Book excerpt of Ankit Lal’s book ‘India Social’: on “How social media showed its unique power of crowdsourcing during the Chennai floods…
One ingenious resource that was circulated widely during the floods was a crowdsourced effort that mapped inundated roads in the city. Over 2,500 flooded roads were added to the city’s map via social media, which was put together by engineer and information designer, Arun Ganesh.
To create awareness among Indian community and to provide a platform to all stakeholders to discuss the technology, challenges and the way forward with an emphasis on the role of standards, BIS organized a half day International seminar on Internet of Things on 15 November 2017 at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. Amber Sinha attended the event.
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As the United State's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai gears up to repeal the net neutrality laws put in place in 2015, India should sit up and take note.
The blog post by Subhrojit Mallick was published by Digit on November 24, 2017.
The oceans were the original global commons, fished 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 water is a basic human right.
IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney says the government is getting the framework in place for financial CERT, which will be followed by other sectoral CERTs later.
The article by Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on November 16, 2017
Amber Sinha attended a roundtable on data integrity and privacy organized by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) on November 18, 2017 in New Delhi. The round table discussion was chaired by Shri Baijayant Panda, Hon'ble Member of Parliament.
Amber Sinha attended an event organized by UNESCO in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India in the run-up to the 5th Global Conferene on Cyberspace (GCCS 2017) on November 17, 2017 at UNESCO Conference Room in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.
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Udbhav Tiwari participated in the event held at New Delhi from November 20 to 22, 2017.
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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/global-conference-on-cyberspace-2017-gccs2017
The 2017 Global Technology Summit will take place on December 7 and 8, 2017 at the Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore. Sunil Abraham is a speaker at the event.
Link to the original published by Carnegie here
On November 21, 2017, Anubha Sinha attended a civil society workshop on "WTO-MC11 in Buenos Aires: What is at Stake for India and its People". The workshop was co-organised by the Third World Network, Focus on the Global South, South-Solidarity Initiative of Action Aid, and the Forum on FTAs at the Seminar Hall 1 & 2, New Block, India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi.
Joshua Jacobs at the Financial Times: “When Iceland’s banks collapsed and mistrust of politicians soared during the 2008 financial crisis, two programmers thought software could help salvage the country’s democracy. They created Your Priorities, a platform that allows citizens to suggest laws, policies and budget measures, which can then be voted up or down by other users. “
We have to ensure that cyberspace does not become a playground for dark horses of radicalism, says PM Narendra Modi at the fifth Global Conference on Cyber Space in Delhi.
The article by Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on November 24, 2017.
Gegründet wurde das Erasmus-Programm durch einen Beschluss des Rats der Europäischen Union am 15. Juni 1987. Die Düsseldorfer Hochschulen beteiligen sich seit Beginn an dem Austauschprogramm: Seit den 1990er Jahren haben die HHU und die HSD Studierende auf Auslandsaufenthalte vorbereitet, an der RSH nimmt der Zuspruch seit 2009 stark zu.
ProPublica: “We keep training machine learning models on Congress. Find out what this one learned about lawmakers’ top issues…
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is a tax wonk ― and most observers of Congress know that. But knowing what interests the other 434 members of Congress is harder.
Since 2015 Open Knowledge International has been part of the consortium of RouteToPA, a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open data publishers and open data. This month, the project is running the Pin it in the Parks competition together with Smart Dublin to encourage, inform and engage citizens and residents on services and issues in their local areas.
Das Ziel des Symposiums ist es, theoretisch und klinisch tätige Wissenschaftler zusammen zu bringen, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen Immunzellen, kardialen Fibroblasten und Regeneration des Herzens nach Infarkt arbeiten. In den letzten Jahren hat sich zunehmend herausgestellt, dass die Differenzierung endogener Zellen des Herzens entscheidend durch das Mikromilieu bestimmt wird, das durch einwandernde Immunzellen bestimmt wird. Eine zentrale Rolle kommt hierbei wahrscheinlich auch den Fibroblasten zu.
Ellen Friedman: If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map is likely worth a thousand pictures. Since 2010, hundreds of commons and “new economy” mapping projects have sprung to life. By depicting thousands of innovative social, environmental and economic initiatives, these maps reveal the complex stories of new systems emerging through the cracks of the old, like dandelions through broken concrete.
"Transforma tus documentos en memoria colectiva" es el nombre de la campaña mediante la cual el Archivo y Centro de Documentación de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh) está reuniendo documentos y objetos clave en la trayectoria del movimiento estudiantil de la Casa de Bello, a partir del acervo que poseen diferentes generaciones de egresados.Publicaciones y agendas FECh.