New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: “…The New York City Digital Playbook outlines how we want residents to experience City services and how we will use digital tools to strengthen communities, online and off. The guidance within the Playbook will challenge all of our agencies and service providers to rethink the way they reach New Yorkers.
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with Berkman Fellow, Brittany Seymour
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How can we employ network science to develop social communication strategies for public health that build on the strengths and opportunities provided by today's Internet?
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Jeffrey Pomerantz and Robin Peek at First Monday: “Open source. Open access. Open society. Open knowledge. Open government. Even open food. Until quite recently, the word “open” had a fairly constant meaning. The over-use of the word “open” has led to its meaning becoming increasingly ambiguous. This presents a critical problem for this important word, as ambiguity leads to misinterpretation.
Claudia Padovani and Elena Pavan in the journal “Global Networks“: In this article, we address transformations in global governance brought about by information and communication technologies (ICTs). Focusing on the specific domain of ‘gender-oriented communication governance’, we investigate online interactions among different kinds of actors active in promoting gender equity in and through the media.
A Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice and Justices R. Banumathi and UU Lalit took up a petition by Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) challenging the certification of the Aadhaar Act as a money bill by the Lok Sabha Speaker today. Senior Advocates Mr. P. Chidambaram, Mr. Kapil Sibal and Mr. […]
Cold response from MNCs like Google to India's security concerns is seen as a prime reason for the proposed legislation to regulate mapping of the country, a move that critics call "return of the Licence Raj" and "digital nationalism".
The article by Aman Sharma and Neha Alawadhi was published in Economic Times on May 9, 2016. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was quoted.
Book review by Trenton G Smith of Behavioral Economics and Public Health : “Modern medicine has long doled out helpful advice to ailing patients about not only drug treatments, but
Book edited by Deborah Avant and Oliver Westerwinter: “Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is “governance” of important security issues — from combatting piracy to curtailing nuclear proliferation to reducing the contributions of extractive industries to violence and conflict. They are even less able to explain why contemporary governance schemes involve the various actors and take the many forms they do.
Memes are for everyone on the Internet, but do they all constitute copyright infringements? This article takes a look at memes and the German quotation and parody exceptions and compares... MORE
This past March, 3,500 students walked out of Boston Public Schools (BPS) in a well organized action to protest a proposed $50 million budget cut to BPS which would result in the closure of schools, layoff of teachers, and diminished services in extracurricular spaces, AP classes and support for special-needs students. Young organizers began to mobilize weeks prior, beginning when a group of students reached out to the youth-led Boston Area Youth Organizing Project.
Dotyczy projektu ustawy o działaniach antyterrorystycznych z 5 maja 2016 w zakresie blokowania danych informatycznych mających związek ze zdarzeniem terrorystycznym
Dotyczy projektu ustawy o działaniach antyterrorystycznych z 5 maja 2016 w zakresie blokowania danych informatycznych mających związek ze zdarzeniem terrorystycznym
“This ICIJ database contains information on almost 320,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations. The data covers nearly 40 years up to the end of 2015 and links to people and companies in more than 200 countries and territories.
Keynote by Robert M. Goerge at the 2016 Third International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG) Open data portals are springing up around the world. Municipalities, states and countries have made available data that has never been as accessible to the general public.
Christopher Mims at the Wall Street Journal: “When Kaspar Korjus was born, he was given a number before he was given a name, as are all babies in Estonia. “My name is 38712012796, which I got before my name of Kaspar,”says Mr. Korjus.
Pasi Sahlberg and Jonathan Hasak in the Washington Post: “One thing that distinguishes schools in the United States from schools around the world is how data walls, which typically reflect standardized test results, decorate hallways and teacher lounges. Green, yellow, and red colors indicate levels of performance of students and classrooms.
Czym jest dla dziennika internetowego 5 dni bez możliwości publikacji w internecie? To 5 dni utraty czytelników, 5 dni bez możliwości komentowania bieżących wydarzeń. To wymierne straty z powodu braku zysków z reklam. Dla blogera to straszak – widzimy cię, możemy ci zamknąć usta. Do tego dochodzi potencjalnie oskarżenie o działalność terrorystyczną. Ustawa antyterrorystyczna może sprawić, że internet, ta wielka agora debaty publicznej, stanie się poligonem cenzury prewencyjnej.
Czym jest dla dziennika internetowego 5 dni bez możliwości publikacji w internecie? To 5 dni utraty czytelników, 5 dni bez możliwości komentowania bieżących wydarzeń. To wymierne straty z powodu braku zysków z reklam. Dla blogera to straszak – widzimy cię, możemy ci zamknąć usta. Do tego dochodzi potencjalnie oskarżenie o działalność terrorystyczną. Ustawa antyterrorystyczna może sprawić, że internet, ta wielka agora debaty publicznej, stanie się poligonem cenzury prewencyjnej.
Michael Latzer at the UNESCO Forum for Well-being through Digital Media