Taxing the Internet: A social media tax in Uganda has prompted many users to quit those same sites, The Guardian reports. The tax, intended to raise government revenues and discourage “idle talk,” amounts to 200 Ugandan shillings, or about U.S. 5 cents, per day. More than one million people have quit taxed mobile apps, the story says.
On Monday 4th March 2019, Catherine Stihler, the new chief executive of Open Knowledge International, will deliver a keynote speech – Fighting for a more open world – at the Open Belgium 2019 conference in Brussels. Read the speech below and visit the Open Belgium website or follow the hashtag to learn more about the event.
This post by Marco Quaglia is cross-posted from Shareable
Digital connectivity plays an anchor role in unlocking innovation and prosperity around the world, but increasing cyber threat is a roadblock to collective path of progress.
The article by Dr. R. Seetharaman was published in the Gulf Times on February 24, 2019.
World Kashmir Awareness (WKA) Board in its meeting on February 23, 2019 regrets the death of 45 Indian soldiers recently killed at Pulwama, Kashmir.
The blog post was published in Kashmir Watch on February 25, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Gurshabad Grover participated in the fifteenth meeting of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Sectional Committee (LITD 17) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which was conducted online on February 26.
Some of the things we discussed included:
More than 30 organisations and industry bodies, including Ficci, CII and the Cellular Operators Association of India, have written to the Electronics and IT Ministry (MeitY), urging it not to ban online content related to the Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS).
The article by Press Trust of India was carried in the Times of India on February 28, 2019.
Across the Planet Young People are Mobilizing
“I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.” 16 year – old Greta Thunberg at Davos – January 2019
Towards a Co-operative CommonWealth: Transition in a Perilous Century
Yesterday, February 28, 2019, dozens of civic leaders, civil servants, and students gathered at New York University’s new building in downtown Madrid to hear leaders from Spain’s largest municipalities discuss the social and equitable challenges created by the housing market pressures in their respective cities.
Você já deve ter brincado de lego alguma vez na vida. Já pensou em como cada bloco tem versatilidade para integrar diferentes estruturas? É assim que dados abertos funcionam – mas em vez de brinquedos, com eles se constroem retratos da realidade. Nesse post especial do Open Data Day, data que ocorre há 9 anos e celebra iniciativas ao redor do mundo, vamos falar sobre como dados abertos podem ajudar a construir democracia.
A diferença entre dado e informação
What
a pleasant surprise to learn that some people at the United Nations –
specifically, its Inter-Parliamentary Union – want to know more about
how commons might be relevant to the “multilateral system” of
international governance and assistance.
I was happy to oblige by participating on a conference panel last Friday, February 22, called “The
Multilateral System in the Public Eye: The Impact of Mass
Communications.” (The conference itself was entitled “Emerging
Challenges to Multilateralism: A Parliamentary Response.”)
Seit der einstimmigen Entscheidung der Hochschulwahlversammlung der HHU am 4. Dezember 2018 steht fest: Prof. Dr. Stefan Marschall wird zum 1. März 2019 Prorektor für Internationales und Wissenschaftskommunikation. Neben der Weiterführung der Internationalisierung und Ausbau der zahlreichen Partnerschaften mit Universitäten außerhalb Deutschlands wird ein Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit die stärkere Vernetzung der HHU mit der Politik, mit Verbänden und NGOs sein.
On Wednesday, February 27, SMEX officially launched its online freedom of expression (FoE) case database, Muhal (muhal.org), at its Masaha space in Beirut.
Muhal is SMEX’s ongoing, evidence-based campaign to document detentions and arrests related to online freedom of speech in Lebanon. SMEX Executive Director Mohamad Najem presented attendees with the platform, explaining its aim, research methodology, and user interface.
Ambika Tandon attended a workshop organized by Association for Progressive Communications for grantees of the Feminist Internet Research Network as a panelist on a session on feminist research methods.. The workshop was held from 27 February to 1 March, in Malaysia. Represented from 8 organizations attended the workshop.
Objectives of the convenining
Revelations of intentional and unintentional use and misuse of consumers’ personal data in 2018 have left people feeling vulnerable and even angry. Debates continue to drive headlines and are gaining in volume and intensity in private companies, legislative halls, regulatory agencies, the media, and homes all over the world about the best way to manage trust and privacy in the digital economy. But there is a paradox between what consumers and their advocates say they want and what we actually do: consumer social media and Internet use remains largely unchanged.March 28, 2019Redwood City
After a long legislative process, the final text of the EU Copyright Directive was cemented last week as trilogue negotiations between the EU Commision, Parliament, and Council came to a close. Now that the final text has been made available, with only a yes-no vote in Parliament standing in the way of its implementation, Wikimedia has determined that we cannot support the reform as is. Here’s why.
The evolution of the directive’s text
O evento de lançamento será realizado no dia 03/04Em 16 de março de 2016, a então presidente Dilma Rousseff sancionou a Lei 13.260/2016, mais conhecida como Lei Antiterrorismo. Mas afinal, por que o Brasil tem uma lei sobre esse assunto? A intrigante pergunta é respondida pelo pesquisador do Centro de Justiça e Sociedade (CJUS) da FGV Direito Rio, Guilherme France, que acaba de lançar o livro “As origens da Lei Antiterrorismo no Brasil”, pela editora Letramento.
O curso Comparative issues in Administrative Law: American and Brazilian perspectives será ministrado por Matthew Stephenson, da Harvard Law School, em conjunto com os professores Eduardo Jordão e Natasha Salinas, da FGV Direito Rio. O programa tem como objetivo examinar as perspectivas americana e brasileira referentes a temas polêmicos e atuais do Direito Administrativo, além de identificar semelhanças e diferenças entre as soluções jurídicas empregadas pelos dois países e questionar a conveniência de eventuais reformas.
A new Internet Society Chapter had been founded within the Regional Bureau in Latin America & Caribbean. The creation of the Internet Society Dominica Chapter was officially launched on January 11, at the Fort Young Hotel in Roseau City.