Slick, jingoistic videos are whipping up pro-war rhetoric on social media after the Uri terror attack.
The article by Manju V was published in the Times of India on September 25, 2016. Nishant Shah was quoted.

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“Los buenos directores de comunicación son aquellos que saben escuchar y se dejan aconsejar”
Manuel Costa, director de Relaciones Institucionales en Ferrovial y alumno de la primera promoción del Máster en Comunicación Política y Corporativa

25/09/16 13:52
Guillem Batchellí

On August 25 2016, WhatsApp fundamentally changed its privacy policy in a manner that threatened to undermine privacy. In our previous post, we had explained how these changes allow WhatsApp to share account information (such as user’s phone number, contacts and profile picture etc.) with Facebook and other group companies compromising privacy of users. While […]

Fuel Gilt Conference 2016 was organized by the Fuel Project is being held in New Delhi on September 24 and 25, 2016. This is the fourth conference in series. Subhashish Panigrahi made a presentation at this event.

Book by Samuel Bowles: “Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail?
Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.

Book by Lawrence M. Friedman: “Laws and regulations are ubiquitous, touching on many aspects of individual and corporate behavior. But under what conditions are laws and rules actually effective? A huge amount of recent work in political science, sociology, economics, criminology, law, and psychology, among other disciplines, deals with this question.

This is a liveblog of a talk at the 2016 Data Literacy Conference, hosted by Fing.  This was liveblogged by Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D'Ignazio.  These are our best attempt to record what the speak was talking about - any accuracy errors are our fault.

What role does social media play in supporting collective action, and how do people organize to change social media systems themselves?
I'm here in Oxford for the 2016 Internet Politics and Policy conference, hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Yesterday, I shared a paper on The Civic Labor of Online Moderators. Today, I was able to attend a fascinating session on the ways that people organize online for change.

Seminário de Integração FGV Direito Rio e Faculdade de Direito da UERJ09h00 até 18h30O Evento: Seminário de Integração FGV Direito Rio e Faculdade de Direito da UERJ: 
Transformações do Direito Administrativo: Consequencialismo e Estratégias Regulatórias
 

Programação
 
08h30 às 09h – Credenciamento
 
09h às 10h30 – Painel 1

Parabéns aos alunos aprovadosA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV DIREITO RIO)  ficou em 1º lugar no Rio de Janeiro e 2º lugar no Brasil no XIX Exame de Ordem, considerando todas as instituições participantes. Segundo listagem divulgada pela Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB), esse resultado também coloca a FGV DIREITO RIO no 1º lugar entre os cursos particulares no país

Pilot project by Statistics Canada: “Our crowdsourcing pilot project will focus on mapping buildings across Canada.
If you live in Ottawa or Gatineau, you can be among the first to collaborate with us. If you live elsewhere, stay in touch! Your town or city could be next. We are very excited to work with communities across the country on this project.

This is a liveblog of a talk at the 2016 Data Literacy Conference, hoster by Fing.  This was liveblogged by Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D'Ignazio.  These are our best attempt to record what the speak was talking about - any accuracy errors are our fault.

This is a liveblog of a talk at the 2016 Data Literacy Conference, hoster by Fing.  This was liveblogged by Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D'Ignazio.  These are our best attempt to record what the speak was talking about - any accuracy errors are our fault.

This is a liveblog of a talk at the 2016 Data Literacy Conference, hoster by Fing.  This was liveblogged by Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D'Ignazio.  These are our best attempt to record what the speak was talking about - any accuracy errors are our fault.

2016年9月23日下午，《电子商务法》草案跨国企业座谈会（A Dialogue on Chinese Draft E-Commerce Law with Overseas Enterprises）在后主楼1822高铭暄学术会议室举行。
本次会议由北京师范大学互联网政策与法律研究中心主任薛虹教授现场主持，全国人民代表大会财政经济委员会研究室副主任施禹之同志出席并讲话。美国信息产业机构（USITO）、Visa、Nike、Amazon、Google、AT&T、HPI、IBM、Verizon、Intel等跨国企业以及德国联邦国际经济合作机构（GIZ）的代表参加共计30余人参加了会议。与会代表针对《电子商务法》草案的内容进行了认真细致的研讨，提出了自己的意见和建议。
会议开始，首先由薛虹教授介绍了《电子商务法》的立法进程以及本次会议的议程。此次会议的目的为听取跨国企业对于《电子商务法》草案的意见。

By Devdutta Mukhopadhyay and Vidya Dronamraju as part of the Dirty Picture Project.  The Leading Ladies When we decided to review Sarabjit, we looked forward to a break from the typical mindless masala entertainer that Bollywood is notorious for churning out. Moreover, examining the ordeal faced by Sarabjit from the point of view of his sister […]

Directivos y profesores de más de 30 establecimientos de la Región Metropolitana se reunieron en la Casa Central en el encuentro "La democracia como forma de vida en la Escuela", desarrollado en el marco de la Ley 20.911, que establece que desde este año los establecimientos escolares deben incluir un Plan de Formación Ciudadana en los niveles de enseñanza parvularia, básica y media, con objeto de fomentar en los estudiantes el ejercicio de una ciudadanía crítica, responsable, respetuosa, abierta y creativa.La elaboración de este Plan es obligatoria para todos los estableci

En esta columna del decano Manuel Agosin de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios, publicada en La Tercera, el académico plantea que "sin diversificación productiva y exportadora, no podremos aspirar a ser una economía desarrollada", situación que impactaría en mayores salarios y mejores estándares de vida. "En otras palabras, una diversificación exitosa redundará no sólo en crecimiento sino también en mayor igualdad", señaló el decano.

Con la participación de Luis Mesina y Manuel Riesco de la Coordinadora No + AFP, parlamentarios de Argentina y Perú, el abogado José Luis Ugarte, el economista de la Fundación Sol Marco Kremerman, y Andras Uthoff, quien participó en la "Comisión Bravo", se realizó el seminario "Jubilarse en Chile", organizado por un grupo de funcionarias públicas con el objetivo de profundizar en el debate sobre el actual sistema previsional, y las alternativas de un nuevo sistema público, tripartito y solidario.“Es muy importante que los trabajadores toquen estos temas en sus organizacione