Paper by Jack Balkin: “We have now moved from the early days of the Internet to the Algorithmic Society. The Algorithmic Society features the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence agents, and Big Data to govern populations. It also features digital infrastructure companies, large multi-national social media platforms, and search engines that sit between traditional nation states and ordinary individuals, and serve as special-purpose governors of speech.

Mike Orcutt at MIT Technology Review: “Finland’s digital money system for asylum seekers shows what blockchain technology can offer the unbanked….

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Opinion piece by Claire Melamed, and Mahamudu Bawumia: “Knowledge is power, and knowledge will empower humanity to tackle the most serious challenges of our time. We are all reliant on accurate knowledge to achieve the collective ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the clock is ticking.

Daniel Castro at GovTech: “…Like other technologies, smart cities will evolve and mature over time. The earliest will provide basic insights from data and enable local leaders to engage in evidence-based governance. These efforts will be important, but they will represent only incremental change from what cities have already been doing.

Research Report Summary by Making All Voices Count: “What are the conditions in democratic governance that make information and communication technology (ICT)-mediated citizen engagement transformative?

Ian L. Boyd at Nature: “….Government is mostly involved in creating or implementing policies concerning how people live their lives. Making government data open could be seen as the equivalent of open government itself because data are increasingly the ‘stuff’ of government.

La actividad es parte del festival que lleva el nombre de éste último compositor, Premio Nacional de Arte 1945 mención Música.

Este martes 5 de septiembre, la Comisión de Educación de la Cámara de Diputados aprobó la idea de legislar sobre el proyecto de Ley de Universidades del Estado. Al tiempo que la ministra de Educación, Adriana Delpiano y la gran mayoría de los parlamentarios presentes en la votación, manifestaron su voluntad de perfeccionar la iniciativa, el Rector Vivaldi enfatizó en la unidad de las estatales y sus comunidades, para colaborar en sacar adelante un proyecto que fortalezca y beneficie a las instituciones del Estado.

Der Auftritt „Professor Blitz und der Fluch des Zuckerwürfels“ am Weltkindertag am Mittwoch, 20.September 2017, war Teil der von Prof. Dr. Karsten Müssig geleiteten Initiative „SMS. Sei schlau. Mach mit. Sei fit." an Düsseldorfer Grundschulen. Sie möchte Übergewicht und anderen lebensstilbedingten Erkrankungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter entgegenwirken und wird wissenschaftlich begleitet vom Deutschen Diabetes-Zentrum (DDZ).

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European Commission Press Release: “To unlock the full potential of the EU data economy, the Commission is proposing a new set of rules to govern the free flow of non-personal data in the EU. Together with the already existing rules for personal data, the new measures will enable the storage and processing of non-personal data across the Union to boost the competitiveness of European businesses and to modernise public services in an effective EU single market for data services.

If taxpayers pay for something, they should have access to the results of the work they paid for. This seems a very logical basic premise that no-one would disagree with, but there are many cases of where this is not common practice. For example, in various countries Freedom of Information laws do not fully apply to cases where governments outsource services. This would prevent you from finding out how your tax money has been spent.

Shocking, and disappointing news. Reposted from Boing Boing.
Cory Doctorow: In July, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium overruled dozens of members’ objections to publishing a DRM standard without a compromise to protect accessibility, security research, archiving, and competition.

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Date published: September 20, 2017Foreign Policy"“Congress has subpoena power, of course,” says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, who previously represented several big tech companies in national security cases.

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Guerrilla Translation’s transcript of the 2013 C-Realm Podcast Bauwens/Kleiner/Trialogue prefigures many of the directions the P2P Foundation has taken in later years. To honor its relevance we’re curating special excerpts from each of the three authors.

I am working with a group of civic developers committed to supporting Hurricane victims for relief & recovery who have helped with the software development and data analysis of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma primarily in Texas and Florida. In the wake of Hurricane Maria, we want to help Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the same way. Devastation has already occurred in Puerto Rico and the USVI, and we’re here to help in the response and recovery pending from Maria.