Are we back to the license raj?
The story was published by the News Minute on May 6, 2016. Pranesh Prakash gave inputs.

Clayton A Davis et al at Peer J. PrePrint:  “The study of social phenomena is becoming increasingly reliant on big data from online social networks. Broad access to social media data, however, requires software development skills that not all researchers possess.

César A. Hidalgo at Scientific American: “Imagine shopping in a supermarket where every item is stored in boxes that look exactly the same. Some are filled with cereal, others with apples, and others with shampoo. Shopping would be an absolute nightmare!

Dara M. Wald, Justin Longo and A. R. Dobell at Conservation Biology: “Citizen science initiatives encourage volunteer participants to collect and interpret data and contribute to formal scientific projects.

Estudantes assistiram a palestras de professores da EscolaO Centro de Pesquisas em Direito e Economia (CPDE) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) recebeu, no dia 28 de abril, a visita de 25 alunos da Universidade Erasmus, da Holanda. Os estudantes participaram de um programa de estudos que visa comparar a Holanda e o Brasil em diversos aspectos, com destaque para as questões de responsabilidade, seguro e políticas ambientais.

Sextortion—defined as blackmail (often by the threat of releasing sexually explicit images of the victim) carried out over a computer network, which forces victims to engage in some form of sexual activity online—is a new term for a new crime. The remote coercion of sex is a crime that was impossible until recently, but with the expansion of the Internet and proliferation of webcams, Sextortion is a growing form of exploitation. This remarkably understudied crime has affected thousands of people, almost entirely women and children.
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Centro contribui por meio do projeto Acervos DigitaisO Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) é colaborador do Museu da Imigração, em São Paulo, no projeto “Encontros com Acervo”, que será inaugurado no dia 21 de maio. A exposição é a primeira experiência da instituição de liberação de conteúdo com uso de licenças Creative Commons (CC) em praticamente todas as frentes: fotos do acervo (que serão compartilhadas no Pinterest e na Wikimedia), textos de blog/Medium, folder e material educativo.

Practical sessions on using Wiki Malayalam as a medium to preserve the language and promote digital media were held on Thursday, the final day of the two-day workshop on ‘Wiki Malayalam.’
The article was published by New Indian Express on May 6, 2016.

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April 2016 in Retrospect is available here:
http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-april/

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Con una serie de talleres y con la presencia de directores y vicerrectores académicos de estos planteles, se dio inicio en la Casa Central de la U. de Chile a la nueva Red de Pregrado del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (CUECH), instancia que busca mejorar la calidad de la docencia y generar un sello distintivo de las universidades públicas.

Con una actividad que incluirá la conferencia "Giannini y la Educación" del profesor Carlos Ruiz Schneider, se realizará el lanzamiento del sitio web que busca dar a conocer la vida y la obra del filósofo.

Este martes 26 de abril, los restos del Premio Nobel de Literatura llegaron nuevamente a su casa del litoral central para su ubicación definitiva, cumpliendo así su voluntad. Neruda, también ex Senador de la República, consolidó su relación con la Universidad al donar en 1954 parte importante de sus libros, documentos personales y caracolas, los que hoy son custodiados y difundidos por el Archivo Central Andrés Bello de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones.

¿En qué tipo de viviendas viven los migrantes en Chile?, ¿cómo nos referimos a ellos en los medios de comunicación?, ¿cuán adecuada es la normativa de nuestro país en materia migratoria?, ¿existe sincretismo cultural?, ¿somos racistas los chilenos? Estas serán algunas de las preguntas y temáticas que se abordarán en una nueva versión de la Escuela Chile-Francia, organizada por la Universidad de Chile y la Embajada de Francia.

Sarah Telford and Stefaan G. Verhulst at Understanding Risk Forum: “….In creating the policy, OCHA partnered with the NYU Governance Lab (GovLab) and Leiden University to understand the policy and privacy landscape, best practices of partner organizations, and how to assess the data it manages in terms of potential harm to people.

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"Contribution of information by people of Rukadi village near Kolhapur to Marathi Wikipedia, by referring to media reports, helped spread the word about mass fish deaths in the region. Similar efforts should be initiated in Kerala so that information about local movements like Plachimada campaign would be available in the public domain," opined environmentalist Madhav Gadgil. He was speaking at the Malayalam Wikipedia workshop hosted by Swadeshabhimani Media Study Centre at Vakkom Moulavi Memorial Hall here on Wednesday.

Yes, it’s reading time again: The HIIG research magazine encore 2015 is out. On its 207 pages, you will find many informative interviews, fun facts and insights from our institute... MORE