Page Type: Eventmercoledi14 Ottobre 2020
David Schmudde (Software Engineer)
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Page Type: Eventlunch23 Settembre 2020
Elena Beretta (Centro Nexa)
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This summary is provided as part of our Dialogue on Digital Transformation series.

This past spring, while the pandemic was worsening around us and the first shelter in place orders went into effect, I began an exploratory research project with  then graduate student researcher (now Stanford Ph.D graduate) Andreas Katsanevas and a team of fantastic undergraduates: Claudia Bobadilla, Nivedha Kelley Soundappan, Emilia Porubcin (all from Stanford), and Morgan Livingston (U.C. Berkeley). Read more about Dark Patterns and the CCPA
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On Wednesday, Portulans Institute, in cooperation with UNESCO and ICANN, hosted a regional panel on Europe’s digital transformation, highlighting regional data from the 2020 Network Readiness Index (read our summary here).

Junto a mantener el distanciamiento social y la higiene constante de manos, el uso de mascarillas es una de las principales medidas para prevenir nuevos contagios de COVID-19.

"Probablemente algo que nos ha jugado en contra, es que este estallido nos pilla en un momento en que los distintos movimientos sociales y organizaciones estaban a la baja; que ninguno tenía liderazgos potentes", plantea la académica del Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos (CECLA) de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, quien analiza el escenario político actual, el remezón irremontable iniciado con el estallido social -marcado por "el hartazgo transversal con los niveles de abuso"-, y las potencialidades emancipatorias abiertas desde entonces.

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United States

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If the internet is the most important battleground in next week’s U.S. presidential election, then Wikipedia is the Web’s neutral zone.
Last month, U.S. federal agencies issued a public service announcementwith a warning that bad actors could use the internet to spread disinformation in an effort to discredit the legitimacy of the voting process.

La coordination scientifique des midis-conférences des jeunes chercheurs du CRDP est heureuse de vous annoncer qu’à la suite des délibérations du comité de sélection, quatorze (14) propositions de communication (cf liste ci-dessous) ont été retenues pour l’édition de cette année. Voici la liste :

Leiden University Center for Continental Philosophy (LCCP) and the Institute for Science in Society of the Radboud University of Nijmegen welcome all interested persons to a symposium on Bernard Stiegler’s work on 3-4 December 2020.

Embedding Principles of Privacy, Transparency and Accountability This post has been authored by Jhalak M. Kakkar and Nidhi Singh In July 2020, the NITI Aayog released a draft Working Document entitled “Towards Responsible AI for All” (hereafter ‘NITI Aayog Working Document’ or ‘Working Document’). This Working Document was initially prepared for an expert consultation that […]

On the 9th of November, our friends from the Centre for Digital Inquiry, Warwick’s hub for critical digital research, organize a public talk about their ‘COVID-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies’ project.

One Year Since the October 17 Uprising in Lebanon: Summons and Arrests for Online Speech It’s been one year since the October 17 uprising in Lebanon, which was ignited over the imposition of a “WhatsApp tax.” During this time, Lebanon witnessed an increase in summons and arrests resulting from online[...]

Page Type: Eventmercoledi9 Settembre 2020
Marcello Ienca (ETH Zurich)
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Government computer systems in Hall County, Georgia, including a voter signature database, were hit by a ransomware attack earlier this fall in the first known ransomware attack on election infrastructure during the 2020 presidential election. Thankfully, county officials reported that the voting process for its citizens was not disrupted.