Last week, on 18th April, 2016, a Joint Communique of the 14th Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) raised a few eyebrows. The subject of discussion is paragraph 12 of the Communique which deals with the use of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) including the internet and its governance. Four […]
Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung ist ab dem 1. Juli 2016 eine Stelle als
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Gordon Burtch et al: “Individuals’ actions in online social contexts are growing increasingly visible and traceable. Many online platforms account for this by providing users with granular control over when and how their identity or actions are made visible to peers. However, little work has sought to understand the effect that a user’s decision to conceal information might have on observing peers, who are likely to refer to that information when deciding on their own actions.
Paper by Jason Kreag: “The institution of the prosecutor has more power than any other in the criminal justice system. What is more, prosecutorial power is often unreviewable as a result of limited constitutional regulation and the fact that it is increasingly exercised in private and semi-private settings as the system has become more administrative and less adversarial. Despite this vast, unreviewable power, prosecutors often rely on crude performance measures focused on conviction rates.
Joint conference between CiTiP, VUB, CRIDS, CBPL on the General Regulation on the protection of personal data
The conference re:publica is taking place in Berlin for the tenth time. Blogger, scientists, activists and many more are invited to discuss the development of our digital society. This year,... MORE
Date published: April 26, 2016Please join us this Wednesday, Apr. 27 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. PDT for a discussion on encryption.
What's the latest on encryption? Stanford University's Riana Pfefferkorn will share what's at stake, what could happen next, and what you should know about the FBI's ongoing dispute with Apple over encrypted iPhones. The Christian Science Monitor
Date published: April 27, 2016"For the vast majority of online harassers, however, the benefit is not monetary but psychological, says Danielle Citron, professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.
“You think of a site like 4chan, where people actually proclaim themselves trolls,” she says. “They derive pleasure from other people’s pain. They’re doing it for the lulz.”"
Este jueves 14 de abril, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi encabezó la ceremonia inaugural del encuentro en el cual durante dos jornadas, más de 40 expertos internacionales compartirán sus experiencias en torno a la exitosa metodología de indagación en la enseñanza de las ciencias, actividad que fue impulsada por el doctor Jorge Allende, académico de la Facultad de Medicina.
En vista de las complicaciones generadas por las copiosas precipitaciones caídas sobre la capital durante la semana y que se intensificaron esta madrugada, todas las facultades e institutos de la Casa de Bello han suspendido las clases de pregrado este lunes. Además, la Federación de Estudiantes de la U. de Chile (FECH) está realizando un catastro de los estudiantes afectados por el temporal.Inundaciones, problemas de accesibilidad y suspensión del suministro de electricidad y agua potable en vastos sectores del Gran Santiago.
Entre el 18 de abril y el 27 de mayo estará abierta la primera convocatoria 2016 del Programa de Movilidad Estudiantil (PME) de la Dirección de Relaciones Internacionales, para estudiantes de pregrado que quieran cursar uno o dos semestres en alguna de las 75 universidades socias de nuestro plantel.Vivir un período de intercambio estudiantil en alguna prestigiosa universidad de América, Asia, Oceanía o Europa, es hoy una posibilidad abierta para los estudiantes de pregrado de la Universidad de Chile, para quienes este lunes se abrió el primer período de postulaciones al Pro
Vinieron a nuestro país para asistir a la "Conferencia Internacional para el Mejoramiento del Aprendizaje de la Biología y Otras Ciencias Experimentales Relacionadas en los Niveles Escolares de Parvularios a Educación Media", organizada por la Universidad de Chile y la Red Latinoamericana de Ciencias Biológicas (RELAB), y aprovecharon la oportunidad de conocer las innovadoras experiencias que viven los estudiantes a partir del proyecto de laboratorios portátiles y de la metodología de Educación de las Ciencias Basada en la Indagación (ECBI).
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On behalf of the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees Elections Committee, I wish to extend our appreciation and thanks to all of the nominees and candidates for the Board of Trustees Elections in 2016. We are pleased and honored that such well-qualified individuals stepped forward and committed themselves to serve on the Internet Society Board.
The election concluded on 20 April and the results have been counted and certified by the Elections Committee.
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Author(s): Daphne KellerPublication Date: April 25, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingIn a concession to regulators, Google is . . . using “geo-blocking” technology to control what European users can see. Under the new system, Google will not only remove links on, say, google.fr, but it will block users in France from seeing those links on any other Google country site, or google.com itself. Unless they use tools like virtual private networks to disguise their locations, users in those countries will see pruned search results.
Światowy Dzień Własności Intelektualnej, 26 kwietnia, chcemy w tym roku uczcić w wyjątkowy sposób. Tego dnia opublikujemy Dziennik Anny Frank, który w Polsce znajduje się już w domenie publicznej, jednak w Holandii i wielu innych krajach Unii Europejskiej nadal nie. A przecież od śmierci Anny Frank minęło właśnie 70 lat.
Światowy Dzień Własności Intelektualnej, 26 kwietnia, chcemy w tym roku uczcić w wyjątkowy sposób. Tego dnia opublikujemy Dziennik Anny Frank, który w Polsce znajduje się już w domenie publicznej, jednak w Holandii i wielu innych krajach Unii Europejskiej nadal nie. A przecież od śmierci Anny Frank minęło właśnie 70 lat.
Ana Campoy at Quartz: “Mexico City just launched a massive experiment in digital democracy. It is asking its nearly 9 million residents to help draft a new constitution through social media. The crowdsourcing exercise is unprecedented in Mexico—and pretty much everywhere else.
The First Annual Roundtable on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition was organized by the recently established Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property & Competition (CIIPC) at the National Law University, Delhi. Dr. Arul George Scaria and Prof. Yogesh Pai are the co-directors of this Centre. The event was held on April 1 and 2, 2016 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Nehaa Chaudhari and Anubha Sinha participated in the event.
The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 25 April 2016 at 08:26AM Let’s try an experiment: Think of an object with global outreach. Nearly everybody around the world has access and in fact a billion people use it daily, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Picture not just an ordinary object, but… Continue Reading → [...]
