Global Public Interest is a difficult term to define. Any attempt to define it has always been met with resistance, or dissatisfaction. Yet, it features prominently in ICANN’s universe – through its bylaws, documents and contracts. In this post, I recapitulate the discussions surrounding global public interest within ICANN’s remit, the subject of a high […]
We read the news, send photos and shop online. Only our interactions with state authorities still largely take place offline. In certain countries, such as Estonia, there has been more... MORE
Wikidata aims to create a multilingual free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It provides data in all the languages of the Wikimedia projects, and allows for the central access to data in a similar vein as Wikimedia Commons does for multimedia files, it is also used by many other websites.
My recently completed article presents steps that governments can take now to encourage the development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. After providing technical and legal context, it describes key administrative, legal, and community strategies. It concludes by urging policymakers to facilitate automated driving in part by expecting more from today’s drivers and vehicles.
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The government is confident that the Aadhaar Bill will be passed.
The article by Shreeja Sen was published by Livemint on March 9, 2016. Pranesh Prakash gave inputs.
Paper by John Prpić : “New techniques leveraging IT-mediated crowds such as Crowdsensing, Situated Crowdsourcing, Spatial Crowdsourcing, and Wearables Crowdsourcing have now materially emerged. These techniques, here termed next generation Crowdsourcing, serve to extend Crowdsourcing efforts beyond the heretofore dominant desktop computing paradigm. Employing new configurations of hardware, software, and people, these techniques represent new forms of organization for IT-mediated crowds.
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The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 22 March 2016 at 14:14PM I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project looked at the role that changing connectivity in East Africa was having on three sectors of the… Continue Reading → [...]
GeoNet Project on 22 March 2016 at 14:13PM I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project looked at the role that changing connectivity in East Africa was having on three sectors of the economy: tea, tourism, and business process outsourcing (BPO). This paper, written with Laura Mann, [...]
Rozszerzony zbiorowy zarząd prawami autorskimi i prawami pokrewnymi (extended collective licensing, ECL) to instytucja prawna, która poszerza krąg uprawnionych reprezentowanych przez organizację zbiorowego zarządzania (OZZ). Umowy zawierane przez OZZ objętą systemem ECL obejmują nie tylko członków OZZ i osoby, które wyraźnie powierzyły swoje prawa tej OZZ, ale ponadto – z mocy prawa – wszystkich innych uprawnionych z danego rodzaju.
Dan Flynn at Food Safety News: “The crowdsourcing site iwaspoisoned.com has collected thousands of reports of foodborne illnesses from individuals across the United States since 2009 and is expanding with a custom alert service for state health departments.
Reuben Binns in the Conversation: “Data can’t be racist or sexist, but the way it is used can help reinforce discrimination. The internet means more data is collected about us than ever before and it is used to make automatic decisions that can hugely affect our lives, from our credit scores to our employment opportunities.
Gustavo Ron: "Haced siempre lo que de verdad queráis hacer"
El director y guionista dio una sesión en el Máster en Guión Audiovisual
22/03/16 12:56
Amaia Urra
La Universidad sobresale en ocho áreas de conocimiento, según el ranking internacional de QS
QS World University Rankings by Subject ha evaluado 4.226 universidades de todo el mundo
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22/03/16 10:51
Blanca Rodríguez
Date published: March 22, 2016"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that these new government decryption capabilities are not good for privacy and ever-expanding government surveillance.Ars Technica
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: March 22, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels highlight an important dilemma for the European Union. Over the past two decades, the E.U. has made it much easier for people to travel across borders, especially among countries which had signed the Schengen agreement.
Date published: March 22, 2016"Critics like the EFF and Stanford Professor Barbara van Schewick argue that the program violates net neutrality by putting some companies (and now some porn providers) at a distinct disadvantage, but T-Mobile have countered by arguing that consumers (and now content partners) can opt out of the program at any time."
