Other News from Participating Centers

International Data Flows and Privacy: The Conflict and its Resolution

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper by Aaditya Mattoo and Joshua P Meltzer: “The free flow of data across borders underpins today’s globalized economy. But the flow of personal dataoutside the jurisdiction of national regulators also raises concerns about the protection of privacy. Addressing these legitimate concerns without undermining international integration is a challenge.

Deprogramming Students and Teachers

Co-authored with Evan Selinger.
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United States

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The Future of Fishing Is Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Meg Wilcox at Civil Eats: “New England’s groundfish season is in full swing, as hundreds of dayboat fishermen from Rhode Island to Maine take to the water in search of the region’s iconic cod and haddock. But this year, several dozen of them are hauling in their catch under the watchful eye of video cameras as part of a new effort to use technology to better sustain the area’s fisheries and the communities that depend on them.

Innovative Licensing Approaches: Enabling Access in Hard-to-Reach Places Through Collaborative Partnerships

In the Republic of Georgia, high in the mountains of the Tusheti region, a community network has been built to bring faster Internet connectivity to those that did not have it. The story is compelling, not only for the determination of people to make sure that the Internet is available in one of the remotest places in the world, but also for their strong belief of what connecting to the Internet could bring to the people of Tusheti.

Aluna da FGV Direito Rio é selecionada para intercâmbio em Harvard

Luíza Bruxellas é aluna do 9º período da graduação da FGV Direito RioLuíza Bruxellas, aluna do 9º período da graduação da FGV Direito Rio, foi selecionada para realizar intercâmbio na Harvard Law School, nos Estados Unidos. A estudante terá a oportunidade de cursar o período de 2018.2 na instituição, que é parceira da FGV Direito Rio.

Criptografia, tutela da privacidade e proteção dos dados pessoais: contornos de um debate contemporâneo

A importância da criptografia e suas repercussões para o Direito e a sociedade é assunto que ganhou projeção no Brasil com as recentes ações de controle de constitucionalidade em curso no Supremo Tribunal Federal – STF. Ambas (ADI 5527 e ADPF 403) tratam do bloqueio de aplicações como o WhatsApp, aplicativo de mensagem instantânea que usa tecnologia de criptografia ponta a ponta para garantir a segurança e o sigilo das comunicações de seus usuários, à luz do da legislação pertinente, como o Marco Civil da Internet (Lei n. 12.965/2014).

Open Data for the Campania Cultural Heritage – an update from the Route-To-PA Hetor pilot

This blog has been reposted from the Hetor blog.

Natural Disasters and Environmental Events

This post was collaboratively written by Liz Barry, Greg Bloom, Willow Brugh, and Tamara Shapiro. It was translated by Mariel García (thank you). Español debajo. Every year, communities are affected by “extreme environmental events.” These might include hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, or floods. There are, of course, official response agencies with mandates to rescue, feed, heal, and rebuild; however, the true first responders are always people who live in the affected regions — neighbors and community leaders. […]

The Week in Internet News: Artificial Intelligence Heads to the Final Frontier

Coming to a space station near you: Artificial intelligence is going to space – maybe not a space station, but a satellite – predicts an aerospace executive, quoted in SpaceNews.com. So-called geospatial intelligence, housed on satellites, will collect massive amounts of data in space and analyze it, she says.

Prescription drugs that kill: The challenge of identifying deaths in government data

Mike Stucka at Data Driven Journalism: “An editor at The Palm Beach Post printed out hundreds of pages of reports and asked a simple question that turned out to be weirdly complex: How many people were being killed by a prescription drug?

Help NASA create the world’s largest landslide database

EarthSky: “Landslides cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in property damage each year. Surprisingly, very few centralized global landslide databases exist, especially those that are publicly available.

Open Standards for Data

Guidebook by the Open Data Institute: “Standards for data are often seen as a technical topic that is only relevant to developers and other technologists.
Using this guidebook we hope to highlight that standards are an important tool that are worthy of wider attention.
Standards have an important role in helping us to consistently and repeatably share data. But they are also a tool to help implement policy, create and shape markets and drive social change.

New Zealand explores machine-readable laws to transform government

Apolitical: “The team working to drive New Zealand’s government into the digital age believes that part of the problem is the ways that laws themselves are written. Earlier this year, over a three-week experiment, they’ve tested the theory by rewriting legislation itself as software code.…

Bilder von Forschung und Wissenschaft für Kalenderprojekt gesucht

Die Heine Research Academies rufen die Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler – Promovierte und Promovenden – aller Fakultäten der HHU zu ihrem Kalenderwettbewerb „pART of Research“ auf. Das diesjährige Motto lautet „Diversity in Research / Objekte – Orte – Menschen“. Die unterschiedlichen Blickwinkel auf die vielfältigen Ansätze in Forschung und Wissenschaft in den fünf Fakultäten der HHU stehen im Focus.

Scientific study proves innovation potential of the GDPR

A legal study on the EU General Data Protection Regulation by a researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) shows that the new regulation is a suitable regulatory instrument for innovation processes and can even create competitive advantages if properly implemented. Berlin, 14 May 2018 – Since the negotiations on…

Start für neues TV-Format der Uniklinik Düsseldorf

In kurzen Beiträgen werden drei verschiedene Themen pro Sendung vorgestellt. In der ersten Ausgabe geht es um Hörprobleme, Prostatakrebs und chronische Schmerzen. „Ganz bewusst wollten wir anschaulich darstellen, was moderne Universitätsmedizin für die Menschen leisten kann. Daher freut es mich sehr, dass wir auch zwei Patientinnen gewinnen konnten, die Einblick in ihr Leben geben“, erklärt Stefan Dreising, Leiter der Unternehmenskommunikation der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik. Produziert wird das Magazin in Zusammenarbeit mit Rheinischen Post Mediengruppe.

Kserokopia #72 (23 kwietnia – 14 maja)

W najnowszym numerze Kserokopii prezentujemy kolejne głosy sprzeciwu przeciwko kierunkowi, w jakim zmierza europejska reforma praw autorskich. Ponadto zachęcamy do zapoznania się z decyzją Okręgowego Sądu Dyscyplinarnego Okręgowej Izby Radców Prawnych w Gdańsku w sprawie nieetyczności copyright trollingu, artykułem nt. prawnych uwarunkowań samplingu, pomysłem Komisji Europejskiej na dyrektywę reuse oraz kolejnymi krokami na drodze do implementacji dyrektywy o zbiorowym zarządzaniu prawami autorskimi. Miłej lektury!

Open Government and Open Contracting in Paraguay and Cameroon

This blog was written by Rodrigo Valdez (Girolabs) and Transparency International Cameroon.

Enrol Yourself! An Experiment in Using P2P and Commons-based Approaches to Reimagine Lifelong Learning

Zahra Davidson: Enrol Yourself is a social business that aims to redesign lifelong learning by harnessing the power of peer groups.
It all began when my good friend Roxana Bacian felt stuck in our jobs and started having regular conversations about the kind of learning and development we wanted to participate in – and couldn’t find!

Exhibition: 21 Minds thinking the future

In the "Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurts" permanent exhibition 21 experts on economy, science, society and politics put different perspectives on communication in the 21st century and the influence of digitalisation up for discussion.In Videostatements and Interviews the experts present their perspectives on possible trends in communication of the future.Joining them is Prof. Dr. Regina Ammicht Quinn, spokeswoman of the IZEW.for more information click here