Voice and SMS revenues have been eroded by the increasing use of IP-based services such as instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP). African operators have reacted to this change in the telecommunications market by providing bundling voice, SMS and data services. In South Africa, only MTN and Cell C have introduced prepaid bundled services. Such bundles however are not cheap.
Date published: June 9, 2016“With Go or chess or Space Invaders, the goal is to win, and we know what winning looks like,” says Lin. “But in ethical decision-making, there is no clear goal. That’s the whole trick. Is the goal to save as many lives as possible? Is the goal to not have the responsibility for killing? There is a conflict in the first principles.”Wired
Date published: June 9, 2016""Silicon Valley is full of secret projects: Flying cars are almost quaint by comparison (since people have been proposing them for decades)," Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies the technology, tells the Monitor in an email. "They will raise pretty significant environmental and equity concerns.""
The Christian Science Monitor
Date published: June 8, 2016"Catherine Crump, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that she was not aware of any county nationwide to implement such a law, but she noted that Seattle has a similar municipal law.
Date published: June 8, 2016"The article then paraphrases philosophy professor Patrick Lin, whose work at Cal Poly focuses in part on the ethics of driverless cars. According to Lin, "On the one hand, [the trolley problem] is a great entry point and teaching tool for engineers with no background in ethics. On the other hand, its prevalence, whimsical tone, and iconic status can shield you from considering a wider range of dilemmas and ethical considerations.""
Martin Howell at TechWeek Europe: “The growing focus on data protection, driven partly by stronger legislation and partly by consumer pressure, has put the debate on the benefits of open data somewhat on the back burner.
TEDxBrussels Presentation: “The more society professionalises, the less is taking advantage if its own skills. Indeed, each of us has much more to give to society than what our job descriptions allow us to. How to then mobilize our skills for the greater good? Alberto Alemanno, an engaged academic and civic advocate, argues that besides voting and running for office there is also a third, less known – yet more promising -, way to make society progress: lobbying.
Book edited by Benjamin Peters: “In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams’s 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology.
Erin Reilly at Strategy + Business: “…In theory, new technological advances such as big data and machine learning, combined with more direct access to audience sentiment, behaviors, and preferences via social media and over-the-top delivery channels, give the entertainment and media industry unprecedented insight into what the audience actually wants.
Paper by Paolo Ciancarini, Francesco Poggi and Daniel Russo: “Open Data (OD) is one of the most discussed issue of Big Data which raised the joint interest of public institutions, citizens and private companies since 2009.
Paper by Michael A. Livermore: “More than eighty years after Justice Brandeis coined the phrase “laboratories of democracy,” the concept of policy experimentation retains its currency as a leading justification for decentralized governance. This Article examines the downsides of experimentation, and in particular the potential for decentralization to lead to the production of information that exacerbates public choice failures.
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Anne-Marie Oostveen on 8 June 2016 at 15:23PM Encryption is used to prevent unauthorised access to information. Online, users encounter encryption often without noticing, as it protects the transmission of many websites or emails in the background. With regard to intentionally protecting the content of data and more specifically emails, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and its open-source [...]
Excerpt from the report Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies that are Transforming Government” by William Eggers: “Digital is becoming the new normal. Digital technologies have quietly and quickly pervaded every facet of our daily lives, transforming how we eat, shop, work, play and think.
Con un lanzamiento realizado en Casa Central, esta publicación que indaga en la relación entre comunicación y cultura popular a partir de los medios y las representaciones del sujeto popular en una trayectoria histórica, este libro vuelve a estar disponible luego de su publicación en 1985.Las transformaciones de la prensa, la relación entre comunicación y cultura popular, cultura de masas y cultura política a partir de los medios del país del periodo que va de principios del siglo XX y previo al golpe de Estado, son parte del libro “Razón y Pasión en la prensa popul
La preeclampsia -síndrome que aparece en la segunda mitad del embarazo- provoca el 25 por ciento de las muertes maternas en Chile, siendo la principal causa de muerte en este grupo de pacientes. En un intento por lograr su detección oportuna y tratamiento, un equipo de la U. de Chile, liderados por el doctor Mauro Parra, realizó una investigación que detectó marcadores bioquímicos que podrían predecir en el primer trimestre del embarazo el desarrollo de esta afección.