Rozpoczęliśmy strategiczną współpracę z Laboratorium EE, zakładającą wzajemne wsparcie w dążeniu do wspólnych celów.
Wartości i misje Centrum Cyfrowego oraz Laboratorium EE mają wiele punktów wspólnych, na przykład dbałość o efektywne gospodarowanie pieniędzmi publicznymi, zwiększanie wydajności zarządzania IT w administracji, instytucjach kultury i NGO’s, podnoszenie kompetencji cyfrowych sektorów pozarządowego i publicznego, przeciwdziałanie vendor lockingowi oraz wspieranie wolnych licencji i otwartego oprogramowania.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Impacts of resource hungry exploitative economies
“What is 120 times the size of London? The answer: the land or ecological footprint required to supply London’s needs.” — Herbert Giradet

Medium blog by Yasodara Cordova: “…The data collected by industry represents AI opportunities for governments, to improve their services through innovation. Data-based intelligence promises to increase the efficiency of resource management by improving transparency, logistics, social welfare distribution — and virtually every government service.

Yogesh Rajkotia at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “In 2013, in southern Mozambique, foreign NGO workers searched for a man whom the local health facility reported as diagnosed with HIV. The workers aimed to verify that the health facility did indeed diagnose and treat him. When they could not find him, they asked the village chief for help. Together with an ever-growing crowd of onlookers, the chief led them to the man’s home.

Since 1834, when slavery was abolished on the Caribbean island of Barbuda, land there has been owned as a commons. The entire population collectively owns and controls the land, not private owners and developers. That may be about to change – with all the catastrophic results usually associated with enclosure.

This week is IETF 101 in London, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. And Thursday is probably the busiest day for us, covering the whole range of our interests.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Privacy advocates in India underlined the urgent need for stronger data privacy laws in India with the debate coming under focus after reports alleged that British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica had tapped into the profiles of more than 50 million Facebook users, without their permission, during the last US elections.

Profitant de la venue du roi des belges à Montréal la semaine passée, il nous fait plaisir de signaler que la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal et le CRDP, d’un côté et la Faculté de droit de l’Université Saint-Louis de Bruxelles de l’autre, ont conclu une entente de collaboration ce vendredi 16 mars 2018.

Le CRDP et la Chaire Peter MacKell sur le fédéralisme de la Faculté de droit de McGill sont heureux de présenter la conférence « Metaphors and Constitutional Amendments in Canada and the United-Kingdom ».
Conférencier : Paul Daly

Book by Kwame Anthony Appiah: “Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models in our scientific research and utopias in our political imaginations. Concepts like belief, desire, reason, and justice are bound up with idealizations and ideals. Life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we encounter.

Can algorithms actually predict the future? And if so, does this make them the gods of our modern society? In her lecture ‘Future and uncertainty in the digital society’, Elena... MORE
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Paper by Lex Gill: “The metaphors we use to imagine, describe and regulate new technologies have profound legal implications. This paper offers a critical examination of the metaphors we choose to describe encryption technology in particular, and aims to uncover some of the normative and legal implications of those choices.

Este viernes 9 de marzo el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, junto a las máximas autoridades del Hospital Clínico de la U.

El galardón destaca a proyectos globales dedicados a mejorar la calidad de la educación y el perfeccionamiento docente. Este reconocimiento fue entregado al programa de formación de profesores Suma y Sigue del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático de la Universidad de Chile.El proyecto Suma y Sigue (SYS), perteneciente al Centro de Modelamiento Matemático de la Universidad de Chile (CMM), fue reconocido con el Premio Unesco-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum 2017-2018.

We are proud to announce that Chapterthon 2017 on Digital Schools was recognized today as the winner of a 2018 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prize under the category “International and Regional Cooperation,” awarded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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Inhaltlich stand der  Tag der Lehre 2017 unter dem Motto ‚Erfolgsfaktor: Studieneingangsphase!‘: Lehrende und Studierende loteten  im Rahmen einer gemeinsamen Talkrunde ihre jeweiligen Erwartungen in Bezug auf den Übergang ins Studium und das erste Studienjahr aus.

Marquem já na Vossa Agenda.
Reservem o próximo dia 25 de Maio de 2018, para o evento que o CIJIC e a ISOC-Pt estão a preparar de recepção do Regulamento Geral de Protecção de dados, o Regulamento (UE) 2016/679 do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho, de 27 de abril de 2016, relativo à proteção das pessoas singulares no que diz respeito ao tratamento de dados pessoais e à livre circulação desses dados e que revoga a Diretiva 95/46/CE.
Para já, um possível grafo com tópicos essenciais.