Por su aporte en materia de liderazgo social y en reconocimiento a su trayectoria impulsando la valoración de la mujer, Carmen Andrade, directora de la Oficina de Igualdad de Oportunidades de Género de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Chile, recibió el Premio Elena Caffarena 2016. Junto con ella, tres egresadas obtuvieron este reconocimiento en otras categorías.
Almost 3 years have passed since the government of Myanmar initiated its connectivity building plan, in the context of an unprecedented period of political reforms. As detailed in the recently published paper, Digitalizing Myanmar: Connectivity Developments in Political Transitions, Myanmar...
Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew Young at the GovLab: “Today, in “Open Data Impact: When Demand and Supply Meet,” the GovLab and Omidyar Network release key findings about the social, economic, cultural and political impact of open data. The findings are based on 19 detailed case studies of open data projects from around the world.
Colum Lynch at Foreign Policy: “Can the wizards of Silicon Valley develop a set of killer apps to monitor the fragile Syria cease-fire without putting foreign boots on the ground in one of the world’s most dangerous countries?
Paper by Michael J. Burstein and Fiona Murray: “Innovation prizes in reality are significantly different from innovation prizes in theory. The former are familiar from popular accounts of historical prizes like the Longitude Prize: the government offers a set amount for a solution to a known problem, like £20,000 for a method of calculating longitude at sea. The latter are modeled as compensation to inventors in return for donating their inventions to the public domain.
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to join with the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and TechNet to host a Forum on Data Privacy.
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Nathaniel Mason, Clare Cummings and Julian Doczi for ODI insights: “To solve sustainable development challenges, such as the provision of universal access to basic services, we need new ideas, as well as old ideas applied in new ways and new places.
The mixture of editorial and advertising content in television and on platforms like YouTube is a phenomenon that can widely be observed. Acording to laws this seperation is obligatory at... MORE
Special Issue of The Economist: “…The way these candidates are fighting their campaigns,each in his own way, is proof that politics as usual is no longer an option. The internet and the availability of huge piles of data on everyone and everything are transforming the democratic process, just as they are upending many industries.
Book by Elad Yom-Tov: “Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American Internet users have logged on to ask questions like these.
This blogpost was written by Pauline Roche, MD of voluntary sector infrastructure support agency, RnR Organisation, co-organiser Open Mercia, co-Chair West Midlands Open Data Forum, steering group member Open Data Institute (ODI) Birmingham node, founder Data in Brum
W tym tygodniu piszemy o wyrokach w sprawie wykorzystania zdjęcia Miłosza przez bibliotekę oraz 8-sekundowego nagrania z meczu krykieta. Ponadto prezentujemy raport Komisji Europejskiej nt. geoblockingu, historię repozytorium Sci-Hub, dyskusję wokół prawnoautorskiej ochrony Star Treka i krzyżówek oraz o potędze wolnych licencji.
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Why a programme that both the Congress and the BJP have hailed as transformational has divided Parliament this week? The Aadhaar Bill which was passed this week aims at facilitating government benefits and subsidies to citizens said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
from the sliding-down-the-slippery-slope-to-disaster dept
The blog post was published by Tech Dirt on March 22, 2016. CIS research on Aadhaar was quoted.
Critics say the Aadhaar Bill does not address concerns over privacy, even as government is rushing the Bill without adequate parliamentary scrutiny.
The blog post by Anumeha Yadav was published in Scroll.in on March 11, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Paper by Ines Mergel for IBM Center for the Business of Government: “While much of the federal government lags behind, some agencies are pioneers in the internal use of social media tools. What lessons and effective practices do they have to offer other agencies?
Author(s): Giancarlo FrosioPublication Date: March 23, 2016Publication Type: Academic WritingIn the last two decades, the industry has deployed endlessly the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy. Recently, the “digital threat” discourse called for enhanced liability of online intermediaries, especially those whose platforms may be used to infringe copyright. This short paper shows that the “digital threat” discourse is based on shaky grounds. Two related arguments might run against this approach.
The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 23 March 2016 at 20:37PM Consider submitting a paper to our panel at the Development Studies Association conference in Oxford (Sept 12-14). Power, politics and digital development Convenors Richard Heeks (University of Manchester) Mark Graham (University of Oxford) Ben Ramalingam (Institute of Development Studies) Short… Continue Reading → [...]
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What's all this hullaballo about encryption? What's the latest in the FBI's ongoing dispute with Apple over encrypted iPhones? What's at stake? What could happen next? Find out all this and more at April's
Privacy Lab!
Our Speaker will be Riana Pfefferkorn:April 27, 2016San Francisco
