2017 was a year when the voice of women resonated around the world. Global women’s marches, hashtags such as #MeToo and #TimesUp, record numbers of women entering politics – all together a global call for action that signaled women were tired of not being heard.
It’s been a year that’s left many in the western world asking how we got here and how we can make sure we never go back. A big reason for this is because of what the Internet helps us do. We can reach further, speak louder, and come together like never before.

Kyle Chard et al in PeerJ Computer Science: “We describe best practices for providing convenient, high-speed, secure access to large data via research data portals.

Chiara Gayk, Kathrin Leitges, Kim Roegels, Tim Fischer, Murat Oktay, Nils Wassiljew mit den Coaches Thomas Scherer und Jakob Stachow konnten sich unter sieben deutschen Teams in einem spannenden und denkbar knappen Finale gegen die Universität des Saarlandes durchsetzen. Sie treten nun zu den Endausscheidungen des Vis East in Hong Kong (Anfang März) sowie des Willem C. Vis Moot Court in Wien (Ende März) an.

THIS YEAR’S SUMMER SCHOOL FOCUS: JOURNALISM IN THE ERA OF ALGORITHMS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Taking place 11-15 June 2018 in Florence, ITALY

Antoine Dubois, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, and Ingmar Weber at arXiv: “Migrants’ assimilation is a major challenge for European societies, in part because of the sudden surge of refugees in recent years and in part because of long-term demographic trends.

Beth Noveck at the Yale Human Rights and Development Journal: “Open data policy mandates that government proactively publish its data online for the public to reuse. It is a radically different approach to transparency than traditional right-to-know strategies as embodied in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) legislation in that it involves ex ante rather than ex post disclosure of whole datasets. Although both open data and FOIA deal with information sharing, the normative essence of open data is participation rather than litigation.

La Iniciativa Científica Milenio adjudicó el Instituto Milenio de Investigación sobre Fundamentos de los Datos en una apuesta inédita por impulsar de forma interdisciplinaria la ciencia de datos en nuestro país, reuniendo a expertos nacionales en algoritmos, datos, e inteligencia artificial, quienes junto a expertos de ciencias políticas y sociales desarrollarán los fundamentos científicos necesarios para resolver los problemas más complejos relacionados con datos que enfrenta hoy la sociedad.Las implicancias de los datos en nuestras vidas son ampliamente conocidas.

Los nuevos seleccionados para matricularse en la U. de Chile podrán visitar y realizar trámites que son parte de este proceso, como la toma de la fotografía para la TNE, en las dependencias del edificio patrimonial de la institución, entre el 19 y el 21 de enero, en lo que será el primer periodo de matrículas. Esta actividad se suma a la modalidad on-line a través de la cual los estudiantes pueden realizar este proceso en cualquier punto del país.Emblemático y representativo de la U. de Chile: un símbolo de la institución de educación superior más antigua del país.

Diez días, cuatro regiones, 50 obras de teatro y ocho bandas musicales. Esa es la oferta de la séptima versión de este encuentro que se desarrollará entre el 18 y el 27 de enero, y en el cual el Teatro Nacional Chileno (TNCH) estará presente con las obras "GAZ" y "Los tristísimos veranos de la princesa Diana".

As we get closer to Open Data Day 2018, we keep working to make this year’s events really awesome. To achieve this we have some good news for you:
We now will support one more track of Open Data Day events! The new track is Open Data for Equal Development and it’s sponsored by OKI through the Hewlett Foundation.
We define equal development as ending the structural barriers that make it harder for some groups in societies to access their rights, goods or services.

Auch in diesem Jahr gab es wieder allen Grund zum Feiern. So wurden am Freitag, den 19. Januar 2018 die Zertifikate für die erfolgreiche Absolvierung der Zusatzausbildung im Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht sowie für die Zusatzausbildung im Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz überreicht. Anlässlich der feierlichen Verleihung war Herr Prof. Dr. Bühling zu Gast, der als besonderen Höhepunkt einen Festvortrag zum Thema  „Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Autonomes Fahren – Neue Herausforderungen in modernen Zeiten“ hielt.

“Nudging” has been given a new dimension through Big Data in recent years: How and through which instruments can the combination of digitised personal data and the observations of the... MORE
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General Theory of the Precariat is essential reading for all commoners that want to think through the right strategy for social change. It squarely places itself from the point of few of the new social groups (or classes in formation, as its author, Alex Foti would have it) that have grown under the conditions of neoliberalism and its decline — or in other words, under the emergence of cognitive capitalism or ‘informationalism’.

(This update of my 2015 account is based mostly on the report by Dafermos, 2017.)

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Emma Martinho-Truswell in the Harvard Business Review: “A public school teacher grading papers faster is a small example of the wide-ranging benefits that artificial intelligence could bring to the public sector. A.I could be used to make government agencies more efficient, to improve the job satisfaction of public servants, and to increase the quality of services offered.

Liz Sly at Washington Post: “An interactive map posted on the Internet that shows the whereabouts of people who use fitness devices such as Fitbit also reveals highly sensitive information about the locations and activities of soldiers at U.S. military bases, in what appears to be a major security oversight.

Florence Engasser and Sonia Nasser at Nesta: “In a context where complexity and unpredictability increasingly form part of the decision-making process, our policymakers need new tools to help them experiment, explore different scenarios and weigh the trade-offs of a decision in a safe, pressure-free environment.
Simulation brings the potential for more creative, efficient and effective policymaking

At the Internet Society, we are worried about the state of the Internet today. This global “network of networks” is now a critical part of our daily lives. We use it to communicate and connect with our families, friends, co-workers and customers. It is the engine that powers the global economy. It is our source of entertainment, of education, and of information. The Internet brings so many opportunities to all.
But… those opportunities are now under attack from several threats:

Muito provavelmente, você já deve ter notado que, ao utilizar uma rede social como o Facebook, o Instagram, entre outras, surgem diversos anúncios patrocinados ao longo do seu feed. Talvez tenha percebido, também, que, muitas vezes, os produtos anunciados são justamente itens pelos quais você havia pesquisado online pouco tempo antes de acessar a rede social.