(Open Access) book edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer & Karin van Es: “As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only require new knowledge and skills, but also raise issues concerning the practices of investigation and publication.
The Keio International Center for the Internet & Society is pleased to present the following invitation from Sasakawa USA and the Keio University Cyber Security Research Center. Please refer to the invitation details for venue and program information.
Event Registration & Homepage are here.
Cyber Security Conference March 2-3 at Keio University, Tokyo
この度、インターネツト ガバナンス フォーラム ジャパン(IGF-JAPAN）より、 2017 IGF-Japanのご案内をいただきましたのでお知らせ致します。 開催地、報告会の内容につきましては、以下をご参照ください。
The Keio International Center for the Internet & Society is pleased to present the following invitation from the Internet Governance Forum – Japan. Please refer to the invitation details for venue and program information. Please note that the program and invitation will be in Japanese.
Today, Open Knowledge International is launching the Frictionless Data Tool Fund, a minigrant scheme offering grants of $5,000 to help extend the implementation of software libraries — code that is used to develop software programs and applications— for the Frictionless Data specifications by developing them in a range of programming languages.
Las competencias se realizarán hasta el viernes 20 de enero en las disciplinas de ajedrez, básquetbol, baby fútbol, voleibol, entre otros, en el Campus Deportivo Juan Gómez Millas y en la Facultad de Economía y Negocios. Este miércoles 18 de enero se iniciaron los 1° Juegos Deportivos de Verano Fenafuch 2017, competencia deportiva destinada a los funcionarios y funcionarias de nuestra Casa de Estudios.
Springwise: “Berlin-based Kiron works with refugee students to put together an online course of study, rigorous enough to provide entry into a partner university’s second year of study. Using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Kiron helps students master their new country’s language while studying basic prerequisites for a chosen university degree. Already working with more than 1,500 students in Germany, Kiron recently expanded into France.
Paper by Igor Calzada: “This paper explores the substantial effect that the critical understanding and techno-political consideration of data are having in some smart city strategies. Particularly, the paper presents some results of a comparative study of four cases of smart city transitions: Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao.
Geoff Mulgan at Nesta: “In the heady days of 1989, with communism collapsing and the Cold War seemingly over, the political theorist Francis Fukuyama declared that we were witnessing the “end of history” which had culminated in the triumph of liberal democracy and the free market.
Open Knowledge International is a member of OD4D, a global network of leaders in the open data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world. Here, Simeon Oriko talks about his work carrying out an embedded data fellowship with Oxfam in Kenya as part of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) programme.
In their first blogpost the authors argued for the conduction of more replication studies that e.g. use the same data. In this entry they look at how reputation and replication are entangled.... MORE
Now Available: Handbook on the Economics of the Internet
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Date published: March 1, 2017Ars Technica"The "invention" represented in the '842 patent is starkly at odds with the real history of technology, accessible in this case via a basic Google search.
IIPL has been working diligently with its research partner Indian Center of Internet and Society (CIS) on the Issues in Mobile Internet and Access to Knowledge. The joint project has been going for two years. A couple of research exchanges, in-person meetings or virtual calls, have been arranged. Both parties have been working on four chapters on copyright, licensing, patent and anti-trust related issues on the Mobile Internet respectively in Chinese and Indian legal environment.
Sabrina Diaz Rato in OpenDemocracy: “For some years now, we have been witnessing the emergence of relational, cross-over, participative power. This is the territory that gives technopolitics its meaning and prominence, the basis on which a new vision of democracy – more open, more direct, more interactive – is being developed and embraced.
Sean Khozin, Geoffrey Kim & Richard Pazdur in Nature: “….Recent advances in our understanding of disease mechanisms have led to the development of new drugs that are enabling precision medicine.