Update: On February 6, 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation was made aware that the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) had been directed to restore access to Wikipedia in Pakistan. Our internal traffic team has confirmed that the traffic on Wikimedia websites from Pakistan has resumed as before. Wikipedia was blocked by the PTA on February 3, 2023.  The people of Pakistan rely on Wikipedia both as a knowledge resource and as a pathway to share their knowledge with others.

Overheden en andere partijen leren kennen wie wij zijn, waar we zijn en wat we graag doen. UvA-onderzoekers bekijken het grote potentieel, valkuilen en de impact van al die kennis op een samenleving die non-stop met elkaar in verbinding staat.
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“I’ve been ordering taxi rides through the Bolt app for three years. Everything was fine until I noticed … Renting “Bolt” Accounts in Lebanon Endangers Passengers and DriversRead More »

The newsletter is dedicated to issues of teaching and training in the context of agriculture and food ethics.

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This post was authored by Sama Zehra The Bombay High Court (‘HC’) in Vinit Kumar v CBI was faced with a situation familiar to the constitutional courts in India. The HC was called upon to decide whether telephone recordings obtained in contravention of section 5(2) of the Telegraphs Act, 1885 (‘Act’) would be admissible in […]

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Nous avons le plaisir d’ annoncer une nouvelle publication de Karim Benyekhlef et Rosario Duasco Calés dans Legal Tech. La Transformación digital de la abogacia (2e éd.)

Karim BENYEKHLEF et Rosario DUASO CALÉS, « Una Nueva Realidad: Innovación Tecnológica, Derechos y Ciberjusticia », dans Moisés Barrio ANDRÉS (dir.), Legal Tech. La Transformación digital de la abogacia (2e éd.), Madrid, La Ley, 2023, 725-752

Wired.com, 2 février 2023, avec la participation de Ksenia Ermoshina.
L’article The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Ameisenvölker zeigen viele soziale Verhaltensweisen. Sie pflegen zum Beispiel erkrankte Individuen und erschweren mit gemeinschaftlichen Hygienemaßnahmen die Verbreitung von Krankheitserregern im Volk. Keime müssen also nicht nur das Immunsystem einzelner Ameisen austricksen, sondern auch die Gesundheitsfürsorge der ganzen Gruppe.

Bayern erhält erstmals einen eigenen Standort für das Nationale Centrum für Tumorerkrankungen (NCT) des Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrums (DZKF). Der Verbund der vier Uniklinik-Standorte Würzburg, Erlangen, Regensburg und Augsburg, kurz WERA, wurde am 2. Februar 2023 als offizieller NCT-Standort durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) verkündet.
Die Koordination des Standortes „NCT WERA“ liegt bei der Universitätsmedizin Würzburg. Das NCT WERA kann zukünftig mit bis zu 14,5 Millionen Euro pro Jahr durch das BMBF gefördert werden.

When the Lebanese Central Inspection launched the IMPACT platform, it resolved one issue but gave rise to another. … Who Inspects the Central Inspection Platforms in Lebanon?Read More »

It’s a new year, full of possibilities – especially when thinking about the ways in which current and emerging technologies have the potential to change how we live, work, and play this year and beyond. Jacques Bughin, Portulans Institute Advisory Board member and CEO of MachaonAdvisory, shares some observations around technology trends we may see emerge in 2023. 
 
What do you think 2023 will look like in terms of technology evolution and adoption?

Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay a participé au webinaire d'experts Digital commons and digital sovereignty, 31 janvier 2023.
L’article Digital commons and digital sovereignty est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Dr Iva Nenadić, Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, speaks in the last episode of the Media Lab Series curated by Information Labs.

The gig economy in Kenya is growing rapidly but conditions for workers are often precarious. We investigated the livelihoods of gig workers.
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