Khushboo Balwani: Here’s the problem: The rapid expansion of cities is breaking the relationship that people have with the food ecosystem. Although the problem is receiving attention by some city officials, and they are adopting new sustainability programs and policies, it is a time-consuming, top-down process with an uncertain impact. What if with a bottom-up approach of small, local actions citizens can engage with could have a massive impact?

Sharath Chandra presented his work "Listening Machines - New interfaces for Art-Science and Technology Policy" at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C, at the Arthur M Sackler Colloquia on March 12, 2018.
For more info on the program click here

Sunil Abraham and Aayush Rathi attended a round-table on 'Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology'. The event was organised by Synergia Foundation, Bengaluru.
The speakers for the round-table were Deborah Housen-Couriel, Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Gaurav Gupta - Principal Secretary for IT, BT, and S&T, Government of Karnataka, and Dana Kursh, Consul General of Israel to South India.

Amber Sinha participated as a panelist in the discussion on adapting privacy to new technologies organised by the USIBC on March 6, 2018 in New Delhi.

IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says that under the IT Act, Facebook’s chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, can be summoned to India if required.
The article by Komal Gupta was published by Livemint on March 21, 2018.

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday warned Facebook and other social networks of tough action, if they attempted to influence the Indian elections.
The article by Alnoor Peermohamed and Karan Choudhury was published in the Business Standard on March 23, 2018.

Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of Centre for Internet and Society, says Indians are vulnerable in the absence of a data protection law.
The blog post by Amit Bhardwaj was published by Newslaundry on March 24, 2018.

The absence of a data protection law and a competition watchdog to oversee Internet companies are key shortcomings, according to some experts.
The article by Vidhi Choudhary was published in Hindustan Times on March 24, 2018

Paper by Gianluca Elia and Alessandro Margherita describing “A conceptual framework and a collective intelligence system to support problem analysis and solution design for complex social issues…Wicked problems are complex and multifaceted issues that have no single solution, and are perceived by different stakeholders through contrasting views. Examples in the social context include climate change, poverty, energy production, sanitation, sustainable cities, pollution and homeland security.

Alnoor Ladha: This interview is the first in a 17-part series and forthcoming book entitled The Deschooling Dialogues: Wisdom from the Front Lines of the Battle Against the Western Mind edited by Alnoor Ladha (AL). He is an activist, author and the Executive Director of The Rules, a global collective of activists focused on addressing the root causes of inequality, poverty and climate change. Dr. Dieter Duhm (DD) is a sociologist, psychoanalyst, historian and author.

Las inscripciones para los cursos "Interculturalidad, migración y racismos II" y "Vulnerabilidades ante desastres socionaturales IV" de UAbierta, proyecto que a partir de este año es coordinado por el Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI) y la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FACSO), superaron los 3000 inscritos en sus primeros cuatro días de difusión.Impulsada en 2015 por la Iniciativa Bicentenario (IBJGM), la plataforma UAbierta, orientada a la revitalizació

Creado por César Leyton en 1951, este espacio resguarda la memoria y las trayectorias de esta área del conocimiento y del quehacer universitario, conservando microscopios, morteros, balanzas -entre otros valiosos materiales-, además de una completa biblioteca, que hoy se pretenden visibilizar y compartir con la comunidad universitaria y nacional a partir de un proceso de revitalización en curso.El desarrollo la ciencia en el país.

EUPON ist ein interdisziplinäres Meeting, das aktuelle Konzepte zur pathophysiologischen Mechanismen und zur Diagnostik und Therapie von Sehnerverkrankungen vorstellt und diskutiert. Bei vorheriger Anmeldung ist die Teilnahme für Mitarbeiter der Heinrich Heine Universität kostenlos. Wir möchten allerdings um eine frühzeitige Anmeldung über die Kongress-Website bilden, spätestens bis zum 2.4.2018.
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Pflanzen reagieren auf unterschiedliche Weisen auf eindringende Krankheitserreger („Pathogene“) wie Bakterien oder Pilze. Typisch ist zum Beispiel der kontrollierte Zelltod von Pflanzenzellen rund um eine Infektionsstelle, wodurch den Pathogenen der Zugang zu Nährstoffen entzogen wird. Ein anderer Mechanismus ist die lokale Verstärkung der pflanzlichen Zellwand, welche eine physikalische Barriere zu den gesunden Pflanzenteilen darstellt.

YouTube’s decision to embed Wikipedia articles under controversial videos caused a huge uproar. Commentators and scholars chastised YouTube for being lazy, for outsourcing their responsibility, or for “crushing” the online... MORE
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In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Since Bitcoin appeared in 2009, the digital currency has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for all manner of criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: Just how do you “mine” money from ones and zeros?

In our report Intelligent Sharing: unleashing the potential of health and care data in the UK to transform outcomes, we recommended a number of measures to promote and facilitate what we termed ‘data philanthropy’, and the passage of the Data Protection Bill through Parliament affords us a timely opportunity to explore how Government might implement some of them in practice.
What is data philanthropy?
There are a number of competing definitions, but we take ‘data philanthropy’ to mean:

On March 20-22, 2018, UNESCAP Legal and Technical Working Group Meeting, Interim Intergovernmental Steering Group Meeting and Capacity Building Workshop on Cross-Border Paperless Trade were held in the United Naitons Conference Center in Bangkok. Prof. Xue, as the Chair of Legal Panel of UNNeXT and initial drafter of the Issue Paper of the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific was invited to participate in all three meeting series.

This week is IETF 101 in London, and we’ve been bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. Friday is only a half-day, but there’s still a couple of interesting sessions to wrap-up the week.

NOTE: If you are unable to attend IETF 101 in person, there are multiple ways to participate remotely.