Article by Jacquelyn Kovarik at NACA: “…Last year, during a high-level event of the General Assembly, a coalition of states along with the European Union and the International Labour Organization announced a new technology for monitoring the rights of Indigenous people.
The brain is the organ with the highest energy consumption per kilogram of body weight. Its function is strictly dependent on a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients. If blood flow to the brain is interrupted for even just a few minutes, this leads to irreversible neuronal damage. The best-known example is a stroke, where a blockage in a brain artery triggers a massive energy shortage of parts of the brain, causing nerve cells to die off and leading to neurological impairments that can sometimes be severe and may lead to disability and even death.
There have been some important developments towards improving routing security over the past few weeks, with announcements at NLNOG and AusNOG, as well as from Cloudflare about commitments to validate IP prefixes and reduce route leaks and hijacks. This supports the work we’ve being doing with the MANRS initiative to raise awareness of this issue, and to persuade network operators to take collaborative responsibility for this critical aspect of the Internet.
Paper by Francis Kuriakose and Deepa Iyer: “Ethical approach to human rights conceives and evaluates law through the underlying value concerns. This paper examines human rights after the introduction of big data using an ethical approach to rights. First, the central value concerns such as equity, equality, sustainability and security are derived from the history of digital technological revolution.
Joint statement by Vice-President Ansip and Commissioner Gabriel on the European Parliament’s vote on the new EU rules facilitating the free flow of non-personal data: “The European Parliament adopted today a Regulation on the free flow of non-personal data proposed by the European Commission in September 2017. …
La actividad, realizada este jueves 27 de septiembre, antecede a la firma de un acuerdo entre el Ministerio y la Universidad de Chile para que la cartera utilice la capacidad de supercómputo del Laboratorio Nacional de Computación de Alto Rendimiento en la generación de información estandarizada para la creación de políticas públicas.El Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, CMM, de la Universidad de Chile acogió el "Workshop Información y Normas 2018: Grupos de trabajo IDE Chile: Estableciendo información geográfica estandarizada para la toma de decisiones y e
El próximo lunes 1 de octubre la Corte Internacional de Justicia de La Haya dará a conocer el fallo respecto a la demanda que Bolivia interpuso contra Chile el 24 de abril de 2013, buscando que el mencionado tribunal establezca la obligatoriedad de negociar una salida soberana del país altiplánico al Océano Pacífico.
Tras dirimir durante poco más de una hora, el jurado encabezado por la ministra de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Consuelo Valdés, anunció pasadas las 13:00 hrs.
"Cine, educación y política" es el nombre del II Encuentro El cine es escuela, organizado por la red Cero en conducta.
As the Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association I’ve been working with Native communities in San Diego County and Southern Riverside County of California in the United States for the past seventeen years. With a long background in Dot Com graphic design exposed to networking and web servers, the transition into technology was an obvious one.
Swaraj Paul Barooah and Arindrajit Basu participated in CyFy 2018 organized by Observer Research Foundation at Hotel Taj Mahal, New Delhi from October 3 - 5, 2018.
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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cyfy-2018
Recently, Google admitted to giving hundreds of firms access to users’ Gmail inboxes. It also revealed that many apps are able to scan and share data from email inboxes. However, Google explained that it vets third parties that are given access, and permission should be given by the user.
The article by Surupasree Sarmmah was published in Deccan Herald on October 4, 2018.
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Die Heinrich-Heine-Universität versteht sich als Bürgeruniversität, die besonderen Wert darauf legt, sich gegenüber der Gesellschaft zu öffnen. Als dialogorientierte und transparente Forschungsstätte und Bildungseinrichtung sucht sie aktiv den Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, um einen möglichst breiten Zugang der Öffentlichkeit zu Forschung und Bildung zu ermöglichen.
AI battles the fake news: Can Artificial Intelligence combat all the fake news that’s out there? An article in Forbes looks at several ways fake news fighters are using AI, but the author casts some doubt on these approaches. Ultimately, humans are the problem, the article says: “The willingness to believe sensational information is a real phenomenon and debunking false information does not always change people’s minds.”
Alan Rothman at LLRX: “…For all of these good, bad or indifferent workplaces, a key question is whether any of the actions of management to engage the staff and listen to their concerns ever resulted in improved working conditions and higher levels of job satisfaction?
Report by the OECD: This report provides an overview of the state of open data policies across OECD member and partner countries, based on data collected through the OECD Open Government Data survey (2013, 2014, 2016/17), country reviews and comparative analysis. The report analyses open data policies using an analytical framework that is in line with the OECD OUR data Index and the International Open Data Charter.
Liz Richardson and Beth Perry at Nature: “Advocates of co-production encourage collaboration between professional researchers and those affected by that research, to ensure that the resulting science is relevant and useful. Opening up science beyond scientists is essential, particularly where problems are complex, solutions are uncertain and values are salient.
Ellie Violet Bramley at The Guardian: “We’ve all been there. You want a short cut – to the bus stop, office or corner shop – but there’s no designated path. Others before you have already flattened the grass, or cut a line through a hedge. Why not, you think.
Working Paper by Penny Lawrence: “Large international non-government organisations (INGOs) seem to be in an existential crisis in their role in the fight for social justice. Many, such as Save the Children or Oxfam, have become big well-known brands with compliance expectations similar to big businesses. Yet the public still imagine them to be run by volunteers. Their context is changing so fast, and so unpredictably, that they are struggling to keep up.