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The 13th European Summer School on Internet Governance was held at Meissen in Germany from 13 - 20 July 2019. Akriti Bopanna attended the school. The event was organized by EuroSSIG.
More information on the event can be accessed on this page.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/european-summer-school-on-internet-governance

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation welcomes the news that our case brought before  the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey has been communicated to the Turkish Government and given priority status by the court, just two months after the case was filed with the court. Priority status is granted rarely and reserved for the most important, serious, and urgent cases before the court and signals the critical impact our case could have in curbing government censorship online.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided to expedite a case brought by the Wikimedia Foundation against the government of Turkey for blocking Wikipedia in the country. The case contends that the longstanding ban amounts to impermissible censorship and limits peoples’ fundamental rights to free expression and access to knowledge.

Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi (AİHM), Wikimedia Vakfı’nın ülkedeki Vikipedi’ye erişim engelinden ötürü Türk hükûmetine karşı açtığı bir davayı hızlandırmaya karar verdi.
Davada, uzun zamandır devam eden yasağın kabul edilemez bir sansür boyutuna ulaştığı ve insanların ifade özgürlüğü ve bilgiye erişim temel haklarının sınırlandığı ileri sürülmekte.

As inscrições para a próxima edição estão abertasOs alunos Isadora Dutra, Paula Strogoff e Lucas Nery e os ex-alunos Bruna Brilhante e Vinicius Reis formaram a equipe que representou a FGV Direito Rio na 24ª Edição da Competição de Julgamento Simulado do Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos, realizada na American University, em Washington, D.C., EUA. A competição consiste na simulação de um julgamento perante a Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos e este ano o tema foi "A Proteção dos Migrantes no Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos".

Field Project: uma inovação curricularNem sempre o ingresso na faculdade coexiste com o interesse sobre qual tipo de profissional imaginamos ser. A afirmação do desejo de advogar no campo público/privado, de atuar na liderança de negócios, de empreender ou de oferecer solução a problemas contemporâneos não é parte simples nem natural nas reflexões de estudantes na fase inicial da graduação.

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung, sind ab dem
2. Januar 2020 drei
bis zum 31.12.2020 befristete Stellen als
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
(m/w/d)
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)
zu besetzen. Eine Verlängerung der Befristung wird angestrebt. Die Arbeitszeit beträgt derzeit 19 Std. 55 Min. wöchentlich (Hälfte der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit).

The GovLab Public Entrepreneur Skills Training Series
This article was written by Beth Simone Noveck and Jason Williams-Bellamy. This is the second in a series by the Governance Lab on training 21st century public sector leaders. This article was also posted on Apolitical.

Super
fast: ISPs run by local communities or run
through a partnership with a local community offer some of the fastest
broadband in the U.S., a story at Vice.com says. Six of the 10
fastest ISPs in the country are either operated by local communities or are
partnerships between the public and private sectors, according to a PCMag
review.

The National Investigation Agency Act was amended by Parliament this week, expanding its investigation powers to include cyber-terrorism; FaceApp’s user data privacy issues; and the leaked bill to ban cryptocurrencies— presenting this week’s most important developments in law and tech. Aadhaar [July 15] Govt plans Aadhaar based identification of patients to maintain health records, Live […]

La también investigadora del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR2), una de las tres representantes de la U.

Miles de personas en diferentes puntos del país tuvieron la oportunidad de disfrutar y aprender más sobre el fenómeno astronómico que estremeció a la comunidad nacional y extranjera, todo esto en diálogos y charlas con expertos y expertas de la U. de Chile, quienes estuvieron a disposición de la cuidadanía.

En esta columna, publicada en el diario La Tercera, el investigador del CIAE del Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Educación, Roberto Araya, destaca el avance que representa la elaboración de nuevas bases curriculares para los dos últimos años de la Enseñanza Media a partir del principio de la transversalidad, con una mayor integración entre disciplinas y sin descartar áreas del conocimiento, a partir de la comparación con las experiencias de países como Corea del Sur, Finlandia, y los agrupados en la APEC.La globalización y creciente automatización están cambiando dramáti

Aumentar la velocidad del envío de un gran número de datos de forma más eficiente es una de las necesidades de la informática del futuro, por lo que dos físicos chilenos buscan utilizar cristales fotónicos para lograr este objetivo.Los investigadores del Departamento de Física de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile (FCFM) y del Instituto Milenio de Óptica MIRO, Gabriel Cáceres y Rodrigo Vicencio, encontraron una manera de transportar información anulando las posibles pérdidas de la misma.

Die Schülerinnen und Schüler, die in diesem Jahr bei der Mathe-Akademie der HHU mitmachen, werden danach mit anderen Augen durch Museen, Kirchen und Paläste gehen: Anhand der in der Alhambra im spanischen Granada zu findenden maurischen Ornamente werden die Düsseldorfer Dozenten  die Grundlagen der mathematischen Gruppentheorie erklären.
Prof. Dr. Oleg Bogopolski, Organisator der Veranstaltung, ergänzt: „Neben diesem Schwerpunkt lernen die Akademieteilnehmer eine mathematische Bibliothek kennen und erfahren in einem Film mehr über die Denkweise moderner Mathematiker.“

In diesem neuen Podcast der ITM-Reihe J!Cast stellt Elisaweta Rabovskaja (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) einige zentrale Erkenntnisse des von FIT Fraunhofer im Auftrag des BMVI erstellten Gutachtens „Chancen und Herausforderungen von DLT (Blockchain) in Mobilität und Logistik“ vor. Neben einer Darstellung der technischen Grundlagen und ökonomischen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten der Technologie geht sie schwerpunktmäßig auf rechtliche Fragestellungen ein.
 

Karan Saini gave a talk at the JSFoo Conference at the GRD College of Science in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on July 5, 2019. The event was organized by Has Geek.
Click to view Karan's presentation

Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi, on July 12, 2019, delivered a lecture at the International Summer School, Delhi.
The ISS is in its 6th year now, and is convened annually as a six week academic program. The ISS is held in affiliation with the Department of Political Science at Jamia Millia Islamia - A Central University (JMI) and with regular support from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) over the years.