On 5th October, MediaNama held a #NAMAprivacy conference in Bangalore focused on Privacy in the context of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and the issue of consent, supported by Google, Amazon, Mozilla, ISOC, E2E Networks and Info Edge, with community partners HasGeek and Takshashila Institution. Part 1 of the notes from the discussion on IoT:
Link to the original published by Medianama on October 18 here

On 5th October, MediaNama held a #NAMAprivacy conference in Bangalore focused on Privacy in the context of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and the issue of consent, supported by Google, Amazon, Mozilla, ISOC, E2E Networks and Info Edge, with community partners HasGeek and Takshashila Institution.
Link to the original published by Medianama on October 18, 2017 here

We are all aware of the large reach and popularity of Wikipedia. However, what most people don’t know is that, according to a study conducted in 2011, globally only 9% of the editors on Wikipedia were women. And the percentage for India is even lower, just 3%.
This was published by Feminism in India on November 1, 2017.

Scattered on technology specialist Amit Bagwe's desk beside his laptop are a Sam sung tablet and an iPhone7.
The article by Shalini Umachandrani was published by Times of India on November 7, 2017. Nirmita Narasimhan was quoted.

Recent times have witnessed an explosion of data as users started leaving a huge data footprint everywhere they go. Interestingly, this period has seen a phenomenal increase in computing power couple by a drop in costs of storage.
The article by Alekhya Hanumanthu was published in Telangana Today on November 4, 2017.

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Curricle with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, metaLAB Harvard

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Visualized, annotated, connected: what should the course catalog look like in the 21st century? In this ​participatory lunch talk, members of metaLAB's Curricle team will share details of the new platform they're building for course-selection and discovery—and invite participants to help design and refine the system.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Daniel Castro and Michael Steinberg at the Center for Data Innovation: “Over the past few years, some scholars, advocates, and policymakers have argued that businesses which possess large quantities of data, such as social media companies, present inherent competition concerns. These concerns are misplaced for a number of reasons, one being that competitors can often obtain similar data from other sources.

Fake News, Bots und Filter Bubbles: Michael Latzer @ Europa Institut

Lançamento dos volumes 16 a 21 da Coleção “História Oral do Supremo"11h00 até 13h00O Evento: O Ministro Nelson Jobim, Coordenador Geral do Projeto "História Oral do Supremo", com o apoio das Escolas de Direito do Rio de Janeiro, de Direito de São Paulo e de Ciências Sociais da Fundação Getulio Vargas convida para o lançamento dos volumes 16 a 21 da Coleção “História Oral do Supremo (1988 – 2013)”, em comemoração aos 25 anos da Constituição Federal. Além do lançamento, serão apresentados e discutidos trechos de entrevistas, trajetórias profissionais e experiências no STF.

Join us at 42 Acres Shoreditch for our on-going Social Change series, where economist, international journalist, and host of the Upstream Podcast Della Z Duncan will take us on a journey upstream as we explore how we can reclaim the field of economics and radically transform our current economic system.
The world is undergoing a radical social, ecological, and economic crisis. This radical crisis demands radical solutions.

Bei der Therapie wird unter Zuhilfenahme von Überdruck 100 Prozent  Sauerstoff verabreicht, um das Kohlenmonoxid aus dem roten Blutfarbstoff und lebenswichtigen Organgeweben (z.B. Gehirn) zu verdrängen. Kohlenmonoxid (chemisches Zeichen: CO) ist ein farb-, geruchs- und geschmackloses Gas, das bei der unvollständigen Verbrennung von kohlenstoffhaltigen Stoffen und unter unzureichender Sauerstoffzufuhr entsteht. Kohlenmonoxid ist hoch toxisch und sorgt dafür, dass Sauerstoff im Blut nicht mehr transportiert wird, was im schlimmsten Fall zum Ersticken führen kann.

Am Montag, 20.11.2017, informieren die Experten der Kognitiven Neurologie und Klinischen Neuropsychologie der Klinik für Neurologie am Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf (UKD) über das Thema Neurofeedback und die Frage, wie man die eigenen Hirnwellen kontrollieren kann. Zwischen 18 und 20 Uhr werden Priv.-Doz. Dr. Lars Wojtecki und Prof. Dr.

Enric Senabre Hidalgo: If there were to be a formula to describe Goteo, an online platform based in Barcelona with European and Latin American scope, it could be expressed simply:
Hacktivism + crowdfunding + wide social collaboration
= the building of new commons

Die AL-Amyloidose ist eine seltene Systemerkrankung, die eine besondere Herausforderung an die Diagnostik und Therapie in der Praxis stellt. Es kommt zu intra- und extrazellulären Ablagerungen und meist sind mehrere Organe betroffen. Gerade deshalb ist die AL-Amyloidose leicht zu übersehen;  kann andererseits aber interdisziplinär am besten behandelt werden.Internisten, Hausärzte und alle Interessierten sind daher herzlich eingeladen, sich mit diesem Krankheitsbild näher zu beschäftigen und neue Formen der Behandlung kennenzulernen und zu diskutieren.

En el encuentro internacional, que se realizó el 19 y 20 de octubre, se analizó la relación entre la educación superior y el mundo laboral. Un concepto central en la ocasión fue el de "desarrollo de carrera", una ruta que expande el alcance del apoyo de la institución a sus estudiantes y egresados, y que representa grandes oportunidades, de acuerdo a las autoridades que trabajan en estos temas en la Casa de Bello.

El proyecto permite la fabricación de prótesis de las extremidades inferiores utilizando un escáner y una impresora 3D, reduciendo los costos del proceso de manera significativa y doblando la capacidad de producción por protesista.

De acuerdo a la última Encuesta de Ocupación y Desocupación del Centro de Microdatos de la Universidad de Chile, la tasa de desempleo en el Gran Santiago experimentó una caída que hoy lo sitúa en un 7,2 por ciento, mismo nivel observado hace exactamente doce meses. Un importante descenso en la cesantía juvenil y un aumento histórico del empleo, destacaron entre los resultados del sondeo.

Más de 40 investigadores participaron en el Primer Congreso Internacional sobre este tema realizado nuestro país.

Joon Ian Wong at Quartz: “The United Nations agency in charge of food aid—often billed as the largest aid organization in the world—is betting that an ethereum-based blockchain technology could be the key to delivering aid efficiently to refugees while slashing the costs of doing so.

Mark Leonard at Project Syndicate: “Over the last few weeks, media around the world have been saturated with stories about how technology is destroying politics. In autocracies like China, the fear is of ultra-empowered Big Brother states, like that in George Orwell’s 1984.