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Natalie Campbell, Director of Public Advocacy at the Internet Society and a mother of two, warns against banning or weakening of encryption for the safety of children online. 

Governments and law enforcement agencies are trying to ban or weaken a critical tool for keeping our children safe online. As parents, we must speak up for our kids.

As part of the 2020 Online School for Journalists and Media Practitioners participants were asked to submit their proposals for a data journalism/visualisation project based on the skills they acquired during the five-week-long school.

We received in total five projects and those were evaluated based on their originality and relevance by a jury composed of the members of the CMPF team.

The MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security) Ambassador Program 2021 is now accepting applications. If you are an industry leader eager to improve the well-being of the Internet’s global routing system, apply now.

Ambassadors are representatives from MANRS participant organizations who show expertise and leadership in the routing security community. They are well-respected professionals committed to helping make the global routing infrastructure more robust and secure.

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This article looks at new obligations and regulatory powers introduced by the DSA and examines their potential to safeguard freedom of expression.
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Se encuentra abierta la convocatoria para la segunda edición del proyecto GuIA: Inteligencia Artificial en América Latina y el Caribe, junto al Centro de Estudios en Tecnología y Sociedad (CETyS – UdeSA) y la plataforma fAlr LAC del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID).

Broadband for the city: Toronto, the largest city in Canada, will consider building a municipal broadband network to bridge the digital divide, Now Toronto reports. A government committee has endorsed the ConnectTO initiative, which aims to fill in underserved areas in the city while avoiding competition with current Internet service providers.

A FGV Direito Rio recebeu, em 2020, a recertificação ISO 9001, norma de sistema de gestão da qualidade reconhecida internacionalmente, publicada pela ISO (International Organisation of Standardization), demonstrando seu compromisso com a qualidade, com a melhoria contínua e com a satisfação de seus alunos. Em 2021, a Escola completará dez anos de certificação.

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The Corona pandemic has profoundly changed lives around the globe. In addition to the immediate health dangers of the pandemic, physical distancing also poses challenges to psychological and social well-being. The long-term psycho-social consequences are impossible to predict. In these problematic times, solutions based on digital technologies play a central role. For example, digital platforms offer manifold opportunities to improve emotional stability, for example by connecting and sharing with others during periods of lockdowns.

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Digital Ethnography Research Centre [DERC], Royal Melbourne University of Technology, extends the Internship opportunity to Indian students [Master’s level] for a duration of one to three months.

DERC is committed in its continued and ongoing focus on digital research practices and assumes even more significance in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The DERC Internship aims to extend the realm of digital research, questions, and methodologies to Indian students, particularly from regional universities.

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