Sarah Keating at the BBC: “Singapore has grown from almost nothing in 50 years. And this well-regarded society has been built up, partly, thanks to the power of suggestion….But while Singapore still loves a public campaign, it has moved toward a more nuanced approach of influencing the behaviours of its inhabitants.
Michael del Castillo at CoinDesk: “Even as Russia stands accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, its national capital is taking a leadership role in making democracy more transparent.
David Serwadda et al in Science: “A growing number of government agencies, funding organizations, and publishers are endorsing the call for increased data sharing, especially in biomedical research, many with an ultimate goal of open data. Open data is among the least restrictive forms of data sharing, in contrast to managed access mechanisms, which typically have terms of use and in some cases oversight by the data generators themselves.
Vinton G. Cerf is one of the founding fathers of the internet, and on Wednesday, February 28th, he will be on Canada 2020’s stage for an exclusive event.
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Known most for being the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the modern Internet, Vint will join us in Ottawa to talk about online citizenship, the right to be forgotten, and state of the modern internet.February 26, 2018Ottawa
A Sandia National Laboratories Report by Zoe N. Gastelum, Meili C. Swanson, Kari Sentz and Christina Rinaudo : “Recent advances in information technology have led to an expansion of crowdsourcing activities that utilize the “power of the people” harnessed via online games, communities of interest, and other platforms to collect, analyze, verify, and provide technological solutions for challenges from a multitude of domains.
The Internet Society’s Vice President of Global Engagement Raúl Echeberría will be participating in a panel tomorrow at the Mobile World Congress Ministerial Programme on Policies to Expand Access to Mobile:
Um dos temas mais debatidos na política é o financiamento das campanhas eleitorais. A lógica é simples, o candidato para se eleger deve, entre outros fatores, divulgar a sua imagem ao maior número de eleitores possível, para convencê-los de que suas propostas são melhores do que os demais candidatos.
Blockchain vs. slavery: Provenance, a London NGO, is using Blockchain to add transparency to seafood supply chains, in an effort to reduce the practice of slavery in the seafood industry in Southeast Asia. Blockchain can create end-to-end traceability for seafood products by storing data on all kinds of transactional history.
Open Access India recently released a statement to promote openness in science and research communities. CIS contributed to the text and introduced it to the participants of OpenCon 2018, Delhi.
Published by Open Access India on February 14, 2018. Read the original post here.
Stuart W. Shulman et al at Data Driven Journalism: “The rise of political bots brings into sharp focus the role of automated social media accounts in today’s democratic civil society.
A dissemination workshop was organized by BBC Media Action, with support from the Digital Impact Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on February 21, 2018 in Bangalore. Sunil Abraham participated in the workshop.
Agenda
9.00 to 9.45
Registration and coffee
9.50 to 10.05
Introduction to ‘Beyond Scale’, Kate Willson, CEO, Digital Impact Alliance
10.15 to 11.15
‘Surviving the Valley of Death’, panel discussion with:
Dr. Jan Niklas Galle Wie Chlamydien den Menschen infizieren Institut für funktionelle Genomforschung der Mikroorganismen; Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lena Masch Wut in der Politik, Effekte negativer Emotionen auf die Bewertung von Führungseigenschaften der Politiker und Politikerinnen Institut für Sozialwissenschaften; Philosophische Fakultät
Dr. Sebastian Kötter Titin – Sensibler Riese der Muskelzellen Institut für Herz- und Kreislaufphysiologie; Medizinische Fakultät
Yaniv Reingewertz and Carmela Lutmar at Harvard Business Review: “Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case.
Routing outages or attacks – such as hijacking, leaks, and spoofing – can lead to stolen data, lost revenue, reputational damage and more, all on a global scale. Routing security is therefore vital to the future and stability of the Internet, and the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative implements crucial fixes.
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius et al in Utrecht Law Review: “Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements. Online political microtargeting is widely used in the US; Europe may not be far behind.
James Bridle in The Atlantic: “In Cyprus, Estonia, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere, passports can now be bought and sold….“If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.
UIDAI directive to Aadhaar authentication agencies aims to avoid putting citizens’ biometric data at risk
The article by Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on February 8, 2018.
Researchers and journalists who have identified loopholes in India’s massive national identity card project have said they have been slapped with criminal cases or harassed by government agencies because of their work.
This was published by Reuters on February 13, 2018. Reporting by Rahul Bhatia; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
Summer School European Private LawA FGV DIREITO RIO seleciona alunos da graduação para o curso de verão “Summer School European Private Law”, que ocorrerá de 02 a 14 de julho de 2018, em Salzburg, na Áustria. A Escola poderá indicar até um aluno, que terá isenção na taxa de inscrição. Os demais alunos interessados farão parte do processo seletivo e, sendo aprovados, não terão isenção da taxa de inscrição. Os interessados devem se inscrever até 27 de fevereiro.