Internet Democracy Project and Point of View co-organized a two-day Imagine a Feminist Internet event in Sri Lanka on 22011 and 22 February 2019. Ambika Tandon was a speaker and presented a paper 'Framing Reproductive Health as a Data Problem? Unpacking ‘Dataveillance’ in India' which was co-authored by herself and Aayush Rathi.
This post by Sohail Inayatullah is republished from Journal of Future Studies
Legal Tech Talks - Advogadas Empreendedoras18h30 até 21h30O Evento: A FGV DIREITO RIO apresenta a palestra “Legal Tech Talks - Advogadas Empreendedoras“ que integra o programa do curso Lawtechs: Programação para advogados e empreendedores. O curso visa capacitar profissionais do Direito, empreendedores e demais interessados no tema em aspectos básicos de programação para que possam atuar, direta ou indiretamente, com Startups (ex. lawtechs, fintechs, insurtechs, healthtechs, etc), bem como nas diversas áreas nascentes da advocacia de ponta.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra will hold six public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The forums will provide an initial opportunity for the public to participate in the CCPA rulemaking process. As part of the rulemaking process, the Department of Justice invites all members of the public to speak at these events.
March 5, 2019Room 290 - Stanford Law School
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The We-Publish Infrastructure implements the idea of a media currency (“Medienfranken”) in the form of a cryptocurrency and establishes an decentralised infrastructure for the media and journalists on a blockchain. Thanks to the combination of the two infrastructures, the transparency and autonomy over information selection will be improved and the independence of the media houses…
Nach zweijährigen Verhandlungen haben die juristischen Fakultäten Münster und Reykjavík erneut ein Partnerschaftsabkommen über Studenten- und Dozentenaustausch geschlossen. Seit 2002 bestand eine Partnerschaft über das ITM im Rahmen des Erasmus-Projekts. Es entwickelten sich über die Jahre eine gute und sehr persönliche Zusammenarbeit und ein reger gegenseitiger Austausch. Island ist zu einem der beliebtesten Ziele für Münsteraner Jurastudenten überhaupt geworden und auch Professoren und Mitarbeiter besuchten hin und wieder die ferne Partneruniversität.
This blog has been translated from its original version on the OK Brasil blog. The complete 2018 Annual Report of OK Brasil is available here.
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In January, I began a series of MOOCs on social entrepreneurship. One of the courses focuses on Business Models. My interest is in applying the Open Value Network Model to social entrepreneurship. All of the courses emphasize “scaling” the business. I suggested previously that developing economies of scope might be a better aim. The courses also unanimously advocate Lean processes. In the Lean Startup approach, the social entrepreneur develops hypotheses, builds iterative prototypes, and tests them with real people. “You must leave the office,” is the mantra.
Facebook’s global affairs boss Sir Nick Clegg has been challenged to tackle the spread of ‘fake news’ on Facebook ahead of vital European elections.
Catherine Stihler, chief executive of Open Knowledge International and a former MEP, has written to the former Deputy Prime Minister to request more transparency from Facebook and its assistance in resuscitating the three foundations of ‘tolerance, facts and ideas’.
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The 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future focused attention on the significant potential of the Internet for innovation and sustainable development, but without denying or shirking the challenges it also introduces. This forward-looking analysis is a powerful advocacy tool for anyone who wants to protect and build the open Internet.
The Internet Society recognises that global deployment of the IPv6 protocol is paramount to accommodate the present and future growth of the Internet. Given the scale at which IPv6 must be deployed, it is important that the possible security implications of IPv6 are well understood and considered during the design and deployment of IPv6 networks, rather than as an afterthought.
A few months ago, people across the world were asked “What is Wikimedia?”
Almost no one answered correctly.
But while “Wikimedia” may not be widely recognized outside our movement, there is a clear way to use our existing brands to better bring in the billions of people who have yet to join us in our vision. We can center our brand system around Wikipedia, one of the world’s best-known brands.
This blog post originally appeared on Politics for Tomorrow.
Smarter Crowdsourcing: A Global Online Conference on Learning and Teaching Public Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
You may remember a time before password standards, when passwords like “password” were used. As countless news stories have shown us since, those passwords were not ideal—but the recommended solution of creating complex passwords for each website has created problems of its own.[1]