The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change

Der positive Zusammenhang zwischen der Wirtschaftskraft eines Landes und dem Niveau zwischenmenschlichen Vertrauens der Gesellschaft ist deutlich belegt. Dies überrascht wenig, setzt jede wirtschaftliche Transaktion zwischen Handelspartnern doch ein Mindestmaß an Vertrauen voraus – der Bezug von Gütern oder Dienstleistungen per Vorkasse bedingt beispielweise den Vertrauensvorschuss, dass das spezifische Gut auch bereitgestellt wird. Staatliche Institutionen können Vertrauen schaffen als auch zerstören.

This week, the Wikimedia Foundation was invited to provide opening remarks for the third annual Global Conference of the Internet Jurisdiction and Policy Network in Berlin, Germany. This conference represents a place for civil society, platforms, elected representatives, policymakers, and other stakeholders to come together and discuss how we can manage tensions between competing national laws that impact information on the internet while elevating our essential rights and freedoms.

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Pranav Manjesh Bidare attended a workshop on AI for Good, organised by Swissnex India, and Wadhwani AI in Bangalore on May 22, 2019.
The workshop was a forerunner to the AI for Good Global Summit. More recommendations can be made at https://www.policykitchen.com/group/19/stream

Karan Saini was a speaker at HillHacks 2019 organized by HillHacks in Bir, Himachal Pradesh from May 24 to May 26, 2019.
Karan's talk was on using web applications for intelligence gathering purposes. For more info on the event, click here

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hillhacks-2019

After many false starts, the plan to wire India’s digital future may finally take off with Jio GigaFiber’s entry.
The article by Navadha Pandey was published in Livemint on June 4, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Applications are now open for the 2019 Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grants. All Internet Society Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in good standing are eligible to apply.

Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US
Many of Baltimore’s city services are crippled by a cyberattack.
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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United States

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Géneros y programas de radio, una primera toma de contacto para los alumnos de Periodismo
 

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Sheila Aguerri Vázquez

Los terabytes, zettabytes y petabytes, fueron protagonistas de la jornada de cierre de la primera edición de esta cita internacional, que desde el pasado miércoles 22 de mayo se realizó en la Universidad de Concepción, con la presencia de casi 100 científicos de ambas naciones.

Fórmula desarrollada por el Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos de la Universidad de Chile (INTA) integra los compuestos de la chía, la linaza, la nuez y la viborera al aceite de oliva para incrementar el consumo de Omega 3 en la población.

Con esta instalación, diseñada por el arquitecto Domingo Arancibia por encargo del decano de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU), Manuel Amaya, se conmemorará este 2019 los 170 años de enseñanza de la arquitectura en nuestro país, y 75 desde la fundación de la FAU.

The Open Source Circular Economy Days (OSCEdays) is a global community, project and event about the use and creation of open source resources for the invention and implementation of a Sustainable circular economy on our planet.

We invite you set up a local event in your city, develop and use open circularity solutions and connect to people world wide. Here is how and why:

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On May 21 and 22, 2019, Elonnai Hickok, participated in the ABLI privacy workshop along with side events in Singapore.
Click to view the agenda.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/abli-privacy-workshop

The Law and Technology Society at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore organised Consilience on May 25, 2019.

Wikipedia is generating more content in major Indian languages with the help of Bengaluru-based Centre for Internet and Society.
The article by Tushar Kaushik was published in Economic Times on May 28, 2019.

Sunil Abraham will be making a presentation at the summit on AI and Trust in APAC and China at MWC19 Shanghai on June 27, 2019. Sunil has been invited as a speaker on panel ‘Framing AI for Digital Upstarts’.

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United States

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Date published: June 5, 2019Reuters"“YouTube as a private company is well within its rights,” said Jennifer Granick, a speech and technology expert at the American Civil Liberties Union. But “YouTube will make mistakes, and over-censor.”"

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Date published: June 5, 2019Fast Company"“Apple was well known for usability before it was known for privacy,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society."