Book by Robin Wagner-Pacifici: “We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life’s inevitable moments—birth, death, love, and war—are almost always a surprise.
Book by Stephen Coleman: “From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. If hundreds of millions of people could be the producers as well as receivers of political messages, could that invigorate democracy? If political elites fail to respond to such energy, where will it leave them?
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.
O conceito de neutralidade de rede já foi debatido neste blog, mas envolve certas nuances que normalmente são negligenciadas em debates mais midiáticos. É importante refletir sobre esse tema, porque as respostas e conceitos envolvidos não são meramente dicotômicas, como se esperaria em um debate simplório de “sim x não” quanto à implementação da neutralidade de rede nos mais diferentes ordenamentos jurídicos do globo. Então, quais seriam essas variantes?
Primeiramente: existe a necessidade de regular neutralidade de rede?
Introduction The recent shooting in Cleveland live streamed on Facebook has brought the social media company’s regulatory responsibilities into question. Since the launch of Facebook Live in 2016, the service’s role in raising political awareness has been acknowledged. However, the service has also been used to broadcast several instances of graphic violence. The streaming of […]
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Author(s): Jennifer GranickRiana PfefferkornPublication Date: April 21, 2017Publication Type: Litigation Brief
Charles G. Willis et al in New Phytologist: “Phenology is a key aspect of plant success. Recent research has demonstrated that herbarium specimens can provide important information on plant phenology. Massive digitization efforts have the potential to greatly expand herbarium-based phenological research, but also pose a serious challenge regarding efficient data collection.
Chapter by Leonidas G. Anthopoulos in Understanding Smart Cities: A Tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick: “Smart city and smart government appear to share a common scientific interest, since they structure corresponding research and practice terms like the “Web Applications and Smart Cities (AW4City)”, “The Smart Cities and Smart Government Research-Practice (SCSGRP) Consortium” and the “Beyond Bureaucracy”, while calls for mutual sci
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Author(s): Scott ShackelfordPublication Date: April 17, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingLarge-scale cyberattacks with eye-watering statistics, like the breach of a billion Yahoo accounts in 2016, grab most of the headlines. But what often gets lost in the noise is how often small and medium-sized organizations find themselves under attack.
Entre el 4 y el 6 de abril, los académicos de la Facultad de Medicina Graciela Rojas, Vania Martínez y Ricardo García, fueron convocados por el Ministerio de Salud para participar de la segunda versión de la Jornada de Formación de entrenadores en Salud Mental para los equipos de Atención Primaria de Salud del país.
Los efectos del cambio climático y la progresiva disminución de la cantidad de precipitaciones en nuestro país nos obligan a cambiar nuestra forma de relacionarnos con el recurso hídrico.
El reciente bombardeo por parte de Estados Unidos a una base aérea del ejército sirio ha desatado una polémica mundial, entre acusaciones que responsabilizan a Siria o a la oposición rebelde de estar a cargo de un incidente con armas químicas que causó la muerte de decenas de civiles en la localidad de Khan Sheykhun.
Académicos, funcionarios y estudiantes de la U. de Chile, incluidos el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, vicerrectores y decanos, participaron este 19 de abril de esta jornada, aplicando el cuestionario en las zonas aledañas a los distintos campus universitarios.
Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.
April 26, 2017SFO Commons
CIS Director of Civil Liberties Jennifer Granick will talk about the ideas in her book American Spies with other panelists at the TEDx Stanford Seize the Moment Session.
View full TEDx Stanford program.
More info about Jennifer Granick.
April 23, 2017CEMEX Auditorium
By Prianka Srinivasan, Robert Montano, Andrew Young, and Stefaan G. Verhulst
RESULTS Educational Fund and Open Knowledge International are pleased to present the 2016 data from the Right to Education Index (RTEI), a global accountability initiative that aims to ensure that all people, everywhere, enjoy the right to a quality education.