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Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment

Shweta Mohandas was a panelist at the event, "Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment", organised by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, and the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi. It took place on Friday, 24 August 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.

20 years of Google: Privacy, fake news and the future

Google once directed you to information. Today, it’s often the source of information, using data you and others have shared, often without you realising it. Public knowledge goes where Google takes it. And 20 years on, not everyone’s happy with the journey.
The article by Rachel Lopez was published in Hindustan Times on August 26, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Sharing the benefits: How to use data effectively in the public sector

Report by Sarah Timmis, Luke Heselwood and Eleonora Harwich (for Reform UK): “This report demonstrates the potential of data sharing to transform the delivery of public services and improve outcomes for citizens. It explores how government can overcome various challenges to ‘get data right’ and enable better use of personal data within and between public-sector organisations.
Ambition meets reality

The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust

Book by Kevin Werbach: “The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system—for example, a shared ledger of information—without necessarily trusting any of its components. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is the most famous implementation of the blockchain, but hundreds of other companies have been founded and billions of dollars invested in similar applications since Bitcoin’s launch.

O Brasil na contramão da agenda global da inclusão digital: perspectivas e retrocessos de um projeto negligenciado

A recente política brasileira para a transformação digital

Rectores de las universidades de Chile y de Concepción se reunieron

La implementación de las reformas y el futuro del sistema de educación superior chileno fueron los temas que marcaron la cita.

Fallece Andrés Aylwin Azocar, destacado defensor de los DDHH

El ex parlamentario y abogado, quien formara parte del "Grupo de los 13" -facción de la Democracia Cristiana que rechazó tempranamente el Golpe de Estado de 1973-, acérrimo defensor de los derechos humanos, y trabajador de instancias fundamentales como la Vicaría de la Solidaridad y el Comité Pro Paz, murió este lunes 20 de agosto.

Digitaler Salon: Appschuften

29.08.2018 - 19:00 - 20:30 Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin

Student employee “Ranking Digital Rights”

How do large IT companies respect their customers’ right to freedom of expression? And what do they do to protect users’ privacy? The team of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is currently looking for a student employee with enthusiasm for technical solutions for data-based research projects. The 15-20 hours per week…
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HHU-Nostalgia - Vorlesung im Hörsaal der Hautklinik, 1986

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

Biometric Mirror

University of Melbourne: “Biometric Mirror exposes the possibilities of artificial intelligence and facial analysis in public space. The aim is to investigate the attitudes that emerge as people are presented with different perspectives on their own, anonymised biometric data distinguished from a single photograph of their face.

It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined

On 1 September I start work as CEO of the Internet Society. I have a lot to do to live up to the example set by Kathy Brown with all that she achieved during her leadership. It is a great honour, and I appreciate the trust the Board of Trustees has placed in me. I will work daily to earn the same trust from the rest of the Internet community, in part by being transparent about what drives me to do this.

Online Bettors Can Sniff Out Weak Psychology Studies

Ed Yong at the Atlantic: “Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning.

The rise of policy innovation labs: A catalog of policy innovation labs across Canada

Report by the Centre for Policy Innovation and Public Engagement (CPIPE): “In recent years, governments all over the world have been embracing new and innovative ways to develop public policies and design public services, from crowdsourcing to human-centred design thinking.

Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

Book by Thouvenin, Florent (et al.): “… examines the fundamental question of how legislators and other rule-makers should handle remembering and forgetting information (especially personally identifiable information) in the digital age. It encompasses such topics as privacy, data protection, individual and collective memory, and the right to be forgotten when considering data storage, processing and deletion.

Why Proven Solutions Struggle to Scale Up

Kriss Deiglmeier & Amanda Greco at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…As we applied the innovation continuum to the cases we studied, we identified barriers to scale that often trap social innovations in a stagnation chasm before they achieve diffusion and scaling.
 

Social media big data analytics: A survey

Norjihan Abdul Ghani et al in Computers in Human Behavior: “Big data analytics has recently emerged as an important research area due to the popularity of the Internet and the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies. Moreover, the proliferation and adoption of social media applications have provided extensive opportunities and challenges for researchers and practitioners.

One of New York City’s most urgent design challenges is invisible

Diana Budds at Curbed: “Algorithms are invisible, but they already play a large role in shaping New York City’s built environment, schooling, public resources, and criminal justice system.

Winners Take All

Book by Anand Giridharadas: “… takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can–except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm.

The Smart Transition: An Opportunity for a Sensor-Based Public-Health Risk Governance?

Anna Berti Suman in the International Review of Law, Computers & Technology: “This contribution analyses the promises and challenges of using bottom-up produced sensors data to manage public-health risks in the (smart) city. The article criticizes traditional ways of governing public-health risks with the aim to inspect the contribution that a sensor-based risk governance may bring to the fore.