Matthew Hutson at Science: “See you in the Supreme Court!” President Donald Trump tweeted last week, responding to lower court holds on his national security policies. But is taking cases all the way to the highest court in the land a good idea? Artificial intelligence may soon have the answer. A new study shows that computers can do a better job than legal scholars at predicting Supreme Court decisions, even with less information.

In May 2nd, 2017 we launched the Global Open Data Index (GODI). This blog post is part of a series that explore the main findings of GODI and the next challenges in open data measurement.  
In the past, we were asked why the Global Open Data Index assesses ‘places’ and not countries. Why do we evaluate Hong Kong? Why the Crown Dependencies Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey? And why do we regard Northern Ireland separately from Great Britain in this year’s edition?

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

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United States

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El triunfo del centrista Emmanuel Macron y de la líder del Frente Nacional, Marine Le Pen, en la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Francia representan un terremoto político.

La falta de higiene, los malos hábitos alimenticios y el excesivo uso de chupetes y mamaderas, explican en buena medida las altas prevalencias de las patologías bucales que sufren los niños. El caso más severo es el de las caries, que afectan a un 70 por ciento de los menores alrededor de los seis años. En la siguiente entrevista, Gisela Zillmann profundiza en los problemas de salud bucal de los más pequeños. La frecuencia de consultas al odontólogo en la infancia varía dependiendo de las características de cada paciente. En general, señaló la Dra.

The April 2017 edition of Retrospect is
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United States

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Related Topics: Intermediary Liability

A criação da Internet foi dissociada de normas estatais. À época, ela era considerada um mundo livre das estruturas de poder dos Estados ou das regras que o Direito impunha. Essa postura fica clara na Declaração de Independência do Cyberespaço,  de John Perry Barlow, na qual se observa também a ideia de autorregulção da Internet, de modo que os códigos seriam os responsáveis por reger a nova comunidade.

Autor faz narrativa crítica de casos concretos decididos pela CVMO insider trading é um dos grandes problemas do mercado de capitais. A utilização de informações privilegiadas constitui ato de deslealdade, traduzindo-se no abuso de uma situação de assimetria de informação. Para falar sobre o o assunto, a Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro, em parceria com a Saraiva Jur, lança o livro O insider trading no Direito brasileiro, de Francisco Antunes Maciel Müssnich.

This post was originally published over at MIT CoLab.
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One of the most fulfilling experiences I have had this year was that of planning, recording and editing my first podcast episode ever (along with my collaborators… more about them coming soon). 

Rebecca Hill in The Guardian: “When we think of governments and technology, the image that springs to mind is more likely to be clunky computers and red tape than it is nimble innovators.
But things are changing. The geeks in jeans are making their way into government and starting to shake things up.

Wired: “New York is facing a crisis. The city that never sleeps has become the city with the most people who have no home to sleep in.

The terms hate speech and fake news serve as focal points for public controversies in Germany lately. The issue at stake, how should social media companies and society at large... MORE

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Date: Mon, 05/08/2017
Report presented at conference bringing together Internet and Development organizations from throughout Africa
[Kigali, Rwanda– 8 May 2017] – Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Internet in particular, can have a transformative effect on education in Africa, says a report launched today by the Internet Society.

Mayor intercambio estudiantil, académico y trabajo conjunto entre universidades para afrontar los problemas comunes de la región, y el irrenunciable rol de los Estados en el financiamiento y aseguramiento de la calidad de sus planteles, son los ejes principales del documento, emitido tras dos días de trabajo.

Founded ten years ago, re:publica has grown into one of the most exciting conferences on digital culture. HIIG researchers already attended the conference in the last few years, and we... MORE

Paper by Abigail Devereaux: “Nudge theory, the preferences-neutral subset of modern behavioral economic policy, is premised on irrational decision-making at the level of the individual agent.

Book by Gianluca Sgueo: “….explores the activism promoted by organised networks of civil society actors in opening up possibilities for more democratic supranational governance. It examines the positive and negative impact that such networks of civil society actors – named “interlocutory coalitions” – may have on the convergence of principles of administrative governance across the European legal system and other supranational legal systems.

Xinzhi Zhang et al in Ethnicity and Disease: “Addressing minority health and health disparities has been a missing piece of the puzzle in Big Data science. This article focuses on three priority opportunities that Big Data science may offer to the reduction of health and health care disparities.