Author(s): Andrew McLaughlinMarvin AmmoriPublication Date: July 15, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingWe are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership.
Date published: July 15, 2016"Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has made an impassioned argument in favor of net neutrality in Europe, calling on European citizens to stop legislation that could see the creation of so-called internet "fast lanes."CNET
Date published: July 15, 2016"So it’s hardly surprising that the actual inventor of the World Wide Web (hint, not a telco), Tim Berners-Lee, has chosen this moment to voice fierce opposition to any watering down of the European neutrality rules.
Date published: July 15, 2016"Issuing a letter, Berners-Lee hopes to ensure that EU regulation voted upon in October are enacted in full to close loopholes in the law, asking for the public to get involved.
Date published: July 15, 2016"However, Sir Tim, along with law professors Barbara van Schewick and Larry Lessig, has urged the public to engage in the consultation, which runs until July 18, in order to pressure regulators into closing what they call “potential loopholes” that could threaten net neutrality.
Date published: July 15, 2016"Net neutrality advocates warn that a world in which only the largest and most powerful companies can afford to secure preferential treatment from ISPs will stifle innovation. Unchecked, such a development would eventually limit consumer choice.
Date published: July 15, 2016"Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the world wide web, is calling on regulators in Europe to protect net neutrality and "save the open internet." In a letter released this week, Berners-Lee, Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick, and Harvard law professor Larry Lessig urged European regulators to implement guidelines that would close
Date published: July 15, 2016"“Any argument will try to establish that Tesla acted in an unreasonable way that was a cause of the crash," said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who researches automation and connectivity. “It doesn’t even need to be the biggest cause, but just a cause.""
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La directora del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos Doctor Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Verónica Cornejo, plantea que "la población ha ido disminuyendo el consumo de los alimentos saludables, prefiriendo productos de escaso valor nutritivo", motivo por el cual es "necesario enfrentar en profundidad el tema alimentos, especialmente el de los procesados, por su directo impacto en la salud y calidad de vida de los chilenos".“Poco importa eso si nosotros no educamos a nuestros hijos en comer sano”.
Since last year Open Knowledge has been developing OpenTrials, an open, online database linking the publicly available data and documents on all clinical trials conducted – something that has been talked about for many years but never created. The project is funded by The Laura and John Arnold Foundation and directed by Dr. Ben Goldacre, an internationally known leader on clinical trial transparency.
Pete Masters at MissingMaps: “Downloading MapSwipe means that in a matter of minutes you can contribute to the work being done around the world by MSF, the Red Cross and others, and all from the comfort of your own phone!
Philip Hunter at the EMBO Journal: “Personal health and medical data are a valuable commodity for a number of sectors from public health agencies to academic researchers to pharmaceutical companies. Moreover, “big data” companies are increasingly interested in tapping into this resource. One such firm is Google, whose subsidiary Deep Mind was granted access to medical records on 1.6 million patients who had been treated at some time by three major hospitals in London, UK, in order to develop a diagnostic app.
Alexandra Flynn at Osgood Digital Commons: “Municipal staff and politicians are moving aside to let someone else make budget decisions – community residents. This practice, known as participatory budgeting or PB, is a completely different way of managing public money. It allows the public to both identify projects and programs that they want to see in their neighbourhoods, and to vote on which ones to fund.
New book by Francesco Guala: “Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the features of three influential views of institutions: as equilibria of strategic games, as regulative rules, and as constitutive rules.
Palestra: O contrato de seguro garantia - performance bond – e o combate a corrupção19h00O Evento: A Coordenação do FGV Law Program convida para o lançamento do curso Direito, Seguro, Resseguro e Regulação.
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In: The Digital Single Market Copyright: Internet and Copyright Law in the European Perspective, Conference proceedings, Milan 4-5 November 2015, M. Franzosi, O. Pollicino & G. Campus (ed.).
ISBN: 9788854894419.
During the past 2,5 years Open Knowledge has been a partner in PASTEUR4OA, a project focused on aligning open access policies for European Union research. As part of the work, a series of advocacy resources was produced that can be used by stakeholders to promote the development and reinforcement of such open access policies.
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