Other News from Participating Centers

On the “Open Data Day 2016” wave – Burkina Faso

This blog post was written by Justin Yarga. 

A modest day, but a rich day: Open Data Day in Burkina Faso has helped advance the uptake open data by the open data ecosystem and also helped explore new areas for opening up data. And this time, it is the health sector that was the subject of focus for the open data activists’ community. Let’s go back over a day of discussions and heated debates around open data.

On the “Open Data Day 2016” wave – Burkina Faso

This blog post was written by Justin Yarga. 
A modest day, but a rich day: Open Data Day in Burkina Faso has helped advance the uptake open data by the open data ecosystem and also helped explore new areas for opening up data. And this time, it is the health sector that was the subject of focus for the open data activists’ community. Let’s go back over a day of discussions and heated debates around open data.

Simposio de Segurança Informatica e Cibercrime

No próximo dia 12 de Maio 2016, o Instituto Politécnico de Beja através do seu Lab UbiNet, organiza o VII Simposio de Segurança Informatica e Cibercrime.
Este ano o tema objecto de múltiplas reflexões será o: Ciberterrorismo.
O CIJIC – agradecendo a honra do convite feito pelo IPBeja – estará presente na edição deste ano, com a participação dos Professores Eduardo Vera-Cruz Pinto e Raquel Alexandra Brízida Castro.
O programa do simpósio em http://ubinet.ipbeja.pt/simsic2016/programa.html.

Stellen als SHK am Lehrstuhl des ITM zu vergeben

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht,Zivilrechtliche Abteilung werden ab dem 1.7.2016
Studentische Hilfskräfte (m/w)

mit einer Arbeitszeit von 5 Stunden / Woche gesucht.
Die Einstellung ist befristet. Eine längere Zusammenarbeit ist erwünscht.

Profiling and targeting in the Internet of Things - A new challenge for consumer protection

In: Digital Revolution: Challenges for Contract Law in Practice, R. Schulze & D. Staudenmayer (eds.), Baden Baden: Nomos, p. 135-161.

Governance by Algorithms: Reality Construction by Algorithmic Selection on the Internet

Paper by Natascha Just & Michael Latzer in Media, Culture & Society (fortcoming): “This paper explores the governance by algorithms in information societies. Theoretically, it builds on (co-)evolutionary innovation studies in order to adequately grasp the interplay of technological and societal change, and combines these with institutional approaches to incorporate governance by technology or rather software as institutions.

Right to Criticise: Urdu writers and the Curious Case of the ‘Loyalty form’

By Aishwarya Ayushmaan Recently, reports emerged in the media regarding the requirement of a ‘loyalty form’ from Urdu authors and editors whose works were acquired for bulk purchase by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL). The NCPUL, which operates under the Ministry of Human Resource Development and is chaired by Central HRD […]

U. de Chile comienza construcción de su primera cámara hiperbárica

El nuevo aparato que ofrece tratar diversas patologías a través de la oxigenoterapia en un ambiente presurizado, es una iniciativa conjunta de la Facultad de Medicina, el Servicio de Salud Metropolitano Sur y la empresa Osorio Hermanos, compañía metalmecánica que donó la cámara que estará ubicada en el Campus Sur de Medicina, vinculado al Hospital Barros Luco Trudeau en San Miguel.Una cápsula hermética que genera condiciones de presión tan altas como las que experimentan los buzos cuando están en las profundidades del mar, y que permite una terapia

Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile conmemora semana santa con obras de Mozart

La última creación del afamado compositor será interpretada el martes 22, miércoles 23 y jueves 24 de marzo a las 19:40 horas en el Teatro Universidad de Chile, junto al Coro Sinfónico de la Casa de Bello.Tras dirigir el concierto de apertura de temporada, el destacado maestro austriaco Martin Sieghart tomará nuevamente la batuta de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, agrupación que conmemorará Semana Santa con un concierto especial en el que interpretará el "Réquiem en re menor", del reconocido compositor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, y la "Sinfonía N°8 Inc

Profesor Emérito fue elegido como Premio Nacional de Medicina 2016

El Dr. Manuel García de los Ríos, médico internista de la Universidad de Chile, fue uno de los fundadores de la primera Unidad de Diabetes con que contó el país en 1954, académico, investigador y formador de decenas de especialistas en diabetes tanto en Chile como en Latinoamérica. El próximo 28 de abril se realizará la ceremonia de entrega de la distinción.

U. de Chile dictará programas de libre acceso en plataforma Coursera

La Facultad de Economía y Negocios dictará dos programas durante el 2016 a través de este portal de cursos libres de nivel universitario, siendo la primera experiencia de la Casa de Bello en este sitio."América Latina y Cambio Internacional: Amenazas y Oportunidades" y "El reto de la innovación en la educación superior", son los cursos que la Universidad de Chile, a través de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios, dictará desde hoy 21 de marzo mediante Coursera, la mayor plataforma de cur

Profesor británico enseñará método actoral de M. Douglas y S. Bullock

El destacado productor y director de cine Stephen Bayly, estará entre el 4 y el 22 de abril en la Universidad de Chile impartiendo el "Taller de Actuación y Dirección según técnicas de Sanford Meisner", gracias a la alianza entre el Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI) y el British Council.Algo que tienen en común los destacados actores Sandra Bullock, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Paul Newman y los fallecidos James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Truman Capote), es haberse perfeccionado bajo la técnica actoral de Sanford Meiser;<

Knowledge Unbound

MIT Press: “Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship.

RightsCon 2016: Who is an Intermediary? Harmonizing multiple definitions

April 1, 2016San Francisco

RightsCon 2016: Online Hate Speech: Identification and Strategies

This session will bring together people who are concerned about different facets of hate speech (which we see as including gendered hate speech). The object is to get a diversity of stakeholders to speak candidly with each other about online hate speech. The discussion will focus on contentious issues like, anonymity, privacy, and jurisdictional concerns that come up in the context of legal intervention.

SpeakersMarch 31, 2016San Francisco

RightsCon 2016: Jurisdiction and Extraterritoriality in a Connected World

This session will explore jurisdiction in an increasingly post-Westphalian paradigm. Ideas of territorial jurisdiction are being tested (and brought into question) in an increasingly connected online world.March 30, 2016San Francisco

Workshop Direito Global: Tecnologia, Comércio e Negócios

Workshop Direito Global: Tecnologia, Comércio e Negócios08h50 até 18h00O Evento: O Centro de Justiça e Sociedade (CJUS) e o programa de Mestrado em Regulação da FGV Direito Rio convidam para o workshop sobre Direito Global, com a participação de professores e pesquisadores da FGV DIREITO RIO, HEC (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris) e do Centro Perelman da Universidade Livre de Bruxelas.

Woman Alleges Harassment at Major International Conference

A prospective lawyer's name tag was flipped, and she was asked rude questions by a CEO at a conference, where, ironically enough, she was invited to devise sexual harassment policies.

The article by Kavita Patil  was published in Bangalore Mirror on March 30, 2016.

Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information

The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 30 March 2016 at 17:38PM I was asked by my colleague and friend Oliver Belcher to act as a discussant in a session that he put together at the 2016 meeting of the Association of American Geographers: ‘Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information’. The session contained… Continue Reading → [...]

Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information

GeoNet Project on 30 March 2016 at 17:37PM I was asked by my colleague and friend Oliver Belcher to act as a discussant in a session that he put together at the 2016 meeting of the Association of American Geographers: ‘Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information’. The session contained a set of truly excellent and provocative talks by Louise Amoore, Matthew Hannah, Patrick McHaffie,… Read [...]