In the wake of recent reporting of Facebook’s alleged liberal curation of its trending newsfeed and Sen. John Thune’s subsequent letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking answers about these allegations and demanding a meeting, constitutional scholars, press advocates, and civil libertarians have mobilized the First Amendment in the company’s defense.
Chapter by Roberto da Mota Ueti, Daniela Fernandez Espinosa, Laura Rafferty, Patrick C. K. Hung in Big Data Applications and Use Cases: “Big Data is changing our world with masses of information stored in huge servers spread across the planet. This new technology is changing not only companies but governments as well.
Special issue of Internet Policy Review: “Facing general conceptions of the power effects of big data, this thematic edition is interested in studies that scrutinise big data and power in concrete fields of application. It brings together scholars from different disciplines who analyse the fields agriculture, education, border control and consumer policy. As will be made explicit in the following, each of the articles tells us something about firstly, what big data is and how it relates to power.
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with Michel Bauwens, Founder & Director of the P2P Foundation
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Every 500 years or so, European civilization and now world civilization, has been rocked by fundamental shifts in its value regime, in which the rules of the game for acquiring wealth and livelihoods have dramatically changed. What would be the conditions for the new regime to become autonomous and even dominant, and what are the signs of it happening?
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IPEP16 Workshop: Digital Governance Processes in Ukraine with Dmytro Khutkyy on June 9 in Berlin
Some experts claim that e-democracy in Ukraine is making progress supported by current demographic, technological, and political trends. However, as recent research reveals, perception of the digitization of governance processes in Ukraine differs between different stakeholder groups.
The Email Privacy Act is moving forward in the Senate. S.356, which currently has 28 cosponsors, would require a warrant for stored content -- essentially codifying current law and practice over the last six years. The House passed H.R. 699 overwhelmingly with 314 cosponsors, passing unanimously by a vote of 419-0.Related Topics: Privacy
I'm here at the #ODR2016 conference at the Peace Palace in The Hague. ODR2016 is the annual meeting of the Online Dispute Resolution Forum, an international assembly of lawyers, mediators, technologists, and others who care about technology and dispute resolution. It is cohosted by the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, where I am a fellow.
This liveblog represents a best-efforts account, not a direct transcript, of the lecture, presentation, and/or panel.
Curso reuniu magistrados associados da ENM/AMBA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (Direito Rio), em parceria com a Escola Nacional da Magistratura (ENM) e com a Associação dos Magistrados Brasileiros (AMB), realizou a 10ª edição do Programa de Capacitação em Poder Judiciário. De 16 a 20 de maio, magistrados associados puderam aperfeiçoar suas atividades operacionais e de administração da Justiça em aulas que envolveram temas atuais e de utilidade pública.
Book edited by Mathis, Klaus and Tor, Avishalom: “This anthology provides an in-depth analysis and discusses the issues surrounding nudging and its use in legislation, regulation, and policy making more generally. The 17 essays in this anthology provide startling insights into the multifaceted debate surrounding the use of nudges in European Law and Economics.
El director de la Fundación Carolina, Jesús Ardura y el Embajador de España en Chile, Carlos Fraga, visitaron este 11 de mayo la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile para sostener una reunión con el Rector Ennio Vivaldi. En la ocasión, ambas partes expresaron su intención por profundizar su relación, expresada actualmente en un convenio para la formación de docentes en España."La Universidad de Chile siempre ha sido un socio fundamental para la Fundación Carolina en este país, y en América Latina".
Entre el 23 y el 27 de mayo la Universidad de Chile será parte nuevamente de este encuentro internacional impulsado por la UNESCO, que este año lleva por título "Aprende Creando". La institución, que es la única Universidad que forma parte de la secretaría ejecutiva, reafirma así su compromiso con la educación artística y el aseguramiento del acceso al arte y la cultura.
I'm here at the #ODR2016 conference at the Peace Palace in The Hague. ODR2016 is the annual meeting of the Online Dispute Resolution Forum, an international assembly of lawyers, mediators, technologists, and others who care about technology and dispute resolution. It is cohosted by the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, where I am a fellow.
This liveblog represents a best-efforts account, not a direct transcript, of the lecture, presentation, and/or panel.
In a third study on the phenomenon «hacktivism» the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) was mainly concerned with potential threats posed by «shitstorms» and information campaigns – and thus with generally legitimate expressions... MORE
I'm here at the #ODR2016 conference at the Peace Palace in The Hague. ODR2016 is the annual meeting of the Online Dispute Resolution Forum, an international assembly of lawyers, mediators, technologists, and others who care about technology and dispute resolution. It is cohosted by the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, where I am a fellow.
This liveblog represents a best-efforts account, not a direct transcript, of the lecture, presentation, and/or panel.
Guest Post by Julian Carver
Julian Carver was the acting Chief Information Officer at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) until June 2012. From March 2013 – April 2015 he led the Canterbury Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Programme at Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), a $5m investment in a set of tech projects to support the $40 billion Christchurch rebuild.
The Facebook Trending Topics controversy has been analyzed from many angles, but there's been virtually no attention paid to the single most troubling aspect of the story: a Senate inquiry into Facebook's editorial decision-making process. My Slate column on the issue is here.
Notice something a little different? We have had a change of name!
As of today, we officially move from being called “Open Knowledge” to “Open Knowledge International (OKI)”.
“Open Knowledge International” is the name by which the community groups have referred to us for a couple of years, conveying our role in supporting the groups around the world, as well as our role within the broader open knowledge movement globally. We are excited to announce our new name that reflects this.
Which companies are using Open Data, and how are they related?
The GovLab Embarks to Expand Open Data 500 Study in Collaboration with Graduate Business School of Columbia University
