The Prototype Fund is a public program run by Open Knowledge Foundation Germany that focuses on emerging challenges and radically new solutions. Individuals and small teams can apply for funding to test their ideas and develop open source tools and applications in the fields of civic tech, data literacy, data security and more. The 5th round of the Fund is currently open for applications until 30 September: in this blog Katharina Meyer shares more on its contents and on how to apply.

The Prototype Fund is a public program run by Open Knowledge Foundation Germany that focuses on emerging challenges and radically new solutions. Individuals and small teams can apply for funding to test their ideas and develop open source tools and applications in the fields of civic tech, data literacy, data security and more. The 5th round of the Fund is currently open for applications until 30 September: in this blog Katharina Meyer shares more on its contents and on how to apply.

The following text was written by Maria Fonseca and originally published in IntelligentHQ.
If we are to imagine the world of tomorrow, the terms fairness, equality and connection would probably resonate with the vision of that utopian future. That world, would be a world in which connected communities of people, would be at the very centre of all economic operations.

Shareable, a nonprofit media outlet co-founded by Neal Gorenflo in 2009, is devoted to the sharing economy (the real sharing economy of platform cooperatives and other open, self-organized effort — not proprietary, walled-garden, Death Star platforms like Uber and Airbnb).

The ninth edition of Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) kicked off today, with more than 400 tech executive in attendance.
This year, the forum was organized and held jointly with iWeek- South Africa ISP Association’s premier tech event. The event is underway at the Cape Town International Convention Center.

Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment August 24, 2018 6.00 pm onwards organized by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations & Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi at Conference Hall – 2 | India International Centre | Max Mueller Marg | New Delhi […]

The Technology for Social Justice Project (T4SJ) is excited to release a new report, #MoreThanCode: Practioners Reimagine the landscape of technology for justice and equity. Download the Full Report. #MoreThanCode is a participatory action research report based on interviews, focus groups, and data analysis with 188 tech practitioners from across the U.S.A. The report explores the current ecosystem and demographics; practitioner experiences; visions and values; documents stories of success and failure; and provides key recommendations […]

On August 19, the CRYPTO 2018 conference on cryptographic research hosted a one-day workshop in Santa Barbara called “Encryption and Surveillance.” The goal of the workshop was to “examine how encryption and related technologies pose both challenges and opportunities for surveillance and reform of surveillance.” I was fortunate to be able to attend this workshop, listen to the panelists’ presentations, and observe the intelligent discussion between speakers and attendees about the topics at hand.
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III Seminário Brasil X Noruega: A recuperação das atividades de óleo e gás no Brasil, as novas tendências tecnológicas e os reflexos na regulação do setor marítimo e offshore08h30 até 12h00O Evento: 

Law in RIO 201810h00O Evento: Alinhado à missão da FGV de contribuir para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico do país, o programa FGV Management, administrado pelo IDE – Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional, dissemina por meio de sua rede de Instituições Conveniadas o conhecimento de qualidade produzido pelas diversas Escolas da FGV pelo Brasil, permitindo que profissionais de todo o país tenham as mesmas condições de se atualizar e de investir em suas respectivas carreiras.  

Nomes ilustres da economia e do Poder Judiciário estavam presentesNa última sexta-feira, dia 17 de agosto, foi realizado o Seminário Direito e Desenvolvimento em Brasília. O evento, organizado pela FGV Direito Rio, contou com palestra de abertura da Ministra Cármen Lúcia, presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal, que discorreu sobre as instituições brasileiras, o papel do direito e uma agenda para o futuro.

30 Anos de Constituição: Democracia, Instituições e Realidade08h30 até 18h30O Evento:  
4 de Outubro de 2018
 
8:30 - 9:15 - Recepção / Cadastro de Participantes / Café da Manhã
 
9:15 - 9:45 - Abertura

Casos como el de "Cambridge Analytica" y el anunciado proyecto del "Sistema de Crédito Social" chino, que se basa en un ranking de confianza de sus ciudadanos utilizando grandes bases de datos, han puesto sobre la mesa el debate respecto al límite entre la privacidad de las personas, y los beneficios que pueden tener el uso de estos datos personales para tomar decisiones políticas, comerciales o financieras.

El pasado 3 de agosto entró en vigencia la Ley N° 21.100, que prohíbe la entrega de bolsas plásticas en todo el territorio nacional.

El nuevo programa busca desarrollar habilidades y competencias docentes para la inserción académica en pregrado.

Más de 9 mil alumnos integran actualmente los 232 programas de postgrado, postítulo y especialidades que imparte la Universidad. Gracias a la solidez de este sistema de postgrado, la Casa de Bello aporta al país el 30 por ciento de los doctorados por año y más del 40 por ciento de los nuevos especialistas médicos y odontológicos.

Das NRW-Forschungskolleg Online-Partizipation an der HHU geht der Frage nach, wie das Internet genutzt werden kann, um Bürgerinnen und Bürgern an den sie betreffenden Entscheidungen zu beteiligen.

The SANOG 32 meeting was held on 2-10 August 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which marked fifteen amazing years of collaboration between network operators in the South Asia region. The Internet Society is proud to support the SANOG fellowship programme that provides opportunities for network engineers from countries in the region to attend, as well as organising the Network Security workshop during the event.

Rochelle Gurstein in the Baffler: “WHAT DO WE LOSE WHEN WE LOSE OUR PRIVACY? This question has become increasingly difficult to answer, living as we do in a society that offers boundless opportunities for men and women to expose themselves (in all dimensions of that word) as never before, to commit what are essentially self-invasions of privacy. Although this is a new phenomenon, it has become as ubiquitous as it is quotidian, and for that reason, it is perhaps one of the most telling signs of our time.

Das Schlichtungsverfahren soll schnellstmöglich beginnen. Das Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf (UKD) begrüßt diese Verabredung. „Ein solches Schlichtungsverfahren ist nun die Chance für eine gemeinsam getragene und faire Vereinbarung für Entlastung auf der Grundlage der Inhalte der aktuellen Vereinbarung in Baden-Württemberg und zwar unterhalb der Tarifvertragsebene“, erklärt Ekkehard Zimmer, Kaufmännischer Direktor und stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender des UKD.