The Internet Society’s Vice President of Global Engagement Raúl Echeberría will be participating in a panel tomorrow at the Mobile World Congress Ministerial Programme on Policies to Expand Access to Mobile:
Um dos temas mais debatidos na política é o financiamento das campanhas eleitorais. A lógica é simples, o candidato para se eleger deve, entre outros fatores, divulgar a sua imagem ao maior número de eleitores possível, para convencê-los de que suas propostas são melhores do que os demais candidatos.
Blockchain vs. slavery: Provenance, a London NGO, is using Blockchain to add transparency to seafood supply chains, in an effort to reduce the practice of slavery in the seafood industry in Southeast Asia. Blockchain can create end-to-end traceability for seafood products by storing data on all kinds of transactional history.
Open Access India recently released a statement to promote openness in science and research communities. CIS contributed to the text and introduced it to the participants of OpenCon 2018, Delhi.
Published by Open Access India on February 14, 2018. Read the original post here.
Stuart W. Shulman et al at Data Driven Journalism: “The rise of political bots brings into sharp focus the role of automated social media accounts in today’s democratic civil society.
A dissemination workshop was organized by BBC Media Action, with support from the Digital Impact Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on February 21, 2018 in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham participated in the workshop.
Agenda
9.00 to 9.45
Registration and coffee
9.50 to 10.05
Introduction to ‘Beyond Scale’, Kate Willson, CEO, Digital Impact Alliance
10.15 to 11.15
‘Surviving the Valley of Death’, panel discussion with:
Dr. Jan Niklas Galle Wie Chlamydien den Menschen infizieren Institut für funktionelle Genomforschung der Mikroorganismen; Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lena Masch Wut in der Politik, Effekte negativer Emotionen auf die Bewertung von Führungseigenschaften der Politiker und Politikerinnen Institut für Sozialwissenschaften; Philosophische Fakultät
Dr. Sebastian Kötter Titin – Sensibler Riese der Muskelzellen Institut für Herz- und Kreislaufphysiologie; Medizinische Fakultät
Yaniv Reingewertz and Carmela Lutmar at Harvard Business Review: “Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case.
Routing outages or attacks – such as hijacking, leaks, and spoofing – can lead to stolen data, lost revenue, reputational damage and more, all on a global scale. Routing security is therefore vital to the future and stability of the Internet, and the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative implements crucial fixes.
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius et al in Utrecht Law Review: “Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements. Online political microtargeting is widely used in the US; Europe may not be far behind.
James Bridle in The Atlantic: “In Cyprus, Estonia, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere, passports can now be bought and sold….“If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
UIDAI directive to Aadhaar authentication agencies aims to avoid putting citizens’ biometric data at risk
The article by Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on February 8, 2018.
Researchers and journalists who have identified loopholes in India’s massive national identity card project have said they have been slapped with criminal cases or harassed by government agencies because of their work.
This was published by Reuters on February 13, 2018. Reporting by Rahul Bhatia; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
Summer School European Private LawA FGV DIREITO RIO seleciona alunos da graduação para o curso de verão “Summer School European Private Law”, que ocorrerá de 02 a 14 de julho de 2018, em Salzburg, na Áustria. A Escola poderá indicar até um aluno, que terá isenção na taxa de inscrição. Os demais alunos interessados farão parte do processo seletivo e, sendo aprovados, não terão isenção da taxa de inscrição. Os interessados devem se inscrever até 27 de fevereiro.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
Most people paying attention would expect that the cost of cybercrime has gone up in recent years. But a new report has put a number on it: Worldwide cybercrime costs an estimated $600 billion USD a year.
Stefaan Verhulst in the Journal AI and Society: “This paper seeks to explore the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Collective Intelligence (CI), within the context of innovating how we govern. It starts from the premise that advances in technology provide policy makers with two important new assets: data and connected people. The application of AI and CI allows them to leverage these assets toward solving public problems.
In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms.