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The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy

Republished from ellenbrown.com

Parecer sobre desindexação global no caso CNIL vs. Google

Existem muitas formas de se saber mais sobre alguém. Hoje, uma das principais é buscando o nome da pessoa na internet. Na Europa, o reconhecimento de um direito à remoção de resultados de busca na internet por nome (popularizado como desindexação), criou discussão judicial cujo resultado pode afetar todos nós.

Il corso EduHack è online

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Building a more open world: thoughts from our new CEO Catherine Stihler

This is my first week in my new role as Chief Executive of Open Knowledge International.
Digital skills and data use have always been a personal passion, and I can’t wait to work alongside and meet so many talented people fighting for a more open world. It is a privilege to be part of an organisation that has set the global standard for genuinely free and open sharing of information, building on the vision of founder Dr Rufus Pollock who wants to create an open information age.

The Week in Internet News: Google Moves to Make It Easier to Encrypt Cheap Android Devices

Easier encryption? Google engineers have created a new encryption regime that can run on cheap and underpowered smartphones, Wired.com reports. The Google effort takes established cryptographic tools and implements them in a more efficient way.

Crypto-Commonists and Crypto-Libertarians

This post by Mateo PGS was originally published on Medium.com

Framing the ideological divide within crypto-anarchism

*Link to dissertation at the end*

Verleihung des 5. Erna-Brunner-Preises an Dr. Sanil Bathia

Am Freitag wurde ihm in der Uniklinik Tübingen die Urkunde für herausragende Forschungen in der pädiatrischen Onkologie überreicht. Zur Feier kamen u.a. die Staatsministerin Annette Widmann-Mauz, Schirmherrin des Preises.

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner "Algorithmic Subjectivity and Digital Publics"

Tobias Matzner is professor for “Media, Algorithms, and Society“ at the department of media studies at Paderborn University in Germany. His work combines theories of (digital) media and technologies with approaches from social theory, cultural studies, and political philosophy. This keynote lecture takes place in the context of the Graduate Workshop “Sisterhood on Twitter? ICT-based Collective Action and Narratives of Solidarity and Justice” on February 18, 2019, and is organized by Ms.

Trump signs executive order to boost AI technology

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Date published: February 11, 2019The Hill"Ryan Calo, a cyber law expert at the University of Washington, told The Hill that Trump's executive order appears to incorporate some elements of former President Obama's AI plan.

Emergence of Open Construction Systems

Urban Family Gardens grows local food security in Colombia

By Khushboo Balwani. Cross-posted from Shareable.

Félicitations et bienvenue à Madame Alice Friser

Nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir au CRDP, Madame Alice Friser en qualité de chercheure post-doctorante sous la direction du Professeur titulaire Pierre Noreau.

En effet, Madame Alice Friser a soutenu le mercredi 6 février 2019 à l’UQÀM, une brillante thèse intitulée : Éviter la controverse : un regard institutionnaliste sur les habiletés d’une industrie proactive au Canada. Nous lui adressons nos sincères félicitations et lui souhaitons plein succès dans ses travaux au CRDP.

Tage wie dieser: Medizinische Fakultät verleiht 103 Doktortitel

Im Rahmen ihrer Promotionsfeier ehrt die Fakultät außerdem ihre Goldpromovendinnen und –promovenden, die das 50. Jubiläum ihrer Promotion feiern. Mit dabei ist auch Klaus Heydenreich, Chirurg und in den 60er Jahren Profi-Fußballer in der Regionalliga West bei Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

DNS Flag Day

The 1st of February was DNS Flag Day, which is an initiative of several DNS vendors and operators to address the problems of DNS name server implementations that are not in compliance with long-established DNS standards. This is causing the DNS to not only be unnecessarily slow and inefficient, but prevent operators from deploying new functionality including mechanisms to protect against DDoS attacks.

L’implantation des technologies en santé : apports et limites des nouvelles approches.

Dans le cadre des Midis-Conférences des Jeunes Chercheurs, nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la troisième de l’année académique 2018-2019. Sur cette conférence portant sur l’implantation des technologies en santé : apports et limites des nouvelles approches, nous accueillons le Mardi 12 février 2019 à 12 heures :

Cécile Petitgand, Conférencière, Chercheure Post-doctorante – Faculté de droit – Centre de Recherche du CHUM – Université de Montréal et,

Trough of Disillusionment: Blockchain winter has come

Republished excerpt of article by Lucas Mearian, Senior Reporter, Computerworld

The Narrative of Public Criticism

Joy Buolamwini, a doctoral student at the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, and Deborah Raji, an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, released an important piece of research on January 25, an analysis of commercial facial analysis tools that indicated that most of these tools perform better on white male faces than they do on black female faces. Specifically, Buolamwini and Raji tested to see whether machine learning models could identify […]

How does the world see Wikimedia brands?

That’s what a recent global brand study sought to research as part of the Wikimedia movement’s planning towards our ambitious 2030 strategic goals. The study was led by Wolff Olins, an international brand consultancy, and directed by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Communications department.

69° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Incarnazione digitale. Custodire l’umano nell’infosfera

Page Type: Eventlunch22 maggio 2019
Don Luca Peyron (Arcidiocesi di Torino – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano)
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A Free and Open Course on Data Protection in the Post-GDPR World

Last year, we published “The Dawn of New Digital Rights for Finnish Citizens,” about the launch of the New Digital Rights MOOC, a collaboration between Open Knowledge Finland and the Internet Society’s Finland Chapter.