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Supreme Court sets up constitution bench to hear Aadhaar privacy issues

The Supreme Court ‘s five-judge constitution bench will also decide if the Aadhaar privacy issue should be heard by a larger bench.
The article by Priyanka Mittal was published in Livemint on July 12, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Centre to form panel to 'encrypt' MGNREGA-DBT database and prevent leaks

Around 5 crore bank accounts of active MGNREGA workers yet to be seeded with Aadhaar.

The article by Sanjeeb Mukherjee was published in the Business Standard on July 14, 2017.

Listen to a new episode of Zero Infinite podcast: #4 The Online Self

Following the conference Fear and Loathing of the Online Self and the publication of Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture in May 2017, this episode of INC’s Zero Infinite podcast zooms in on the online self and selfies, with Ana Peraica, Wendy Chun and Rebecca Stein.

When Companies Get Hacked, Should They Be Allowed to Hack Back?

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Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them.

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Bytes de Informação: Transferência Internacional de Dados

Neste Bytes, Odélio Porto Jr e Luiza Brandão falam sobre Transferência Internacional de Dados e o Projeto de Lei 5276/2016. Assista:

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Berkman Klein Center Announces 2017-2018 Community

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We are thrilled to announce the people who will join our community at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as fellows, faculty associates, and affiliates for the 2017-2018 academic year.

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced the incoming and returning fellows, faculty associates, affiliates, and directors who together will form the core of the Center’s networked community in the 2017-2018 academic year.

FutureTDM symposium: sharing project findings, policy guidelines and practitioner recommendations

The FutureTDM project, in which Open Knowledge International participates, actively engages with stakeholders in the EU such as researchers, developers, publishers and SMEs to help improve the uptake of text and data mining (TDM) in Europe (read more). Last month, we held our FutureTDM Symposium at the International Data Science Conference 2017 in Salzburg, Austria.

AI, people, and society

Eric Horvitz at Science: “In an essay about his science fiction, Isaac Asimov reflected that “it became very common…to picture robots as dangerous devices that invariably destroyed their creators.” He rejected this view and formulated the “laws of robotics,” aimed at ensuring the safety and benevolence of robotic systems.

Public servants to go on blind coffee dates for innovation

David Donaldson at The Mandarin: “Victorian public servants will have the opportunity to be randomly matched with others for coffee dates, as part of the government’s plan to foster links across silos and bolster innovation.

Bangalore Taps Tech Crowdsourcing to Fix ‘Unruly’ Gridlock

Saritha Rai at Bloomberg Technology: “In Bangalore, tech giants and startups typically spend their days fiercely battling each other for customers. Now they are turning their attention to a common enemy: the Indian city’s infernal traffic congestion.

Innovative and regulated

Telemedius is a law internet project concentrating on questions of the information society. On the first July weekend they held their annual summer conference with the topic: The law of... MORE

Political Inequality in Affluent Democracies

RISE 2017

Malavika Jayaram, Executive Director, Digital Asia Hub, was a speaker at the RISE Summit in Hong Kong 11 – 13 July, 2017. She was a speaker on the panel ‘Nothing to fear in a connected Internet?’. 
About RISE
RISE is produced by the team behind Web Summit. In 6 short years, Web Summit has become Europe’s largest tech conference which last year attracted 53,000 attendees from 136 countries around the world.

U. de Chile integró reunión de universidades de la Alianza Pacífico

Tras el evento, el director ejecutivo del Proyecto de Internacionalización, Andreé Henríquez, destacó el reconocimiento regional que existe al compromiso de nuestra Casa de Estudios con el desarrollo del país. Además, enfatizó el valor de la actividad como una instancia para conocer experiencias replicables a nivel local.

Intelligent sharing: unleashing the potential of health and care data in the UK to transform outcomes

Report by Future Care Capital: “….Data is often referred to as the ‘new oil’ – the 21st century raw material which, when hitched to algorithmic refinement, may be mined for insight and value – and ‘data flows’ are said to have exerted a greater impact upon global growth than traditional goods flows in recent years (Manyika et al, 2016).

Open Data Blueprint

ODX Canada: “In Canada, the open data environment should be viewed as a supply chain. The movement of open data from producers to consumers involves many different organizations, people, activities, projects and initiatives, all of which work together to push out a final product. Naturally, if there is a break or hurdle in this supply chain, it doesn’t work efficiently. A fundamental hurdle highlighted by companies across the country was the inability to scale their business at the provincial, national and international levels.

​​NTU named world’s top young university for 4th straight year 

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​Professor Subra Suresh named President of NTU Singapore​

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Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals

UNDP: “In 2014, UNDP, with the generous support of the Government of Denmark, established an Innovation Facility to improve service delivery and support national governments and citizens to tackle complex challenges.