The Dept. of IT & BT, Government of Karnataka organised the 21st edition of Bengaluru Tech Summit from November 29, 2018 to December 1, 2018 at Palace Grounds, Bengaluru. Aayush Rathi was a speaker at the panel on 'Future Tech and Future Law'.
The discussion was moderated by Tanvi Ratna. Aayush's co-panelists were Apar Gupta,Jaideep Reddy and Nilesh Trivedi. During his remarks, he attempted to focus on our AI research thus far and our suggestions for AI regulation.

Hasta el 16 de diciembre se podrá asistir en el GAM a la obra "Es tan lindo saber que usted existe", del director Sebastián de la Cuesta y que en su elenco incluye a Paulina Mellado, académica de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Chile, así como a un octeto de jóvenes intérpretes de la misma unidad académica.Con una atractiva propuesta y un acompañamiento visual de vanguardia, la obra de danza contemporánea "Es tan lindo saber que usted existe", enfocada en la vejez, ha logrado llamar la atención del público tras su estreno el pasado 23 de noviembre.

A través del estudio de un manojo de fibras ópticas, científicos del Departamento de Física de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile y del Instituto Milenio de Óptica (MIRO), demostraron que es posible transportar controladamente la luz localizada en regiones espaciales muy pequeñas, cuestión que representa un avance importante hacia la computación óptica. Este trabajo fue publicado en la última versión de la revista Physical Review A.

The winner of this year’s Chapterthon was announced this Tuesday, 4 December during InterCommunity 2018.
Chapterthon is a global Internet Society (ISOC) Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) marathon, where all the Internet Society members can participate by developing a project within a timeline and budget to achieve a common goal. The project winner is selected by the community through online vote.

In einer neuen Folge des ITM-Podcasts stellen die Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter der zivilrechtlichen Abteilung Matthias Mörike und Armin Strobel die Forschungsstelle Recht im Deutschen Forschungsnetz (DFN) vor. Die Forschungsstelle Recht im DFN beging im Sommer diesen Jahres ihr 20-jähriges Jubiläum.

Pranav Bidare and Saumyaa Naidu participated in the Facebook Privacy Design Sprint on Friday, November 30, 2018.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/facebook-privacy-design-sprint

The 2018 Freedom Online Conference took place from 28 to 30 November 2018 in Berlin. Elonnai Hickok participated as a speaker.
Elonnai attended the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network meeting and larger Freedom Online Coalition conference. The agenda can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren und Prof. Dr. Gerald Mäsch werden im Sommersemester 2019 wieder in Kooperation mit dem BVB 09 ein
Sportrechtseminar

The event was co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama - A Resource Centre for Women and Health and was held at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore between December 3 and 5, 2018.
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon participated in the event as speakers. Aayush presented a paper 'Sexual Surveillance and Data Regimes: Development in the Data Economy' co-authored by himself and Ambika.
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We look for a researcher with a background in ethics or social sciences and competences in the field of artificial intelligence and/or theories of diversity and/or data privacy.

The apps have benefited mightily from the short-video craze that’s taken hold among preteens and adolescents but this is putting them in danger from predators, experts said.
The article by Nilesh Christopher was published in Economic Times on November 30, 2018.

How do we coordinate responses to attacks against Internet infrastructure and users? Internet technology has to scale or it won’t survive for long as the network of networks grows ever larger. But it’s not just the technology, it’s also the people, processes and organisations involved in developing, operating and evolving the Internet that need ways to scale up to the challenges that a growing global network can create.

Prof. Marschall wird unter anderem für das Ressort „Internationales“ verantwortlich zeichnen. Er folgt in dieser Zuständigkeit Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch: Die Kunsthistorikerin vertritt seit mehr als vier Jahren diesen Bereich und will sich ab dem Frühjahr 2019 wieder verstärkt ihrer Forschung und der Initiierung von Verbundprojekten widmen.

Kyrgyzstan’s transition to post-Soviet renovation toward a free market economy has had severe effects on the nation’s educational system. Having limited resources, schools in Kyrgyzstan desperately need more teachers. Currently, there are over 2500 teaching positions not being covered, most of them in the fields of natural science and mathematics.

Eduardo Bruzzi passou quatro semanas na InstituiçãoEduardo Bruzzi, aluno do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação da FGV Direito Rio, teve a oportunidade de passar quatro semanas no Instituto de Direito e Finanças da Universidade de Goethe, em Frankfurt.

Originally posted on Labgov.city

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Design is one of the most important but overlooked factors that determines people’s privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect themselves ― even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them.

En esta columna publicada el domingo 2 de diciembre en El Mercurio, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, hace hincapié en la importancia de estos ámbitos para el desarrollo del país, y el papel estratégico de las instituciones de Educación Superior a la hora de tomar decisiones basadas en evidencia, y que promuevan el bien común.