Join us in Balaclava, Mauritius for the 10th Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) from 20-22 August 2019.
AfPIF attracts ISPs, content providers, governments, and IXPs for three days of learning, sharing, and building business in Africa.
Why should you attend AfPIF-2019? Have a look through the AfPIF 2018 Summary Report, which contains briefs of presentations, emerging discussions, speakers, and sponsors.
An increasing number of cyber criminals are using the dark web — the encrypted part of the internet that cannot be tracked — to shop for software that helps them remain anonymous while carrying out their crimes.
The article by Tushar Kaushik was published in Economic Times on May 2, 2019. Karan Saini was quoted.
Termin: Mittwoch, 8.5.2019 12:30 Uhr, HS 5A (Gebäude 25.11)
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) researches the development of the Internet from a social perspective. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the associated digitalisation of all areas of life. As the first institute in Germany to focus on Internet and society, the HIIG has developed an understanding…
The post AI & SOCIETY LAB: Call for concepts appeared first on HIIG.
Varsha Rao With the publication of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-awaited report on Russian interference in the United States Presidential Elections of 2016, the threat of hacking and misinformation campaigns to influence elections is taking centre-stage yet again. Closer to home, the discussion has become more pertinent than ever before. In a democratic process of […]
Tomorrow marks one month of the successful completion of Mission Shakti- India’s first Anti-Satellite (ASAT) testing. The test has received mixed reactions from the international community. In this post, we address the three main concerns arising from the ASAT test. First, we examine the technological aspects of ASAT weapons and their significance. Second, we examine […]
In a variation on my last post, on the commons in South East Europe, it seems apt to mention another regional history of the commons, in Italy. This history was written by Ugo Mattei in 2014 as a chapter in a book, Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Weibel (and published by ZKM/Center for Art Media Karlsruhe, in Germany, and MIT Press in the US).
Discussing whether a machine is intelligent is relevant, but more urgent is the question whether our collaborations with machines are intelligent. An intelligent collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires complementary traits, since there is no point in teamwork when all actors possess similar qualities. Consciousness, common sense, intuition, intentionality, imagination, morality, emotional intelligence and phenomenological…
In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election — Cadwalladr calls out the “gods of Silicon Valley” for being on the wrong side of history and asks: Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?
La generación de evidencia para las políticas públicas y para el sistema educacional es uno de los lineamientos fundamentales de este centro universitario que en estos primeros 10 años de vida ha formado a investigadores en la materia, realizado alianzas y trabajos colaborativos con instituciones nacionales y extranjeras, así como generar modelos, proyectos e insumos que actualmente se aplican en las aulas del país. El CIAE es además el único centro de excelencia basal del país en ciencias sociales.
Un análisis que reunió a investigadores de distintas latitudes, en el que participó el profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias (FAVET), Cristóbal Briceño, indicó que un parapoxvirus sería la causa probable de esta enfermedad podal que causa dolor intenso, inflamación, pérdida parcial o completa de las pezuñas y, en muchos casos, la muerte. Cerca del 40 por ciento de los animales afectados murieron, lo que sugiere que el virus podría representar una amenaza considerable para la conservación de esta especie vulnerable.
Con el nombre "Active Bercy", el equipo de la plataforma "Otra Ciudad" liderado por el docente de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo y egresado de la U. de Chile, Sebastián Cuevas, busca revitalizar el sector de Bercy, en la capital francesa.
Tras batir un récord de público de 5 mil personas en su charla sobre Marte en la Medialuna de Rancagua el 2018, y replicar con éxito la conferencia en el Teatro Universidad de Chile, este miércoles 24 de abril a las 19:30 horas el astrónomo de la U. de Chile y Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, José Maza, presentará su último libro "Eclipses" -editado por Grupo Planeta- en el Teatro Caupolicán.
From 10 to 12 April 2019, Aayush Rathi participated in a "reconference" a global conference designed to provoke conversations around the new possibilities and opportunities for feminist movements. It was held in Kathmandu, and was organised by CREA, a feminist human rights organisation based in New Delhi.
L’objectif de ce colloque est d’étudier ensemble deux phénomènes bien connus des différents systèmes juridiques français et québécois : un essor de la justice numérique et un déploiement des modes de règlement amiable des différends. Pour comprendre les enjeux de la justice de demain, il convient d’étudier en parallèle les caractéristiques des justices alternatives et de la justice numérique.
Le nombre d’heures de formation continue (Barreau du Québec – Chambre des notaires) est de 5h30.
Pre. Audrey Ferron-Parayre
Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer que Audrey Ferron-Parayre, anciennement candidate au doctorat sous la supervision de la Professeure Catherine Régis du Centre de Recherche en Droit Public de la Faculté de droit et actuellement Professeure à la Faculté de droit, section droit civil, de l’Université d’Ottawa vient de recevoir le prix Capitant pour sa thèse de doctorat défendue le 05 décembre 2018.
For ten years, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has published an annual comprehensive survey of 1,200 sites’ security and privacy practices. The 10th edition of this Audit has been released and can be found here. As part of the Audit, we score each site’s privacy statement against 29 criteria, ranging from whether it is linked to on the site’s homepage, to whether it states how the site handles children’s data.
Earlier this month, a group of dedicated MediaWiki administrators, contractors, and users met in Daly City, California, United States for the annual Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (EMWCon for short).
I'm pleased to be part of the inaugural group of security professionals standing up for the rights of technology owners to repair, re-use, fix, modify, and enhance the many modern products they buy, use, and depend on for work and personal use. Securepairs.Org is our voice on this critical architecture and public policy item, which has cybersecurity, operational, and resiliency considerations for every technology user.
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Amber Sinha delivered an open lecture at Ambedkar University, New Delhi on 3 April 2019.