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Date published: December 7, 2018CNet""In 2018, we really do view it as the year where there was a reckoning with privacy practices across the industry and people waking up to these concerns," said Marshall Erwin, Mozilla's director of trust and security."

It is with deep regret that I share that Eileen Hershenov, General Counsel and Board Secretary, will be departing from her position at the Wikimedia Foundation. On behalf of the executive team, Foundation Board, and myself, I want to thank Eileen for her critical contributions to advance our legal, public policy, and advocacy work during her time with us at the Foundation.

Mayor rapidez, menor costo y aumento de la participación son algunos de los argumentos que se han esgrimido en el debate sobre la posibilidad de implementar un sistema de voto electrónico en nuestro país.

La música de Mozart, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Mahler, Brahms y Tchaikovsky, volverá a sonar este 2019 en el Teatro Universidad de Chile, de la

Evento reuniu brasilianistas de todos os EUAA FGV Direito Rio, em parceria com o Ministério da Educação, a UNESCO e a Universidade de Yale, promoveram, na última semana, a conferência “Brazilian Studies in the United States: The Road Ahead”, em Yale. O presidente da FGV, Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, participou da abertura e do encerramento do evento, que teve como objetivo reunir acadêmicos de Universidades dos EUA que têm o Brasil como uma de suas atuais áreas de pesquisa.

Earlier this week Jason Donenfeld received the Radiant Award from the Internet Security Research Group. Jason is an accomplished engineer and a creative thinker, which makes his work clean, simple, and takes it a step beyond – most notably in WireGuard, an open-source secure VPN tunnel.
We are proud to have enabled this award. Let me explain why.
At the Internet Society we care a great deal about the technologies that help to establish trust between people around the globe, while those people may have never interacted before.

Artificial Intelligence will change society worldwide: More than 60 researchers from a European research network show ethical and legal developments with their projects – and how these developments can be influenced. Representatives of the network met at the end of the conference and agreed on closer cooperation and exchange. Berlin, 6 December 2018 – At…

A new Internet Society Chapter has been founded within the Regional Bureau in Latin America & Caribbean. The creation of the Colombia Chapter is today officially announced at Universidad del Rosario, in Bogotá.
Our desire is to extend a gracious and inclusive welcome to all the 67 founding members that have been active members of the Internet Society for several years, and to the ones that have recently joined the community to be part of the Chapter.

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Prof. Schafroth und sein Team wollen eine Online-Plattform zur italienischen Phraseologie erarbeiten, die sich vor allem an fortgeschrittene Fremd- und Zweitsprachlernenden, aber auch an Spezialisten (wie z.B. Italianisten, Übersetzer, Lexikographen), richtet. Dazu werden die 600 häufigsten Redewendungen des Italienischen nach allen relevanten linguistischen Kriterien beschrieben (z.B. formale Varianten, (Kontext-)Bedeutungen, rhetorisch-pragmatisches Potenzial). Eine interaktive Schnittstelle für User-Kommentare und –Fragen ist ebenfalls vorgesehen.

En una ceremonia realizada en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central, el Bienestar del Personal despidió a los 209 trabajadores de nuestro plantel que se acogieron a retiro entre el 1 de septiembre de 2016 y el 31 de agosto de 2018.

Hace un par de semanas el Gobierno lanzó el Plan Nacional "Leo Primero", iniciativa que en palabras de la ministra de Educación, Marcela Cubillos, busca "ponerle patines a todos los niños de primero básico para que aprendan a leer de manera adecuada".

El crecimiento de la población mundial y la extensión de los períodos de sequías, en el contexto del cambio climático, presenta desafíos cada vez mayores para la producción de recursos naturales.

While all eyes are on Western industrial nations, Nigerian human rights lawyer Olumide Babalola is concerned about AI regulation in Africa. He fears that some countries will adopt the repressive legislation of their neighbours without developing their own attitude towards artificial intelligence. What is missing is a common vision for Africa’s digital future. When I…

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Escritório foi patrocinador ouro do I Congresso Internacional de DireiNo início do mês de novembro, a FGV Direito Rio organizou o I Congresso Internacional de Direito e Gênero e o escritório Mattos Filho contribuiu para a realização deste evento. Foram oito painéis ao longo de dois dias de muito debate sobre temas fundamentais para compreender as diversas formas de dominação que se originam da desigualdade de gênero. A empresa, que completou 26 anos em 2018, é pioneira na criação de Programas de Diversidade e Inclusão em escritórios no Brasil. 

361 besonders leistungsstarke Studierende der HHU dürfen sich über ein Deutschlandstipendium freuen. Mit rund 1,3 Millionen Euro finanzieren insgesamt 81 Privatpersonen, Stiftungen und Unternehmen die aktuelle Förderrunde 2018/19. Zum Vergleich: Bei der ersten Urkundenvergabe 2009 konnte die HHU 76 Stipendiaten mit insgesamt rund 274.000 Euro unterstützen. Über 9,3 Millionen Euro sind seit der Programmgründung an erfolgreiche und talentierte Studierende der HHU geflossen. Rektorin Prof. Dr.