Homi Kharas at Brookings: “World leaders concluded three large agreements last year. Each represents a vision of how to change the world. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development agreed to move from “billions to trillions” of cross-border flows to developing countries.
Date published: March 12, 2016""The devil is in the details, and once you go deeper, you discover these weird legal details you never would have guessed," says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, who focuses on the development of laws and regulations concerning self-driving cars. "The broader social context will shape how those are interpreted. It can mean different things if we really like the technology or if we're really afraid of the technology. We're about to see that play out.""
Date published: March 12, 2016"Robots. Are they people, too?
Science fiction has long consider the legal rights of artificially intelligent beings. But as robots become an increasing presence in our societies and industries, questions about the role of robots in legal decisions, how laws are applied to robots, and the concept of “robot law” itself have begun to emerge.Atlas Obscura
Date published: March 12, 2016"Do machines have rights?The Verge
La Nación y The New York Times, grandes ganadores en los Premios Malofiej de infografía
Los medios fueron galardonados con el premio Best of Show en categorías impresa y digital, respectivamente
Miembros del jurado.
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Kathleen Hickey at GCN: “The Food and Drug Administration is piloting a new system to speed up the premarket review process for new medical devices.
DARPA: “The explosive growth of global digital connectivity has opened new possibilities for designing and conducting social science research. Once limited by practical constraints to experiments involving just a few dozen participants—often university students or other easily available groups—or to correlational studies of large datasets without any opportunity for determining causation, scientists can now engage thousands of diverse volunteers online and explore an expanded range of important topics and questions.
A seis años de ocurrido el terremoto 8.8 que azotó la zona centro sur de Chile, el Centro Sismológico Nacional de la Universidad de Chile realiza un recuento de los cambios que ha experimentado la institucionalidad encargada del monitoreo sísmico del país. El terremoto del 27 de febrero de 2010 sorprendió a los habitantes de nuestro país, las personas ni la institucionalidad de monitoreo sísmico estaban preparadas para experimentar uno de los terremotos más fuertes en la historia del planeta.
Por primera vez en la existencia de este examen, el 100 por ciento de los egresados del plantel que lo completaron fueron aprobados, éxito atribuido por el director de la Escuela de Medicina de la Casa de Bello, Dr. Esteban Cortés, a la mejora de los procesos de aprendizaje y la motivación propia de la generación que cursó el test.El director de la Escuela de Medicina de nuestra institución, Dr.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed its response yesterday to Apple's motion to vacate the court’s order that directed Apple to write new code and certify it to circumvent a security feature configured to prevent access to a device.
This article was first published on The Wire on 6th March 2016. The recommendations for the post-transition ICANN, as they currently stand, change the power dynamics within ICANN. Governments will now get a say in key operational decisions, something that they earlier didn’t have. How much of a say do governments have in the management of the domain […]
This post was written by Manuel Barros Open Government Partnership coordinator at Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente.
Read the full blog in Spanish on the ILDA site.
Date published: March 11, 2016"But driver assistance features increasingly are playing a role, suggesting AI is being employed to fix a problem created by automation.
W Tygodniu Otwartej Edukacji piszemy o prawie cytatu, ważnym postępowaniu przed TSUE i blokowaniu strony, która tylko informuje o programach do nielegalnego ściągania utworów. Ponadto prezentujemy ciekawe artykuły o Marku Twainie, grafice z płyty Dawida Bowie oraz problemach wielkich korporacji: Google i Warner Bros.
Prawo cytatu najlepszym przyjacielem nauczycieli?
Anne Frances Johnson in ThrivingEarthExchange: “In the shadow of a rumbling volcano, Quito, Ecuador solicits just-in-time advice from the world’s disaster experts…
Presented by: Catholic University Columbus School of Law’s Journal of Law & Technology
2016 Journal of Law & Technology Symposium
Cybersecurity and Privacy in the Internet Economy: Information Sharing, Data Security, and Intellectual Property
March 17, 2016
2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
March 17, 2016Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
Presented by: Just Security & The Brennan Center for Justice
Date published: March 10, 2016"Omer Tene, Vice President of Research and Education at the policy-neutral International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), acknowledged in an interview with SCMagazine.com that there is an inherent risk in shifting authority to a new agency because “you lose the guidelines and the standards that the FTC has set forth,” including “more than 150 enforcement actions.”<
With the final two chartering organizations confirming their approval yesterday, the co-chairs of the CCWG-Accountability sent the Final Report to the ICANN Board, which has now been transmitted to the NTIA. Today’s CCWG meeting outlined the work that lies ahead in the upcoming months. Work Stream 1 recommendations will be implemented through the Budget Implementation […]
