Agriculture 3.0 describes the increasing implementation and promotion of digital technologies in agricultural production. Promising more efficient farming, higher yields and environmental sustainability, AgTech has entered the mainstream, pushed by the EU, international corporations and national governments across the world. Increasingly, serious questions are raised about the impact of such market-oriented technologies on the agricultural sector. Who has access to these technologies? Who controls the data?

What is it that happens when a group of people comes together, intent on fighting for more control over their lives? There is no one answer to that, but I have witnessed the birth of one particular new common project: London Renters Union. Building the union has sometimes felt a slow and painstaking process, but it has been a rewarding one that reveals the resources on which a new organisation draws.

Los ecosistemas digitales en los países más desarrollados son muy diferentes a los que tenemos en países del sur global. En ambos casos, el acceso, adopción y uso de nuevas tecnologías han tenido efectos transformadores, pero también han generado problemas que son muy nuevos, poco analizados y requieren de una mayor velocidad de respuesta de … Continuar leyendo "Creando una agenda de investigación participativa"

The workshop organized by Broadband India was held on May 31, 2018 at Taj Mansingh (Long Champ) in New Delhi. Shyam Ponappa attended the workshop.
In view of the need to extend broadband connectivity everywhere and take it to unserved and underserved areas, V band (60Ghz) has a very crucial role to play . In view of the need for more clarity on the subject of V Band allocation in India and in view of the fact that new use cases are emerging since the TRAI Recommendations were made in 2015, Broadband India organized a half day workshop.

Never before in Bengaluru has the Internet and social media taken such a vicious and violent turn as it did last week.
The article by Rajitha Menon and Surupasree Sarmmah was published in the Deccan Herald on May 29, 2018.

Much-hyped fact-checking initiative identified only 30 bits of fake news in month-long Karnataka campaign. Yup — 30!
The article by Visvak was published in Huffington Post on May 30, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

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La artista, creadora del proyecto "Humanae" ¿mediante el cual ha expuesto a nivel mundial la diversidad a partir de los diferentes tonos de la piel- estuvo en Chile para ser parte de la Semana de la Educación Artística 2018. En el marco de este evento internacional convocado por la UNESCO, y en el que la U.

El programa es una exportación no tradicional que permitirá a los ministerios de Educación latinoamericanos asignar recursos en forma eficiente para lograr más cobertura y mayor calidad, en base a esta iniciativa liderada por el investigador Jorge Amaya.

El cientista político francés fue invitado a la Universidad de Chile para realizar la charla "Crisis políticas contemporáneas: perspectivas y análisis de caso".

Centre for International Governance Innovation: “Data is being hailed as “the new oil.” The analogy seems appropriate given the growing amount of data being collected, and the advances made in its gathering, storage, manipulation and use for commercial, social and political purposes.

Continuing our coverage of the Lucas Plan as a precursor to Design Global Manufacture Local, this article explores “what the Lucas Plan could teach tech today”.

In this special guest post, Miguel Martínez tells the story of five “strands of commoning” in Florence, including the Nidiaci Garden and Park, a commons-managed space focused on children.
The City, the Commons, the Flower

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Essay by Mary Kay Gugerty & Dean Karlan in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Good impact evaluations—those that answer policy-relevant questions with rigor—have improved development knowledge, policy, and practice.

To comply with the impending GDPR rules, social media platforms are asking users to accept their new privacy policies. In light of the recent scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, why should users still trust private companies and accept terms unilaterally set by them? Should we rather need to craft a constitution for social media?…
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At 29-05-2018 08:09:45 UTC, BGPMon (A very well known BGP monitoring system to detect prefix hijacks, route leaks and instability) detected a possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.0/24 prefix. Cloudflare Inc has been announcing this prefix from AS 13335 since 1st April 2018 after signing an initial 5-year research agreement with APNIC Research and Development (Labs) to offer DNS services.

Docente apresentou resultados do Supremo em NúmerosO professor Ivar Hartmann, da FGV Direito Rio, coordenador do projeto Supremo em Números, foi convocado a partir de solicitações de diferentes deputados para participar como expositor da primeira Audiência Pública realizada pela Comissão Especial da Câmara dos Deputados sobre a PEC 333/17. A proposta visa alterar a Constituição para extinguir o foro especial de membros de todos os Poderes em crimes comuns. Na ocasião, o docente apresentou os principais resultados do quinto relatório Supremo em Números, sobre o foro privilegiado.

Report by the Municipality of Copenhagen: “The City Data Exchange (CDE) is the product of a collaborative project between the Municipality of Copenhagen, the Capital Region of Denmark, and Hitachi.

Essay by Jack Balkin: “The vision of free expression that characterized much of the twentieth century is inadequate to protect free expression today.