Nathan Collins at Pacific Standard: “Depending on whom you ask, gentrification is either damaging, not so bad, or

CRS Reports & Analysis: “Since the rise of social media over the past decade, new platforms of technology have reinforced the adage that the law lags behind developments in technology. Government agencies, officials, and employees regularly use a number of social media options – e.g., Twitter, Facebook, etc. – that have led agencies to update existing ethics rules to reflect the unique issues that they may present.

A Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, em parceria com a rede científica do Competition Law Scholars Forum (Clasf – um grupo de reflexão e think tank académico nas áreas de regulação e concorrência que realiza anualmente um Workshop temático em diferentes localizações geográficas) e em cooperação com a  Cátedra Jean Monnet em regulação económica (baseada na Universidade de Lisboa e na nossa Faculdade) organiza o Workshop “Competition and regulatory trends in digital markets”, a realizar amanhã, 14 de abril de 2016, no Anfiteatro n.º. 8.

Presentation by Delip Rao: “…The models you create have power to get people arrested or vindicated, get loans approved or rejected, determine what interest rate should be charged for such loans, who should be shown to you in your long list of pursuits on your Tinder, what news do you read, who gets called for a job phone screen or even a college admission… the list goes on.
So what can you do about it?…

Fifth edition Handbook by DLA Piper’s Data Protection and Privacy practice: “More than ever it is crucial that organisations manage and safeguard personal information and address their risks and legal responsibilities in relation to processing personal data, to address the growing thicket of applicable data protection legislation.
A well‑constructed and comprehensive compliance program can solve these competing interests and is an important risk‑management tool.

GeoNet Project on 13 April 2016 at 15:51PM Chris Foster and I have a new publication that will be coming out in Global Networks: Foster, C. and Graham, M. 2016. Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks. Global Networks. (In press). Abstract: Global production networks (GPN) has become a key framework in conceptualising linkages, power and structure in globalised [...]

The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 13 April 2016 at 15:51PM Chris Foster and I have a new publication that will be coming out in Global Networks: Foster, C. and Graham, M. 2016. Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks. Global Networks. (In press). Abstract: Global production networks… Continue Reading → [...]

Paper by Becky Carter: “A synthesis of what the existing evidence says (and where there are gaps) on:
1) What role might ‘infomediaries’, and specifically the media have in helping translate transparency into greater government accountability? In generating that accountability? In empowering citizens?
2) In what contexts or types of contexts do ‘infomediaries’ and media play such a facilitating role, and why?
3) What enabling factors contributed to success?

This is the third of four posts on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. In both cases, national courts held online news portals liable for comments posted by their users – even though the platforms did not know about them.

Page Type: Eventmercoledi13 aprile 2016Francesco Ruggiero (scrittore)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 13/04/2016 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

CREATe, together with TrademarkNow and SCRIPTed, are inviting contributions for an exciting and relevant essay competition. The theme is: How will Artificial Intelligence change the practice of Intellectual Property law? For the last four years CREATe (the RCUK Centre for

Organised by EPISECC project (KU Leuven CiTiP) & SecInCore project

Yesterday, the Center for Internet and Society filed a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to uncover the U.S. government’s legal strategies for defeating encryption in law enforcement investigations.

Os interessados podem se canditar até o dia 30 de abrilDoutores e doutorandos brasileiros e estrangeiros têm até o dia 30 de abril para candidatar-se a bolsas de pesquisa do Fellows in Rio 2016-2017. O programa, promovido pela Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio), está em sua 3ª edição e selecionará pesquisadores em Direito ou em áreas correlacionadas a essa disciplina.

Bronwyn van der Merwe at The Hill: “…Government organizations are starting to realize the benefits of digital transformation to reinvent the citizen experience in the form of digital services tailored to individual needs. However, public service leaders are finding that as they move further into the digital age, they need to re-orient their internal organizations around this paradigm shift, or their investments in digital are likely to fail.

Brief by Dennis Anderson, Robert Wu, Dr. June-Suh Cho, and Katja Schroeder: “This book discusses three levels of e-government and national strategies to reach a citizen-centric participatory e-government, and examines how disruptive technologies help shape the future of e-government. The authors examine how e-government can facilitate a symbiotic relationship between the government and its citizens. ICTs aid this relationship and promote transparencies so that citizens can place greater trust in the activities of their government.

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with author Geoff Manaugh

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Join Geoff Manaugh, author of the new book A Burglar’s Guide to the City, to discuss more than two thousand years’ worth of heists and break-ins, with a discussion ranging from the surprisingly — one might say uselessly — complicated legal definition of an interior space to the everyday tools burglars use to gain entry.

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Berkman Luncheon Series

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Itziar Aspuru et al in Noise Mapping: “The purpose of this research was to design and deploy tools that apply the concept of citizen observatories and empowering citizens in the assessment of acoustic comfort in public places. The research applies an iterative cycle of design and this article presents the results of a demonstrative experiment carried out in situ using the first products developed. This work was undertaken as part of the CITI-SENSE project.

In this article, HIIG PhD candidate and UC Berkeley visiting research scholar Martina Dopfer looks into the vibrant startup-scene of the Bay Area and compares it to Berlin. Although there... MORE

Paper by Frederika Welle Donker, Bastiaan van Loenen and Arnold K. Bregt: “In recent years, there has been an increasing trend of releasing public sector information as open data. Governments worldwide see the potential benefits of opening up their data. The potential benefits are more transparency, increased governmental efficiency and effectiveness, and external benefits, including societal and economic benefits. The private sector also recognizes potential benefits of making their datasets available as open data.