How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety.
Quick facts
Who: Eduardo Carrillo from TEDIC
What: Web development, campaigns, workshops, research
Mission/vision: To promote the respect of digital rights and free/open culture
Where: Paraguay
Since: 2012
Years of operation (as of February 2018): 6

Even the Narendra Modi app of PM Modi is susceptible to data theft as a 22-year old Indian hacker established, claiming that privacy of more than 70 lakh users on it is at stake.
This was published by Free Press Journal on March 25, 2018

The public reckoning of data leaks in India’s national ID database, Aadhaar is still on hold while reports of data leakage through third-parties keep coming.
The article by Nilesh Christopher was published in Economic Times on March 26, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Se você tem o costume de jogar online, ou conhece alguma pessoa que joga, há uma chance considerável de já ter ouvido falar das chamadas “loot boxes” – ou “loot crates” – presentes em alguns jogos. Este texto tem como objetivo apresentar um panorama geral sobre esse tema, explicando o porquê de as loot boxes serem uma prática tão criticada ultimamente, além de os motivos para elas serem confrontadas em diversos países e estarem em potencial conflito com as leis vigentes no Brasil.
O que são as loot boxes?

Darrell West at the Hill: “Imagine it is 2030 and you are a U.S. government employee working from home. With the assistance of the latest technology, you participate in video calls with clients and colleagues, augment your job activities through artificial intelligence and a personal digital assistant, work through collaboration software, and regularly get rated on a one-to-five scale by clients regarding your helpfulness, follow-through, and task completion.

We get experts to give their take on a current issue each week and lend their perspective to a much-discussed topic.
The article was published in Asian Age on March 25, 2018.

A recent week-long shutdown of several popular Web-based services in Sri Lanka was intended to clamp down on mob violence, but the government action had several unintended consequences.
The shutdown, ordered by President Maithripala Sirisena’s administration, affected Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Web-based calling service Viber. The services shut down on March 7 and were restored on March 14 and 15.

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Francesca Burgos, postdoctorada en Bioquímica y egresada de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas es la única chilena entre los finalistas del premio. Este concurso es iniciativa de la Sociedad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Brasil en colaboración con General Electric Healthcare y busca destacar a jóvenes científicos de Latinoamérica que puedan mostrar el trabajo que han desarrollado en su doctorado o postdoctorado en el encuentro anual de la sociedad.

En el marco del encuentro anual de Centros de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Chile (ECAD), el presidente de HERDSA y de ICED -las dos más importantes asociaciones del área en educación superior del mundo-, visitó el Centro de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje (CEA) de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, para conocer el trabajo desarrollado por el equipo de profesionales.De formación Contador Auditor, Allan Goody es uno de los principales promotores mundiales de la formación de Centros de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje en universidades.

En un seminario, realizado por la Cátedra Amanda Labarca en conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer, temas como el aborto, violencia obstétrica y brechas de género en educación, fueron analizados por académicas y estudiantes que pusieron sobre la mesa prácticas culturales cotidianas que continúan afectando la vida de las mujeres en el Chile actual."Hoy, en este seminario nos centraremos en dos áreas donde se despliega cotidianamente el sexismo: la salud y la educación y que nos atañen directamente en tanto institución formadora de profesionales", dijo Loreto Rebolle

Con el apoyo de Fondecyt, diversos estudios liderados por investigadores del CIAE analizaron la magnitud y el impacto del ordenamiento académico interno en los establecimientos. Los resultados: en promedio, ningún tipo de colegio que ordena logra que sus estudiantes obtengan un mejor desempeño académico en las pruebas SIMCE en comparación con colegios que no ordenan.Existen diversos mecanismos de gestión de la diversidad académica al interior de los establecimientos educativos.

Good time to be in IoT security: Spending on Internet of Things security products and services will rise to $1.5 billion in 2018, up 28 percent from 2017, estimates Gartner. IoT security spending will skyrocket to $3 billion a year in 2021, according to a story in DarkReading.

Der Antrag auf Einschreibung zu den zulassungsfreien Fächern kann hier www.hhu.de/online-bewerbung gestellt werden.
Detaillierte Beschreibungen der Studiengänge finden sich in der Studiengangsdatenbank der HHU. unter dem Link: http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/studium-und-lehre-an-der-hhu/studium/...

W tym numerze Kserokopii prezentujemy wątpliwości Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich dotyczące kar za naruszenia praw autorskich, prawnoautorskie zarzuty przeciwko ekologom na Alasce oraz głos w dyskusji na temat wpływu wąskiego wyjątku na rzecz TDM na przemysł. Zapraszamy też do zapoznania się z naszym podsumowaniem działań w zakresie polityk publicznych „8 tematów ważnych dla nas w 2017”.

On March 13-17, 2018 The GovLab brought together two dozen crowdlaw experts from around the world to collaborate on developing new ways to include more and more diverse opinions and expertise at every stage of the law- and policy-making process. The convening was held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s famed Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. This post is the second in a series of blog posts from the crowdlaw conference participants.
A session in progress at the CrowdLaw conference at the Rockefeller Foundation conference center in Bellagio, Italy

Während die durch den Erreger Mycobacterium tuberculosis ausgelöste Tuberkulose-Erkrankung dank Antibiotikatherapie in entwickelten Ländern gut im Griff ist, stellt sie das Gesundheitssystem in Entwicklungsländern weiterhin vor große Aufgaben. Dies liegt schon daran, dass das in Entwicklungsländern am meisten genutzte diagnostische Verfahren, der noch aus dem 19. Jahrhundert stammende mikroskopische „Ziehl-Neelsen-Test“, sehr aufwändig ist. Er ist zwar schnell und kostengünstig, kann aber nur von medizinisch erfahrenem Personal sicher ausgeführt werden.

Britain is failing its growing army of self-employed workers according to a new report.
With 7.1 million workers engaged in ‘precarious’ employment and 77 per cent of the self-employed living in poverty, the report ‘Working Together: Trade Union and Co-operative Innovations for Precarious Work’ calls for increased protection for those operating in the so-called gig economy.  

We’re talking about a different mental register of paradigm for understanding the world. For so long, we’ve had this presumption of fiction that the homo economicus, the utility maximizing individual, is the chief agent in the way to see the world. The commons says there is a different way to see humanity—not simply as a notional ideal, but as a practical operational system and there’s countless examples out there.

Book by Yascha Mounk: “The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk.