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With a new name and a strategy-focused aim, the Wikimedia Summit (formerly known as the Wikimedia Conference) kicks off next month. Around 200 participants from Wikimedia affiliates, the Wikimedia Foundation, and various committees will head to Berlin from 29–31 March to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement. The finalized schedule will be published in the coming weeks, but we couldn’t wait to share a preview.

Intermediaries will have to hand over to government agencies any information within 72 hours.
Intermediaries will have to use automated tools to trace the person posting unlawful content.

The article by Abhijit Ahaskar was published in Livemint on February 12, 2019. CIS research was quoted.

The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the appointment of Janeen Uzzell as Chief Operating Officer. Janeen joins the Foundation after 16 years of executive leadership at General Electric (GE), most recently as GE’s head of Women in Technology, where she worked with GE’s global CEOs to increase the number of women in technical roles across their 300,000 person workforce.

Paula Almeida foi selecionada como professora visitante da instituiçãoA professora de Direito Internacional e coordenadora da Cátedra Jean Monnet da FGV Direito Rio, Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, foi selecionada como professora visitante da Escola doutoral de Direito Internacional e Europeu da École de droit de la Sorbonne - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

You may have heard about CloudPets being pulled off shelves for recording kids’ voices and that data being leaked, or the EU recalling kids’ smart watches for giving away children’s location in real time.

According to Andreas Reckwitz, we are living in a time of fundamental social change — our society is becoming a society of singularisation. Digitisation is playing a pivotal role in this process. But what exactly does singularisation mean? And what consequences  will it have for the constitution of our society? Marc Pirogan takes a look…
The post Digital Singularisation appeared first on HIIG.

In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. While preparing to launch the 2019 Global Internet Report, we interviewed Alissa Cooper to hear her perspective on the forces shaping the Internet’s future.

We have collected data, including the charges, the punishment, and a description of each case. (Image via Tasharuk)
Join us at 6 PM on Wednesday, February 27 for the launch of Muhal, an open database that documents online freedom of expression violations.

Published with permission from Kosmos Journal

By Kurt Johnson

David Sloan Wilson’s New Evolutionary Biology

Reposted from NESTA on Youtube.com

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The black-and-white film flickers as a wealthy young woman, sitting on a bench in a garden, bats her eyes at the gardener’s son she is not allowed to marry. In her self-portrait, an artist wears masculine clothes against a bleak urban backdrop, dark eyes meeting the viewer’s gaze from the shadow of a broad-brimmed riding hat. An anarchist writes to a German physician, “I have been familiar with your great work on sex psychology for a number of years.

Republished from ellenbrown.com

Existem muitas formas de se saber mais sobre alguém. Hoje, uma das principais é buscando o nome da pessoa na internet. Na Europa, o reconhecimento de um direito à remoção de resultados de busca na internet por nome (popularizado como desindexação), criou discussão judicial cujo resultado pode afetar todos nós.

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This is my first week in my new role as Chief Executive of Open Knowledge International.
Digital skills and data use have always been a personal passion, and I can’t wait to work alongside and meet so many talented people fighting for a more open world. It is a privilege to be part of an organisation that has set the global standard for genuinely free and open sharing of information, building on the vision of founder Dr Rufus Pollock who wants to create an open information age.

Easier encryption? Google engineers have created a new encryption regime that can run on cheap and underpowered smartphones, Wired.com reports. The Google effort takes established cryptographic tools and implements them in a more efficient way.

This post by Mateo PGS was originally published on Medium.com

Framing the ideological divide within crypto-anarchism

*Link to dissertation at the end*