Ever since the Supreme Court’s judgment on Aadhaar, which prohibited the use of the 12-digit biometrics-linked unique identity number by private entities as well as its linking with phone numbers and bank accounts, telecom companies and their customers in particular are wondering what this means for them.
The blog post by Kanishk Karan was published in Scroll.in on October 18, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Data shows that the share of active WhatsApp users in rural India has doubled since 2017, according to a survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
The article by Vidhi Choudhary was published in Hindustan Times on October 21, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

On September 25, 2018, Elonnai Hickok participated in a side event Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital Age organized by INCLO and Privacy International at the Human Rights Council 39th ordinary session. Elonnai spoke on artificial intelligence and privacy.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/confidentiality-of-communications-and-privacy-of-data-in-the-digital-age

Lessons from the new World Bank Global Report: “Almost daily, headlines in the world’s leading newspapers are full of examples of public sector failures: public money is mismanaged or outright misused; civil servants are not motivated or are poorly trained; government agencies fail to coordinate wi

Book edited by Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood: “Surveillance is everywhere: in workplaces monitoring the performance of employees, social media sites tracking clicks and uploads, financial institutions logging transactions, advertisers amassing fine-grained data on customers, and security agencies siphoning up everyone’s telecommunications activities. Surveillance practices-although often hidden-have come to define the way modern institutions operate.

Paper by H.G. (Haiko)van der Voort et al: “Big data promises to transform public decision-making for the better by making it more responsive to actual needs and policy effects. However, much recent work on big data in public decision-making assumes a rational view of decision-making, which has been much criticized in the public administration debate.

Natasha Rausch at Bloomberg: “At Houston’s City Hall last week, Mayor Sylvester Turner gathered with company CEOs, university professors, police officers, politicians and local judges to discuss a $6 billion problem they all have in common: the 2020 census.

Paper by Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David Huffman and Nick Netzer: “Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people’s beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be difficult. We show experimentally and theoretically that trust indeed has a causal effect.

Cities have been caught in the middle of a clash: they are stuck competing for business investments while, simultaneously, seeking to meet the needs of their inhabitants through access to public goods and social services.

Kelsey Sutton at Adweek: “As Hurricane Michael approached the Florida Panhandle, the Florida Division of Emergency Management tapped a tech company for help.

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Date published: October 27, 2018The Register""This case adds to the disagreement over how to analyze compelled decryption orders in the context of passcodes," said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, in an email to The Register."

October 9-11, 2018 will remain etched in the memories of the more than 250 girls and women in technology who converged in Accra, Ghana to participate in the second Africa Summit on Girls and Women in Technology. I was privileged to participate in this summit as well – together with seven other women in technology from my community in Ghana.
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Robert Raymond: In this second episode of our new radio documentary series The Response, we shine a spotlight on Puerto Rico. When Hurricane Maria slammed into the island about a year ago, it resulted in thousands of deaths and knocked out power for almost an entire year. The result was what many consider to be the worst disaster in the United States.

Over the years I’ve come across a few proposals that any person or entity should able to issue their own currency, and I’ve always struggled about what that would mean and how it would work. This is relevant for recursive currency systems like the Credit Commons in which theoretically any member could create a currency as part of a larger monetary ecosystem. Recently I’ve been thinking these through and I think the benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks.

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Pranesh Prakash was a panelist and moderator in a panel discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge on October 23, 2018 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The event was hosted by DST Centre for Policy Research (IISc), Bangalore.

El Centro Avanzado de Enfermedades Crónicas (ACCDiS) ha sido aprobado por el Consejo Superior de Ciencias de FONDECYT basado en la recomendación proporcionada por Panel Evaluador
Internacional, para continuar la labor de investigación y formación de recursos humanos avanzados especializados en la prevención y tratamiento de enfermedades cardiovasculares y cáncer.

"Arte y cuerpo seropositivo en el Chile contemporáneo" es la muestra que entre el 19 de octubre y el 16 de noviembre estará abierta al público en el Museo de Química y Farmacia, exposición que espera vincular a la comunidad con las experiencias y perspectivas de quienes viven con el Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana (VIH) y con el Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (Sida).

La iniciativa, que tiene como objetivo identificar y priorizar las respuestas para 16 grupos sociales identificados como vulnerables, reúne a representantes del sector privado, la sociedad civil, la academia y del gobierno para entregar propuestas de políticas públicas que puedan impactar directamente a estos grupos, y de esta forma avanzar en la erradicación de la pobreza.