Schülerinnen und Schüler der Jahrgangsstufen 11 und 12 sollten hellhörig werden: Denn es gibt insgesamt 6.000 Euro für die besten Facharbeiten in den Fächern Biologie, Chemie, Informatik, Mathematik und Physik zu gewinnen. Die Preise vergibt die Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gemeinsam mit der Dr. Hans Riegel-Stiftung.
Prämiert werden die jeweils drei besten Facharbeiten des aktuellen Schuljahres mit jeweils 600, 400 und 200 Euro. Auch die Siegerschulen erhalten Sachpreise im Wert von 250 Euro.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Within the scope of openbudgets.eu, a project funded by the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme, Open Knowledge Greece (OK Greece) conducted a survey on the availability of open public budgeting data in Greece. Then, our team created an interactive map that allows users to check the scores of their municipality or regional administrative unit. You can visit openbudgets.gr to check out the map.

Smitha and I are writing a series of papers on a data protection law for India, based on our research. We hope that our discussion of the options before us and their relative merits and demerits will help other engage with these difficult questions in a nuanced manner. The first paper sets out the context for […]

Co-written by Victoria Alsina. Originally published in Forbes on March 27, 2018. Available online here.
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Durante os dias 17 a 23 de março foi realizada a 8ª edição do Fórum Mundial da Água em Brasília. O Fórum organizou mais de 300 mesas de debates que reuniram cerca de 95 mil pessoas, contando com a lideranças de 172 países. O Fórum consiste no principal evento de discussões sobre o tema dos recursos hídricos e foi marcado pela divulgação de Declarações e Compromissos Parlamentares.

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featuring Maria Smith of the Berkman Klein Center

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Internet access is a major social and economic justice issue of our time. Dividing Lines, a four-part documentary video series, sheds a light on who is being left behind as big telecom flourishes.

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

Event Date

Mar
27
2018
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Following Uber’s fatal crash in Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey is attracting attention for what he did and did not do. This is not surprising; as I noted in 2016, Arizona's governor decided to embrace Uber’s vision, for better or for worse. This discussion, however, tends to elide the important question of his actual legal authority.
Location

United States

Unlike most children of his age, Alex Bahati, 16, is privileged to have a smart phone at his disposal when he is at home during school holidays. Alex lives with his two young siblings and a house help.  His parents work with an international NGO and their work demands a lot of travel and this keeps them away from the family most of the time. The flat where Alex lives is fixed with free Wifi giving the residents access to the Internet without much restriction. At Domus Marie Secondary School where he is in Form one, the deputy principle Mr.

La séptima versión de este evento musical, que este año se extenderá por tres días, contará con la presencia del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia, (CR)2, en el sector dedicado a concientizar sobre el cambio climático y el cuidado del medio ambiente.La investigación científica hecha en Chile tendrá su espacio en Lollapalooza gracias a la participación del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2, -centro Fondap Conicyt integrado por las universidades de Chile, de Concepción y Austral de Chile,- en la “Aldea Verde” del festival que se desarrollará desde

Destacados académicos diseñaron una parrilla de programas con los que la Universidad de Chile se pone a la vanguardia en materias que serán clave para el desarrollo del país y el devenir de la humanidad.

Entre el 20 y el 25 de marzo en seis comunas de Santiago, con múltiples actividades y funciones gratuitas, se dará inicio al festival FEMCINE, patrocinado por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones y el Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen de nuestro plantel.

Kraftwerk, Bushido, Dimmu Borgir and Moses Pelham have more in common than being musicians: Because of sampling, they are tangled up in copyright infringement lawsuits. This issue has been subject... MORE

While Internet-connected devices afford utility unseen in generations past, they may also create a host of security issues, ranging from insignificant to catastrophic in potential impact.

Handbook by Evan Selinger, Jules Polonetsky, and Omer Tene: “Businesses are rushing to collect personal data to fuel surging demand. Data enthusiasts claim personal information that’s obtained from the commercial internet, including mobile platforms, social networks, cloud computing, and connected devices, will unlock path-breaking innovation, including advanced data security.

Eillie Anzilotti in Fast Company: “…While anyone who bikes or rides a bus in New York City knows intuitively that the lanes are often blocked, there’s been little data to back up that feeling apart from the fact that last year, the NYPD issues 24,000 tickets for vehicles blocking bus lanes, and around 79,000 to cars in the bike lane. By building the algorithm, Bell essentializes what engaged citizenship and productive use of open data looks like.

Michael David Thomas in Public Choice: “New justifications for government intervention based on behavioral psychology rely on a behavioral asymmetry between expert policymakers and market participants. Public choice theory applied the behavioral symmetry assumption to policy making in order to illustrate how special interests corrupt the suppositions of benevolence on the part of policy makers. Cognitive problems associated with market choices have been used to argue for even more intervention.

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung ist ab dem nächst möglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) mit einem
Viertel der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit zu besetzen.
Die regelmäßige Arbeitszeit beträgt zurzeit 39 Stunden 50 Minuten wöchentlich. Die Stelle ist befristet. Die Möglichkeit zur Promotion ist gegeben.

Tafari Mbadiwe at The Atlantis: “For generations, the Maasai people of eastern Africa have passed down the story of a tireless old man. He lived alone and his life was not easy. He spent every day in the fields — tilling the land, tending the animals, and gathering water. The work was as necessary as it was exhausting. But the old man considered himself fortunate. He had a good life, and never really gave much thought to what was missing.