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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) ministra periodicamente o curso rápido ‘Proteção da Imagem na Internet’, realizado ao vivo online. Os professores são especialistas em direito civil e tecnologia, e irão tratar sobre a relevância da utilização do direito à imagem conforme a Lei brasileira.
Temas das aulas:

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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS) realizou o curso de extensão ‘Level Up! Games como Mídia, Mercado e Indústria’, ao vivo online. O professor Arthur Protasio, que lecionou o curso, é especialista em desenvolvimento de conteúdo para projetos multiplataforma e transmídia nos ramos de entretenimento, educação e publicidade.
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What's the latest in the FBI's ongoing dispute with Apple over encrypted iPhones? What's at stake and what could happen next? Guest Speaker, Riana Pfefferkorn is the Cryptography Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.

Curso será realizado entre 9 e 13 de maioA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) recebe inscrições até 4 de maio para o curso internacional Direito em Energia. As aulas serão ministradas em inglês, de 9 a 13 de maio, na sede da FGV, pelo professor Siddharth Fresa, mestre pela Escola de Direito de Stanford (USA) e doutorando pela Universidade de Roma (Sapienza).

Sunil Abraham was a speaker at this event organized by Students Christian Movement of India at SCM House in Bangalore on April 25, 2016. Mathew Thomas and Usha Ramanathan also gave talks.
With the passage of the Aadhaar act 2016 is UID / Aadhar mandatory now? How do we understand the issue of Social Security in the context of the new law? What does it mean for those who need to access their senior citizen pension, rations, school and college scholarships, etc.

Political Bots on 28 April 2016 at 17:33PM Our work was featured in the Dutch newspaper de Volkscrant. [...]

Andrew Young: “Today,  The GovLab, in collaboration with founding partners mySociety and the World Bank’s Digital Engagement Evaluation Team are launching the Open Governance Research Exchange (OGRX), a new platform for sharing research and findings on innovations in governance.

"White Punk", Premio Kino 2016 en una ceremonia en la que "Bestealdetik" ha triunfado con 5 galardones
El jurado ha estado conformado por cinco profesionales contrastados: Rodrigo Sopeña, Isabel Peña, Gonzalo de Pedro, Carlos Marañón y Alejandro Pardo

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Patrick Meier: “Clearly, crowdsourcing is not new, only the word is. After all, crowdsourcing is a methodology, not a technology nor an industry.

Robert Epstein at Quartz: “Because I conduct research on how the Internet affects elections, journalists have lately been asking me about the primaries. Here are the two most common questions I’ve been getting:

Data Driven Journalism: “UN-Habitat has launched a new web portal featuring a wealth of city data based on its repository of research on urban trends.

Eitan D. Hersh: “For many citizens, participation in politics is not motivated by civic duty or selfinterest, but by hobbyism: the objective is self-gratification. I offer a theory of political hobbyism, situate the theory in existing literature, and define and distinguish the hobbyist motivation from its alternatives.

A ELSA da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa organiza um curso intensivo sobre o cibercrime nos dias 2, 3 e 4 de maio, das 18h00 às 20h00.
Os interessados em frequentar esta formação (com um custo de 5€) devem submeter a sua inscrição para cibercrime.elsafdl@gmail.com.

No final do curso, os formandos receberão um certificado de participação.

Countable: “Why does it have to be so hard to understand what our lawmakers are up to?
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Giulio Quaggiotto at Nesta: “Over the past decade we’ve seen an explosion in the amount of data we create, with more being captured about our lives than ever before. As an industry, the public sector creates an enormous amount of information – from census data to tax data to health data. When it comes to use of the data however, despite many initiatives trying to promote open and big data for public policy as well as evidence-based policymaking, we feel there is still a long way to go.

Paper by Stevenson, H. : “Over the past two decades, a growing body of literature has highlighted moral reasons for taking global democracy seriously. This literature justifies democracy on the grounds of its intrinsic value. But democracy also has instrumental value: the rule of the many is epistemically superior to the rule of one or the rule of the few. This paper draws on the tradition of epistemic democracy to develop an instrumentalist justification for democratizing global governance.

Today,  The GovLab, in collaboration with founding partners mySociety and the World Bank’s Digital Engagement Evaluation Team are launching the Open Governance Research Exchange (OGRX), a new platform for sharing research and findings on innovations in governance.

Book edited by Collmann, Jeff, and Matei, Sorin Adam: “This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational, and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical implications of research in human affairs using big data. The need to cultivate and enlist the public’s trust in the abilities of particular scientists and scientific institutions constitutes one of this book’s major themes.

Nathaniel A. Raymond and Casey S. Harrity at HPN: “This generation of humanitarian actors will be defined by the actions they take in response to the challenges and opportunities of the digital revolution. At this critical moment in the history of humanitarian action, success depends on humanitarians recognising that the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) must become a core competency for humanitarian action.

"Del mundo al mapa y del mapa al mundo: objetos, escalas e imaginarios del territorio" es el título que lleva la sexta versión del Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía (6SIAHC) que se desarrollará en Santiago entre el 19 y el 21 de abril. El encuentro es organizado por la U.