At a time of growing polarization, misinformation, and limits placed on freedom of speech, assembly, and privacy, as well as ongoing conflict—understanding our human rights is a critical part of our daily lives. It dictates everything from how we gather in our communities and speak about the issues and causes we care about, to how to pursue freedom and prosperity.
But much of the knowledge about these rights is hidden within institutional systems or specialized publications that make it hard to access and understand them.

This blog is part of a series showcasing projects developed during the 2019 Frictionless Data Tool Fund. 

Im Jahr 2020 erwartet mich ein spannendes Jahr. Noch läuft die Fotoausstellung im Frankfurter Museum der Weltkulturen zum Thema Hände. Ab September bin ich auf der schönen Insel Hrisey (Island) auf den Spuren polnischer Immigranten. Ich werde darüber weiter berichten. … Weiterlesen →

An Interview With Eduardo Alarcon Gallo By Prof Avril Accolla, Tongji University

In these almost ten years 创客 chuangke (Chinese for makerspace) have boosted, shrunk, evolved. In 2019 the panorama is capillary diversified throughout the country: the strong policies of incentives actuated by the government starting from 2015 and the great diversity of the cultural and business landscapes in cities of 1st, 2nd, 3rd tier make the “mass entrepreneurship innovation” policy interpreted and implemented differently.

It is important to have good cyber security practices, experts recommend.
The article by Theres Sudeep was published in the Deccan Herald on December 1, 2019. Arindrajit Basu was quoted.

Can technology substitute addressing social, psychological, economic and other individual factors that largely lead to criminality? And what are the perils of over-reliance on technology to fight crime?
The article by Manasa Rao was published the News Minute on September 3, 2019. Pranav M. Bidare was quoted.

By Beth Simone Noveck
This article was originally published in Communications of the ACM.
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Science and technology have progressed exponentially, making it possible for humans to live longer, healthier, more creative lives. The explosion of Internet and mobile phone technologies have increased trade, literacy, and mobility.11 At the same time, life expectancy for the poor has not increased and is declining.9

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By Sharngan Aravindakshan The world’s most popular messaging application, Whatsapp, recently revealed that a significant number of Indians were among the targets of Pegasus, a sophisticated spyware that operates by exploiting a vulnerability in Whatsapp’s video-calling feature. It has also come to light that Whatsapp, working with the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, an academic research organization […]

Page Type: newsCopyrightX is a course on Copyright Law, developed by Professor William Fisher III at Harvard Law School and first offered online in the spring semester of 2013, under the auspices of the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
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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…

2019年11月29日，由北京师范大学互联网政策与法律研究中心主办的学术前沿系列讲座”当前中国知识产权制度变革与发展走向：理论解读与实践透视”于北师大后主楼1922会议室举办。中国政法大学教授、博士生导师、知识产权法研究所所长及知识产权法国家重点学科负责人、中国政法大学无形资产管理研究中心主任冯晓青教授为主讲人，薛虹教授担任本次讲座的主持人、评议人。由于讲座以中文进行，薛虹教授为参加本次讲座的外国留学生将全部内容翻译为英文。来自北京师范大学的法律硕士、法学硕士、来自法国、意大利、波兰、苏里南、科特迪瓦的外国留学生、交换生参加了讲座。

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