Jeudi dernier, le CRDP recevait la nouvelle selon laquelle il serait financé pour les sept prochaines années en tant que regroupement stratégique ($1 528 919), et ce, dans le cadre du concours proposé l’automne dernier par le FRQ-SC. Ce résultat était particulièrement attendu dans la mesure où lors de la précédente édition, il y a trois ans, les évaluateurs avaient suggéré de revisiter le projet de recherche du CRDP afin de mieux s’accorder avec les critères demandés.

Do you know someone who has made an outstanding contribution to Internet development?

Nominate them for this year’s Jonathan B. Postel Service Award!

Each year, the Internet Society presents the prestigious award to an individual or organization that, like Jon Postel, has made significant contributions to the technological development of the Internet.

Der Rat wird je zu Hälfte auf Vorschlag des Bundestages und der Bundesregierung benannt. Die Mitglieder werden dann vom Bundestagspräsidenten für die Dauer von vier Jahren berufen. Eine Wiederberufung ist einmal möglich. Knapp die Hälfte der bisherigen Mitglieder war turnusmäßig ausgeschieden und musste nachbesetzt werden. Voraussichtlich am 28. Mai wird der neue Ethikrat zu seiner konstituierenden Sitzung zusammenkommen.

Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen mit Kind, die digitale Lehre anbieten, erleben durch die fehlende Betreuung ihres Nachwuchses besondere zeitliche Mehrfachbelastungen. Denn so eine Vorlesung lässt sich nicht mit ein paar Klicks digitalisieren. Sie werden nun beim Vorbereiten und Durchführen ihrer Veranstaltungen unterstützt.

Searching for a signal: CNN has a story about a teacher in rural Virginia who drives 20 minutes to find a good WiFi signal in order to work. The middle school history teacher is one of about 18 million U.S. residents who lack access to high-speed broadband, according to the Federal Communications Commission. The teacher “lives in a valley between two mountains, where the only available home internet option is a satellite connection.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted cybersecurity in several ways. The challenges range from the infrastructure of the internet itself to the spread of disinformation online. Nevertheless, not all is lost, as, at the same time, valuable lessons can be learned for the future. The coronavirus pandemic has changed society’s way of life in several ways,…

A new opinion poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Brits want any coronavirus contact-tracing app to take account of civil liberties and people’s privacy.
The Survation poll for the Open Knowledge Foundation comes ahead of today’s evidence session at Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights on the human rights implications of COVID-19 tracing apps.

Luego de ser probado con buenos resultados a partir de una lámina de cobre en Estados Unidos, hoy científicos chilenos buscan reafirmar el potencial del metal rojo, esta vez, a partir de sus nanopartículas, proyectando que al entrar en contacto con el causante del COVID-19 tardaría menos de un minuto en inhabilitar su efecto.

El canal online del Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural de la Universidad de Chile, www.ceactv.cl, presentará una selección de programas de carácter familiar, incluyendo por primera vez creaciones del Ballet Nacional Chileno y conciertos educativos, además del espectáculo Mazapán Sinfónico.

La estabilidad del ecosistema es crucial para mantener sistemas naturales saludables, y sus ciclos y funciones ecológicas son esenciales para el bienestar social. Lamentablemente, la acción humana ha contribuido a generar una serie de alteraciones que inciden directamente en la salud de las personas y del medioambiente.

May 3rd marks World Press Freedom Day and this year finds the state of the world’s media pluralism and freedom in turmoil as existing, rapidly evolving issues, become further aggravated by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Over the past several months the Internet Society has been working on a transaction to sell Public Interest Registry (PIR), operator of .ORG and other top-level domains, to Ethos Capital. Under PIR’s registry agreements, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had to consent to this indirect change of control. ICANN has now announced that it does not consent to the transaction.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

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Episode 1 with introduction: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/09/selfies-under-quarantine/
Episode 2: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/04/16/selfies-under-quarantine-episode-2/

This opinion piece was originally published in SC Magazine.

With social distancing the norm, we’re spending more time on the Internet doing more important things than ever – eg, working, learning, banking, trading, shopping, seeing the doctor and having family time – as well as streaming, gaming and interacting with our connected speakers.

Shouldn’t we be certain, especially now, that no one is eavesdropping, stealing or modifying our data?

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Author(s): Giancarlo FrosioPublication Date: April 30, 2020Publication Type: Academic Writing(with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko) Read more about Text and Data Mining: Articles 3 and 4 of the Directive 2019/790/EU

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Author(s): Giancarlo FrosioPublication Date: April 30, 2020Publication Type: Academic Writingin Paul Torremans, ed., Intellectual Property and Human Rights (4th edition, Kluwer Law Int’l, forthcoming 2020), 709-744 Read more about Algorithmic Enforcement Online