The 2018 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) which was held in Port Vila, Vanuatu from August 13-16 came to an exciting close after a week of valuable dialogue on Internet Governance issues in the region.  This was the first time the APrIGF was held in the Pacific and the local hosts, Vanuatu’s Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), Vanuatu Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator (TRR), and the local people of Vanuatu showed the APrI

Es richtet sich an Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Hebammen, Gynäkologeninnen und Gynäkologen sowie Ärztinnen und Ärzte angrenzender Fachbereiche. Das Symposium unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Tanja Fehm, Direktorin der Klinik für Frauenheilkunde des UKD, und Dr. Nora Schaal, Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie der HHU, gibt einen Einblick in die aktuelle geburtshilfliche Forschung zur Verbesserung der Rahmenbedingungen für Schwangerschaft und Geburt.

Less than two months had passed since the General Data Protection Regulation entered into force on 25 May 2018, and yet its impact could already be seen everywhere. In addition to a flood of emails asking for our (renewed) consent, countless new or re-formulated data protection policies “emerged”, while the public debate hailed a “new…
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Paper by Helen Nissenbaum, Sebastian Benthall, Anupam Datta, Michael Carl Tschantz, and Piot Mardziel: “Machine learning over big data poses challenges for our conceptualization of privacy. Such techniques can discover surprising and counteractive associations that take innocent looking data and turns it into important inferences about a person. For example, the buying carbon monoxide monitors has been linked to paying credit card bills, while buying chrome-skull car accessories predicts not doing so.

Samer Hassan, researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center and UCM in Madrid, who recently received a 1.5M€ grant to build blockchain-based democratic and sustainable organizations for the collaborative economy (p2pmodels.eu), leads a working session exploring how blockchain technologies, can be utilized to create new ways to cooperate: building new commons-oriented, blockchain-driven initiatives which incorporate Elinor Ostrom’s 8 Principles for Managing a Co

Im Rahmen der Tagung „Physiognomien des Lebens: Anthropologie, Medizin, Kultur“ (Or­ganisation: Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò; Jun.-Prof. Sieglinde Borvitz; Dr. Luca Viglialoro), die in Kooperation mit der Universität Palermo vom 12. bis 14. September im Haus der Universität stattfindet, werden philosophisch-literarische Reflexionen über Körperbewe­gungen und Körpermerkmale, welche aus der wissenschaftlichen Tradition der sogenann­ten Physiognomik stammen, analysiert.

Shweta Mohandas was a panelist at the event, "Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment", organised by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, and the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi. It took place on Friday, 24 August 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.

Google once directed you to information. Today, it’s often the source of information, using data you and others have shared, often without you realising it. Public knowledge goes where Google takes it. And 20 years on, not everyone’s happy with the journey.
The article by Rachel Lopez was published in Hindustan Times on August 26, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Report by Sarah Timmis, Luke Heselwood and Eleonora Harwich (for Reform UK): “This report demonstrates the potential of data sharing to transform the delivery of public services and improve outcomes for citizens. It explores how government can overcome various challenges to ‘get data right’ and enable better use of personal data within and between public-sector organisations.
Ambition meets reality

Book by Kevin Werbach: “The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system—for example, a shared ledger of information—without necessarily trusting any of its components. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is the most famous implementation of the blockchain, but hundreds of other companies have been founded and billions of dollars invested in similar applications since Bitcoin’s launch.

A recente política brasileira para a transformação digital

La implementación de las reformas y el futuro del sistema de educación superior chileno fueron los temas que marcaron la cita.

El ex parlamentario y abogado, quien formara parte del "Grupo de los 13" -facción de la Democracia Cristiana que rechazó tempranamente el Golpe de Estado de 1973-, acérrimo defensor de los derechos humanos, y trabajador de instancias fundamentales como la Vicaría de la Solidaridad y el Comité Pro Paz, murió este lunes 20 de agosto.

29.08.2018 - 19:00 - 20:30 Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin

How do large IT companies respect their customers’ right to freedom of expression? And what do they do to protect users’ privacy? The team of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is currently looking for a student employee with enthusiasm for technical solutions for data-based research projects. The 15-20 hours per week…
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Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
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University of Melbourne: “Biometric Mirror exposes the possibilities of artificial intelligence and facial analysis in public space. The aim is to investigate the attitudes that emerge as people are presented with different perspectives on their own, anonymised biometric data distinguished from a single photograph of their face.

On 1 September I start work as CEO of the Internet Society. I have a lot to do to live up to the example set by Kathy Brown with all that she achieved during her leadership. It is a great honour, and I appreciate the trust the Board of Trustees has placed in me. I will work daily to earn the same trust from the rest of the Internet community, in part by being transparent about what drives me to do this.

Ed Yong at the Atlantic: “Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning.

Report by the Centre for Policy Innovation and Public Engagement (CPIPE): “In recent years, governments all over the world have been embracing new and innovative ways to develop public policies and design public services, from crowdsourcing to human-centred design thinking.