Author(s): Omer TenePublication Date: February 15, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingOne would think privacy was a concept that Justice Antonin Scalia disliked. After all, how could a textualist, who firmly believed in lawyers’ obligation to follow the text, respect a concept as nebulous and blurry edged as privacy?
Indian regulators have dealt a major blow to Facebook’s controversial Free Basics online access plan by forbidding so-called differential pricing by internet companies, in effect banning the programme in the country.
The article by James Crabtree with additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw was published in Financial Times on February 8, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Facebook Inc.’s plans for expansion in India have suffered a major setback.
The article by Adi Narayan and Bhuma Srivastava was published in Bloomberg on February 8, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Trai says Internet service providers will not be allowed to discriminate on pricing of data access for different web services.
The article by Moulishree Srivastava and Shauvik Ghosh was published in Livemint on February 9, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
How many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with friends and family.
The article by Kanika Sharma was published in the Hindustan Times on February 14, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Ari Beser at National Geographic: “It appears the world-changing event didn’t change anything, and it’s disappointing,”said Pieter Franken, a researcher at Keio University in Japan (Wide Project), the MIT Media Lab (Civic Media Centre), and co-founder of Safecast, a citizen-science network dedicated to the measurement and distribution of accurate levels of radiation arou
Just before the Trai notification, the Ambani brothers signed a spectrum sharing pact and they have been sharing optic fibre since 2013.
The article was published in the Deccan Chronicle on February 14, 2016. Pranesh Prakash gave inputs.
Facebook 'disappointed' with the ruling on differential pricing.
The article by Alnoor Peermohamed appeared in the Business Standard on February 9, 2016. Pranesh Prakash gave inputs.
Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.
Madhav Gadgil's post was published by Scroll.in on February 6, 2016. CIS work was quoted.
Jyoti Panday attended UNICEF & Nasscom Foundation Workshop on Child Online Protection (COP) held on 8 February 2016 at Hotel Claridges in New Delhi.
Joshua Tucker in the Washington Post: “Last month the University of Gothenberg’s V-Dem Institute released a new“Varieties of Democracy” dataset. It provides about 15 million data points on democracy, including 39 democracy-related indices. It can be accessed at v-dem.net along with supporting documentation.
WomenAlsoKnowStuff: “So often while planning a conference, brainstorming a list of speakers, or searching for experts to cite or interview, it can be difficult to think of any scholars who aren’t male. We’ve all been there… you just know that a woman has got to be studying that topic… but who?
This site is intended to provide an easily accessible database of female experts in a variety of areas.
Over 800 attendees registered at the State of the Net Conference (SOTN) in 2015. The conference provides unparalleled opportunities to network and engage on key Internet policy issues. SOTN is the largest Internet policy conference in the U.S. and the only one with over 50 percent Congressional staff and government policymakers in attendance. Read more » about State of the Net 2016January 25, 2016Washington, DC
Date published: February 12, 2016"What’s interesting in all this is that Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, whose paper was recently submitted to the FCC regarding the illegality of zero-rating certain streaming video feeds here in North America,was at the heart of this debate. Read more
640 proposals for papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, and other events for the AoIR 2016 have been submitted. The 17th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers is a transdisciplinary gathering of scholars interested in the importance of networked technologies in social processes. It will be hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media Research.
Recommendations 6 & 12 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 post in this series, analysing Recommendations 1 & 2, can be read here. This post examines Recommendation #6: Reaffirming ICANN’s Commitment to Respect Internationally Recognised Human […]
CMS.860: Intro to Civic MediaWeek 2: Networked Social Movements
Readings:
· Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter movement” http://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Garza_Herstory_of_the_BlackLivesMatter_Movement.pdf.
When tasting new dishes in a restaurant, rarely do we find out where the idea for them came from. Unless we are eating at the Warsaw café Solec44, where the chef, Aleksander Baron, boasts of his inspirations from books in the public domain, which he finds in the Polish national digital library. Therefore, that is the reason why this year’s celebration of Public Domain Day was held there. Its topic was not only based in literature and painting, but this time also in gastronomy and Internet memes and remixes.
Una tesis doctoral analiza la etapa periodística de Pedro J. Ramírez al frente de Diario 16
El título de la tesis es 'Pedro J. Ramírez, de Diario 16 a la fundación de El Mundo'
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