La Casa de Bello suscribió la carta impulsada por el Acuerdo SDG, iniciativa encabezada por la Alianza para el Liderazgo en Sostenibilidad en la Educación (EAUC), la organización Second Nature, con sede en Estados Unidos, y la Alianza de Jóvenes y Educación de ONU Medio Ambiente.
Cybersecurity experts warned of a new ‘SIM jacking’ threat, the Kerala High Court recognizes a right to access internet as the internet shutdown in Kashmir entered its 50th day; more updates on the linkage of Aadhaar with voter IDs and social media as the Indian Army braces itself to adopt AI – presenting this week’s […]
Do you use CKAN to power an open data portal? In this guest post Link Digital explains how you can take advantage of their latest open data initiative Datashades.info.
Right-wing protest movements and recent election results show that the current shift to the right can be observed both in rural areas and in cities. The research project "Populism, Democracy, City" (PODESTA) at the Universities of Tübingen and Jena is dedicated to the urban level. It follows the assumption that current successes of the right are to be understood against the background of a crisis of democracy.
Migration is a controversial topic. It is widely discussed by politicians, the media and the public – but also within philosophy. In "Migration and Cosmopolitan Right" Karoline Reinhardt argues that Kant's ideas on the subject stand in a position of "productive disharmony" to the main lines of argumentation in the current philosophical debate on migration. She pays special attention to refugee status, legitimate and illegitimate grounds for refusal, statelessness, naturalization, the right to emigrate, individual duties of assistance and the idea of a "cosmopolitan attitude".
Ambika Tandon was quoted in Canadian-French magazine L'Actualite, in an article on technology and women in India. In the quote, she explains the core research questions of the FIRN project, which is studying the digital intermediation of domestic work in India.
The article by Isabelle Grégoire was published in L'Actualite on September 11, 2019.
Sunil Abraham participated in this meeting organized by Facebook on September 17, 2019 in New Delhi.
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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/responsible-ai-workshop
Arindrajit Basu delivered two lectures at the National University of Juridical Sciences on September 18, 2019.
The first one was part of a symposium being conducted by the soon to be set up Intellectual Property and Technology Law Centre. I spoke on "Conceptualising India's Digital Policy Vision" The other speaker today was Mr. Supratim Chakraborty (Partner, Khaitan&Co.) Tomorrow's speakers are Prof. Mahendra Kumar Bhandan and Nikhil Narendran (Partner, Trilegal)
Abstract
In einer öffentlichen Vorlesung erläutert Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau, Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, welche ethischen Debatten in der Geschichte und Gegenwart mit Fragen der Gentherapie verbunden waren und sind. So diskutiert er die moralischen Debatten um gentherapeutische Verfahren, als diese noch eine Utopie darstellten, und schildert die Chancen und Risiken, die in den 1980er Jahren den Diskurs bestimmten. Er erläutert auch die aktuelle ethische Debatte. Die Vorlesung ist Teil des diesjährigen Internationalen Symposiums des BMFZ an der HHU.
Privacy statements are both a point of contact to inform users
about their data and a way to show governments the organization is committed to
following regulations. On September 17, the Internet Society’s Online Trust
Alliance (OTA) released “Are Organizations Ready for New Privacy Regulations?“
The Center for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) and the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB) invited Radhika Radhakrishnan for a talk at IIIT-Bangalore on September 13, 2019.
The consumer Internet of Things market is growing exponentially – one
prediction suggests that people will be using 25 billion connected devices by 2021.
These new products promise innovation and convenience, but they can also erode
privacy boundaries and expose consumers to risk without their knowledge or
consent. Is that a good bargain?
Poor quality of footage, lack of maintenance and inadequate back-up reduce the gadgets’ deterrent value.
The article by Vivek Narayanan and R. Srinivasan was published in the Hindu on September 18, 2019. Pranav M.B. was quoted.
We at the Wikimedia Foundation strive to ensure that our work and mission support a sustainable world.
Today, we are releasing a sustainability assessment that chronicles the total carbon footprint of the Foundation’s work and commits us to reducing our emissions.