By Lisa Ginsborg

W ubiegłym tygodniu ponad setka działaczy na rzecz reformy prawa autorskiego spotkała się w Brukseli na European Copyright Action Days – również byliśmy tam obecni. Celem było głośne wyrażenie opinii, że kierunek w jakim zmierza europejska reforma prawa autorskiego jest niepokojący, a proponowane zmiany wpłyną negatywnie na dostęp do informacji wielu grup społecznych.

Co-authored by Prisca Rananjarison (Madagascar) and Chepkemoi Magdaline (Kenya)

Big Data, Internet das Coisas e tecnologias emergentes na administração pública. Neste Bytes de Informação, Pedro Vilela e Luíza Brandão falam sobre o fenômeno das Smart Cities. Confira:

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Thesis by Denis Roio: “This thesis describes a practice based research journey across various projects dealing with the design of algorithms, to highlight the governance implications in design choices made on them. The research provides answers and documents methodologies to address the urgent need for more awareness of decisions made by algorithms about the social and economical context in which we live.

Colin Koopman in The New York Times: “…The challenge of designing ethics into data technologies is formidable. This is in part because it requires overcoming a century-long ethos of data science: Develop first, question later. Datafication first, regulation afterward. A glimpse at the history of data science shows as much.

As we built our new website, one of my own guiding principles was “POSSE“, a content publishing model from the “IndieWeb” movement. The idea is:
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PM’s NaMo app sends user data to third party in US, says researcher.
Sunil Abraham was quoted in the article published by Financial Times on March 28, 2018.

Sarah Holder at CityLab: “For most of human history, maps have been very exclusive,” said Marie Price, the first woman president of the American Geographical Society, appointed 165 years into its 167-year history. “Only a few people got to make maps, and they were carefully guarded, and they were not participatory.” That’s slowly changing, she said, thanks to democratizing projects like OpenStreetMap (OSM)….

Let’s Encrypt, a nonprofit certificate authority launched in 2016, has delivered on its pledge to offer free certificates that enable secure HTTP connections for complete domains.

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BVBA Open Access Book: “The impact of globalization, of technological progress and of the insecurity that they cause is reflected in people’s decisions, and by the path that our society is following. This path that will decide our future, in the sense that it will determine our capability of facing the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities offered up by the advances in science and technology.

Springwise: “We have previously written about innovations that promote inclusion and equal rights such as edible pie charts that highlight gender inequality. Another example is a predictive text app that finds alternative words for gendered language.

The editors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance and Race seek additional contributors. This volume will bring together the work of leading scholars in such fields as public health, law, critical race studies, anthropology, criminology, sociology, history, political science, psychology, and philosophy to present an intersectional perspective on the issues of governance, power, and control as applied to racial and other minority populations.
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Pocos intelectuales latinoamericanos han tenido el impacto en la forma como se mira el mundo y el desarrollo económico y social como Theotonio dos Santos.

A través de las voces de más de quince artistas y sus creaciones, amigos, familiares, estudiantes, funcionarias y académicas se reunieron en la Casa Central, para recordar y homenajear a la estudiante trans, luchadora y activista por el reconocimiento social de la diversidad sexual.

El pasado 7 de marzo el proyecto que crearía el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, sufrió nuevamente un traspié en su tramitación -esta vez en la Cámara Alta-, debido al desacuerdo en dos de sus propuestas. Con la iniciativa enviada a Comisión Mixta para resolver las normas en controversia, el vicerrector de Investigación y Desarrollo de nuestro plantel, Flavio Salazar, reflexiona en la siguiente columna publicada en el diario La Tercera, sobre el injustificado retraso de una ley que considera urgente para el país.

Un grupo de astrónomos de universidades nacionales e internacionales, entre ellos el investigador del MAS y académico del Departamento de Astronomía de la U. de Chile, René Méndez, descubrió estrellas jóvenes en la periferia de la Gran Nube de Magallanes, lo que indica que la formación estelar en la zona es producto de mecanismos no convencionales. La investigación fue publicada en la prestigiosa revista Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.