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Carlos Santiso in Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Will blockchain technology be the next disrupting technology to revolutionize government? Probably not. Can it be a game changer in the global fight against corruption? Possibly so.
Book edited by Mehmet Zahid Sobacı and İbrahim Hatipoğlu: “This book analyzes the impact of social media on democracy and politics at the subnational level in developed and developing countries. Over the last decade or so, social media has transformed politics. Offering political actors opportunities to organize, mobilize, and connect with constituents, voters, and supporters, social media has become an important tool in global politics as well as a force for democracy.
Paper by Gabriel Abu-Tayeh, Oliver Neumann and Matthias Stuermer: “In smart city contexts, voluntary citizen reporting can be a particularly valuable source of information for local authorities. A key question in this regard is what motivates citizens to contribute their data. Drawing on motivation research in social psychology, the paper examines the question of whether self-concern or other-orientation is a stronger driver of citizen reporting engagement.
Book edited by Usha Mujoo Munshi and Neeta Verma: “The edited volume deals with different contours of data science with special reference to data management for the research innovation landscape. The data is becoming pervasive in all spheres of human, economic and development activity.
Today is International Women’s Day, with the goal to empower women in all settings. This year, the Internet Society is celebrating by shining a light on the women who are shaping the Internet, including our own CEO, Kathy Brown. She shared her thoughts how we can ensure that all women have a place at the table in our increasingly-connected world.
The Internet Society: Who are the women who have inspired you throughout your career? How have they inspired you?
The Internet is broken. Investor-owned digital platforms are monopolising key economic sectors, controlling our data, and distributing profits to the few. This needs to fundamentally change according to Co-operatives UK and Stir to Action.
As part of an effort to make the ‘digital economy our own’, these organisations have today joined forces to launch a new pilot accelerator UnFound to support ‘platform co-operatives’, digital platforms that are democratically owned by their members or users.
We are living in turbulent times for electoral democracy. But it didn’t start with the Brexit referendum and the election of Trump. Over the period 2006 – 2016 the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index recorded a decline in democratic health for more than half the 167 countries it monitors.
Leila Harris, Jiaying Zhao and Martine Visser in The Conversation: “Cape Town could become the world’s first major city to run out of water – what’s been termed Day Zero….To its credit, the city has worked with researchers at the University of Cape Town to test strategies to nudge domestic users into reducing their water use. Nudges are int
Adianto que este texto não é uma publicação de louvor aos avanços das políticas de empoderamento feminino. Exemplificar a existência de liderança feminina no mercado tecnológico pela CEO da Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, e COO do Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg serem mulheres é cometer um erro metodológico, pois estas personalidades são casos de exceção, não a regra. Pretendo apontar um dos embargos para a efetivação da presença de mulheres na ecosfera tecnológica: a necessidade de romper com papeis sociais impostos e adentrar campo apoderado pelo masculino.
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Matthew Hutson at Science: “When someone roughs up a pedestrian, robs a store, or kills in cold blood, police want to know whether the perpetrator was a gang member: Do they need to send in a special enforcement team? Should they expect a crime in retaliation? Now, a new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes.
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 […]
This International Women’s Day, we’re boosting the profiles of incredible women around the world who are pushing boundaries using technology – and we encourage you to do the same!
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy is organizing a roundtable on data protection and privacy in New Delhi on March 8, 2018. Sunil Abraham is participating as a moderator in the session on Rights and Protections. Amber Sinha is also participating as a panelist.
Agenda here
Michael Eisenstein at Nature: “…The good news is that the present era of widespread access to the Internet and digital health has created a rich reservoir of valuable data for researchers to dive into….By harvesting and combining these streams of big data with conventional ways of monitoring infectious diseases, the public-health community could gain fresh powers to catch and curb emerging outbreaks before they rage out of control.
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Facebook and Twitter have been under increasing scrutiny for allowing targeted political ads from Russia-backed entities to manipulate voters and influence elections.
The article by Nilesh Christopher was published by ET Tech on March 7, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Los liceos Gabriela Mistral de Independencia y el Instituto Cumbre de Cóndores de Renca, se suman a contar de este año a los cinco establecimientos que integran el Programa de Acompañamiento y Acceso Efectivo a la Educación Superior, y con ello, a las diferentes actividades formativas, culturales y de orientación que brinda esta iniciativa que busca, entre otros objetivos, la equidad y la inclusión en el sistema universitario.Dos nuevas comunidades, dos nuevas realidades.