raise . . . First Amendment challenges” to the Twitter ban, Scott Shackelford, a professor of cybersecurity law at Indiana University said in an email. But, he added, “the threatening nature of the Tweets in question” could be used to justify the ban."
The Washington Post