The Amrta initiative works to end water privatization in Jakarta and enable a transition to good, publicly run water services. Through research, public discussions and collaboration with civil society, this initiative has pushed the city government to announce plans to remunicipalize Jakarta’s water supply.
Michel Bauwens: Basic income has been very much in the news in the last decade, with an increasing number of reports and policy experimentations. Even though it has conquered the support of the majority of progressive voters in Europe, there are voices that see in the basic income a ‘neoliberal plot’, citing the support of Silicon Valley luminaries. But with the basic income, the devil is in the details, and to distinguish a socially progressive version of the basic income, we must be able to judge the proposals with concrete principles in mind.
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Author(s): Brett FrischmannPublication Date: July 30, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingCross-posted from Scientific American.
Mike Loukides, Hilary Mason and DJ Patil at O’Reilly: “(This post is the first in a series on data ethics) The hard thing about being an ethi
Julia Keutgen: On March 13–17, 2018 The GovLab brought together two dozen crowdlaw experts from around the world to collaborate on developing new ways to include more and more diverse opinions and expertise at every stage of the law- and policy-making process. The convening was held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s famed Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. This post is the second in a series of blog posts from the crowdlaw conference participants.
A session in progress at the CrowdLaw conference at the Rockefeller Foundation conference center in Bellagio, Italy
The draft Data Protection Bill is likely to have significant impact on how companies and startups use customer data, particularly as it would increase costs and make it difficult for them to take data outside the country.
The article by Mugdha Variyar and Pratik Bhakta was published in Economic Times on July 28, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Rules for protection of personal data in the telecom space are not sufficient, regulator TRAI said today while suggesting that consumers be given the right to choice, consent and to be forgotten to safeguard their privacy.
This was published by Bloomberg Quint on July 16, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was interviewed.
This will be a stop-gap measure before the creation of a privacy bill.
The article by Gopal Sathe was published in Huffington Post on July 16, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Between 2015 to 2017, Facebook nearly doubled its user base to about 250 million in India. The two other popular Facebook products, WhatsApp and Instagram, became swimmingly popular in the country, too – the messaging platform counts 200 million users here and the photos and videos sharing app some 60 million.
The article by Sunny Sen and Jayadevan PK was published by Factor Daily on July 25, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Centre directs social media platforms to take prompt action against fake messages
The article by Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on July 27, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
The government has written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking an enquiry into London-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, and asked all social media platforms to take prompt action against fake messages, including tracing their origin. Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of a Facebook data breach row, including those of around 562,000 Indian users.
The Srikrishna committee draft law on data protection is days away. Here’s a bucket list of issues that will matter
The article by Mihir Dalal and Anirban Sen was published in Livemint on July 26, 2018. Amber Sinha was quoted.
If a city manages to provide all its residents with fresh, local, and healthy food, then that city has leapfrogged toward an inclusive and equitable society: such is the level of importance of food in a city. Food not only forms an integral part of human activity, but also of the economy. What is the role of cities and citizens in creating a resilient food system?
After months of speculation, the Committee of Experts on data protection (“Committee”), led by Justice B N Sri Krishna, has submitted its recommendations and a draft data protection bill to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MEITY”) today. As we sit down for some not-so-light weekend reading to understand what our digital futures could […]
In June 2018, in the city of Panamá, a parallel session was organized by the Internet Society during the international meeting of ICANN 62. This session had the aim of promoting a key discussion underlining our digital future: the impacts of technology and the Internet on future jobs.
This article is an outcome of the discussion carried out by a particularly diverse table of young people* from different stakeholder groups that choose the subject of “the future of education” as its central debate point.
Muchas veces confundidos, ambos crímenes son sancionados por el Código Penal chileno a partir de la Ley 20.507 del año 2011. Cuáles son sus similitudes y diferencias y cuáles son los desafíos en relación a la normativa migratoria en discusión, son preguntas que responden las académicas de la Facultad de Derecho, Rita Lages y Claudia Cárdenas.
Last year, 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. In July 2018, we interviewed Giles Rhys Jones to hear his perspective on the forces shaping the Internet.
Jak każda dyrektywa, również Dyrektywa Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2017/1564 dotycząca ułatwienia dostępu do opublikowanych utworów drukowanych osobom niewidomym i słabowidzącym musi zostać implementowana do porządków prawnych państw członkowskich.
Wie bereits am Mittwoch während der Verhandlungen angekündigt, wurden am Freitag die Sollbesetzungszahlen und die konkrete Verfahrensanweisung für ein Ausfallmanagement an Verdi durch die beiden Kliniken übersandt. Damit ist eine Rückkehr auf die Sachebene der Verhandlungen durchaus möglich.Ekkehard Zimmer, Kaufmännischer Direktor und stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender des UKD, ist enttäuscht über die aktuelle Kehrtwende der Gewerkschaft: „In vielen Punkten gab es Zustimmung zu Passagen analog zur Baden-Württemberger Vereinbarung sowie deutliche Annäherungen in kritischen Punkten.
The growth-driven economic model we have adopted is killing our planet.