By Sharngan Aravindakshan On 19 November 2019, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly passed a Russia-backed resolution. The resolution called for the establishment of an ad-hoc intergovernmental committee of experts “to elaborate a comprehensive international convention countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes” (A/C.3/74/L.11/Rev.1). China, Iran, Myanmar, North […]

Thirty years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is now the most widely ratified treaty in the world.

The Responsible Data for Children website: http://rd4c.org/

Online safety and security are crucial concerns. (Image via SMEX/Christel Oeini)

From November 15 to 17, more than 250 participants gathered for Bread&Net 2019 in the heart of Beirut. With the ongoing Lebanese revolution, this was a special year for our regional digital rights unconference. The political situation was a major focus, from a topic of discussion during various panels to the session venues being named after famous public squares in Lebanon.

La Universidad, la 40 del mundo en empleabilidad según el ranking de Emerging para Times Higher Education
La Universidad ha subido 10 puestos respecto a la edición del año pasado

Alumnos y empresas interactúan en diferentes actividades, entre ellas el Career Forum, como el de la pasada edición de 2019 organizado en el Edificio Amigos de la Universidad.
FOTO: Manuel Castells

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How do fledgling digital innovation communities evolve in the Global South? Nicolas Friederici shares his observations from the 2019 AfriLabs Annual Gathering, and discusses how early communities have grown and become emboldened. I recently spent a week in Addis Ababa for this year’s AfriLabs Gathering. AfriLabs is a kind of association of African innovation hubs,…
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What is the cost of quality in open access (OA) publishing? And who should profit from open access? At this point in the OA-transformation, the position of scholar-led journals is mostly precarious. But there are many reasons, argue Max Bergmann, Kathrin Ganz, Maike Neufend and HIIG researcher Marcel Wrzesinski, that lead us to believe that…

As of late, we have received several questions about the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia’s affiliation with WT:Social. The recently launched WT:Social is related to WikiTribune, a venture independently initiated by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation are separate and independent from WT:Social. We have no connection to the social networking site.

By Matt Ryan, Senior Fellow, The GovLab
Beth Simone Noveck, Director, The GovLab
Peter Baeck, Head of the Center for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta
Around the globe there is increasing recognition that the traditional ways of solving public problems are insufficient for the challenges of the 21st century. 

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The Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research Fellows Programme is training early career researchers to become champions of the Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field. Fellows will learn about Frictionless Data, including how to use Frictionless Data tools in their domains to improve reproducible research workflows, and how to advocate for open science.

El ecosistema de emprendimiento bogotano tiene mucho por contar sobre las tendencias, desafíos e intereses de los jóvenes, tanto de aquellos que buscan generar negocios inclusivos, cómo los que siguen quedando marginados de estas plataformas de participación e innovación.

Left to Right: Emily Courey Pryor (Executive Director, Data2X), Anousheh Ansari (CEO, XPrize Foundation), Vivienne Ming (Co-Founder, Socos Labs), Stefaan Verhulst (Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer, The GovLab at NYU). Photo credit: Data2X.
By Andrew J. Zahuranec, Michelle Winowatan, and Stefaan Verhulst

The Cyber Valley Research Cooperation has established an independent body, the Public Advisory Board, which evaluates research projects with regard to their ethical and social implications. Europe's largest research cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence thus creates an additional element of transparency.The members of the Public Advisory Board were appointed by Theresia Bauer, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science, Research and the Arts.

Calls for Parliamentary supervision over Government interception, legal hacking.
The article by K.V. Kurmanath was published in the Hindu Businessline on November 1, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

On the missing web page note, CERT-In had provided a detailed explanation of the vulnerability, which could be exploited by an attacker by making a decoy voice call to a target.
The article by Megha Mandavia was published in ET Tech.com on November 4, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

India is trying to build what could be the world's largest facial recognition system.
New Delhi says the system could help fight crime and find missing children.
The technology has already been launched at a few Indian airports.
Police in New Delhi says it has identified nearly 3,000 missing children during a trial period last year.
But not everyone is convinced.
Internet freedom advocates say there is little information about where and what the system will be used for and how data will be stored.

Many Worlds. Many Nets. Many Visions.
The Internet Governance Forum 2019 is fastly approaching. It is committed to „One net, one world, one vision“. We beg to differ.
We are looking forward to discuss critical voices during an IGF Side Event CIHR is co-hosting. We have invited experts and activists from all over the world, representing all stakeholder groups to present their ideas on how the Internet Governance discussion should be further developed regarding marginalized groups and communities.

Micro-targeting could have potentially damaging results in the context of political advertising.
The article by P.J. George was published in the Hindu on November 8, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was interviewed.

Arindrajit Basu appeared on CNBC TV 18's Start Up Street discussing data compliance in the fall out of the Whatsapp-Pegasus incident.
Former Disney head Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as country manager for Google India and Startup Street tells you what he brings to the table.
Mastodon is a free and open-source social networking platform that was created in 2016. Startup Street will explain why it's trending and how it's different from other social media platforms.

Arindrajit Basu, Pranav M. Bidare and Karan Saini organized a roundtable discussion on 'Cultivating India’s Cyber Defense Strategy' at the Indian Islamic Cultural Centre in New Delhi, on November 5, 2019. The event saw a total of 27 participants including five speakers.
Agenda for the event can be accessed here.