Conference Report, Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2015, 24 pp.

In Finland is de belastinginformatie over burgers openbaar. Twee Finse bedrijven besluiten daar gebruik van te maken. Het ene publiceert delen van de informatie in een magazine, het andere runt een SMS-dienst, waarbij op naam informatie omtrent belastingen kan worden opgevraagd over derde personen. De vraag is of dit rechtmatig is. De nationale procedure is hieromtrent niet eenduidig. Er worden prejudiciële vragen gesteld aan het Hof van Justitie.

Using data from 15 European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), I explore associations between several psychosocial work factors and self-perceived health among older workers (50 to 65 years old) (n=12,728).

February 1, 2016

Titel: “De wenselijkheid van de investeringsbescherming geboden door de sui generis intellectuele rechten rond chips, computerprogramma’s en databanken.”

Sales is one of the biggest challenges for startups in Germany. At StartupNight 2015 (&raquoLange Nacht der Startups”) I held a speech about &raquoSales 101: 10 things you should consider... MORE

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2nd AIM Lecture by Alberto Alemanno: “Public authorities, including the European Union and its Member States, are increasingly interested in exploiting behavioral insights through public action. They increasingly do so through choice architecture, i.e. the alteration of the environment of choice surrounding a particular decision making context in areas as diverse as energy consumption, tax collection and public health. In this regard, it is useful to distinguish between two situations.

Author(s): Jeffrey VaglePublication Date: January 13, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingRecently, Orin Kerr and I had a brief conversation on Twitter regarding the Fourth Amendment and the content/non-content distinction. Specifically, Orin asked those of us who subscribe to the mosaic theory of intelligence if some large amount of metadata can become content, can some small amount of content become metadata by the same logic?

“Every month, the NHS in England publishes anonymised data about the drugs prescribed by GPs. But the raw data files are large and unwieldy, with more than 600 million rows. We’re making it easier for GPs, managers and everyone to explore – supporting safer, more efficient prescribing.

Revised book by Eric Siegel: “Prediction is powered by the world’s most potent, flourishing unnatural resource: data. Accumulated in large part as the by-product of routine tasks, data is the unsalted, flavorless residue deposited en masse as organizations churn away. Surprise! This heap of refuse is a gold mine. Big data embodies an extraordinary wealth of experience from which to learn.

Tim Johnson in University Affairs on “Why researchers in various disciplines are using the principles of design to solve problems big and small” : “A product of the same trends and philosophies that gave us smartphones, laptop computers and internet search engines, design thinking is changing the way some academics approach teaching and research, the way architects design classrooms and how leaders seek to solve the world’s most persistent problems.

OAB Recomenda é reconhecimento da excelência do curso de graduaçãoAs Escolas de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio) e de São Paulo (Direito SP) da FGV receberam, no dia 13 de janeiro, na sede da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil Nacional (OAB), em Brasília, o selo OAB Recomenda. Apenas 139 dos cerca de 1.300 cursos Direito do Brasil foram contemplados com o selo de qualidade da entidade. A solenidade contou com a presença do Ministro da Educação, Aloísio Mercadante, e do presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal, Ministro Ricardo Lewandowski.

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In this report, which was published in PLOS Medicine, the authors examine the questions around access to genomic data. They argue that the real breakthrough in reconciling privacy and openness in genomics requires confronting head-on some fundamentally normative tensions that are escalated in the era of genomics and big data, and they suggest three points that will play a crucial role in navigating between privacy and openness.

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12 Jan 2016

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GeoNet Project on 13 January 2016 at 16:13PM We are lucky to have Mohammad Amir Anwar joining our team in the Geonet project! Amir is a Human Geographer by training, and his work has focused on geography of globalisation, political economy and development in the Global South, with a special focus on India and Africa. He is currently researching the growth of knowledge… Read More » [...]

OCHA: “WORLD HUMANITARIAN DATA AND TRENDS
Highlights major trends, challenges and opportunities in the nature of humanitarian crises, showing how the humanitarian landscape is evolving in a rapidly changing world.
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LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND: HUMANITARIAN EFFECTIVENESS IN THE AGE OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

COMSNETS in association with Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Digital India, et.al. organized the event in Bangalore from January 5 to 9, 2016. Sunil Abraham participated as a speaker in Session 4: Law, regulation and policy of App Economy.

La trayectoria, la calidad y las mallas curriculares fueron algunas de las razones que expresaron los jóvenes que optaron por la Universidad de Chile como su primera opción, tras visitar la Feria del Postulante 2015 en su última jornada.

Carreras acreditadas, formación en todos los niveles del sistema educativo, mirada crítica, herramientas metodológicas, investigativas, formación interdisciplinaria, y la historia del Instituto Pedagógico, son los sellos de los programas de la Casa de Bello. A contar del 2016 éstos convergerán en Programa Transversal de Educación, instancia que concentrará el aporte de la Institución al sistema educativo.