SEMINÁRIO: As Novas Fronteiras de Política Regulatória13h00 até 17h30O Evento: O programa de Mestrado em Regulação e o Centro de Justiça e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio organizam, em parceria com a Universidade de Leiden, o “Seminário sobre as Novas Fronteiras de Política Regulatória”.
Ben Miller at Government Technology: “Government produces a lot of data — reams of it, roomfuls of it, rivers of it. It comes in from citizen-submitted forms, fleet vehicles, roadway sensors and traffic lights. It comes from utilities, body cameras and smartphones. It fills up servers and spills into the cloud. It’s everywhere.
Recommendation #5: The next post in our series tracking the development of the CCWG Accountability Proposal is on Recommendation #5: Changing Aspects of ICANN’s Mission, Commitment and Core Values. The CCWG Accountability through Recommendation 5, proposed changes to the ICANN bylaws to ensure that the ICANN Bylaws reflect the measures proposed in the recommendations of […]
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BIPLA Presents Riana Pfefferkorn: "Apple vs. the FBI: Where Does It Come From? What Is It? Where Is It Going?"
Monday March 7th
12:45pm-1:45pm - 170 Boalt Hall
Lunch will be servedMarch 7, 2016Berkeley Law
"Las decisiones del mañana son ahora". Bajo ese lema se desarrolló la quinta versión del Congreso del Futuro organizado por el Senado de la República en conjunto con otras instituciones y en el que la Universidad de Chile cumplió un rol fundamental. El encuentro, que tuvo una duración de seis días, contó con más de cuarenta actividades vinculadas a la ciencia, tecnología, humanidades y sociedad.La U.
El académico del College de France, Jean-Pierre Changeux, recibió de manos del Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, la medalla que lo distingue con el grado de Doctor Honoris Causa de la institución, reconocimiento que se le otorgó en virtud de su extensa y sobresaliente trayectoria en el ámbito de la neurociencia y por su labor como director de la Unidad de Neurobiología Molecular del Instituto Pasteur.“Es un privilegio tener con nosotros al profesor Jean-Pierre Changeux”.
Directivos e integrantes del Hospital José Joaquín Aguirre se reunieron para planificar su trabajo académico, cita en la que participaron autoridades universitarias -entre ellos el Rector Vivaldi-, del Ministerio de Salud y de la Facultad de Medicina.
To celebrate the launch of SCRIPTed 3.0 we are running a photo competition, where the three winners will have their pictures used on the cover of our 2016 issues. See the poster below for more information. Note that the deadline
Book edited by Fiona Spotswood: “‘Behaviour change’ has become a buzz phrase of growing importance to policymakers and researchers. There is an increasing focus on exploring the relationship between social organisation and individual action, and on intervening to influence societal outcomes like population health and climate change. Researchers continue to grapple with methodologies, intervention strategies and ideologies around ‘social change’.
Speech by David Fricker, the director general of the National Archives of Australia: “No-one can deny that we are in an age of information abundance. More and more we rely on information from a variety of sources and channels. Digital information is seductive, because it’s immediate, available and easy to move around. But digital information can be used for nefarious purposes. Social issues can be at odds with processes of government in this digital age. There is a tension between what is the information, where it comes from and how it’s going to be used.
Yesterday, the Delhi High Court granted interim bail of six months to JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar. Until the bail order, Kanhaiya was in judicial custody for his alleged role in sloganeering at the JNU campus on the anniversary of Afzal Guru’s death on February 9. While the decision to grant bail comes as […]
The Convention on Cybercrime or Budapest Convention is the only binding multilateral treaty instrument aimed at combating cybercrime. It was drafted by the Council of Europe with active participation from its observer states in 2001. The Convention provides a framework for international cooperation between state parties to the treaty. It is open for ratification even […]
Policy and Internet Blog on 3 March 2016 at 09:19AM We recently announced the start of an exciting new research project that will involve the use of topic modelling in understanding the patterns in submitted stories to the Everyday Sexism website. Here, we briefly explain our text analysis approach, “topic modelling”. At its very core, topic modelling is a technique that seeks to automatically [...]
Date published: March 3, 2016"On Thursday, a group of those iPhone hackers and other security researchers filed an amicus brief siding with Apple in its intensifying legal battle over the FBI’s court order to assist in cracking an encrypted iPhone that belonged to San Bernadino killer Syed Rizwan Farook.Wired
Date published: March 3, 2016"Barbara van Schewick, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and a leading expert on net neutrality, argues that Stream TV contravenes the FCC’s open internet policy because Comcast is engaging in economic discrimination, through zero-rating, and technical discrimination, by giving its own video service preferential treatment.
W odpowiedzi na zaproszenie Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego do udziału w pracach nad wdrożeniem do polskiego porządku prawnego dyrektywy Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady 2014/26/UE z dnia 26 lutego 2014 r.
Right now, all eyes are on Riverside, California, where a federal magistrate judge issued an unprecedented and dangerous order to Apple on February 16 compelling the company to create and cryptographically sign a special, crippled version of its iOS software that disables certain iPhone security features.