Stephan Manning and Juliane Reinecke at the Conversation: “We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems that refuse to go away: the refugee crisis; terrorism; rising sea levels; frequent floods,
Paper by Marijn Janssen and George Kuk in
Hollie Russon Gilman, and Jessica Gover at the Beeck Center: “Technology is transforming how we live our lives—from new solutions in health, education, defense, and beyond. The private sector provides user-centric, digital, customer-oriented solutions—in real time. We should expect the same from government. The government needs to evolve to keep up with these rapid changes in technology and data use.
Report by David Robinson & Miranda Bogen prepared for the MacArthur and Ford Foundations: ““Data at scale” — digital information collected, stored and used in ways that are newly feasible — opens new avenues for philanthropic investment. At the same time, projects that leverage data at scale create new risks that are not addressed by existing regulatory, legal and best practice frameworks.
By Robert Montano and Prianka Srinivasan
Please find below the latest installment in The GovLab Index series, inspired by Harper’s Index. “The GovLab Index: Open Data” provides an update on our previous Open Data installment, and highlights global trends in Open Data and the release of public sector information.
The government is aiming to refresh the main law governing information technology by giving it a revamp which it hopes will bring it in tune with the times and address criticisms about its weaknesses, a senior official said on condition of anonymity.
The article by Surabhi Agarwal was published in the Economic Times on October 6, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
No dia 03 de outubro de 2016, o Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade foi admitido como amicus curiae na Arguição de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental 403, relatada pelo Ministro Edson Fachin, podendo apresentar informações, memoriais escritos nos autos e sustentação oral por ocasião do julgamento definitivo do mérito da presente ação.
In March 2014, the US Government committed to ending its contract with ICANN to run the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and also announced that it would hand over control to the “global multistakeholder community”. The conditions for this handover were that the changes must be developed by stakeholders across the globe, with broad community consensus.
Europen Open Data Portal: A series of indicators have been selected to measure Open Data maturity across Europe. These indicators cover the level of development of national policies promoting Open Data, an assessment of the features made available on national data portals as well as the expected impact of Open Data….(More)”
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Tantaka lanza su nueva plataforma de voluntariado
El objetivo es mejorar la experiencia del voluntario y facilitar el seguimiento de los proyectos
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Lucía M. Alcalde
The most recent special issue by the Internet Policy Review is out now! It is published timely during the #AoIR2016 conference in Berlin. It aims at adding to the mainstream internet governance... MORE
The Internet Society (ISOC) Asia-Pacific Bureau, in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UN ESCAP) organised the ‘Asia-Pacific Regional Internet and Development Dialogue’ (RIDD), in Bangkok, Thailand from 3-4 October 2016.
Dzisiaj przede wszystkim zachęcamy Was do wzięcia udziału w konsultacjach nt. dyrektywy o prawie autorskim w Jednolitym Rynku Cyfrowym. Mamy też dla was ciekawostki z sieci: raport dotyczący rozwoju rynku muzycznego w Polsce czy spekulacje dotyczące możliwości zakazu konwertowanie plików z YouTube’a. Wyjaśniamy też czym jest DRM i dlaczego jest niezgodne z prawami użytkowników. A na koniec prezentujemy dyskusję wokół reformy prawa autorskiego w Kolumbii oraz przełomowy wyrok sądu w Indiach dotyczący dozwolonego użytku edukacyjnego.
Dzisiaj przede wszystkim zachęcamy Was do wzięcia udziału w konsultacjach nt. dyrektywy o prawie autorskim w Jednolitym Rynku Cyfrowym. Mamy też dla was ciekawostki z sieci: raport dotyczący rozwoju rynku muzycznego w Polsce czy spekulacje dotyczące możliwości zakazu konwertowanie plików z YouTube’a. Wyjaśniamy też czym jest DRM i dlaczego jest niezgodne z prawami użytkowników. A na koniec prezentujemy dyskusję wokół reformy prawa autorskiego w Kolumbii oraz przełomowy wyrok sądu w Indiach dotyczący dozwolonego użytku edukacyjnego.
I’ve become fascinated as of late by the manufacturing culture in Shenzhen and, having studied different aspects of Chinese internet meme culture, I was interested specifically in the role of the internet in the context of manufacturing. This interest is both academic and pragmatic—as a software product manager myself, I was also interested in what product teams more generally can learn from the work being done in Shenzhen.
In a salutation to the newly-named Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a salute to the new and old members of the community, co-founder and Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain asked his audience during a talk last week, “Why does the internet matter?” The answer, it seems, quite fittingly parallels the history, mission and ethos of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.
In February 2014, Facebook purchased WhatsApp for a whooping $19 billion. This deal came under scrutiny from various privacy advocates. They questioned if the standards of privacy and security of communication on WhatsApp would be maintained post acquisition. WhatsApp reassured users of its commitment to privacy through a blog post titled ‘Setting the record straight’.
With years of experience catering to budget users with entry-level phones, Chinese app-makers are taking on the Indian smartphone market and its hundreds of millions of new customers.
Ajinkya Kolwankar, 25 and self-employed in Mumbai, recently deleted the Facebook app on his phone in favour of UC Browser, an app made by a subsidiary of Chinese tech goliath Alibaba. The browser still allowed him to surf Facebook, but he found it used less battery power and data than the proprietary app.
La delegación china manifestó su interés por establecer mayores áreas de cooperación en pregrado, postgrado e investigación.
Análisis de registros de video de clases y actividades que permiten desarrollar la capacidad de mirar en forma profesional situaciones de aula y activar, integrar y explicar distintos tipos de conocimientos, son parte del libro de Salomé Martínez, académica e investigadora del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas.