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Attorneys Joust Over Copyright Law's Legacy

Date published: May 13, 2016"Attorney Andrew Bridges with Fenwick & West said adjudication is the only fair way to handle accusations that can lead to being kicked off the Internet. 
"Who decides who's an infringer? There's only one competent authority to decide who's an infringer and that's a court. 

Supreme Court finds Criminal Defamation Constitutional

Written by Nakul Nayak Today, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court found criminal defamation as constitutionally valid. Recall that the Supreme Court had reserved judgment in this matter in August last year after extensive hearings. Leaders from across the political divide, including Subramanian Swamy, Arvind Kejriwal, and Rahul Gandhi, filed these petitions challenging sections […]

Towards a Modern Approach to Privacy-Aware Government Data Releases

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VIDEO: MONROE E. PRICE & THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES: CELEBRATING THE FOUNDING DECADE AND DIRECTOR EVENT

With an introduction by Dean Michael Delli Carpini, panelists Stefaan Verhulst, Krisztina Rozgonyi, Amelia Arsenault, Christian Sandvig, and Julia Sonnevend discussed Monroe’s impact on research and scholarship at Penn and beyond.      Throughout the last decade, Monroe Price, the founding...

Supreme Court to pronounce judgment on Criminal Defamation tomorrow

Originally posted on Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi: A Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla Pant is hearing a set of at least thirty petitions challenging the constitutional validity of criminal defamation (Sections 499 and 500 of IPC and section 199 of CrPC). The summary of hearings from the…

Insights On Collective Problem-Solving: Complexity, Categorization And Lessons From Academia

Part 3 of an interview series by Henry Farrell for the MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance: “…Complexity theorists have devoted enormous energy and attention to thinking about how complex problems, in which different factors interact in ways that are hard to predict, can best be solved.

New project launched: SafeDroneWare

Started on April 1st, 2016

Exploring the boundaries of Big Data

Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2016, 286 pp.
ISBN: 9789462983588.

Introduction: Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data

In: Exploring the boundaries of Big Data, B. van der Sloot, D. Broeders & E. Schrijvers (eds.), Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2016, pp. 11-23.

The Individual in the Big Data Era: Moving towards an Agent-Based Privacy Paradigm

In: Exploring the boundaries of Big Data, B. van der Sloot, D. Broeders & E. Schrijvers (eds.), Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2016, pp. 177-203.

Intrapreneurship lessons learned – established companies and spin-offs

Large enterprises lack the ability to create disruptive innovation in grown organizational structures. Therefore, companies establish new spaces for employees with entrepreneurial spirit. This article focuses on opportunities, obstacles and... MORE

International and comparative legal study on Big Data

WRR-rapport, working paper 20, ISBN 9789490186296.

Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.

Mark Graham on 12 May 2016 at 12:37PM In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on online platforms that house facts about much of the world. We did this by analyzing representations of Jerusalem across the Arabic, Hebrew and English versions of Wikipedia (working with a translator on [...]

Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.

Mark Graham on 12 May 2016 at 12:37PM In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on online platforms that house facts about much of the world. We did this by analyzing representations of Jerusalem across the Arabic, Hebrew and English versions of Wikipedia (working with a translator on [...]

Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.

The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 12 May 2016 at 12:17PM In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on online platforms that house facts about much of the world. We did this by analyzing representations… Continue Reading → [...]

CNCA invita al debate y reflexión sobre el patrimonio en Chile

Tras encuentros sostenidos en Arica y Parinacota, Los Lagos y La Araucanía, este viernes 6 de mayo será el turno de la Región Metropolitana. La sesión local del Coloquio "El Patrimonio ¿bien común o bien de mercado?" se realizará en el Salón de Honor de la Universidad de Chile.

U. de Chile capacitará en astronomía a profesores de enseñanza básica

Cómo se forman los planetas, por qué hay vida en la Tierra y de qué manera influye la fuerza de gravedad sobre nuestras vidas son algunos de las interrogantes que los docentes aprenderán a responder en este programa de actualización de conocimientos.

NIC Chile celebró el medio millón de dominios .CL

La entidad conmemoró este hito en una ceremonia en la que se repasó su historia y evolución, destacando el trabajo realizado por la Universidad de Chile en el desarrollo de la internet en nuestro país.En marzo pasado, el registro de nombres de dominio .CL, NIC Chile, alcanzó el medio millón de inscritos, lo que constituye un hito en la historia del desarrollo de la Internet en nuestro país.

How SecureDrop helps CPJ protect journalists

Author(s): Geoffrey KingTom LowenthalPublication Date: May 12, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing

Workplace innovation in the public sector

Eurofound: “Innovative organisational practices in the workplace, which aim to make best use of human capital, are traditionally associated with the private sector. The nature of the public sector activities makes it more difficult to identify these types of internal innovation in publicly funded organisations.