This symposium brings together researchers and industry stakeholders from around Australia in a hybrid in-person and online event to share insights into how to improve digital inclusion for low-income families around the country.
Leading academics and industry partners including Good Things Foundation Australia, The Smith Family, Infoxchange, yourtown, Telstra, Save the Children Australia, Life Without Barriers, State Library of Queensland and NBN Co will engage in presentations and panels about low-income Australians’ access to and use of digital media and technologies.

Food waste costs Australia $36.6 billion annually, with almost $20 billion generated by households (FIAL, 2021). QUT researchers say social media campaigns can change food waste behaviours but are best included alongside other intervention tools for long-term impact.

Portulans Institute President Soumitra Dutta speaks on the Network Readiness of Nations: Combining Technology and Humanity for a Better Future for All as part of our Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.

 
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March 21-29, 2022

Durch Klimawandel und Globalisierung neu auftretende Infektionskrankheiten sowie Antibiotikaresistenzen stellen eine Bedrohung für die weltweite Gesundheit dar. Einen Schutz vor Infektionen könnten kommensale Mikroorganismen bieten, die den gesunden menschlichen Darm besiedeln.

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Local governments are attractive targets for hackers and are ill-prepared
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In the project "Orientation to the Common Good in the Age of Digitalization: Transformation Narratives between Planetary Boundaries and Artificial Intelligence", anthropological and ethical concepts with a focus on artificial intelligence were analyzed and developed, and based on this, new entrances into narratives that create meaning (narratives) for social change processes (transformations) were created. The basis was a critical stocktaking of the body of knowledge on the developments and effects of artificial intelligence.

Like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates has recently issued a comprehensive federal law for the … UAE’s new data protection legislation overflowed with exceptions and exemptionsRead More »

Like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates has recently issued a comprehensive federal law for the … UAE’s Data Protection Law: Between Exceptions and ExemptionsRead More »

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O LAPIN contribuiu para relatório sobre os Direitos de Reunião Pacífica e Associação, de autoria do Relator Especial das Nações Unidas (ONU), Sr. Clément Nyaletsossi Voule. As informações providenciadas auxiliarão o trabalho do Relator Especial em sua visita ao Brasil no período de 28 de março a 8 de abril, bem como em seu relatório final a ser apresentado perante o Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU.

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We’re thrilled to offer a series of six conversational seminars focusing on challenges and values of using interdisciplinary approaches to build responsible data science.

How much does a scientist’s training in a specific discipline affect how they see and study the world? A lot. How much can scientists benefit from the knowledge domains outside their specialization, to better understand and solve critical issues of concern in the world? A lot.

Tackling the “big issues” requires scientists to more fully embrace the importance of interdisciplinary ecosystems

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Sukanya Thapliyal Earlier this month, the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi had the opportunity to participate as a stakeholder in the proceedings of the United Nations Ad-hoc Committee, which has been tasked to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for criminal purposes […]

Today, the European Court of Human Rights announced that it is dismissing the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2019 petition to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey.