A Coordenação de Relações Internacionais comunica a abertura das inscrições, para alunos e ex-alunos, nos Summer Courses: Miami Law Global Summer Academy, Católica Porto Business Summer Schools, Bucerius Law School Summer Programs, Summer Programme Stockholm University e Tilburg University Summer School.
Miami Law Global Summer Academy
Julie Owono was recently quoted in leading French Magazine L'Express about a social media tax, proposed by a French MP, to fight against hate speech online.
Like in Uganda, the measure wouldn't be efficient, and would reinforce censorship : “in the face of such a restrictive measure, the use of VPNs would increase considerably.”
As Amazon expands its reign over e-commerce and gets more aggressive about rooting out counterfeiting, it’s taking a more active role in judging intellectual property disputes.
“Amazon, with its size, now substitutes for government in a lot of what it does,” said BKC director Rebecca Tushnet. “It is being asked to run a judicial system, without the commitments to transparency and precedent of a real judicial system.”
Dariusz Jemielniak on a Chinese app that tracks the spread of the coronavirus.
“There’s a very high possibility that people will panic,” Jemielniak said. “I don’t think this is a good thing. This is a bad thing. They are fearmongering through the app.”
evelyn douek urges transparency and accountability in industry-wide content removal decisions:
“Content cartel creep is at least in part an implicit acknowledgment that the relationship between economic competition in the platform market and a healthy public sphere is complicated.”
Investimento: Gratuito
Análise Econômica da Reforma Tributária14h00O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio, em Parceria com o Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região, realiza o Seminário “Análise Econômica da Reforma Tributária”. O evento, que tem como objetivo discutir as implicações econômicas da Reforma Tributária, contará com a participação de desembargadores, outras autoridades governamentais e acadêmicos.
Abertura14:00 às 14:30
Antônio Maristrello Porto | Vice-Diretor, FGV Direito Rio
Investimento: Gratuito
The Open Knowledge Foundation is happy to announce that dozens of organisations from all over the world have been awarded mini-grants to support the running of events that celebrate Open Data Day on Saturday 7th March 2020.
Le CRDP a le plaisir de vous inviter à la prochaine matinée de la justice.
La conférence, intitulée « Chagall, Caillebotte, Carr et les tribulations de la Loi sur l’exportation et l’importation des biens culturels », se tiendra le mercredi 18 mars 2020 de 10h à 11h30 au salon François-Chevrette. Les conférenciers invités sont :
Me François Le Moine, Conférencier, Avocat, Sarrazin-Plourde Doctorant à l’Université McGill.
J. Nathan Matias blogs about Ethan Zuckerman’s talk at Cornell.
“Right now, Ethan says, we have a massive failure of imagination. We wrongly assume that the internet will be Facebook and Google forever,” Matias writes. “Instead, Ethan tells us that we’re in the early stages of a long drama. If we want the internet to be good for society, we still have the chance to imagine something better.”
Ifeoma Ajunwa testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on February 5, emphasizing the need to regulate automated hiring systems.
Technology has created “the quantified worker,” Ajunwa said. “Yet there are no federal laws to protect workers from excessive surveillance.”
O Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio comunica a abertura de mais um canal de comunicação entre chineses e brasileiros. Neste momento de guerra contra o coronavírus, em que notícias falsas se espalham em alta velocidade, a Embaixada da China no Brasil, parceira do Núcleo, criou uma conta oficial no Twitter. A iniciativa visa combater as fake news e facilitar a comunicação direta com o povo brasileiro.
Der Nationale Pakt "Komm, mach MINT." ist die einzige bundesweite Netzwerk-Initiative, die Mädchen und Frauen für MINT-Studiengänge und -Berufe begeistern will. 2008 auf Initiative des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung gestartet, führt der Pakt seitdem die Kompetenz von Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Sozialpartnern und Medien zusammen, um das Bild der MINT-Berufe in der Gesellschaft zu verändern.
Grundsätzlich verweist die Hochschulleitung auf die stets aktuell gehaltenen Informationen des Auswärtigen Amtes, des Robert-Koch-Instituts sowie auf die Expertise des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf (UKD). Laut Robert-Koch-Institut ist die Gefahr für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung in Deutschland durch die neue Atemwegserkrankung aus China weiterhin gering. Es halten sich – soweit in der Universitätsverwaltung bekannt – ohnehin keine HHU-Studierenden in China auf.
Renommierte Forschungsförderorganisationen stellen ihre Programme für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs vor, darunter die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung und die Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung sowie unterstützende Organisationen. Beim dritten Forschungsfördertag der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) geht es nicht allein um Finanzierungen, sondern genauso um gutes Netzwerken.
More information: https://townhallseattle.org/event/who-can-we-trust/ Read more about Who Can We Trust?January 23, 2020Town Hall Seattle
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Slides from Victoria's presentationFebruary 7, 2020Read more about Community Efforts Advancing Reproducibility and Transparency in Data- and Computationally-enabled ResearchThe iSchool at Illinois
Danielle Citron devised an eight-point plan for political campaigns to protect against fabricated video and audio. Citron spoke to BU Today about her plan, her work with Facebook and Twitter, and the current presidential election.
“[There’s] a distinct possibility that hostile state actors are going to disrupt the 2020 election, manufacturing deepfakes to sow discord,” Citron says.
