Fatemeh Ahmadi Zeleti et al in Government Information Quarterly: “Business models for open data have emerged in response to the economic opportunities presented by the increasing availability of open data
David Donaldson in The Mandarin: “If we now have the technology to allow citizens to vote directly on all issues, what job remains for public servants?
Recommendation 4 In the weeks leading up to the ICANN 55 Meeting at Marrakech, we are doing a series of posts tracking the CCWG-Accountability process. The first and second posts by Aarti Bhavana analyze Recommendations 1 & 2 and Recommendation 6 & 12 respectively. This third post in our series on the CCWG- Accountability recommendations will recap the […]
Bijdrage aan Rondetafelgesprek 11 februari 2016, Computercriminaliteit III, Vaste commissie voor Veiligheid en Justitie.
A month ago, we updated you about our plans for the Open Knowledge Network in 2016. One of the firsts steps this year will be to update our network guidelines. For us, guidelines are important because they help us to define our mutual causes and help us strive to achieve our goal. It also help us to set expectations. In Facebook terms,when the guidelines are not clear, the relationship status is “complicated”.
Analiza danych towarzyszy ludzkości od setek tysięcy lat. Początkowo dostęp do niewielkich zbiorów informacji (tekstu i danych) dawał możliwość mniej lub bardziej dokładnej interpretacji otaczających nas zjawisk. Rozwój technologii i innowacyjnych rozwiązań spowodował, że codziennie dzięki interakcji milionów osób oraz sprzętów tworzymy i przekazujemy miliony bajtów informacji niemal bez przerwy.
Larry Peiperl and Peter Hotez at PLOS: “The spreading epidemic of Zika virus, with its putative and alarming associations with Guillain-Barre syndrome and infant microcephaly, has arrived just as several initiatives have
A Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, o CIJIC e o IDB têm a honra de trazer à discussão a ideia da constituição de um tribunal internacional para a internet.
Esta, defendida pelo investigador do CIJIC Prof. Doutor Daniel Freire e Almeida (e Professor-visiting researcher da Georgetown University), contará com a contra-argumentação do Director do CIJIC, o Prof.Doutor Eduardo Vera-Cruz Pinto.
Date published: February 18, 2016"The Apple case is the latest in a string of confrontations between government and private industry over access to personal digital devices such as smartphones, said Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Date published: February 18, 2016"Apple, which has been joined in its resistance by other tech companies, has a good chance of winning in the end, said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: February 18, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingFor nearly three decades, the government of Sri Lanka fought with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), but after years of resistance, the new government has committed to launching a genuine transitional justice program to address, and redress, the grave international crimes committed by all sides during the conflict.
Date published: February 18, 2016""This is a new frontier," said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. "I know of no other statutory provision that would arguably create an obligation for device manufacturers to help out the government."
Apple may not have fought orders in the past because "it was easy for Apple to give the data," she said.
Carten Cordell in the Federal Times: “The framework for an integrated security solution in the Philippines is built on a bedrock of sticky notes. So is the strategy for combating piracy in East Africa and a handful of other plans that Zvika Krieger is crafting in a cauldron of collaboration within the State Department.
Jason Shueh in Government Technology: “Popular crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have been a hotbed for the aspiring to fund product prototypes, publish artistic works and create everything from films to trendy foods.
Andrew R Schrock in New Media and Society: “The civic hacker tends to be described as anachronistic, an ineffective “white hat” compared to more overtly activist cousins. By contrast, I argue that civic hackers’ politics emerged from a distinct historical milieu and include potentially powerful modes of political participation.
In September last year, a mutual cyber hacking marathon ensued between Indian and Pakistani hackers, who each hacked and defaced multiple government and private websites. The incident was triggered by a detected defacement of a Kerala government website which was attributed to a Pakistani hacker. Indian hackers and hacktivist groups retaliated by defacing multiple Pakistani government websites […]
On Wednesday, February 17, The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford, The Center for International Governance Innovation, and the Research Advisory Network of the Global Commission on Internet Governance will present an all-day conference entitled "New Alliances in Cybersecurity, Human Rights and Internet Governance." The conference will discuss the challenges of creating a regime of internet governance that pays attention to security and human rights in the digital context.
Katy Davis at the Conversation: “Typical approaches to solving problematic finances are either to “educate” people about the need to save more or to “incentivize” savings with monetary rewards.