Odia Wikisource turned 11 on June 16. A news article was published about the project and the contributor community in Odia-language daily Prameya on June 17.
For more details visit http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/prameya-june-17-2016-article-on-odia-wikipedia
Date published: July 9, 2016"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, who specializes in surveillance and technology issues, said she thought the Dallas blast was the first time U.S. police had intentionally used a lethal robot.
"We already see surveillance robots," Joh said. "But a robot that is capable of harming or killing people is a game changer.""
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Date published: July 9, 2016"“It is essentially a jury-rigged version of a drone strike,” Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor specializing in cyber and robotic law, told me. “If they would have been justified in throwing a grenade, then they’re likely justified in doing this, which was quite frankly a creative thing.”Motherboard
India is a democratic country, but the standards for freedom of expression promised to us—online and offline—are highly questionable, especially with online content being censured and comedians being threatened to be arrested for sedition.
This was published by Ciol on July 7, 2016.
Here's a look at responses of other players like Paytm, Hike Messenger, Nasscom, Centre for Internet Society to TRAI's paper.
India hasn’t had the best record when it comes to Internet rights. The country regularly carries out Internet shutdowns under flimsy pretexts, is still fumbling when it comes to the drafting of a comprehensive privacy bill, and most recently came out with a geospatial information regulation bill that would establish ownership over all forms of location data.
The article by Anuj Srinivas was published in the Wire on July 6, 2016.
Amidst the debate over controlling online trolls - the proposal by Union Women and Child Development Minister to curb violence against women on the internet has triggered a fight between the minister and the National Commission for Women (NCW).
Los investigadores del Núcleo Milenio Centro de Investigación de la Web Semántica (CIWS) crearon una plataforma para que puedan ser publicadas en internet las actas de los diferentes encuentros locales realizados, material que se suma a la información que ya estaba disponible en constitucionabierta.cl como el número de Encuentro Locales Autoconvocados y su localización geográfica.
El pasado 24 de junio el Rector Ennio Vivaldi firmó electrónicamente 150 diplomas en una actividad que marcó un hito en la implementación de este sistema en nuestra Casa de Estudios. Este cambio permitirá contar con procesos más rápidos, seguros y eficientes en la realización de este tipo de trámites. Diariamente el Rector Vivaldi, al igual que diferentes autoridades universitarias, invertía parte de su tiempo firmando manualmente cientos de resoluciones, diplomas, certificados y otros documentos institucionales.
Acordo de cooperação foi ratificado durante evento realizado em 30/06Uma parte fundamental da estratégia da Transparência Internacional (TI) em sua chegada ao Brasil é a criação de um Centro de Conhecimento Anticorrupção no país. A Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (Direito Rio) é a primeira parceira desta iniciativa no Brasil, colaborando desde a etapa de concepção do projeto. O acordo de cooperação foi ratificado durante evento realizado no dia 30 de junho, na sede da FGV, no Rio de Janeiro.
In an interview with Catch, Sunil Abraham, executive director of Center for Internet & Society, puts the recent US-India cyber relationship framework into perspective. Abraham also talks about how Indian surveillance policies are outdated and why the country has failed to check the hegemonic tendencies of companies like Facebook and Google.
The interview was published by Catch News on July 3, 2016.
Anthony Swan for the DevPolicyBlog: “…By far the biggest innovation in data collection is the ability to access and analyse (in a meaningful way) user-generated data.
New York University Law Review Paper by Elizabeth G. Porter and Kathryn A. Watts: “Federal rulemaking has traditionally been understood as a text-bound, technocratic process. However, as this Article is the first to uncover, rulemaking stakeholders — including agencies, the President and members of the public — are now deploying politically tinged visuals to push their agendas at every stage of high-stakes, often virulently controversial, rulemakings.
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is premised on the notion that sharing success stories can encourage further experimentation and reform. This is certainly true with parliaments, where the Legislative Openness Working Group (LOWG) has repeatedly witnessed the value of sharing information and experience.
La propuesta, presentada por un grupo de diputados de la Comisión de Salud, modifica la Ley 19.886, conocida como ley de compras públicas, con el propósito de que este recinto hospitalario y nuestra Casa de Estudios, puedan ser receptores de financiamiento público por traspaso y convenios directos, evitando que compitan en condiciones de mercado con instituciones privadas.Cumpliendo con el compromiso que hiciera público en las últimas semanas, el pasado martes 21 de junio la diputada Karol Cariola, junto a diputados de la Comisión de Salud de la Cámara Baja
El gobierno de la República de Colombia y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) firmaron un cese al fuego bilateral como paso previo al acuerdo de paz.
Con análisis realizados en supercomputadores, el equipo liderado por el académico del Departamento de Física Mario Riquelme, logró proyectar y reproducir el comportamiento de los electrones cuando son tragados por los agujeros negros.La investigación que analiza la región circundante del agujero negro Sagitario A*, ubicado en el centro de la Vía Láctea a unos 26 mil años luz de la Tierra, fue publicada en la última edición de la revista científica Astrophysical Journal.
Los físicos de la Universidad de Chile Nicolás Perinet y Claudio Falcón publicaron un artículo en la revista Physical Review E, donde dieron a conocer sus avances en la comprensión de esta materia y las ondas que éstos forman, en colaboración con colegas de Europa y Asia.