Back in the 1970s, with unemployment rising and British industry contracting, workers at the arms company Lucas Aerospace came up with a pioneering plan to retain jobs by proposing alternative, socially-useful applications of the company’s technology and their own skills. The ‘Lucas Plan’ remains one of the most radical and forward thinking attempts ever made by workers to take the steering wheel and directly drive the direction of change.

Yesterday was the 38th and last day of hearings in the Supreme Court case challenging the constitutional validity of India’s biometric authentication programme. After weeks of arguments from both sides, the Supreme Court has now reserved the matter for judgement.
The article by Karan Saini was published in the Wire on May 11, 2018.

Creative workers in the so-called ‘passion industries’ are likely to have no control other their artistic work, experience precarity, and be poorly paid. While artist co-operatives have a long history, Stocksy, a multistakeholder co-operative, are combining an inclusive legal structure with a globally distributed membership.

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Michael C. Horowitz at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space.

Book by Dan Honig: “Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. When should foreign aid organizations empower actors on the front lines of delivery to guide aid interventions, and when should distant headquarters lead?

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Diego Mariani (Fondazione Arbor)
e Antonio Vetrò (Nexa Center)
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Matteo Uggeri (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano)
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Adrien Labaeye: Here’s the problem: The internet was initially built as a peer-to-peer network, but commercial interests changed it into a highly market-driven system over time. Domains are one reason for this change. Top-level domains such as .com and .net became resources that were used to make a profit. In the past couple of years, this phenomenon has extended to other domains like .nyc and .paris.

National Law School of India University, Bangalore organized The Future of Blockchain Technology: Evolving a Framework for its Adoption and Regulation in India on May 5, 2018. Swaraj Barooah panel on "e-Governance and Public Service Delivery using Blockchain Technology" at Consilience 2018.

Criticism notwithstanding, Indian bureaucratic mandarins—babus as they are referred to in local lingo—do come up with draft policies that are contemporaneous, and at times when it’s least expected.

Comment: India's NTP 2018 gets digital makeover but needs complimentary policies | Indian Television Dot Com

The blog post was published in Indian Television on May 8, 2018.

Poor management, corruption and fraud are threatening to derail the world’s largest national identity project.
The blog post by Aayush Soni was published in Ozy.com on May 11, 2018.

Trabalhos visam contribuir para o melhor desenvolvimento nacionalA FGV Direito Rio vem desenvolvendo pesquisas aplicadas que utilizam dados para produção de um conhecimento embasado, inclusive para fins regulatórios. Exemplos dessas iniciativas são o Supremo em Números, Congresso em Números e Regulação em Números. Neste sentido, os pesquisadores do Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS) da Instituição estão desenvolvendo dois trabalhos que visam contribuir para o melhor desenvolvimento nacional.

Palestra: "Transparency's Ideological Drift"14h30O Evento: O Prof. David Pozen (Columbia Law School) analisará as transformações do sentido político-ideológico de demandas por transparência governamental nos Estados Unidos e no mundo, desde suas origens progressistas no início do século XX à recente captura da agenda de transparência por movimentos sociais mais à direita do espectro político.
Local: Sede FGV - Auditório 12º andar
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Professor: Diego Werneck Arguelhes

As aulas serão de 21/07 a 5/08 na Universidade da CalifórniaO curso International Business Law, que oferece experiência educacional e cultural nos EUA, está com inscrições abertas. O programa é voltado para profissionais e executivos da área de Direito que cursam ou já cursaram a graduação ou pós-graduação/MBA na FGV Direito Rio. As aulas serão realizadas de 21 de julho a 5 de agosto na instituição parceira Universidade da Califórnia, em Irvine.

Last week’s news that the passwords of every Twitter user around the world had been exposed in plain text is a stark reminder of the sometimes-fragile nature of security in the online places we trust with our personal information.

Dustin Phillips, Co-Executive Director of ICANNWiki, is traveling across the United States in his red Toyota Corolla, making connections with the people who are making their communities – and the Internet – a better place. First stop: Portland, Oregon, where attended the ICANNWiki’s Girls in ICT Day Edit-a-thon and met up with Hack Oregon.

Die Historischen Sammlungen der ULB, die aus der ehemaligen Landes- und Stadtbibliothek am Grabbeplatz hervorgegangen sind, und das Universitätsarchiv der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf bergen zahlreiche hochinteressante Dokumente aus der Zeit 1914–1918, beispielsweise Kriegstagebücher, Feldpostbriefe, Zeitungsberichte, Verdienstmedaillen, medizinische Berichte von Lazaretten und Krankenhäusern, Schulprogramme, Militärlieder, Lebensmittelmarken und Landkarten, die in Auswahl gezeigt werden sollen und unterschiedliche Facetten des Krieges beleuchten.

Zum ersten Mal in den 13 Jahren ihres Bestehens stellen über 70 Unternehmen bei der Campusmesse aus. Dies dokumentiert, wie begehrt Absolventinnen und Absolventen, aber auch schon die Studierenden der Düsseldorfer Hochschulen für Arbeitgeber sind.