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Law Enforcement Initiatives Towards Tackling Cyber Crime in India

Cyber crime has been rising across India. This post reviews advancements in policing technologically advanced crimes and considers potential next steps.  With rising instances of cybercrime being noted across the country, the need for vigilance in the cyber sphere has been highlighted by a number of commentators. These crimes have gained attention subsequent to the […]

Fake News, Concrete Responses: At the Nexus of Law, Technology, and Social Narratives

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A special Harvard Law School-Berkman Klein Center panel moderated Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School

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Join us for a special Harvard Law School-Berkman Klein Fake News Lunch Panel moderated by Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School

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Ues Estatales firman protocolo que incentiva retiro de académicos

El acuerdo será enviado por el Ejecutivo al Congreso Nacional y culmina un trabajo iniciado el primer semestre de 2014.

El arte contemporáneo se transformará en luces y colores en el MAC

El próximo 22 de marzo se inaugurará "5 escenas para el MAC", proyecto que hace referencia a artistas como Dan Flavin, Matilde Pérez, Iannis Xenakis y a los impresionistas, creadores que innovaron con la luz y el color.

Programa Académico de Bachillerato dio la bienvenida a sus estudiantes

En una ceremonia realizada en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile, autoridades universitarias y académicos recibieron a los estudiantes que iniciarán sus cuatro semestres de estudios en el programa para luego graduarse en las menciones de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas o Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, e integrarse a alguna de las cerca de 70 carreras de pregrado que imparte nuestro plantel.El director del Programa Académico de Bachillerato, profesor Jorge Babul, el vicerrector de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios, Juan Cortés,

Avoiding Data Graveyards: Insights from Data Producers & Users in Three Countries

Report by Samantha Custer and Tanya Sethi: “Government, development partner, and civil society leaders make decisions every day about how to allocate, monitor and evaluate development assistance. Policymakers and practitioners can theoretically draw from more data sources in a variety of formats than ever before to inform these decisions,but will they choose to do so? Those who collect data and produce evidence are often far removed from those who ultimately influence and make decisions.

1 Open Data Day , 2 Cities – Code4Romania in Chișinău, Moldova

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.

Towards an experimental culture in government: reflections on and from practice

 Jesper Christiansen et al at Nesta: “…we share some initial reflections from this work with the hope of prompting a useful discussion about how to articulate the value of experimentation as well as what to consider when strategically planning and doing experiments in government contexts.

The Global Open Data Index – an update and the road ahead

The Global Open Data Index is a civil society collaborative effort to track the state of open government data around the world. The survey is designed to assess the openness of specific government datasets according to the Open Definition. Through this initiative, we want to provide a civil society audit of how governments actually publish data with input and review from citizens and organisations. This post describe our future timeline for the project. 
 

Open data day 2017 in Uganda: Open contracting, a key to inclusive development

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.

Code for Ghana celebrates Open Data Day tracking public money flows

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.

Congress takes first step to overturn Internet privacy rules

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Ethics of the Health-Related Internet of Things: Mapping the Debate

Paper by Brent Mittelstadt: “The Internet of Things is increasingly spreading into the domain of medical and social care. Internet-enabled devices for monitoring and managing the health and well-being of users outside of traditional medical institutions have rapidly become common tools to support healthcare.

Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy

Report by the National Academies of Sciences’s Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science: “Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with instruments carefully designed for particular data needs have been one of the primary methods for collecting data for federal statistics.

Nudging people to make good choices can backfire

Bruce Bower in ScienceNews: “Nudges are a growth industry. Inspired by a popular line of psychological research and introduced in a best-selling book a decade ago, these inexpensive behavior changers are currently on a roll.

Software used to predict crime can now be scoured for bias

Dave Gershgorn in Quartz: “Predictive policing, or the idea that software can foresee where crime will take place, is being adopted across the country—despite being riddled with issues.

Neues Skript Internetrecht

Das Skript Internetrecht ist in neuer Version Stand: April 2017 zum Abruf hier bereit.
Das Skript wurde grundlegend überarbeitet, auch mithilfe einer externen Studierendengruppe, die den Text noch einmal komplett auf Mängel durchforstet hat. Ergänzt wurden 300 Urteile, 16 neue Gesetze und viele Gesetzesinitiativen. Das Skript erscheint Ende 2017 auch als Buch (für den, der es lieber in Print mag)

PALESTRA: How Leaders and Citizens Can Combat Corruption: Lessons for Brazil

PALESTRA: How Leaders and Citizens Can Combat Corruption: Lessons for Brazil11h00 até 13h00O Evento: O Centro de Justiça e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio e o Instituto Igarapé convidam para a palestra ‘How Leaders and Citizens Can Combat Corruption: Lessons for Brazil’.
Em única palestra no Rio de Janeiro, Robert Rotberg apresentará sua mais recente pesquisa sobre o fenômeno da corrupção em suas mais variadas facetas, examinando como medimos e identificamos essa presença e trazendo lições dos países menos corruptos do mundo.

U. de Chile dio la bienvenida a sus estudiantes internacionales 2017

El Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi,

Privacy concerns multiply for Aadhaar, India’s national biometric identity registry

The largest and most sophisticated biometric identity system of any country in the world, India’s Aadhaar, is sparking new fears that the personal data it stores on more than 1.1 billion people could be vulnerable to exploitation.
The article by Kaelyn Lowmaster was published by One World Identity on March 17, 2017, Sunil Abraham was quoted.