More than 55 representatives from technology companies, government, media and civil society organizations gathered at the innovation lab Phandeeyar to participate in the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum this morning. The two-day event was organized to address critical digital rights challenges in Myanmar.
This was published by Coconuts Yangon on December 14, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
S. Moore in Sociology: “Transparency has become the watchword of twenty-first century liberal democracies. It refers to a project of ‘opening up’ the state by providing online access to public sector data. This article puts forward a sociological critique of the transparency agenda and the purported relationship between institutional openness and public trust. Drawing upon Simmel’s (1906) work, the article argues that open government initiatives routinely prize visibility over intelligibility and ignore the communicative basis of trust.
John Thornhill in the Financial Times: “The buzz at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was all about connectivity and machine learning. …The primary effect of these consumer tech products seems limited — but we will need to pay increasing attention to the secondary consequences of these connected devices. They are just the most visible manifestation of a fundamental transformation that is likely to shape our societies far more than Brexit, Donald Trump or squabbles over the South China Sea.
A science fiction and tech-vision anthology “about the coming era of transparency in the information age” edited by David Brin & Stephen W. Potts: “Young people log their lives with hourly True Confessions. Cops wear lapel-cams and spy agencies peer at us — and face defections and whistle blowers. Bank records leak and “uncrackable” firewalls topple. As we debate internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous.
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In July 2011, a single judge bench of the Delhi High Court issued an interim order in the case of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. v. Myspace Inc. & Anr. The bench effectively held Myspace (a social media website) liable for infringement of copyright by third party content posted on its platform. This decision was considered […]
Adam Hasler: “For years, and very acutely the last few months, citizens of the United States and in many other parts of the world have been pitched into an often uncomfortable morass of debate and discussion about the direction of their country. Problems exist, and persist, which government at all levels has tried to address or currently addresses, and government’s efficacy at addressing problems affects all of us in some way.
Del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación (DCC) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) son los estudiantes y académicos que presentaron una solución de visualización de datos que ayuda en la tarea de promover la industria de energía solar, lo que los posicionó en el primer lugar en la categoría Start-Up de la competencia.El primer lugar en la Hackathon Solar obtuvo un equipo del DCC integrado por el académico Jorge Pérez y los alumnos de postgrado Mauricio Quezada y Nicolás Lehmann,
Cuatro son las facultades implicadas en esta iniciativa que pone en valor a la vivienda, una de las expresiones de cómo los habitantes de nuestro país se han relacionado con el territorio a partir de sus condiciones climáticas y materialidades.
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Daniel J. Solove at Technology, Academics, Policy: “Here are some notable books on privacy and security from 2016….
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy
Jennifer Bresnick at HealthITAnalytics: “The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is releasing more than 19,000 de-identified genomic records to further the international research community’s explorations into precision medicine.
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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio atua como um dos principais centros globais de pesquisa nas áreas de tecnologia, direito e sociedade. A Comunicação do ITS Rio tem por objetivo criar pontes para materializar o impacto do instituto com diferentes stakeholders, além de engajar em campanhas de defesa a direitos digitais.
Originally developed to make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin possible, Blockchain technology has become a huge phenomenon that attracts both hacktivists and venture capitalists. How do these different groups come together and... MORE
Meropi Tzanetakis takes you on a trip to the «dark» side of the web. How were global markets for drugs able to emerge on the darkweb – irrespective of current... MORE
Book edited by Ann Delgado that “… provides insights on how emerging technosciences come together with new forms of governance and ethical questioning.
The LLM student of BNU Law School, international students of LLM in Chinese and international visiting students participated in the international Moot Court on copyright disputes in universities at the end of 2016. The Moot court was organized by Prof. Xue during her teaching of Intellectual Property Law to both groups of the students. The case for the Moot Court was adapted from the real case between a US publisher and an Indian university. Prof. Xue redesigned and rewrote the facts of the case and made it a case between a group of western publishers and BNU.
Conference Proceedings by Future of Privacy Forum: “The ethical framework applying to human subject research in the biomedical and behavioral research fields dates back to the Belmont Report.Drafted in 1976 and adopted by the United States government in 1991 as the Common Rule, the Belmont principles were geared towards a paradigmatic controlled scientific experiment with a limited population of human subjects interacting directly with researchers and manifesting their informed consent.
Darrell Etherington at TechCrunch: “Uber is opening up in an area where it might make sense competitively for it to stay more closed off: The ride-hailing company’s new Movement website will offer up access to its data around traffic flow in scores where it operates, intended for use by city planners and