Open Data Day 2019 is closer each day! We’re excited to see the events map slowly coming together in different parts of the world.
For those of you who are not familiar with the event, Open Data Day is the yearly event where we reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they need, we provide mini-grants to cover for some of the expenses of organising this kind of event.

Die Humangenetik hat in den letzten 140 Jahren eine rasante Entwicklung genommen: 1953 beschrieben Watson und Crick, um nur wenige Beispiele zu nennen, die DNA-Struktur als Doppelhelix und 2001 wurde das Humangenom durch Craig und Venter aufgeschlüsselt.
Heute sind mit den neuen Hochdurchsatz-Sequenziertechnologien („next generation sequencing“, NGS) bioinformatische Verfahren und Datenbanken sehr wichtig geworden.

In this video, American technology consultant Jerry Michalski shares his thoughts on ‘abundance’ in the face of artificial scarcity. The ExO Foundation’s MTP (Massive Transformational Purpose) is Migrating Society to Abundance. Michalski explores exactly what abundance means in that context. Jerry Michalski is the former managing editor of Release 1.0, a technology newsletter. He is the... Continue reading →

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Is it merely an exercise in nostalgia? Or is it providing fodder for facial recognition algorithms on ageing?
The blog post by Devarsi Ghosh was published in Scroll.in on January 18, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

In collaboration with India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc), CIS hosted the a 'RFCs We Love' meetup, where we discussed some IETF specifications and standards. The event was held on January 19 at the CIS office, Bangalore.

The theme of the meetup was data centres and service providers. The agenda was:

MediaNama hosted one policy round-table on Intermediary Liability protections in Bangalore and another round-table in New Delhi, to discuss inputs sought by MEITY on the amendments to Safe Harbor for platforms (payments services, content services, ISPs, etc.) in India. Centre for Internet & Society is a community partner for the event.

In 2010, a year after the UIDAI was constituted, three of its functionaries visited internationally-renowned developmental economist Professor Reetika Khera.
The article by Partha P Chakrabartty was published in First Post on February 2, 2019.

Google is pouring an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday.
The article was published by WIRED on January 22, 2019.

The following article is reposted from CECOP-CICOPA Europe.

CECOP-CICOPA Europe has decided to give a voice directly to young people and those working with them. Here is the result! Three videos illustrating employment and entrepreneurial opportunities that cooperatives in industry and services provide to young people across EU.

Piracy continues to be a huge concern among filmmakers but it can also be a marketing strategy for small-budget films.
The article by Surupasree Sarmmah was published in Deccan Herald on January 23, 2019. Akriti Bopanna was quoted.

Did you know that UIDAI provides a facility that allows users to lock/unlock their Aadhaar biometric data online?
The blog post by Vidya Raja was published in the Better India on January 24, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Facebook made the news last week when The New York Times’ Mike Isaac reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg intended to integrate the company’s three messaging platforms: WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.
The blog post by Abhimanyu Ghoshal was published in The Next Web on January 30, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

On January 29, 2019, Karan Saini and Gurshabad Grover participated in the Bangalore chapter meet organized by Data Security Council of India in Bangalore.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/dscis-bangalore-chapter-meet

The dynamics of hate speech and counter speech in the social media

Das High-Performance Computing ist eine Schlüsseltechnologie und ein Standortfaktor für wissenschaftliche Forschung aus allen Fakultäten. In Nordrhein-Westfalen gibt es hierzu bereits eine gut ausgebaute Infrastruktur und große wissenschaftliche und technische Expertise, so etwa das Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) am Forschungszentrum Jülich, eines der drei leistungsfähigsten Höchstleistungszentren Deutschlands. Auch die HHU ist – in einem kleineren Maßstab – mit seinem HPC-Rechnercluster „HILBERT“ am Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnik (ZIM) gut aufgestellt.

Googling for anything might seem like a good idea, but searching for contacts of businesses and customer care numbers is landing people in the hands of conmen.
The article by Tushar Kaushik was published in Economic Times on January 30, 2019.

India’s largest bank has secured an unprotected server that allowed anyone to access financial information on millions of its customers, like bank balances and recent transactions.
The blog post by Zack Whittaker was published Tech Crunch on January 30, 2019. Karan Saini was quoted.

India is the world’s biggest emerging digital economy, and Silicon Valley’s top companies have invested huge sums to cash in on it. Now new regulations are threatening their business.
The blog post was published in Q13 Fox on January 31, 2019. Gurshabad Grover was quoted.

By Digital Empowerment Foundation
In the last 25 years, half the world has been connected to the Internet and the almost infinite opportunities it has to offer. Most of these, among the 3.5 billion connected individuals of the world, are people who are largely economically empowered, literate, and reside in urban or accessible areas. However, there is also half the world that is yet to get online and access what the Internet has to offer them.