A draft privacy bill proposes sweeping reforms to the way personal data is collected, processed and stored in India.
The blog post by Arpan Chaturvedi was published in Bloomberg Quint on June 9, 2018. CIS research was quoted.
Adi Gaskell: “One of the more significant areas of promise in health technology is the ability for data to be generated by us as individuals, and for AI to provide insights based upon this live stream of lifestyle data. An example of what’s possible comes via a project researchers at Imperial College London have undertaken with the Vodafone Foundation.
NBER Working Paper by Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Nicholas Muller, and Yen-Chia Hsu: “Most environmental policy assumes the form of standards and enforcement. Scarce public budgets motivate the use of disclosure laws. This study explores a new form of pollution disclosure: real-time visual evidence of emissions provided on a free, public website. The paper tests whether the disclosure of visual evidence of emissions affects the nature and frequency of phone calls to the local air quality regulator.
Nils Röper at The Conversation: “It is a bitter irony that politicians lament the threat to democracy posed by the internet, instead of exploiting its potential to enhance the existing system. Hackers and bots may help to sway elections, but modern technology has allowed the power of the multitude to positively disrupt the world of business and beyond. Now, crowdsourcing should be allowed to shake up the lawmaking process to make democracies more participatory and efficient.
Speakers: Thomas Potthast, Andri König und Marius Albiez, IZEW. This lecture is a cooperation with the lecture series "participative social science" .Room 0.01, IZEW Verfügungsgebäude.When? 06/12/ 2018 12 am.
Robert Raymond: The state of precarity inherent to most forms of digital labor and the unchecked exploitation of workers on many gig economy platforms is a largely under covered issue. Although there are some conversations around regulating companies that perpertrate such practices, issues of ownership and governance as they relate to questionable practices of various digital platforms are rarely given much consideration.
Bei der Infoveranstaltung „Zweifel am Studium“ im Rahmen des Projektes „MOVE! – DEN EIGENEN WEG FINDEN“ am 13. Juni können sich Studierende vor Ort von Experten der Agentur für Arbeit, der Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf, der Industrie und Handelskammer zu Düsseldorf sowie des Career Service und der Studienberatungen der HHU und der HSD beraten lassen.
Die Ansprechpartner laden ein, gemeinsam mögliche Perspektiven und erste Schritte zu den Themen Fachwechsel, Studienausstieg oder außeruniversitärer beruflicher Ausbildung zu besprechen und anzugehen.
Social media platforms watch us. But who watches them? Part media literacy project and part citizen science experiment, Algorithm Observatory is a global collaborative lab for the empirical analysis of social computing algorithms. We are currently in the prototype stage, which only allows you to study Facebook advertising algorithms. Join us! Click here for more info about the future of Algorithm Observatory.
The following texts are taken from Algorithm Observatory’s Website.
Verliehen wurden in Betriebswirtschaftslehre 50 Bachelor- und 44 Masterurkunden, in Volkswirtschaftslehre 37 Bachelor- und 21 Masterurkunden sowie in Wirtschaftschemie 26 Bachelor-, und 20 Masterurkunden.
Mit dem Konrad-Henkel-Examenspreis für das beste Masterexamen in BWL – dotiert mit 2.500 Euro – wurde Jahrgangsbester Eyyüp Özen (25) ausgezeichnet. Er hatte seinen Master of Science mit der Gesamtnote 1,3 abgeschlossen. Katrin Steinbüchel, Corporate Vice President Human Resources der Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, überreichte den Preis.
This is a quick update on the CEO Succession process at the Internet Society (ISOC). For background, please check my previous notes to the community.
As you know, the application window for potential candidates for ISOC’s CEO position closed in early April. Let me update you on where we are in the process.
Esta é a quinta edição do programaA FGV Direito Rio abre edital para a quinta edição do Fellows in Rio, programa de bolsas de pesquisa para doutores e doutorandos em direito na área relacionada às atividades do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação da Escola. Os candidatos devem estar, obrigatoriamente, vinculados ao estar vinculados às atividades do Mestrado da Instituição e as inscrições devem ser realizadas até o dia 6 de julho.
Esta é a quinta edição do programaA FGV Direito Rio abre edital para a quinta edição do Fellows in Rio, programa de bolsas de pesquisa para doutores e doutorandos em direito na área relacionada às atividades do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação da Escola. Os candidatos devem estar, obrigatoriamente, vinculados ao estar vinculados às atividades do Mestrado da Instituição e as inscrições devem ser realizadas até o dia 6 de julho.
The Hackathon@AIS is a yearly event, in its second year, aimed at exposing engineers from the Africa region to Open Internet Standards Development. This year, the event was held in Dakar Senegal at the Radisson Blu Hotel, from 9-10 May 2018, during the Africa Internet Summit (AIS-2018).
The event was attended by more than 75 engineers from 15 countries including 11 fellows who were supported to attend the event.
Wenn jede Bewegung schmerzhaft ist: Volksleiden KniearthroseEin möglicher Auslöser von chronischen Knieschmerzen ist die Arthrose, weltweit die häufigste Gelenkerkrankung. Sie entsteht, wenn die Knorpelschicht in den Gelenken geschädigt und verschlissen ist und bei jeder Bewegung die Knochen ohne den schützenden Knorpel aneinander reiben. Mit starken Schmerzen verbundene Schäden an den Gelenkflächen sind die Folge. Abhilfe schaffen kann das Einsetzen eines künstlichen Kniegelenks (fachlich: Knie-Endoprothesen).
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. In May 2018, we interviewed Arnaud Castaignet, head of public relations for Estonia’s e-Residency programme.
El pasado 27 de mayo Colombia vivió una cita electoral marcada por la gran participación ciudadana en un contexto de acuerdo de paz con la guerrilla de las FARC. La jornada destacó por el primer lugar de Iván Duque, representante del uribismo, seguido por la izquierda, que obtuvo el 25 por ciento de los votos y que -por primera vez- disputará la segunda vuelta.
En la sesión del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado (CUECH), de este miércoles 30 de mayo, los rectores destacaron la gran adhesión de las movilizaciones feministas, además de discutir y continuar con la elaboración de medidas que buscan avanzar hacia la igualdad de género en las instituciones públicas del país.Las movilizaciones feministas que llevan adelante las estudiantes de diversas universidades del país fueron uno de los principales temas abordados en la última sesión sostenida por los miembros del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado (CUECH).
Por primera vez, el Máximo Tribunal del país determinó el cambio de nombre y sexo registral de una persona transexual sin requerir intervención quirúrgica de ningún tipo. "Ha sido mi curso el que ha luchado por esto en todo este tiempo y ha logrado, judicialmente, que se reconozca un derecho clave para nuestro país", dijo la profesora Lorena Lorca, quien lidera la Clínica Jurídica de la Facultad de Derecho U.