An Uptake in Communications Encryption Is Tempered by Increasing Pressure on Major Platform Providers; Governments Expand Content Restriction Tactics
Teaser
Documenting the practice of Internet censorship around the world through empirical testing in 45 countries of the availability of 2,046 of the world’s most-trafficked and influential websites, plus additional country-specific websites.
Publication Date
29 Jun 2017
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The Canadian Supreme Court this morning issued its long-awaited ruling in Equustek. The court upheld an order compelling Google to remove search results for specified websites, not just in Canada, but everywhere in the world.
Location
United States
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Lançamento do livro “Direito Regulatório, Governança e Licenciamento Ambiental”18h30O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio, a Juruá Editora e Romilson de Almeida Volotão convidam para o lançamento do livro “Direito Regulatório, Governança e Licenciamento Ambiental”.
Local: Livraria FGV, Praia de Botafogo, 190 - Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
About ePolicyWorks: “Launched by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), ePolicyWorks is a Web-based approach to policymaking that engages citizens and stakeholders in new and innovative ways. The initiative leverages the latest technology to address barriers to employment for people with disabilities and fosters real-time collaboration and communication around key issues.
W połowie czerwca odbyły się drugie warsztaty Pracowni Otwierania Kultury. Mamy ekspresowe tempo – wystartowaliśmy trzy tygodnie temu, a drugie spotkanie zakończyliśmy już z konkretnymi pomysłami na narzędzia webowe i aplikacje mobilne dla każdej z instytucji biorącej udział. Jak to osiągnęliśmy?
New report by sparks & honey: “Conventional wisdom suggests that to peer into the crystal ball of America’s future, one should go to Silicon Valley to check out the latest start-up unicorns, or to New York or Los Angeles to scout emerging trends in fashion and food.
Urs Gasser: “Lawmakers and regulators need to look at AI not as a homogenous technology, but a set of techniques and methods that will be deployed in specific and increasingly diversified applications. There is currently no generally agreed-upon definition of AI.
Springwise: “In an era where the term ‘fake news’ has become commonplace, news app Read Across the Aisle by US-based BeeLine Reader is designed to help users break out from the ‘filter bubble’ of media sources they are inclined to read from by offering articles from opposing angles. The app, which is Kickstarter funded, hopes to combat political polarization by allowing readers to see the partisan bias of the news sources they are accessing.
ROUTETOPA is a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open data publishers and open data. Open Knowledge International is one of 12 partners working on the project and our main mandate is to build genuine and active communities around the ROUTETOPA tools. In this blogpost, we share more information on the ROUTETOPA user stories.
Wraz z Fundacją ePaństwo postanowiliśmy przyjrzeć się bliżej jak w praktyce funkcjonuje ustawa z dnia 25 lutego 2016 roku o ponownym wykorzystywaniu informacji sektora publicznego, w jaki sposób korzystają z niej wnioskodawcy oraz jak stosują ją podmioty publiczne. Wysłaliśmy 40 wniosków o dostęp do informacji publicznej adresowanych do wybranych instytucji zobowiązanych do stosowania Ustawy w Polsce. Każda z wybranych przez nas jednostek została poproszona o odpowiedź na kilka pytań związanych ze stosowaniem Ustawy o reuse w okresie od 16 czerwca 2016 roku do 24 kwietnia 2017 roku.
En una nueva versión de este evento, fueron más de 300 los niños y jóvenes que pudieron informarse y participar en proyectos científicos, a cargo de investigadores y estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile que se encuentran con la comunidad en el espacio público.
Familiares, amigos, estudiantes, académicos y autoridades universitarias participaron este miércoles 14 de junio de la ceremonia de entrega del reconocimiento a estos destacados académicos de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM).
About: “With all the exciting A.I. stuff happening, there are lots of people eager to start tinkering with machine learning technology. A.I. Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that let anyone play with this technology in hands-on ways, through pictures, drawings, language, music, and more.
Patrick Sisson at Curbed: “…The Assembly Civic Engagement Survey, a new report released yesterday by the Center for Active Design, seeks to understand the connections between the design of public spaces and buildings on public life, and eventually create a toolbox for planners and politicians to make decisions that can help improve civic pride.
Cardiff University News: “An analysis of data taken from the London riots in 2011 showed that computer systems could automatically scan through Twitter and detect serious incidents, such as shops being broken in to and cars being set alight, before they were reported to the Metropolitan Police Service.
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Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective and Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcome author Cathy O'Neil
Teaser
Please join us for a timely discussion of the role of data science in public life. All are welcome at this free event open to the public!
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