Chennai’s T. Nagar, arguably India’s biggest shopping district by revenues and crowded on any given day, gets even more packed in festival seasons as thousands throng its saree and jewellery stores.
The blog post by Anand Murali was published in Factor Daily on August 13, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Encryption for us, not for you: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is researching ways to improve mobile encryption for federal users, even as the FBI continues to fight against encrypted data on the smartphones of ordinary users. FifthDomain has a story on the DHS effort.
Michel Bauwens: Particularly after this season’s climate issues, the heat wave in Europe, the fires in California, the earlier devastation of Puerto Rico … it becomes harder and harder to deny the reality of the dangers of climate change. But this is not the end of the story as we can expect negative feedback loops in the future, through which negatives will strengthen each other. Thus, profound cultural and behavioral change will be on the agenda, if we are to survive.
Der Orientierungsplan (Fußgängerleitsystem) der Außenabsperrung zeigt alle geänderten Laufwege - die Baumaßnahmen sind geplant bis Ende 2020.Der darunterliegende Zufahrtenplan zeigt die Änderungen der Anfahrten im Detail, insbesondere für Parkplatz P9. Zum Vergrößern der Pläne bitte die Grafiken jeweils anklicken.
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Ab Montag, dem 13.08.2018 finden auf Parkplatz P1 im gesamten Bereich der Abfahrt Markierungsarbeiten statt. Bis voraussichtlich 23.08. ist der Parkplatz deshalb komplett gesperrt (absolutes Halteverbot!).
Do the global poor care about climate change? I was struck by that question at the National Peace Symposium that I attended and wrote about last month.
The Caliph of the Ahmadyya Muslim Community spoke about how we need world leaders to prioritize helping the poor out of poverty in the same urgent manner as acting on climate change. He said that the world’s poorest do not worry about the latest greenhouse gas figures because they’re too busy worrying about whether they can feed their children today.
We are excited to announce a new research project around citizen-generated data and the UN data revolution. This research will be led by Open Knowledge International in partnership with King’s College London and the Public Data Lab to develop a vocabulary for governments to navigate the landscape of citizen-generated data.
We are excited to announce a new research project around citizen-generated data and the UN data revolution. This research will be led by Open Knowledge International in partnership with King’s College London and the Public Data Lab to develop a vocabulary for governments to navigate the landscape of citizen-generated data.
In dem Schreiben drücken die Ärztinnen und Ärzte ihre „zunehmende Sorge um die Krankenversorgung der Bevölkerung im Großraum Düsseldorf“ aus. Weiter heißt es in dem Brief: „Es steht unmittelbar bevor, dass dringlich notwendige Operationen nicht mehr zeitnah durchgeführt werden können und zeitkritische Krebstherapien nur verzögert stattfinden.“
Vor diesem Hintergrund bitten die Unterzeichner des Briefes den Ministerpräsidenten, sich für eine Vermittlung einzusetzen bzw. eine Person seines Vertrauens zu benennen, die diese Aufgabe übernimmt.
The oceans were the original global commons, shed and navigated for ages. But new technologies have added numerous challenges to sustaining our oceans: offshore oil drilling, deep-sea mining, and overfishing. However, it’s crucial that water, both freshwater and saltwater, remains a commons and held in the public trust, because access to clean and affordable water is a basic human right.
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The Internet Society has a vision that the Internet must be open, global, and secure for the good of all people. But to get there, the world must demand change in how decisions that shape the Internet’s future are made. Decisions being made behind closed doors.
Douglas Rushkoff: Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology.”
Today marks the formal publication of an overhaul of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS is an Internet standard used to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery for various Internet applications. It is probably the most widely deployed network security standard in the world. Often indicated by the small green padlock in a web browser’s address bar1, TLS is used in financial transactions, by medical institutions, and to ensure secure connections in a wide variety of other applications.
Youth and privacy in the Americas: InternetBolivia.org, Bolivia How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Eliana Quiroz and Cristian León from Internet Bolivia.org What: Advocacy, campaigning, research Mission/vision: To strengthen the free and safe use of […]
La realización de 22 mil seminarios, congresos y talleres de extensión; el desarrollo de cátedras interdisciplinarias sobre asuntos de interés nacional; y la participación de 165 mil personas en el programa UAbierta son algunas de las acciones de Vinculación con el Medio impulsadas por la Universidad en los últimos siete años.