Other News from Participating Centers

Basic income in the ‘long now’: three critical considerations for the future(s) of alternative welfare systems

: Many of today’s proposals for and experiments with Universal Basic Income (UBI) in so-called developed countries seem to be congruent with, and indeed in some instances explicitly catered towards maintaining the dominant political economic architecture and status quo imaginary.

The dangers of focusing all our attention on Donald Trump

Trump’s erratic presidency is a manifestation, not the cause, of democratic decay. The unfolding political crisis will outlast him. So must the resistance.

The United States Can – And Should – Prosecute the Killers of US Journalists and Aid Workers in Syria

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United States

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Seltene Erkrankungen: UKD-Mediziner Prof. Dr. Stephan vom Dahl erhält Bundesverdienstkreuz

Prof. Dr. Stephan vom Dahl arbeitet als Oberarzt in der Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie des UKD (Klinikdirektor: Prof. Dr. Dieter Häussinger). In der Ambulanz für angeborene Stoffwechselkrankheiten bei Erwachsenen der Klinik werden jährlich über 450 Patientinnen und Patienten betreut. Die Ambulanz war eine der ersten ihrer Art in Deutschland.

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day X- Part I)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Intermediary Liability 101

Attached to this post are Powerpoint slides introducing intermediary liability basics. This particular deck comes from a great CIDE program in Mexico City. It is descended from others I’ve used over the years teaching at Stanford and Berkeley, presenting at conferences, and training junior lawyers at Google. Ancestral decks that evolved into this one go back to at least 2012. (Which might explain why I struggle with fonts whenever I update them.)
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United States

Stanford CIS Privacy Counsel Lunch Series: Troy Sauro

RSVP is required for this free event. 
Join Troy Sauro, Senior Privacy Counsel, Google Inc., for a discussion about his journey from being a litigation attorney in a big law firm to becoming a Google privacy counsel. Sponsored by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. CIS Director of Privacy Albert Gidari will moderate the discussion.

Indigenous Connectivity Summit Participants Share Their Stories

Madeleine Redfern, the mayor of Iqaluit – the largest and only city in Nunavut, Canada – has a colorful way of describing how sparsely populated the territory is. “The seals outnumber the people.” With a population of just over 35,000 people spread out over an arctic 1,750,000 square kilometers, Internet access is a challenge. In fact, according to Redfern, her most favorited tweet was that she couldn’t tweet… because the connection was too slow.

Digitaler Salon: LOL war gestern

Cat falls off the sofa: Roflmao, epic fail! Dumbness prevails, deal with it! On 28 February, we are going to discuss memes and online humour at Digitaler Salon: What goes... MORE
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Media Migration, Signage, and Smoked Fish: the Library Consortium as Studio, Platform, and Metacommunity

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featuring Nate Hill, Executive Director of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)

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In this talk, Nate will give an overview of the programs at METRO/599, talk about the challenges associated with this organizational recalibration, seek input and ideas from the group, and extend an invitation to attendees to come take part in the fun.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Future and uncertainty in the digital society

What does prediction by algorithms and AI mean? How does AI shift our understanding and production of knowledge? And how do algorithmic forecasts affect our relationship with the future? Elena... MORE
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Crowdsourcing Judgments of News Source Quality

Paper by Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand: “The spread of misinformation and disinformation, especially on social media, is a major societal challenge.

Civil report on the project MUSKAT

After the completion of the project Muskat which was funded by the BMBF a civil report by Marco Krüger was publically released online.download under: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/79947

‘CultureBanked®’ – Our Digital Cultural Commons?

Written by Liam Murphy and originally published in VoluntaryArts.org, this is a very important development, close to our CopyFair concerns.

Coops Viadriana. A new illustrated mag about Platform Cooperativism

The people behind Coops Vidriana wrote to us to let us know about their new gorgeous-looking magazine on Platform Cooperativism. It’s bilingual (German/English) and features a bunch of new articles and some drop-dead stunning design. Jana Pirlein has been kind enough to pen the following intro for the P2PF blog.

Chers voisins d’outre-Rhin: A french NetzDG?

In his New Years Speech French president Emmanuel Macron has announced a new law project regarding the propagation of fake news online that shall be submitted until late 2018. This... MORE
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Podcast: How did the advent of agriculture impact humanity?

For the last 150,000 or so years of human evolution, not a whole lot changed. That is, until about 10,000 years ago, when in the blink of an eye we began organizing societies in very, very different ways. We went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to massive state societies; from having a relatively low ecological impact to devastating the natural environments we existed in; from relatively horizontal organization to extreme hierarchy and finely articulated division of labor.

Self-Tracking: Empirical and Philosophical Investigations

Book edited by Btihaj Ajana: “…provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices. In recent years, there has been an explosion of apps and devices that enable the data capturing and monitoring of everyday activities, behaviours and habits. Encouraged by movements such as the Quantified Self, a growing number of people are embracing this culture of quantification and tracking in the spirit of improving their health and wellbeing.

La problématique des enfants dits « microbes » en Côte d’Ivoire

Dans le cadre des Midi-conférences des jeunes chercheurs, le Centre de recherche en droit public est heureux de présenter la conférence de Grâce Perside Poeri, candidate au doctorat en sciences humaines appliquées à la Faculté des Arts et Sciences de l’Université de Montréal. Sa présentation s’intitule : « La problématique des enfants dits « microbes » en Côte d’Ivoire ».
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Citizens Coproduction, Service Self-Provision and the State 2.0

Chapter by Walter Castelnovo in Network, Smart and Open: “Citizens’ engagement and citizens’ participation are rapidly becoming catch-all concepts, buzzwords continuously recurring in public policy discourses, also due to the widespread diffusion and use of social media that are claimed to have the potential to increase citizens’ participation in public sector processes, including policy development and policy implementation