No dia 26 de março de 2019, foi aprovada pelo Parlamento Europeu a Diretiva Sobre Direitos do Autor no Mercado Único Digital. Popularmente apelidado de “lei anti-memes”, esse documento promete uma série de repercussões preocupantes para a internet, tanto no cenário europeu como no global. Este texto busca realizar uma análise da versão final do documento e abordar as recentes notícias sobre erros de voto por parte de diversos eurodeputados, atualizando nossa análise inicial sobre o projeto.

From time immemorial, human beings have obsessed over knowledge. It’s one of our most precious resources, and our most jealously guarded. We’ve accumulated it gathering in circles under trees and squeaky chairs in sloped lecture halls, distributed it in etchings on stone tablets and inky letters on paper pages, even sought to hide it by blindfolding interlopers and erecting paywalls out of code.

This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019. On Saturday 2nd March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

We’re excited to announce that we’re becoming a member of the W3C, the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization15h30O Evento: O Programa Alumni FGV Direito Rio e Harvard Law School Association of Brazil convidam para palestra com David  B. Wilkins, Diretor do Center on the Legal Profession e Vice Diretor for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession da Harvard Law School sobre o tema “The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization”.
Opening Remarks:
Sérgio Guerra (Diretor da FGV Direito Rio)
Max Fontes (Harvard Law School Association of Brazil)
 

In 2017, touch customers began reporting that they erroneously received a $.90 surcharge for sending SMS messages to numbers 1084 and 1013. (Screenshot from al-Jadeed report)
 

One of the most common lines you’ll hear in the virtual halls of the Internet Society is that the Internet’s success is due to its open, distributed, and global nature.

Think about it. A
network of voluntarily-connected networks changed the course of history in a
matter of decades because people agreed to work and innovate together. It’s a
deeply profound source of inspiration about the power of humankind.

It practically begs the question: can we replicate even a portion of its success by embodying the “the Internet way” of working in North America?

Die Untersuchung solcher Fragen erfordert häufig extremen technischen Aufwand – wie kilometerlange Teilchenbeschleuniger am europäischen Forschungszentrum CERN oder riesige Teleskope für die Astronomie. Prof. Stephan Schiller, Ph.D. geht dagegen einen anderen Weg: Mit Experimenten von Tischgröße, aber größtmöglicher Feinheit, will er die Eigenschaften von Materie untersuchen.

This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019.

Das CEDUS Startup-Speed-Dating ist DAS Event für Startups. Hier stellen Gründungsinteressierte jeweils in nur wenigen Minuten ihre Geschäftsidee vor und profitieren von dem Know-how der Partnerinnen und Partner des CEDUS. Zu Ihnen zählen potentielle Investorinnen und Investoren, erfahrene Gründerinnen und Gründer sowie Expertinnen und Experten aus verschiedenen Branchen. Von Ihnen kommt direkt Feedback: spontan, kurz und kompakt.

Ilknur Aykurt, sehbehinderte Absolventin der juristischen Fakultät, ließ in ihrer Rede noch einmal ihre Erfahrungen Revue passieren und dankte Prof. Franz im Namen aller Studierenden für seine Unterstützung. Über die lange Zeit hinweg habe Prof. Franz die inhaltliche Gestaltung einer inklusiven Hochschule entscheidend vorangetrieben und sich der Kernthemen "Chancengleichheit" und "Barrierefreiheit" angenommen.

A study by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Sirius Minds analysed how small and medium-sized enterprises tackle the digital transformation. This press release is currently only available in German. Berlin, 28. März 2019 – Ob intelligente Müllentsorgung mittels einer Smartphone-App, der Aufbau einer Internet of Things-Plattform zu Zwecken der…

Digitalisation offers new opportunities and growth potential, especially for German SMEs. But what specific activities and strategies are being pursued by SMEs in terms of digital innovations? What are the different approaches and how do concrete examples of success look like? To answer these and other questions, we analysed various companies and their digitalisation activities…

Usando técnicas de imagenología 3D perteneciente al recinto universitario -las que permiten la identificación de estructuras submilimétricas- se comenzaron a analizar las muestras recolectadas por investigadores de la Casa de Bello que participaron el Crucero Científico Cabo de Hornos el año 2018.

¿Cómo es que las imágenes televisivas construyen imaginarios sobre nuestra vida en sociedad, particularmente asociadas a la dictadura? ¿Cómo es que las memorias van cambiando en el tiempo y cómo dialogan con la dimensión individual y colectiva de las personas? Estas son algunas de las preguntas abordadas en el proyecto "Imágenes de la Memoria: Lecturas generacionales de series de ficción televisiva sobre el pasado reciente de Chile", de la académica del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, Lorena Antezana.

La unidad, que estará operativa desde el próximo año, integra la primera etapa del polo de investigación, innovación y transdisciplinariedad que la Universidad de Chile entregará al país durante la próxima década.

Fundamentally, the Internet model is that independent networks connect to one another and, all together, provide the global Internet.

We
are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2019 Jonathan
B. Postel Service Award are now open. Do you know someone who
should be a recipient?

This annual award is presented to an individual or organization
that has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications
community and places particular emphasis on those who have supported and
enabled others.

Harald Conrad wurde 1966 geboren und studierte nach Abitur und einer Ausbildung zum Buchhändler Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität zu Köln. Auf den Studienabschluss 1996 folgte 2000 die mit dem Erhardt-Imelmann-Preis ausgezeichnete Promotion in Köln über „Probleme und Reformen der öffentlichen Rentenversicherung in Japan“. Von 2000 bis 2007 war Conrad als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien in Tokio tätig, von 2005 bis 2007 als dessen Stellvertretender Direktor.

This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019. On Saturday 2nd March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. The report below comes from our newest local Chapter, Open Knowledge Somalia, and has been reposted from their blog at https://so.okfn.org/2019/03/22/open-data-day-2019-somalia/.