Bernard Lietaer was one of the great thinkers about money in our time, who played a role in co-designing various important monetary experiments, and could integrate our current moment in a larger history of value exchange. Many people , including in the P2P Foundation, have learned a lot from his insights. We are very sad to see him go.
The following post by Will Ruddick is republished from Grassroots Economics
My name is Daryl Taylor and I’m hosting a major open public forum:
‘Environ-Mental Health’ on Saturday 23 February 2019, from 1:00 to 6:30pm
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featuring special guest Nora Bateson
Q: What do you do when you see a little button on a webpage or app screen that says I agree?
A: Click the button.
The familiar and incredibly simple click-to-agree mechanism is ubiquitous. We encounter it throughout our digital lives. It is nothing less than the “legal backbone” of the internet, app stores, e-commerce and so much more.
Yet electronic contracting and the illusion of consent-by-clicking are a sham.
Location
United States
The Internet Society will be actively contributing to the APTLD 75 meeting on 20-21 February 2019 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Our colleague Jan Žorž will not only be presenting on DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) during the DNS Operations, Security, and Privacy session (20 February, 11.30-12.30 UTC+4), but will then be presenting on IPv6 connectivity issues during the Security in IPv6-enabled TLDs session (20 February, 14.30-15.30 UTC+4).
Requiring filtering tools would be "a gamble with European Internet users' rights to privacy and data protection, freedom of expression and information, and non-discrimination and equality before the law."
The blog post by Jessica Corbett was published by Common Dreams on February 5, 2019. Centre for Internet & Society was a signatory.
ITECHLAW organized the 2019 edition of International Asia Conference at JW Marriott hotel in Bangalore on January 31, 2019 and February 1, 2019. Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "Policy Making for the Emerging Tech in India".
For many years, the Wikimedia Foundation’s vision statement has asked us to imagine how the world would be changed if every single person on Earth had access to the “sum of all knowledge”—but because Wikipedia is a web project, only those with internet access could reach that knowledge. That’s left billions behind.
Estudiosos do Direito Internacional, da Economia e das Relações Internacionais afirmam que o mundo se encontra em um período de transição para uma nova ordem econômica mundial, a chamada Ordem Geoeconômica. Diferente da ordem precedente, baseada numa separação entre interesses geopolíticos e interesses econômicos, a nova ordem Geoeconômica é caracterizada por uma maior convergência entre os interesses econômicos e os interesses políticos e de segurança nacional dos Estados.
Apply for a mini-grant to build an open source tool for reproducible research using Frictionless Data tooling, specs, and code base
Today, Open Knowledge International is launching the Frictionless Data Tool Fund, a mini-grant scheme offering grants of $5,000 to support individuals or organisations in developing an open tool for reproducible science or research built using the Frictionless Data specifications and software. We welcome submissions of interest until 15 April 2019.
The Junior Research Group will be located in the ”Philosophy & Ethics Lab” within the Machine Learning Cluster, focusing on “Philosophical / Ethical Implications of Machine Learning in Science”. The Research Group will interact with the PIs and group leaders from the diverse scientific disciplines within the Cluster.The group leader is expected to develop and carry out a research program, focusing on either Philosophy of Science or Ethics. Topics and questions can include:
Too easy to fake: OpenAI, a research institute in San Francisco, has developed an Artificial Intelligence program to write news articles, but has declined to release a full-featured version of it because of fears that the AI could easily produce fake news, the MIT Technology Review says. OpenAI, associated with AI skeptic Elon Musk, will make only a simplified version publicly available.
India has been patting itself on the back for being at the forefront of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ driven by digitisation. Reports have gushed about the speed and scale of digitisation. But this speed and scale have come at a cost to our privacy.
The article by Nilanjana Bhowmick was published in Economic Times on February 13, 2019.
When does “delete” really mean delete? Not always, or even at all, if you’re Twitter .
The blog post by Zack Whittaker and Natasha Lomas was published in Tech Crunch on February 15, 2019. Karan Saini was quoted.
19th February 2019, 10:00 – 17:30Maison Suger, 16 -18 Rue Suger – 75006 Paris
The new EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) has been officially adopted and published. it is now time for member States to start the process of incorporating its provisions into their respective legal and institutional frameworks.
Location
United States
See map: Google Maps
Reposted from Solidarityfrombelow.org
January 2019
We, intellectuals, academics, artists, activists and others in solidarity, as well as organizations, associations and collectives from across the world, express our solidarity with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in this critical moment in its history, and condemn the ongoing campaign of disinformation, lies, and slander directed against the Zapatistas.
You are CEO of Google. When you wake up tomorrow morning, your general counsel calls you: "we've been sued in the E.U. for copyright infringement! The claim: our search results for Le Parisien and dozens of other newspapers used more than one word and/or beyond a 'short extract.'" Your response: "is this April Fools’ day?"
Location
United States
See map: Google Maps
Taking the Bitcoin dream of ‘freedom as self-sovereignty’ beyond anything even Bitcoin maximalists ever dared to dream of.
Written by Hank Sohota. Originally posted on Good Audience on 28th January 2019.