Ian Brown on 27 February 2016 at 06:39AM Profs. Ian Brown and Douwe Korff, February 2016 Introduction1. We have only just learned of the consultation, for which we apologise. The comments below are as a result written quickly to reflect our main concerns. [...]
On 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about multi-lingual (English-Telugu) Wikipedians meetup organized in December 2015.
For more details visit http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/eenadu-february-21-2016-international-mother-language-day
The Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event and won an award. Look for the coverage by Odisha News here.
Ricardo Hausmann at Project Syndicate: “Many organizations, from government agencies to philanthropic institutions and aid organizations, now require that programs and policies be “evidenc
The GovLab presents Demos for Democracy, an ongoing series of live, interactive online demos that feature designers and builders of the latest innovative governance platforms, tools or methods to foster greater openness and collaboration to how we govern.
Join us on March 3, 2016 for our next DEMO – Featuring OneSmart.City
OneSmart.City / Smart Uno: A citizen relationship platform for any government
Projekt FutureTDM ma na celu zidentyfikowanie barier, które na poziomie prawnym, politycznym i organizacyjnym stoją na drodze pełnego wykorzystania potencjału jaki daje eksploracja tekstu i danych (text and data mining, TDM). Efektem przeprowadzonych analiz będzie opracowanie rekomendacji na poziomie europejskim, które pozwolą na wypracowanie rozwiązań niwelujących te ograniczenia.
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Today, I am pleased to announce the completion of my move to a non-executive role at Open Knowledge International.
When Pavel Richter took over as CEO last year, my plan was to move to the role of President and transition to a non-executive position on a timeline that allowed me to support Pavel as he took over and drove Open Knowledge International forward.
Today in Court Room no. 4 of the Supreme Court the porn ban petition filed by Kamlesh Vaswani was taken up by the bench of Justices Dipak Mishra and Shiva Kirti Singh. Mr. Vijay Panjwani, advocate for Mr. Vaswani stated that it has been two years since the petition was filed and the Court issued […]
Date published: February 26, 2016“There are a lot of ways in which the debate over the past year and a half has been déjà vu all over again,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society. “We’re seeing a lot of the same arguments on behalf of law enforcement that they made in the 1990s.”" Read more » about Apple privacy battle with Washington looms as watershed moment
Date published: February 25, 2016"“The human equivalent of the company signing code is basically saying, ‘We believe that this code is safe for you to run,'” says Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
Date published: February 25, 2016"Robot legal theorist Ryan Calo writes, "I thought you might enjoy my new paper, canvassing decades of American case law involving robots.
Bloomberg Law Brief with June Grasso. Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University, and Nate Cardozo, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discuss the ongoing dispute between Apple and the U.S. Government, which presses on as Apple continues to fight back against a court order requiring it to write software that would help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
We are delighted to announce several updates to the NETmundial Solutions Map (Beta) based upon what we learned and heard from the first batch of users and contributors – following our beta release last year.
The Map is the first crowdsourced Internet Governance platform where you can share and access information about internet governance, connecting issues, actors, responses, and resources with each other.
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Author(s): Neil RichardsPublication Date: February 25, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingIt is not often that a legal battle over smartphone firmware captures the national imagination, but such is the case as the FBI tries to access the data contained on suspected San Bernadino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone. The feds want Apple to help it break into the phone, under the authority of an obscure 1789 law called the All Writs Act. Thus an ancient statute meets an icon of the digital age.
Date published: February 25, 2016""Mapping will be essential to automated driving," said Bryant Walker Smith, professor at the University of South Carolina and autonomous driving expert.
Professor associado falou sobre as consequências do excesso de regrasQual o impacto do excesso de normas para disciplinar a internet? Para o professor convidado da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro, Silvio Meira, o resultado de regulamentações excessivas pode resultar em uma rede mais fechada, com menos espaço para inovação e para diversidade; deixando de lado um dos aspectos que a caracteriza: seu aspecto global.