Policy and Internet Blog on 31 May 2016 at 08:26AM As Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism project, has recently highlighted, “it seems to be increasingly difficult to talk about sexism, equality, and women’s rights” (Everyday Sexism Project, 2015). With many theorists suggesting that we have entered a so-called “post-feminist” era in which gender equality has been achieved (cf. McRobbie, [...]
Mark Graham on 30 May 2016 at 18:38PM We’ve pulled together a fantastic group of papers for the upcoming DSA meeting in Oxford:ConvenorsRichard Heeks (University of Manchester) emailMark Graham (University of Oxford) emailBen Ramalingam (Institute of Development Studies) emailShort AbstractCovers the broad intersection of power, politics and digital development including both [...]
Paper by Richard Smith and Ian Roberts: “Data are more valuable than scientific papers but researchers are incentivised to publish papers not share data.
Un grupo de alumnos de la carrera de Arquitectura está realizando su seminario de investigación en materia de patrimonio y recuperación del adobe en la comuna de Canela -Región de Coquimbo-, en coordinación con el Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales.
"Universidades Estatales para el desarrollo de Chile" es el titulo del texto que este lunes 16 de mayo presentó el Rector de la Universidad de Chile y presidente del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi. El libro -que puede ser revisado en su versión digital- compila los más de 200 proyectos que estos planteles están realizando a lo largo del país.
El sábado 14 de mayo el Rector Ennio Vivaldi entregó al ministro de Medio Ambiente, Pablo Badenier, un informe a través del cual se oficializó la solicitud para convertir los terrenos universitarios de dicho lugar -ubicados en el sector Rinconada de Maipú- en Santuario de la Naturaleza. La iniciativa apunta a proteger legalmente las 1.100 hectáreas de un ecosistema que durante los últimos años se vio afectado por faenas mineras clandestinas.
Margareth Cleveland, coordinadora de Prácticas Sociales de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN), plantea que resulta crucial que los profesionales que hoy formas las instituciones de educación superior tengan un sello ético en cada una de sus disciplinas respecto al impacto que ellos generan desde su quehacer.
The GDPR and the Police Directive explained
Vanya Rakesh will attend the Internet law course organized by the University of Geneva from 20 June 2016 to 1 July 2016 as part of the Geneva Summer School.
Study Internet Law in Geneva, where the World Wide Web was born!
Topics that will be covered include cybersecurity, digital privacy and online surveillance, free speech, consumer protection, legal issues of social media, dangers of cloud computing, Internet and telecom infrastructure, intellectual property, antitrust, and much more...
Rohini Lakshané, Amber Sinha and Vidushi Marda have been selected to attend the two-day Young Scholars' Programme to be held in Zanzibar, Tanzania in early September this year. The programme is a part of the CPRSouth conference.
Read the original announcement published by CPRSouth here.
Rohini Lakshané and Anubha Sinha attended this conference held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on May 18, 2016. The event was organized by CMAI.
Tracing the discursive effects of cyber – new paper by CIHR researchers
CC BY-SA 2.0 by Melanie Twele
We are participating for the first time at the Long Night of the Sciences on 11 June and prepared an exciting programme for you: Learn about copycats, memes, digital disobedience... MORE
In India, proposed legislation to ban use of maps or satellite images of the country without approval from the government has led to an outcry and triggered an online campaign called “Save The Map.”
The article by Anjana Pasricha was published in Voice of America on May 17, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Living in democracy has been blessing to all of us born post 1947 but certain questions keep surfacing. Since you are the highest seat in the hierarchy of judicial system therefore the onus lies with you to clear the haze and allow the citizens respite from their doubts.
The article by Alka Vasudeva was published in State Times on May 19, 2016. Pranesh Prakash's blog post was mentioned.
A cyber espionage group attacked an Indian IT firm that provides support to India’s largest stock exchange. It’s one of many attacks in the recent past.
The blog post by Rohit Pathak was published in the Quint on May 21, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Rakshit Malik, 18, has every reason to be pleased with himself. He just scored 96.4% in his Class 12 exam -the third-highest score in CBSE's disabled category.
The article was published by the Times of India on May 29, 2016. Nirmita Narasimhan gave inputs.
Book edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis: “Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation, coordinate disaster relief, campaign for policy change, and strengthen local advocacy groups. The world watched as activists used social media to organize protests during the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution.
Indians are discussing a plan to ban use of maps or satellite images of the country without approval from the government.
