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LawXLab: “Crowdsourcing has revolutionized several industries.  Wikipedia has replaced traditional encyclopedias.  Stack Overflow houses the collective knowledge of software engineering.  And genealogical information stretches back thousands of years.  All due to crowdsourcing.

Springwise: “With fake news an ongoing challenge for media platforms, users and the wider world, Polish startup Userfeeds is developing new algorithms to help create transparency around the sources of news. The company sees a variety of current online dilemmas, including ad-blocking and targeting as well as moderation, as information ranking problems.

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

They often say data journalism is a more objective kind of journalism. Is it really? We wanted to try it out and use data to combat prejudices that exist about migration. For this, we organised #ddjcamp: a data journalism training + hackathon where 60 journalists, developers and designers gathered from 11 countries.

Yesterday, a new petition challenging several sections under the Aadhaar Act came up for hearing before a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court. The bench, comprising of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, was the same that heard the petitions challenging s. 139AA of the Income Tax Act, which made it it mandatory to link […]

El programa académico "Conducción de procesos de formación docente en matemática", organizado por el Centro de Modelamiento Matemático de la U.

La compañía de danza contemporánea más antigua y destacada del país fue reconocida por el organismo con el "Premio Academia" 2016, la más alta distinción que anualmente entrega la corporación. El galardón fue un reconocimiento a la trayectoria del Ballet, extendida por 71 años de divulgación de la danza en Chile y el extranjero.Los miembros de la Academia Chilena de Bellas Artes entregaron el 24 de abril los premios anuales que reconocen la labor de los artistas u organizaciones que se distinguen por difundir los valores culturales de la expresión artística chilena.

Colm Gorey at SiliconRepublic: “…not all blockchain technologies need to be about making money. A recent report issued by the European Commission discussed the possible ways it could change people’s lives….

SCOPE: “How common is autism? Since 2000, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revised its estimate several times, with the numbers ticking steadily upward. But the most recent figure of 1 in 68 kids affected is based on data from only 11 states.

Report by Kaliati, Andrew; Kachieng’a, Paskaliah and de Lanerolle, Indra: “Many governments, international agencies and civil society organisations (CSOs) support and promote open data. Most open government data initiatives have focused on supply – creating portals and publishing information. But much less attention has been given to demand – understanding data needs and nurturing engagement.

Instytucje zakwalifikowane do Programu:

• Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie

• Fundacja Ośrodka KARTA

• Muzeum Warszawy

Więcej informacji o Pracowni: https://otwartakultura.org/pracownia/

Paper by Ben Berkowitz and Jean-Paul Gagnon in Democratic Theory: “SeeClickFix began in 2009 when founder and present CEO Ben Berkowitz spotted a piece of graffiti in his New Haven, Connecticut, neighborhood.

Cath Everett in Diginomica: “Although the private sector is seen as the villain of the piece in some quarters, it actually has a substantial role to play in helping solve the problem of world hunger.
This is the view of Andre Laperriere, executive director of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (Godan) initiative, …

In September 2016, we filed a Petition in the Northern District of California (the federal district court for the Bay Area and much of Northern California) asking the court to unseal years’ worth of surveillance matters filed there. We had our first hearing before the court on May 4.
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CALL FOR PAPERS | Transformative Constitutionalism in Latin America and International Economic Law21h00O Evento: CALL FOR PAPERS
Expert Workshop at the Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro
28 – 29 August 2017, Rio de Janeiro
 
Transformative Constitutionalism in Latin America and International Economic Law
Avoiding Conflict and Fostering Dialogue

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The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

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Join us for this firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges.

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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2017
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Poszukujemy osoby zainteresowanej stykiem kultury i technologii, w tym przemianami sektora kultury pod wpływem cyfryzacji zasobów dziedzictwa, która będzie wspierać zespół Centrum Cyfrowego w realizowaniu zadań organizacyjnych i prowadzeniu biura.

Miejsce pracy: Warszawa

Matthew Hutson at Science: “See you in the Supreme Court!” President Donald Trump tweeted last week, responding to lower court holds on his national security policies. But is taking cases all the way to the highest court in the land a good idea? Artificial intelligence may soon have the answer. A new study shows that computers can do a better job than legal scholars at predicting Supreme Court decisions, even with less information.

In May 2nd, 2017 we launched the Global Open Data Index (GODI). This blog post is part of a series that explore the main findings of GODI and the next challenges in open data measurement.  
In the past, we were asked why the Global Open Data Index assesses ‘places’ and not countries. Why do we evaluate Hong Kong? Why the Crown Dependencies Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey? And why do we regard Northern Ireland separately from Great Britain in this year’s edition?