Phil Howard on 29 January 2016 at 23:25PM Helped with a Washington Post story on how social media is used by radical libertarians in the US. Howard, who teaches communications at the University of Washington and Oxford University, noted that social media is a critical tool for protest movements, allowing groups such as the Oregon occupiers to build communities and reach people […] [...]
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The Media Cloud project (http://mediacloud.org) is seeking a technical lead to help us build tools that facilitate research about the role of digital media in civic discourse. Media Cloud is an open source and open data project that produces its own research about the networked public sphere and also facilitates others' research about online media by making available to the public its existing archive of more than 365 million stories and by collecting more than 300,000 new stories daily.
Investimento: A visita aos Três Poderes e o transporte em Brasília são gratuitos. Passagem aérea RIO x BSB x RIO não inclusa.
Visita aos Três Poderes 201608h30O Evento: Conhecer as atividades jurídicas dos três poderes da República. Essa é a proposta da Visita aos Três Poderes da FGV DIREITO RIO. Anualmente, alunos da Graduação visitam os principais órgãos de representação dos poderes Executivo, Legislativo e Judiciário com objetivo de compreender de maneira mais aprofundada o cotidiano de ministros, parlamentares e servidores públicos que atuam na capital federal.
Laura Molloy on 29 January 2016 at 17:07PM My current project is only possible due to support from DACS, a non-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation (http://www.dacs.org.uk/). Visit the DACS blog for their introduction to my project: http://www.dacs.org.uk/latest-news/phd-dacs-oxford-internet-institute-ru.... Based in London, DACS has been working since the 1980s to [...]
In November 2015, T-Mobile, the nation’s third largest provider of mobile Internet access, launched a new service called Binge On that offers “unlimited” video streaming. T-Mobile customers on qualifying plans can stream video from the 42 providers currently in the program – Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon Video, and others – without using their data plans, a practice known as zero-rating.
The OdiaWikimedia community and Bhubaneswar-based Srujanika have come together to make rare science books available online for readers, students & science educators.
The article by Diana Sahu was published in the New Indian Express on January 9, 2016.
Content Includes Classics In Malayalam, Bengali.
The article by Sandhya Soman was published in the Times of India on January 10, 2016.
Black is beautiful, and it can go places if it is well researched. When HL Omshivaprakash wrote a Wikipedia article about Karnataka's bidriware, the metal handicraft where gleaming black bowls and hookahs are dotted with delicate silver strips, he didn't expect it to be picked up by the French and Swedes.
Read the article published in the Times of India here. Subhashish Panigrahi gave inputs.
The Bangalore chapter of Data Privacy Day was organized by Data Security Council of India on January 28, 2016 at Electronic City in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham was a panelist.
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For more details visit http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/data-privacy-day-2016
Los ojos de la astronomía mundial se enfocarán sobre un mismo punto, la estrella Próxima Centauri, porque hay una muy buena posibilidad que en esa zona del espacio se encuentre un planeta con características similares a la Tierra, según lo que indica James Jenkins, astrónomo de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la U. de Chile, investigador del proyecto que se podrá seguir online desde esta noche.A una distancia de 4.2 años luz del Sol, Próxima Centauri destaca como la estrella más cercana al Sistema Solar.
En dos encuentros de diálogo, debate y reflexión nuestra Casa de Estudios será protagonista a partir de la próxima semana: el "Seminario Permanente: una mirada internacional de la Educación Superior Estatal" y la V versión del Congreso del Futuro.
El académico de la Universidad de Virginia enfrentó posturas sobre el sistema universitario nacional y global con el ex ministro de Educación Harald Beyer y el académico de la Universidad de Chile, Daniel Hojman, en una nueva sesión del Seminario Permanente "Una mirada internacional de la educación superior estatal", el cual es una estrategia de los planteles estatales para alimentar el debate en torno a la reforma educacional.
Los más afectados son los niños, adultos mayores, personas asmáticas, alérgicos y fumadores con problemas respiratorios, en quienes se podría desencadenar una descompensación, explica el doctor Felipe Rivera, broncopulmonar del Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile.El incendio que comenzó ayer en la tarde en el vertedero Santa Marta, ubicado en Talagante, ocasionó una capa de humo y mal olor sobre varias comunas de Santiago.
This year, on Saturday, the 5th of March, the fourth annual Open Data Day will take place. For us in Open Knowledge, Open Data Day is one of our favourite initiatives. This is a grassroot event that has no particular organisation behind it, and it is able to bring together people from all over the world to discuss, hack and promote open data. From Japan to Vancouver, Cape Town to Oslo, Brazil to Nepal, London and Greece, Open Data Day is a global celebration of openness.
Geonet Project on 29 January 2016 at 09:53AM As part of the Green Templeton College Future of Work Programme we are bringing together leading researchers to consider the ways in which digitalisation and the internet are globally transforming work, employment and labour markets. This one-day conference features: Professor Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) and Professor Linda McDowell [...]
Date published: January 29, 2016"The debate over whether or not Binge On violates Net Neutrality has been raging ever since the service was announced in November.
Date published: January 29, 2016"A Stanford Law professor and net neutrality expert just delivered a damning report to the FCC that claims T-Mobile’s Binge On service is likely illegal.
Cyberspace has been continually emerging as a significant forum of criminal activity that requires specialized monitoring. However, cyber crime cases often go unreported in India further increasing online vulnerability. Even reported cases mostly result in acquittal due to the lack of forensic infrastructure and trained policed personnel, who are able to retrieve and present adequate […]
Stefaan Verhulst at The GovLab Blog: “New repository of case studies documents the impact of open data globally: odimpact.org.
Manuel Sosa at INSEAD Knowledge: “When entering a government permit office, virtually everyone would prepare themselves for a certain amount of boredom and confusion. But resignation may well turn to surprise or even shock, if that office is Singapore’s Employment Pass Service Centre (EPSC), where foreign professionals go to receive their visa to work in the city-state.
