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Betere waarborgen voor de werkwijze van inlichtingendiensten

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Inlichtingendiensten spelen een belangrijke rol bij het waarborgen van de rechtsstaat. Zij zorgen er mede voor dat fundamentele rechten worden gehandhaafd. Tegelijkertijd beschikken deze diensten over bijzondere bevoegdheden waartegenover bijzondere waarborgen moeten staan. In de groeiende informatiesamenleving wordt meer en meer digitale informatie gegenereerd. Informatie waar inlichtingendiensten meer en meer geïnteresseerd in zijn. Dit creëert nieuwe dilemma’s.

Het Schrems/Facebook-arrest en de gevolgen voor internationale doorgifte

De overdracht van persoonsgegevens naar de Verenigde Staten vond tot voor kort plaats op basis van de zogenoemde Safe Harbourbeschikking. Het Hof heeft die beschikking een paar maanden geleden ongeldig verklaard. Dit is een uitspraak met serieuze gevolgen voor de doorgifte van persoonsgegevens buiten Europa en voor privacybescherming in het algemeen. Wat is de redenering van het Hof van Justitie en wat zijn de gevolgen?

Court upholds FCC net neutrality rules

"In a 2-1 ruling, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules that regulators. In a statement, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the ruling “ensures the internet remains a platform for unparalled innovation, free expression and economic growth.” RT America correspondent Manila Chan reports that the DC Circuit Court upheld the ruling despite heavy resistance from the telecom industry.

T-Mobile adds PBS, other partners to Binge On

Date published: June 14, 2016""Binge On allows some providers to join easily and creates lasting barriers for others, especially small players, non-commercial providers, and start-ups," Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick wrote earlier this year. "As such, the program harms competition, user choice, free expression, and innovation.""
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Is artificial intelligence key to dengue prevention?

BreakDengue: “Dengue fever outbreaks are increasing in both frequency and magnitude. Not only that, the number of countries that could potentially be affected by the disease is growing all the time.

Estonia Is Demonstrating How Government Should Work in a Digital World

Motherboard: “In May, Manu Sporny became the 10,000th “e-Resident” of Estonia. Sporny, the founder and CEO of a digital payments and identity company located in the United States, has never set foot in Estonia. However, he heard about the country’s e-Residency program and decided it would be an obvious choice for his company’s European headquarters.

Why India should keep an eye on Europe

Date published: June 13, 2016"“The law is neither with the telecom companies nor with the activists. It has been overcomplicated and could be interpreted either way,” says Thomas Lohninger, an activist who is a part of the savetheinternet.eu campaign which has nearly 22 digital rights organisations across Europe under its ambit.The Hindu

OpenSpending Next – Now available as Alpha version

We’re happy to announce that a new, improved version of OpenSpending is now being launched as an Alpha Version. OpenSpending Next provides a set of tools enabling users to visualise, analyse and publish budget and spending data – all based on the open Fiscal Data Package standard.
OpenSpending Next is designed, developed and maintained by Open Knowledge International and, as an open source project, also reflects the very valuable contributions of an active, passionate and committed community.

Comunidad reflexionó sobre expedientes de sumarios en dictadura

Como parte del ciclo de charlas "Diálogos en torno al Archivo", organizado por el Archivo Central Andrés Bello, se realizó el pasado 27 de mayo la mesa de debate "El saber y el poder en la Universidad de Chile intervenida: Los expedientes de investigaciones sumarias en Dictadura (1973-1983)". En la ocasión se conversó sobre la importancia de estos documentos históricos para comprender mejor los efectos cotidianos de la intervención que sufrió la institución tras el golpe de Estado.

Departamento de Teatro abre sus escenarios a proyectos de egresados

Por tercer año consecutivo, la Unidad de Extensión de dicho Departamento de la Facultad de Artes está realizando el Ciclo de Creadores Egresados de Morandé 750, encuentro que busca ser una plataforma para visibilizar el trabajo de artistas formados en la institución. Siete montajes se estarán presentando a lo largo de este año en las salas Agustín Siré y Sergio Aguirre.La Unidad de Extensión del Departamento de Teatro de la Universidad de Chile (Detuch) presenta por tercer año consecutivo el Ciclo de Creadores Egresados de Morandé 750.

Universidad de Chile vuelve a exhibir cine en Casa Central

El próximo 7 junio el Cineteca de la Universidad de Chile inaugurará la "Sala Sazié", espacio formativo que busca contribuir a la construcción de espectadores críticos exhibiendo cada martes películas sin cabida en los espacios actualmente existentes.

Think big, start small, move fast. Otwarta kultura feat. Michael Edson

W miniony weekend mieliśmy przyjemność gościć u siebie Michaela P. Edsona, który był pierwszym dyrektorem działu do spraw Sieci i Strategii Nowych Mediów w Smithsonian Institution. Obecnie zaś zajmuje się wspieraniem instytucji kultury, w tym zwłaszcza muzeów, w procesie wypracowywania strategicznego myślenia o wykorzystaniu technologii oraz projektowaniu rozwoju i przyszłości instytucji, z uwzględnieniem zmieniających się potrzeb użytkowników.

Think big, start small, move fast. Otwarta kultura feat. Michael Edson

W miniony weekend mieliśmy przyjemność gościć u siebie Michaela P. Edsona, który był pierwszym dyrektorem działu do spraw Sieci i Strategii Nowych Mediów w Smithsonian Institution. Obecnie zaś zajmuje się wspieraniem instytucji kultury, w tym zwłaszcza muzeów, w procesie wypracowywania strategicznego myślenia o wykorzystaniu technologii oraz projektowaniu rozwoju i przyszłości instytucji, z uwzględnieniem zmieniających się potrzeb użytkowników.

Call for Questions: Help Shape the Open Data Research Agenda

The 2016 Open Data Research Symposium (#ODRS16) is crowd-sourcing questions that if answered could radically increase our understanding of open data

Data Driven Criminal Justice Projects Coaching Program Launches This Week: Online Mentoring to Support Public Interest Entrepreneurs

With a dramatic rise in the numbers in prison, there is bipartisan support – and a major White House push — for improving public safety while reducing incarceration and making our criminal justice system fairer. A key tool in the movement for criminal justice reform is the ability to use data to understand where problems lie and to develop and test new solutions.

Berkman Center & Harvard Global Health Institute Host Conference on Access to Medicines & Innovation

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Today, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society will bring together more than sixty leaders from the pharmaceutical industry, foundations, civil society, academia, and government for a conference to develop actionable solutions for increasing access to medicines and promoting innovation to help the world’s poor. 

NTU breaks into Asia’s Top Three

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Is it Hate or Terrorism?

Date published: June 13, 2016""It's easy for people to be selective about the incidents and evidence they choose to fit the narrative they're putting forth," says University at Albany public administration professor Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst with the New York State office of Counterterrorism. Nussbaum sees the Orlando event as both a hate crime and a terror attack – but politicians with widely divergent bases of political support are parsing the issue."

Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?

 at ArsTechnica: “In 1836, Anthony Panizzi, who later became principal librarian of the British Museum, gave evidence before a parliamentary select committee. At that time, he was only first assistant librarian, but even then he had an ambitious vision for what would one day became the British Library.

Code and the City

Book edited by Rob Kitchin, Sung-Yueh Perng: “Software has become essential to the functioning of cities.