The child of a monkey holds on to its mother tightly. A lone straw bale stands in a field prior to being collected. A few rays of sunlight filter into a dark, foreboding cave filled with clear blue water.
In Brazil, the operative intermediary liability system risks being invalidated, as the country’s Supreme Court should rule on its constitutionality this week. Associated HIIG researcher Clara Iglesias Keller argues that, regardless of the limits of the elected court centric approach, this could be a setback for the national online content regulation framework. This week, the…
Just check out its core philosophy, with its core terms in bold wording:
The invisible hand of the free market governs everything and the hardworking get prosperous while the lazy suffer poverty.
Sounds pretty familiar and very rational, doesn’t it…
But check it out again with the religious equivalents of the core terms replaced in:
In her interdisciplinary work, she deconstructed the EU´s energy policy which falls short behind its self-declared goals of decarbonisation and commitment to climate protection from a critical posthumanist theoretical perspective. Lena Schlegel argues in her work, that a problematic ontological distinction of the human from nature is underlying the efforts to transform energy systems, thereby hindering deep transformation and reinforcing institutional path dependencies and prevailing power relations.
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Text and language are the core tools of the legal profession. Analyzing and understanding the information contained in textual documents, such as statutes, case law, contracts and doctrine, is one of the most important skill for any person in the legal field. Advances in artificial intelligence suggest computers may be able to support humans in this area, or even perform some tasks autonomously.
LUMEN – Leaders in University Management is an annual Conference and Competition for all Polish Universities.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Pegasus spyware attack on WhatsApp and the growing misuse of social media platforms to spread misinformation have made governments world over, including in India, realise the limitations of existing laws in dealing with the misuse of these platforms.
The article by Saumya Tewari and Abhijit Ahaskar was published by Livemint on November 27, 2019. Gurshabad Grover was quoted.
The Mystery of the Non-Finito, or Making Does Not Produce Artefacts by Wim Nijenhuis
Text of the speech at the book launch of the INC Critical Makers Readers, Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag, Amsterdam, November 21, 2019
Our chief executive Catherine Stihler has been awarded an OBE by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge.
She was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her service to politics.
Yesterday, Catherine took part in the investiture at Buckingham Palace, watched on by her proud family.
Catherine said: “It was an immense honour to receive this recognition and be awarded an OBE by Prince William.
Over the past four years, Lebanon has witnessed a crackdown against freedom of expression online. The state has penalized citizens, journalists, and civil society representatives who criticize government officials or mock religious figures, worsening the overall environment for free speech online. In our newest report, “Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online[...]
Over the past four years, Lebanon has witnessed a crackdown against freedom of expression online. The state has penalized citizens, journalists, and civil society representatives who criticize government officials or mock religious figures, worsening the overall environment for free speech online. In our newest report, “Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online[...]
Over the past four years, Lebanon has witnessed a crackdown against freedom of expression online. The state has penalized citizens, journalists, and civil society representatives who criticize government officials or mock religious figures, worsening the overall environment for free speech online.
From November 15 to 17, more than 250 participants gathered for Bread&Net 2019 in the heart of Beirut. With the ongoing Lebanese revolution, this was a special year for our regional digital rights unconference. The political situation was a major focus, from a topic of discussion during various panels to[...]
From November 15 to 17, more than 250 participants gathered for Bread&Net 2019 in the heart of Beirut. With the ongoing Lebanese revolution, this was a special year for our regional digital rights unconference. The political situation was a major focus, from a topic of discussion during various panels to[...]
This article was originally published on November 25, 2019 in Data & Policy, the peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges, by Andrew J. Zahuranec and Stefaan Verhulst
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By Sharngan Aravindakshan On 19 November 2019, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly passed a Russia-backed resolution. The resolution called for the establishment of an ad-hoc intergovernmental committee of experts “to elaborate a comprehensive international convention countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes” (A/C.3/74/L.11/Rev.1). China, Iran, Myanmar, North […]
Thirty years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is now the most widely ratified treaty in the world.
The Responsible Data for Children website: http://rd4c.org/
Online safety and security are crucial concerns. (Image via SMEX/Christel Oeini)
From November 15 to 17, more than 250 participants gathered for Bread&Net 2019 in the heart of Beirut. With the ongoing Lebanese revolution, this was a special year for our regional digital rights unconference. The political situation was a major focus, from a topic of discussion during various panels to the session venues being named after famous public squares in Lebanon.