Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer Stefaan Verhulst Provides Testimony to NYC Committee on Technology
Yesterday on February 12, 2019, The GovLab’s Co-founder and Chief Research & Development Officer, Stefaan Verhulst, appeared before the New York City Council Committee on Technology to testify on the value of properly leveraging and sharing data to tackle the multitude of 21st century problems.
The full content of Verhulst’s testimony follows below, and can also be viewed on his Medium page at this link.
Leveraging and Sharing Data for Urban Flourishing
[Call for abstracts] Post-automation? Exploring democratic alternatives to Industry 4.0
“An international research symposium, 11-13 September 2019, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK
About the Symposium
Kate Raworth: Doing Business in the Doughnut
Article republished from weforum.org, video from Youtube- Nesta
At the 2019 Wikimedia Summit, we’re putting the Wikimedia movement under the microSCOPE
With a new name and a strategy-focused aim, the Wikimedia Summit (formerly known as the Wikimedia Conference) kicks off next month. Around 200 participants from Wikimedia affiliates, the Wikimedia Foundation, and various committees will head to Berlin from 29–31 March to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement. The finalized schedule will be published in the coming weeks, but we couldn’t wait to share a preview.
What the government's draft IT intermediary guidelines say
Intermediaries will have to hand over to government agencies any information within 72 hours.
Intermediaries will have to use automated tools to trace the person posting unlawful content.
The article by Abhijit Ahaskar was published in Livemint on February 12, 2019. CIS research was quoted.
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Janeen Uzzell as Chief Operating Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the appointment of Janeen Uzzell as Chief Operating Officer. Janeen joins the Foundation after 16 years of executive leadership at General Electric (GE), most recently as GE’s head of Women in Technology, where she worked with GE’s global CEOs to increase the number of women in technical roles across their 300,000 person workforce.
Professora da FGV Direito Rio ministra aulas na Sorbonne
Paula Almeida foi selecionada como professora visitante da instituiçãoA professora de Direito Internacional e coordenadora da Cátedra Jean Monnet da FGV Direito Rio, Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, foi selecionada como professora visitante da Escola doutoral de Direito Internacional e Europeu da École de droit de la Sorbonne - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Do You Want Privacy With That?
You may have heard about CloudPets being pulled off shelves for recording kids’ voices and that data being leaked, or the EU recalling kids’ smart watches for giving away children’s location in real time.
Digital Singularisation
According to Andreas Reckwitz, we are living in a time of fundamental social change — our society is becoming a society of singularisation. Digitisation is playing a pivotal role in this process. But what exactly does singularisation mean? And what consequences will it have for the constitution of our society? Marc Pirogan takes a look…
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Future Thinking: Alissa Cooper on the Technical Impact of Internet Consolidation
In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. While preparing to launch the 2019 Global Internet Report, we interviewed Alissa Cooper to hear her perspective on the forces shaping the Internet’s future.
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Published with permission from Kosmos Journal
By Kurt Johnson
David Sloan Wilson’s New Evolutionary Biology
A bunch of media just entered the public domain. Here’s why that matters.
The black-and-white film flickers as a wealthy young woman, sitting on a bench in a garden, bats her eyes at the gardener’s son she is not allowed to marry. In her self-portrait, an artist wears masculine clothes against a bleak urban backdrop, dark eyes meeting the viewer’s gaze from the shadow of a broad-brimmed riding hat. An anarchist writes to a German physician, “I have been familiar with your great work on sex psychology for a number of years.
Parecer sobre desindexação global no caso CNIL vs. Google
Existem muitas formas de se saber mais sobre alguém. Hoje, uma das principais é buscando o nome da pessoa na internet. Na Europa, o reconhecimento de um direito à remoção de resultados de busca na internet por nome (popularizado como desindexação), criou discussão judicial cujo resultado pode afetar todos nós.
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