Starting tomorrow, from 5 to 6 October more than 500 internet researchers from all over the globe meet at the conference of the «Association of Internet Researchers» (AoIR) in Berlin. This year’s theme... MORE
This blog post is part of our summer series featuring chapter updates from across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the team of Open Knowledge Finland.
Summer is a great time in Finland. It’s so sunny that everyone seems to be on holiday! However, there was no time for extended holidays at Open Knowledge Finland – we had a very busy summer. Here is our update for the Network, with key news from the last few months.
Open Knowledge Finland has a new board!
Roland Joffé, director de ‘La misión’ y dos veces finalista al Óscar, nos visita
El cineasta, también responsable de ‘Los gritos del silencio’, participará en un encuentro con alumnos este jueves 6 de octubre
FOTO: Cedida
04/10/16 12:31
Nagore Gil
‘Why can’t reflection be more jubilant?’
This phrase from Eduardo Navas’ Spate may serve as an adequate line to proudly introduce our new publication series Deep Pockets. ‘Jubilant reflection’ on networks, media activism, the political economy of the social, and other INC topics is what we’re after with this new line of print-on-demand and electronic books, of which Spate: A Navigational Theory of Networks is the first.
We are celebrating! Since 5 years, HIIG is exploring digital spheres and the transformation of digital society. Our ongoing research efforts will be honoured by Permanent secretary Björn Böhning and Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser (Berkman... MORE
Anne Emig at Bloomberg Philanthropies: “Since 2013, hundreds of cities around the world have competed in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge by proposing bold new ideas that solve urban challenges, improve city life – and have the potential to spread….
Paper by Mila Gascó in Government Information Quarterly: “Public sector innovation is an important issue in the agenda of policymakers and academic
Paper by Johns,Melissa Marie and Saltane,Valentina for the World Bank: “… presents a new database of indicators measuring the extent to which rulemaking processes are transparent and participatory across 185 countries. The data look at how citizen engagement happens in practice, including when and how governments open the policy-making process to public input.
Book edited by Sherzod Abdukadirov: “This collection challenges the popular but abstract concept of nudging, demonstrating the real-world application of behavioral economics in policy-making and technology. Groundbreaking and practical, it considers the existing political incentives and regulatory institutions that shape the environment in which behavioral policy-making occurs, as well as alternatives to government nudges already provided by the market.
La Dirección de Deportes y Actividad Física de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios, junto al Centro Deportivo de Estudiantes, organizaron los 46° Juegos Olímpicos Estudiantiles, en los que participarán cerca de dos mil estudiantes de todas las unidades académicas de nuestra institución, con el objetivo de entregarle a los jóvenes un espacio de encuentro y competencia deportiva.
Pilar Moraga, investigadora del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2 plantea en esta columna referida a la firma del COP21 -un tratado internacional relativo a cambio climático- que si bien esto constituye un avance, "no existen vías a nivel internacional que puedan ser utilizadas por los afectados por el cambio climático" y que el contexto actual "exige una redefinición legal de los derechos, poderes y responsabilidades, a través de un nuevo marco constitucional" en este ámbito.El 12 de diciembre de 2015, 195 países y la Unión Europea adoptaron el Acuerdo de
Un grupo de 14 estudiantes de distintas unidades académicas de nuestro plantel, pertenecientes al Sistema de Ingreso Prioritario de Equidad Educativa (SIPEE) y de los Hogares Universitarios (HHUU), participaron recientemente en un taller realizado junto a una excursión a la nieve y dinámicas de desarrollo personal, en una exitosa jornada tanto para sus organizadores como para los participantes.
Daniele Quercia in Built Environment: “It is well known that the layout and configuration of urban space plugs directly into our sense of community wellbeing. The twentieth-century city planner Kevin Lynch showed that a city’s dwellers create their own personal ‘mental maps’ of the city based on features such as the routes they use and the areas they visit. Maps that are easy to remember and navigate bring comfort and ultimately contribute to people’s wellbeing.
Arguing that a defendant’s conviction for website hacking should be overturned because legitimate, highly valuable security and privacy research commonly employs techniques that are essentially identical to what the defendant did and that such independent research is of great value to academics, government regulators and the public even when – often especially when — conducted without a website owner’s permission.
Location
United States
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Arguing that the information publicly available on the NSA's Upstream program, combined with an understanding of how the Internet works, means plaintiff Wikimedia has met its burden of proving standing to challenge Upstream.
Location
United States
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Location
United States
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Author(s): Jennifer GranickRiana PfefferkornPublication Date: March 3, 2016Publication Type: Litigation Brief
Arguing that if the court should not compel Apple to create software to enable unlocking and search of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, it will jeopardize digital and personal security more generally.
Location
United States
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Środowisko edukacyjne z nadzieją oczekiwało na europejską propozycję reform prawa autorskiego – Komisja zobowiązała się do doprecyzowania zakresu swobód dla edukatorów (tak zwanego dozwolonego użytku edukacyjnego) i dostosowania prawa do realiów cyfrowego świata. Oczekiwaliśmy, że Komisja zaproponuje wyjątek od prawa autorskiego, który skutecznie odpowiadałby na wyzwania związane z nauczaniem online.
Środowisko edukacyjne z nadzieją oczekiwało na europejską propozycję reform prawa autorskiego – Komisja zobowiązała się do doprecyzowania zakresu swobód dla edukatorów (tak zwanego dozwolonego użytku edukacyjnego) i dostosowania prawa do realiów cyfrowego świata. Oczekiwaliśmy, że Komisja zaproponuje wyjątek od prawa autorskiego, który skutecznie odpowiadałby na wyzwania związane z nauczaniem online.