Matt Haikin at Aptiva: “Last year, Aptivate led a consortium of researchers and practitioners to explore the role of technology in citizen-engagement and participation in the development sector, and how to evaluate the success of such activities…
Press Release by The Digital Equilibrium Project: “Cybersecurity, government and privacy experts are banding together as part of The ‘Digital Equilibrium Project’ to foster a new, productive dialogue on balancing security and privacy in the connected world.
Written by Benedikt Fecher & Gert Wagner. In a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing in... MORE
Am Freitag den 12. Februar wurden feierlich die Zertifikate für die Zusatzausbildung im Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht sowie für die Zusatzausbildung im Gewerblichen Rechtschutz verliehen. Anlässlich der Feierlichkeiten war Herr Prof. Dr. Kurt Bartenbach zu Gast und hielt einen Festvortrag zum dem Thema „Die Bedeutung der Arbeitnehmererfindung in der betrieblichen Praxis- „erfinderische“ Ideen zur Bestimmung von Vergütungsansprüchen“.
Open Access Button: “Hidden data is hindering research, and we’re tired of it. Next week we’ll release the Open Data Button beta as part of Open Data Day. The Open Data Button will help people find, release, and share the data behind papers. We need your support to share, test, and improve the Open Data Button. Today, we’re going to provide some in depth info about the tool.
"El columnista tiene que ser una mezcla de filósofo y de pontífice: ni enseñar demasiado el plumero, ni ser muy coqueto"
Jorge Bustos, columnista de El Mundo, compartió su experiencia con los alumnos de Periodismo
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Recommendations 3 and 10 As we fast approach the ICANN55 meeting at Marrakech, we continue our series of posts tracking the CCWG-Accountability process. Previous posts in this series can be read here, here and here. This post examines Recommendation #3: Redefining ICANN’s Bylaws as ‘Standard Bylaws’ and ‘Fundamental Bylaws’, and Recommendation #10: Enhancing the accountability of Supporting […]
Kevin Ebi at Smart Cities Council: “Most cities and utilities want to get smarter. They see the smart cities movement as delivering more than some incremental improvement. They see it as a meaningful transformation — one that delivers far more than just some cost savings.
互联网治理风起云涌，经济发展亮点不断，学术研究不应落后。2016年伊始，又有新的研究形式出现。2月23日，新治理智库联盟预备会议在北京理工大学国际大厦举行，国家行政学院、北大、北师大、北理工等众多学人，阿里巴巴、京东、百度、腾讯等互联网企业，济济一堂，共商新治理议题。薛虹教授在发言中指出，利益有关各方共同参与的新治理模式比较适应互联网的生态系统，可以在实践中探索发展，例如考虑国家互联网治理论坛（National IGF）等形式。薛虹教授还谈到，法律体系与法律研究需要正视互联网的现实，具有挑战传统理论，颠覆传统观念的勇气与决心。互联网上的版权制度就是处于被颠覆的状况，学界却没有足够的想象力，寻找全新的解决方案。薛教授还提到，互联网上平台服务的治理权力，必须在法律层面得到反映，所谓“平等主体的民事关系”不是束缚头脑的借口，即便在传统的民事法律关系中也存在监护等非平等的关系，平台与其用户之间的不平等性真实存在于相生相克的互联网生态系统中。
Information about millions of people is collected for behavioural targeting, a type of marketing that involves tracking people’s online behaviour for targeted advertising. It is hotly debated whether data protection law applies to behavioural targeting. Many behavioural targeting companies say that, as long as they do not tie names to data they hold about individuals, they do not process any personal data, and that, therefore, data protection law does not apply to them.
Ziad Al Achkar, Isaac L. Baker, Nathaniel A. Raymond at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative: “At present, accepted methodologies for wind disaster damage assessments rely almost exclusively on responders having ground access to the affected area to document damage to housing structures. This approach can prove both time consuming and inefficient, and does not support the use of drones and satellites.
Wenjie Wu Jianghao Wang & Tianshi Dai in Annals of the American Association of Geographers: “A largely unexplored big data application in urban contexts is how cultural ties affect human mobility patterns.
W tym numerze Kserokopii piszemy o prawnoautorskich zawirowaniach wokół znanych utworów: „Dzienniki Anny Frank” i “Happy Birthday”. Prezentujemy również badania, odpowiadające na pytanie dlaczego dyrektywa o utworach osieroconych nie spełnia swojej roli; propozycje zmiany prawa autorskiego we Francji; a także wykład o prawie autorskim, który podobnież narusza… prawo autorskie.
Dzienniki Anny Frank – kłopotów ciąg dalszy
Date published: February 23, 2016Read more » about Apple-FBI Fight Asks: Is Code Protected as Free Speech?Bloomberg Business""The signature is part of Apple’s security ecosystem; it’s a promise that Apple believes this code is safe for you to run," said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society.
Date published: February 23, 2016Read more » about Apple to tell judge in California case: Congress must decideThe Washington Post"The U.S.
Data exchange flowing from the EU (specifically the European Economic Area) to the US currently has no legal framework regulating it. Does it mean that any data transfer from EU to US is illegal? In my previous post on the issue I mentioned that the old agreement regulating the data transfer had been struck down […]
This week in Civic Media we discussed readings about digital inequality and blogospheres in Cuba and had the privilege of hearing from Paloma Duong who looks at digital media, youth culture, and the public sphere in contemporary Havana.
Proponents of open data have long argued that the release of government information to the public could result in meaningful impact for citizens. To date, though, little evidence has demonstrated the real-world impacts of open data. Indeed, the field has lacked a taxonomy or framework to help measure and assess the effects of the broad range of open data initiatives underway around the world.
