The Indian Supreme Court’s review of Facebook Inc.'s and WhatsApp Inc.'s data security practices may lack teeth but also presages a desire for a stronger privacy regime and oversight of multinationals, internet and privacy specialists told Bloomberg BNA.
The article by Nayanima Basu was published by Bloomberg BNA on February 1, 2017. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Saiu a quarta parte de uma série de vídeos documentando o II Seminário Governança das Redes e o Marco Civil da Internet: Globalização, tecnologias e conectividade, que ocorreu nos dias 26 e 27 de outubro de 2016 na Faculdade IBMEC em Belo Horizonte. Semanalmente, iremos publicar os vídeos integrais de cada um dos painéis do evento. Continue acompanhando nossas publicações!
Painel: Direitos dos Usuários, Consentimento e Transferência Internacional de Dados
Participantes: Flávia Lefèvre, Alexandre Pacheco, Danilo Doneda e Lucas Anjos

Esta é a 2ª edição do prêmio, criado em 2014.As Escolas de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito RJ) e de São Paulo (Direito SP) da Fundação Getulio Vargas prestarão homenagem ao ministro aposentado do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Carlos Ayres Britto. No dia 13 de fevereiro, às 11h30, no auditório do edifício sede da FGV, no Rio de Janeiro, ele vai receber o “Prêmio FGV de Direitos Humanos” por sua contribuição na promoção e defesa dos Direitos Humanos.

IDS Practice Paper by Francesca Feruglio and Ahmad Rifai: “In 2015, Yayasan Kota Kita (Our City Foundation), an Indonesian civil society organisation, applied to Making All Voices Count for a practitioner research and learning grant.

Hayley Tsukayama in the Washington Post: “President Trump may have used the power of social media to make his way into the White House, but now social media networks are showing that muscle can work for his opposition, too.

  Sowmya Karun In a previous post, we critically examined the legislative and institutional framework for the protection of critical information infrastructures (“CIIs”) in India. The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (“NCIIPC”) has since revamped its website. This is a heartening move towards transparency and increased public engagement. According to “data shared by a […]

The INC has a new publication format: the Zero Infinite podcast!

By Prianka Srinivasan, Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst
As part of an ongoing effort to build a knowledge base for the field of opening governance by organizing and disseminating its learnings, the GovLab Selected Readings series provides an annotated and curated collection of recommended works on key opening governance topics. In this edition, we explore the literature on Algorithmic Scrutiny. 

Springwise: “CitySwipe is Downtown Santa Monica Inc’s opinion gathering app. The non-profit organization manages the center of the city and is using the app as part of the local government’s consultation on its Downtown Community Plan.

Lindsay Read and Tamar Manuelyan Atinc at Brookings: “There is a wide consensus among policymakers and practitioners that while access to education has improved significantly for many children in low- and middle-income countries, learning has not kept pace.

Tobias Mirsch,Christiane Lehrer, and Reinhard Jung in Wirtschaftsinformatik: “Individuals make increasingly more decisions on screens, such as those on websites or mobile apps. However, the nature of screens and the vast amount of information available online make individuals particularly prone to deficient decisions. Digital nudging is an approach based on insights from behavioral economics that applies user interface (UI) design elements to affect the choices of users in digital environments.

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Introduction to Special Issue of California Management Review by Boyd Cohen, Esteve Almirall, and Henry Chesbrough: “This article introduces the special issue on the increasing role of cities as a driver for (open) innovation and entrepreneurship.

Geo Developers Blog: “We are excited to announce that we are open-sourcing Google Earth Enterprise (GEE), the enterprise product that allows developers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. With this release, GEE Fusion, GEE Server, and GEE Portable Server source code (all 470,000+ lines!) will be published on GitHub under the Apache2 license in March.

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featuring Dan Greene, Postdoctoral Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England

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Publicação mostra um raio-x da população endividada no paísA FGV Direito Rio acaba de lançar o volume II do livro “Superendividamento no Brasil”. A obra, fruto de pesquisa dos professores Antônio José Maristrello Porto, Danielle Borges, Melina de Souza Rocha Lukic e Patrícia Regina Pinheiro Sampaio, tem entre seus objetivos dar uma ideia mais clara da capacidade de pagamento das famílias e quais são os fatores determinantes do superendividamento dos consumidores de crédito.

Gemeinsam mit dem Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg schreiben wir aktuell mehrere Positionen zur wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeit aus. Das Hans-Bredow-Institut wird zu den renommiertesten Medienforschungsinstituten Deutschlands gezählt. Das interdisziplinäre Team forscht an den... MORE

Open State Foundation is a non-profit based in the Netherlands, working on digital transparency by opening up public information as open data and making it accessible for re-use. Last December, the organization received one of the seven Open Government Partnership 2016 Awards for its work on OpenSpending at the OGP Global Summit in Paris, France. The awards celebrated civil society initiatives that are using government data to bring concrete benefits.

Open State Foundation is a non-profit based in the Netherlands, working on digital transparency by opening up public information as open data and making it accessible for re-use. Last December, the organization received one of the seven Open Government Partnership 2016 Awards for its work on OpenSpending at the OGP Global Summit in Paris, France. The awards celebrated civil society initiatives that are using government data to bring concrete benefits.

Curso engloba 30 diferentes sistemas jurídicosA FGV DIREITO RIO seleciona alunos da graduação para o curso de verão “Summer School European Private Law”, que ocorrerá de 03 a 15 de julho de 2017, em Salzburg na Áustria. A Escola poderá indicar até um aluno, que terá isenção na taxa de inscrição. Os demais alunos interessados farão parte do processo seletivo e, sendo aprovados, não terão isenção da taxa de inscrição. Os interessados devem se inscrever até dia 20 de fevereiro.