Date published: February 5, 2016"And zero-rating programs also give broadband providers an incentive to further tilt the market in favor of their own services or those of preferred partners. If you have a large enough data bucket or the price of data is relatively low, it likely won't matter much that you can access some sites without tapping into your monthly allotment.
Date published: February 4, 2016"The T-Mobile US Binge On video service does in fact break network neutrality and so is illegal.
Net neutrality-lovin’ Sweden mulls law to censor the internet, THE REGISTER Sweden has long held a position against filtering or blocking websites, even when under pressure from other countries. Recently, however, the Swedish government has initiated investigations looking into regulating...
La fantasía se adueña del patrón de la Facultad de Comunicación
El lema de este año fue "El poder de la ficción"
04/02/16 19:59
Luis López Alí
Beth Noveck (The GovLab) at Policy Network: “Does the EU need to be more democratic? It is not surprising that Jürgen Habermas, Europe’s most famous democratic theorist, laments the dearth of mechanisms for “fulfilling the citizens’ political will” in European institutions. The controversial handling of the Greek debt crisis, according to Habermas, was clear evidence of the need for more popular input into otherwise technocratic decision-making.
Jeffrey Chen, Tyrone Grandison, and Kristen Honey at the US Department of Commerce: “…in 2016, the DOC is committed to building on this momentum with new and expanded efforts to transform open data into knowledge into action.
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Bolstered by academia and civil society, TRAI stands its ground against FB’s Free Basics publicity blitz.
The article by Arindam Mukherjee was published in Outlook on February 8, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Concurso foi realizado em 2015Duas ex-alunas da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) foram aprovadas no XXV Concurso da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Nathalia Parente, formada em 2010, e Fernanda Fabregas, da turma de 2011, obtiveram 62,75 e 57,25 de pontuação, respectivamente.
“Sempre admirei o trabalho da Defensoria Pública, sendo a instituição a qual encontro afinidade em minhas convicções políticas e filosóficas”, destaca Nathalia.
Indicadores inéditos mostram como o MP se comporta na CorteO quarto relatório do projeto “Supremo em Números”, da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), tem como foco a atuação do Ministério Público (MP) perante o Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF). De autoria dos professores Joaquim Falcão e Ivar A.
Edward Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Kominers and Michael Luca in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings: “The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms.
Antonio López: "Las posibilidades de la comunicación van a ser deslumbrantes"
El presidente de honor de Dircom señaló a los alumnos del MCPC que "el líder ya no tiene la misma credibilidad tras la crisis; ahora las referencias son los amigos y la familia"
04/02/16 13:34
Ignacio García Ruano
The European Commission announced on February 2, 2016 that it had agreed a new framework with the US for data flows between Europe and the US. The new framework, christened... MORE
Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties, is in this episode discussing Stingray technology.
"Truth and Power" highlights Daniel Rigmaiden, the young tech-genius who exposed STINGRAY - a secret government surveillance technology that hacks into your cell phones. All New Episodes - Fridays at 10 p.m. ET / PT on Pivot. Learn more at http://bit.ly/TruthAndPowerPivot.
Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University and former FTC senior policy advisor and Steven Calkins, a law professor at Wayne State University and former general counsel at the FTC, discuss a suit against Dish Network, which accused them of allowing their contractors to violate do-not-call laws by placing millions of robocalls to consumers. The government is seeking more than $24 billion in fines from the company, despite the fact that Dish is only valued at $22 billion.
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Paper by Steve Hardt and Lia C. R. Lopes: “This paper introduces Google Votes, an experiment in liquid democracy built on Google’s internal corporate Google+ social network.
NESTA: “We’re pleased to announce the launch of the latest publication in our series of practice guides – Using Research Evidence. Created by the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Nesta, the guide has been designed to help you improve the way you work by using evidence effectively.
