Tina Rosenberg at The New York Times: “Have you thought of a clever product to mitigate climate change? Did you invent an ingenious gadget to light African villages at night? Have you come up with a new kind of school, or new ideas for lowering the rate of urban shootings?
Thanks, but we have lots of those.
The Wilson Center’s Commons Lab: “In April 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan decided to switch its water supply source from the Detroit water system to a cheaper alternative, the Flint River. But in exchange for the cheaper price tag, the Flint residents paid a greater price with one of the worst public health crises of the past decade.
This is my first post here, so hello. I’m Raafat, here at MIT for a couple of years of research at the Art, Culture and Technology program. I’m on this blog because I’m taking the "Intro to Civic Media" class this semester. Speaking from a Contemporary Art vantage point, it could be argued that defining an era by time/situation (Contemporary) rather than “formal” discourse (i.e. Modernism) is a label for a transition that has been kidnapped by an external, non-art-related factor. Art today, as a ubiquitous global product conforms more to a global market (kidnapper) than to art itself.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is now taking applications for a new spring 2016 Study Group exploring the Law and Regulation of Emerging Robotics and Automation Technologies, convened by Harvard Law School visiting professor Kenneth Anderson. The Study Group will meet for four evening sessions on the Harvard Law School campus: on Wednesday March 23, March 30, April 6, and April 13 from 7:30p.m.-9:00p.m.
Springwise: “Peru’s black vultures are well known locally for their natural aptitude for garbage location. They don’t have to search too hard, since much of the garbage produced by the city of Lima is dumped illegally and ends up in the Pacific ocean. Now, the Ministry of the Environment has launched the Gallinazo Avisa campaign — meaning Vultures Warn — to clean up the city.
En el marco del "Encuentro Nacional de rectores de instituciones de educación superior acreditadas de Chile" organizado por el Ministerio de Educación, el Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, valoró el tiempo extra de discusión que permitirá el aplazamiento del proyecto de reforma a la educación superior; anunciado en la misma instancia por la Ministra Adriana Delpiano.Desde las nueve de la mañana se reunieron en un salón del hotel Manquehue, en la comuna de Las Condes, los rectores de las instituciones de educación superior –universidades e institutos técnico
La encuesta realizada por el periódico La Segunda, que recogió las opiniones de múltiples actores que participan del debate sobre educación, indicó que el rector más influyente en el quehacer nacional es la máxima autoridad de la Universidad de Chile.
Los participantes se mostraron felices ante la oportunidad de aprender y compartir junto a la compañía de danza contemporánea más antigua e importante del país. El taller se enmarcó dentro de las iniciativas que acercan a la compañía al medio artístico local.Con una presentación de lo aprendido finalizó el taller que el Ballet Nacional Chileno (BANCH) desarrolló durante una semana en sus dependencias, el que estuvo dirigido a estudiantes de danza del país, en una actividad gratuita que contó con la participación de 24 jóvenes artistas.
Internet interconnection has often been described as an unregulated field. However, local public regulation is starting to emerge – be it through disclosure regulations, mandatory peering or licensing terms. Due to the... MORE
Study by Sean Martin McDonald: “…undertaken with support from the Open Society Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Media Democracy Fund, explores the use of Big Data in the form of Call Detail Record (CDR) data in humanitarian crisis.
IPEP16 research project kicks off with a workshop next week
On March 8, 2016, a group of experts will meet at Viadrina to initiate a new research project on Internet Policy in Eastern Partnership countries (#IPEP16). The goal of this project is to research the development of internet policies in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
New report and microsite informing the Federal Front Door project: “Recent research has made clear that we as agencies within the federal government need to improve the public’s interactions with the government across the board. Overall, Americans’ satisfaction with federal services is dropping, and currently ranks below their satisfaction with private-sector and local government services .
W odpowiedzi na zaproszenie Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego do udziału w pracach nad przygotowaniem stanowiska Rządu RP w konsultacjach dotyczących ram prawnych w zakresie egzekwowania praw własności intelektualnej, przedstawiliśmy nasze stanowisko.
Author(s): Ryan CaloPublication Date: March 2, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing
“The Governance Data Alliance encourages greater coordination amongst data producers to fill data gaps while simultaneously investigating who governance data users actually are. The goal is to produce and aggregate high-quality but accessible governance data that policymakers and other change agents can use to take action. The Alliance’s work is currently organized around four work streams.
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Geoff Mulgan at NESTA: ” This paper makes the case for creating a Machine Intelligence Commission – a new public institution to help the development of new generations of algorithms, machine learning tools and uses of big data, ensuring that the public interest is protected.
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with Open Source developer, Dries Buytaert
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Artificially intelligent personal assistants and algorithms are just the first signs of a web that's designed to deliver the highly personalized information to us at the right time. But what sorts of big issues do we need to tackle when it comes to personal privacy, serendipity and other things that made the web great to begin with?
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India’s recent ban on Facebook’s zero-rating initiative is a huge victory for both domestic and transnational privacy advocates While many have voiced concerns surrounding Facebook’s Free Basics service’s violation of net neutrality principles, digital rights activists across the world also...
