Paper by Bezuidenhout, L, Rappert, B, Kelly, A and Leonelli, S: “Poor provision of information and communication technologies in low/middle-income countries represents a concern for promoting Open Data. This is often framed as a “digital divide” and addressed through initiatives that increase the availability of information and communication technologies to researchers based in low-resourced environments, as well as the amount of resources freely accessible online, including data themselves.

Kyle Jahner at the Army Times: “You wouldn’t think that moving the salad bar to the front of the chow hall and moving the dessert bar back 10 feet would make the Army healthier. But at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, that bumped up salad sales about 24 percent and dessert sales down 10 percent, a nudge toward goals of soldiers eating, exercising and sleeping healthier.

Conference Paper by Satchell, Christine et al :”Social media platforms risk polarising public opinions by employing proprietary algorithms that produce filter bubbles and echo chambers. As a result, the ability of citizens and communities to engage in robust debate in the public sphere is diminished.

Springwise: “With vast amounts of data now publicly available, the answers to many questions lie buried in the numbers, and we already saw a publishing platform helping entrepreneurs visualize government data. For an organization as passionate about civic engagement asmySidewalk, this open data is a treasure trove of compelling stories.

Pádraig MacCarron, Kimmo Kaski, and Robin Dunbar at arXiv: “The social brain hypothesis predicts that humans have an average of about 150 relationships at any given time. Within this 150, there are layers of friends of an ego, where the number of friends in a layer increases as the emotional closeness decreases.

Report by Juan Ortiz Freuler: “Following a promising and already well-established trend, in February 2014 the Office of the President of Mexico launched its open data portal (datos.gob.mx).

Argentina is in the midst of an inflamed debate on the lawfulness of UBER services. The last stage of the UBER affair—previously visiting cities like Milan or Paris—occurred in Buenos Aires. Finally, a number of orders from different authorities led to the blockade of the UBER app. In addition, credit card services were enjoined from processing payments connected to the App. Multiple arguments served as a legal basis to the different orders, including the endangerment of passengers´ health and safety and tax collection.
 

Einladung zum Gastvortrag: Google and the Information Society

El Rector Ennio Vivaldi, junto a autoridades de la Universidad de Chile y miembros de la comunidad despidieron a quien fuera estudiante y académico de la Institución, al pasar su cortejo fúnebre por las afueras de la Casa Central. La máxima autoridad participó además de una guardia de honor en el ex Congreso Nacional, y realizó un discurso en memoria del también Profesor Emérito de la Casa de Bello.

Ahondar en la importancia que tienen, tuvieron y tendrán los mapas y las formas de representación, las decisiones políticas y las visiones de mundo que hay detrás de su elaboración, son algunos de los temas abordados por este encuentro organizado por la Universidad de Chile, la Universidad Católica y la Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos, cuyas actividades son abiertas y gratuitas a todo público.

Tras la noticia de que un mosquito que transmite el virus Zika fue encontrado en Arica, dada este lunes, y hoy miércoles 20 con el hallazgo de dos ejemplares más y 20 larvas, el llamado de expertas en epidemiología es a que las autoridades controlen este agente transmisor de la infección, y a que la población no se exalte dado que aún no existen casos en el territorio continental.Aedes aegypti.

An article about Tulu Wikipedia progress was published in the Times of India, Mangaluru edition on April 30, 2016.

For more details visit http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/tulu-wiki-may-go-live-soon-as-writers-work-day-and-night

Teaser

Fans of stratospherically profitable creative universes like Star Wars increasingly like to become creators within those universes. And sometimes they make money. How does law come into play when fans start to reinterpret intellectual property? We sat down with Menell to see where the tensions lie between the law, the courts, and the George Lucases of the world.

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*Redigido pelos alunos da FGV Direito Rio

Karen Abrams Gerber & Andrea Jacobs  at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “….We waste time asking, “How can we change the way people think?” when we should be asking, “How do we change the way we do things?”
Changing how we do things isn’t just about reworking laws, policies, and systems; it means rethinking the very act of problem-solving. We believe there are five basic tenets to successful collaboration:

This post was written by our friends at Open State Foundation in the Netherlands. 

Let’s face it. When it comes to relevant open data and transparency in European decision-making, we have a lot to do. Despite growing open data portals, and aggregating European data portal, if you want to make sense of European decision-making and public finance, it takes a lot of efforts.

This post was written by our friends at Open State Foundation in the Netherlands. 

Let’s face it. When it comes to relevant open data and transparency in European decision-making, we have a lot to do. Despite growing open data portals, and aggregating European data portal, if you want to make sense of European decision-making and public finance, it takes a lot of efforts.

Diego San José, el cerebro de Ocho apellidos vascos
Invitado en el Máster en Guión Audiovisual

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Role of IP as a Strategic and Financial tool in the Global Market. Rohini Lakshané attended the event held in Vishakhapatnam on April 21, 2016.
Andhra Pradesh Technology Development & Promotion Centre (APTDC) of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in association with Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), organized one day ‘Sensitization Seminar on IPR for Electronics and ICT Sectors’ with the theme ‘Role of IP as a Strategic and Financial tool in the Global Market’ on 21 Apr 2016 at Visakhapatnam.

The workshop will be led by Prof. Madav Gadgil and a team of experienced Wikipedia editors.