Other News from Participating Centers

Connecting Nepal’s Earthquake Affected Communities with a Sustainable Model

Beyond the Net Journal
Nepal’s rural population remains largely disconnected from the Internet. The problem is further aggravated by the devastating 7.8 Richter scale earthquake and the subsequent aftershocks that have been shaking Nepal since April 2015 and that left nearly 9,000 people dead.

Law, Borders, and Speech: Geoblocking Technologies

David Drummond introduced the panel. The significance of this panel is that geoblocking tools are in many ways defining and enforcing jurisdiction.
A number of themes emerged from the panel.

Location

United States

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Related Topics: Geoblocking

Prawo autorskie nie powinno być mechanizmem cenzury treści w sieci

Bierzemy udział w organizowanym przez Electronic Frontier Foundation Tygodniu Prawa Autorskiego 2018  #CopyrightWeek – dzisiejszy temat to prawo autorskie jako narzędzie cenzury.
 

Shubhendu Sharma visitará Chile

El ingeniero industrial de origen indio, que aplicó sus conocimientos de la industria automotriz en el desarrollo de un método de siembra de rápido crecimiento, visitará Chile en el mes de septiembre en el marco del Congreso Iberoamericano de Control de la Erosión y los Sedimentos, organizado por la U. de Chile.“Ayudar a reverdecer el planeta cultivando nuevos bosques en las ciudades y sus alrededores”.

Profesor Arturo Squella fue reelegido decano por el período 2018-2022

"Me siento agradecido de los académicos que me depositaron su confianza para dirigir la Facultad por estos próximos cuatro años. Hoy nuestra misión es ser creativos para vencer las dificultades que afectan a la Educación Superior y el financiamiento de la Investigación en el país", señaló el profesor Squella agradeciendo la confianza de los académicos. Con el 64,7 por ciento de los votos válidamente emitidos, Arturo Squella Serrano resultó reelegido decano electo de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas de la Universidad de Chile por el período 2018-2022.

Advanced Design for the Public Sector

How Helsinki uses a board game to promote public participatio

Bloomberg Cities: “When mayors talk about “citizen engagement,” two things usually seem clear: It’s a good thing and we need more of it. But defining exactly what citizen engagement means — and how city workers should do it — can be a lot harder than it sounds.

Tagungsbericht: „Blockchain: Chancen, Recht und Regulierung“

Im aktuellen MMR-Fokus 01/2018 ist ein Bericht von Johannes Baur zur Tagung „Blockchain: Chancen, Recht und Regulierung“ der RWTÜV Stiftung und des ITM vom 07. November 2017 in Münster erschienen:

Spółdzielnia Otwartej Edukacji – zapraszamy

Jesteś nauczycielką lub nauczycielem matematyki? Szukasz nowych rozwiązań, pomysłów i narzędzi? Tworzysz własne materiały edukacyjne i chcesz się nimi dzielić z innymi?
Chcesz przeżyć przygodę przy okazji ucząc się czegoś nowego? Zależy Ci, żeby szkoła była bardziej otwarta i bliżej ucznia? A może kochasz nowoczesne technologie w edukacji?

Publication: A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders

This blog has been reposted from http://jonathangray.org/2018/01/08/field-guide-to-fake-news/

Last week saw the launch of A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders, a new free and open access resource to help students, journalists and researchers investigate misleading content, memes, trolling and other phenomena associated with recent debates around “fake news”.

MUSICA Studie: Auswirkungen von Musik und Gesang in der Schwangerschaft

Dabei geht es insbesondere um das Wohlbefinden der Mutter sowie um die Mutter-Kind-Bindung. Gesucht werden schwangere Frauen, die an der Studie teilnehmen möchten.

The Belgian, Dutch & French DPA have each published results regarding their national Facebook investigations.

SMart welcomes Michel Bauwens for a 3 year research and development residency

Readers of our blog and wiki will have noted various references to the labour mutual SMart. We find this an important movement and mutualistic solution for the autonomous workers that are becoming more and more numerous, but also ever more precarious, in our western societies. SMart membership converts income into wages, and thus into access to social protection, while also guaranteeing the payment of the invoices through a mutual guarantee fund, along with a number of other mutualized support services.

Why Social Collaboration doesn’t work without participation

Digital Platforms like Yammer, Slack or Sharepoint are ushering in a new era of communication and collaboration within enterprises. They have got what it takes to boost the productivity and... MORE
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It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech

Zeynep Tufekci in Wired: “…In today’s networked environment, when anyone can broadcast live or post their thoughts to a social network, it would seem that censorship ought to be impossible. This should be the golden age of free speech.
And sure, it is a golden age of free speech—if you can believe your lying eyes….

The World’s Biggest Biometric Database Keeps Leaking People’s Data

Rohith Jyothish at FastCompany: “India’s national scheme holds the personal data of more than 1.13 billion citizens and residents of India within a unique ID system branded as Aadhaar, which means “foundation” in Hindi. But as 

Remembering Pål Spilling

It is with a heavy heart that I report to Internauts everywhere that one of the early pioneers of the ARPANET and Internet has passed away. Pål Spilling was at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (NDRE) at a time when an ARPANET node was installed at Kjeller, Norway. The satellite link was shared between the ARPANET and the Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR) system that was used to monitor Soviet underground nuclear testing to assure the tests did not exceed the test ban treaty limits.

The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society

Brad Smith at the Microsoft Blog: “Today Microsoft is releasing a new book, The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society. The two of us have written the foreword for the book, and our teams collaborated to write its contents. As the title suggests, the book provides our perspective on where AI technology is going and the new societal issues it has raised.

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day I)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

CEO Succession at the Internet Society – Status update

A few weeks ago we informed the community about the fact that Kathy Brown was not going to seek another extension of her contract and, thus, a CEO search process had started at the Internet Society (ISOC). Please read my previous blog post for background.
In particular, we had asked the community to send us preliminary input, which is treated as confidential within the ISOC board, to the following email address: