On June 21st, middle and high school students in Brazil’s northern city of Santarém took to the streets in the city center to raise awareness about a crisis with school lunches. The event was organized by the Student Pact for Education in Pará in partnership with the state Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Workers Unions for Public Education in Pará. For years, public school students throughout the state and country have struggled with poor quality or missing school lunches.

Page Type: Eventmercoledi13 luglio 2016Simone Aliprandi (avvocato, fondatore del Progetto JurisWiki.it). Nel ruolo di discussant Carlo Blengino (avvocato, fellow Centro Nexa)
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The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 13 July 2016 at 12:56PM Pokémon Go is currently taking the world by storm. The game uses smartphones to overlay the material world with digital elements, encouraging users to travel around to different places in order to progress in the game. The addictive gameplay has… Continue Reading → [...]

Today we’re publishing a new research paper looking at whether free/open source software matters for government and civic tech. Matters in the sense that it should have a deep and strategic role in government IT and policy rather than just being a “nice to have” or something “we use when we can”.
As the paper shows the answer is a strong yes: open source software does matter for government and civic tech — and, conversely, government matters for open source. The paper covers:

W tym numerze Kserokopii piszemy o opinii Rzecznika Generalnego w sprawie wypożyczania e-booków, kontynuacji sporu wokół przeboju “Stairway to Heaven”, niezrozumiałym wyroku w Niemczech legitymizującym zawłaszczanie domeny publicznej oraz o tym, jaki wpływ na prawo autorskie może mieć Brexit. Poza tym polecamy akcję “Best case scenarios”, artykuł o kosztach zasobów edukacyjnych i newsletter projektu “Future TDM”.
Wypożyczenia e-booków

W tym numerze Kserokopii piszemy o opinii Rzecznika Generalnego w sprawie wypożyczania e-booków, kontynuacji sporu wokół przeboju “Stairway to Heaven”, niezrozumiałym wyroku w Niemczech legitymizującym zawłaszczanie domeny publicznej oraz o tym, jaki wpływ na prawo autorskie może mieć Brexit. Poza tym polecamy akcję “Best case scenarios”, artykuł o kosztach zasobów edukacyjnych i newsletter projektu “Future TDM”.
Wypożyczenia e-booków

Mark Graham on 13 July 2016 at 10:37AM Pokémon Go is currently taking the world by storm. The game uses smartphones to overlay the material world with digital elements, encouraging users to travel around to different places in order to progress in the game.The addictive gameplay has led to police departments warning people that they should be more careful about revealing their [...]

Date published: July 13, 2016"Ryan Calo, a faculty co-director at the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab who spent 2000 to 2003 investigating claims of misconduct at the New York Police Department, says he's concerned police were allowed to purchase a robot without a defined use for the machine.
"What are the guidelines around this?" he asked. "When you put these kind of tools into the hands of police, you need to be judicious.""
Mashable

Date published: July 13, 2016"“That’s kind of a do-nothing idea for me,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “It seems like you’re just kicking the can down the road with a commission.”
Pfefferkorn said Congress needs to settle the debate once and for all with a national policy in support of strong encryption that declares the technology to be good for national security, the economy and civil liberties."
 

Vinupriya took her life last week, humiliated by the morphed images of her naked body posted on a social media site. Experts warn that the spike in Internet traffic brings with it an increase in online sexual crimes. Measures must be taken urgently to save lives, they tell T.V. Jayan.

The article was published in the Telegraph on July 10, 2016.

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Discutir sobre el diseño de herramientas tecnológicas para responder a las necesidades de comunidades indígenas en conjunto con sus integrantes, fue el objetivo del seminario "Tecnología e innovación rural - Comunidades mapuche", impulsado por el Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería y desarrollado el 29 de junio. En la ocasión se inauguró además una exposición fotográfica que estará disponible hasta el 22 de julio en la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, muestra que retrata el trabajo que los académicos y estudiantes de la U.

Los rectores del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile manifestaron su preocupación ante el proyecto de ley que enviará el gobierno al parlamento, luego de que se les presentara por parte del Ejecutivo en su reunión mensual un resumen de dicha iniciativa legal. "Durante meses diversos protagonistas hemos entregado sólidos argumentos criticando el actual modelo universitario y ofreciendo coherentemente conceptualizaciones alternativas.

En medio de la discusión por la presentación del proyecto del gobierno de reforma al sistema universitario, académicos de la U. de Chile entregaron una carta de petición al Ministerio de Educación que plantea la necesidad de integrar a los pueblos indígenas en las definiciones de la educación que quiere el país.

Report by Paul Hitlin (Pew): “How scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical Turk, a ‘gig economy’ platform, for tasks computers can’t handle

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O curso online “Direitos Autorais na Prática” debate de modo abrangente, com base em casos concretos, as principais tendências e inovações relacionadas à proteção dos direitos autorais no contexto dos avanços tecnológicos. O curso é composto por quatro aulas, sendo a inaugural gratuita para todos que realizarem a pré-matrícula.

Report by Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica: “Defining artificial intelligence isn’t just difficult; it’s impossible, not the least because we don’t really understand human intelligence. Paradoxically, advances in AI will help more to define what human intelligence isn’t than what artificial intelligence is.

The future of the automobile is much debated. In this article, I examine briefly and concisely the future functions that cars fulfill and the ways they do it. Over the... MORE

Reunião da Coordenação Acadêmica do FGV Law Program09h00 até 13h00O Evento: Reunião da Coordenação Acadêmica do FGV Law Program com os professores dos cursos de LL.M em Direito.
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Local: Local: Rua da Candelária, 6 – Auditório
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II Edição do Empodera Youth - Observatório internacional da juventude08h30 até 17h00O Evento: O Coletivo Utopia, com o apoio da Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas e em parceria com o Observatório Internacional e com o Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro convida para a II Edição do Empodera YOUTH. 
O que é o Empodera YOUTH?