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GUDialog – ABIDA meets Open Data

Im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Vortrags- und Diskursreihe „GUDialog“ des Instituts für Gesellschaft und Digitales der Fachhochschule Münster referierte ABIDA-Mitarbeiter Tim Juelicher am 28. Juni über die gesellschaftlichen Implikationen von Big Data.

¡Participa en los Talleres de Vacaciones de Invierno EdV-U.Chile!

Del 12 al 23 de junio estarán abiertas las postulaciones para las clases intensivas EdV dictadas para alumnos y docentes. Estas se realizarán del 17 al 21 de julio en la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas.En su sexta versión, y con el objetivo de situar a la experimentación como actividad crucial para la enseñanza de las ciencias, los Talleres de Invierno EdV integran una metodología basada en la experimentación y la enseñanza personalizada. La versión 2017 impartirá clases para estudiantes y además profesores, dividas en diferentes programas intensivos:

The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life

Book by Leah Bassel: “…explores listening as a social and political practice, in contrast to the more common focus on voice and speaking.  The author draws on cases from Canada, France and the United Kingdom, exploring: minority women and debates over culture and religion; riots and young men in France and England; citizen journalism and the creative use of different media; and solidarity between migrant justice and indigenous activists.

The Right of Access to Public Information

Book by Hermann-Josef Blanke and Ricardo Perlingeiro: “This book presents a comparative study on access to public information in the context of the main legal orders worldwide. The international team of authors analyzes the Transparency- and Freedom-to-Information legislation with regard to the scope of the right to access, limitations of this right inherent in the respective national laws, the procedure, the relationship with domestic legislation on administrative procedure, as well as judicial protection.

Using Open Data to Combat Corruption

Paper by Richard Rose: “Open data makes transparent whether public officials are conducting their activities in conformity with standards that can be bureaucratic, political or moral. Actions that violate these standards are colloquially lumped together under the heterogeneous heading of corruption.

The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship

An Uptake in Communications Encryption Is Tempered by Increasing Pressure on Major Platform Providers; Governments Expand Content Restriction Tactics

Teaser

Documenting the practice of Internet censorship around the world through empirical testing in 45 countries of the availability of 2,046 of the world’s most-trafficked and influential websites, plus additional country-specific websites.

Publication Date

29 Jun 2017

Author(s)

Prof. M.-C. Janssens over copyrightkwestie YouTube-clip Belgische rapper

Ominous: Canadian Court Orders Google to Remove Search Results Globally

The Canadian Supreme Court this morning issued its long-awaited ruling in Equustek. The court upheld an order compelling Google to remove search results for specified websites, not just in Canada, but everywhere in the world.
Location

United States

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53° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Tell Me Quality: uno strumento per misurare la qualità dei dati

Page Type: Eventlunch26 luglio 2017
Marco Berlot (Politecnico di Torino)
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53° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Tell Me Quality: uno strumento per misurare la qualità dei dati

Page Type: Eventlunch26 luglio 2017
Marco Berlot (Politecnico di Torino)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 26/07/2017 - 13:00 to 14:00

Lançamento do livro “Direito Regulatório, Governança e Licenciamento Ambiental”

Lançamento do livro “Direito Regulatório, Governança e Licenciamento Ambiental”18h30O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio, a Juruá Editora e Romilson de Almeida Volotão convidam para o lançamento do livro “Direito Regulatório, Governança e Licenciamento Ambiental”.
 

Local: Livraria FGV, Praia de Botafogo, 190 - Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
 

ePolicyWorks

About ePolicyWorks: “Launched by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), ePolicyWorks is a Web-based approach to policymaking that engages citizens and stakeholders in new and innovative ways. The initiative leverages the latest technology to address barriers to employment for people with disabilities and fosters real-time collaboration and communication around key issues.

Pracowni ciąg dalszy!

W połowie czerwca odbyły się drugie warsztaty Pracowni Otwierania Kultury. Mamy ekspresowe tempo – wystartowaliśmy trzy tygodnie temu, a drugie spotkanie zakończyliśmy już z konkretnymi pomysłami na narzędzia webowe i aplikacje mobilne dla każdej z instytucji biorącej udział. Jak to osiągnęliśmy?

Reinvention in Middle America

New report by sparks & honey: “Conventional wisdom suggests that to peer into the crystal ball of America’s future, one should go to Silicon Valley to check out the latest start-up unicorns, or to New York or Los Angeles to scout emerging trends in fashion and food.

AI and the Law: Setting the Stage

Urs Gasser: “Lawmakers and regulators need to look at AI not as a homogenous technology, but a set of techniques and methods that will be deployed in specific and increasingly diversified applications. There is currently no generally agreed-upon definition of AI.

News consumption app helps users diversify their sources

Springwise: “In an era where the term ‘fake news’ has become commonplace, news app Read Across the Aisle by US-based BeeLine Reader is designed to help users break out from the ‘filter bubble’ of media sources they are inclined to read from by offering articles from opposing angles. The app, which is Kickstarter funded, hopes to combat political polarization by allowing readers to see the partisan bias of the news sources they are accessing.

ROUTETOPA User Stories

ROUTETOPA is a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open data publishers and open data. Open Knowledge International is one of 12 partners working on the project and our main mandate is to build genuine and active communities around the ROUTETOPA tools. In this blogpost, we share more information on the ROUTETOPA user stories.

Ustawa o reuse – raport na pierwsze urodziny

Wraz z Fundacją ePaństwo postanowiliśmy przyjrzeć się bliżej jak w praktyce funkcjonuje ustawa z dnia 25 lutego 2016 roku o ponownym wykorzystywaniu informacji sektora publicznego, w jaki sposób korzystają z niej wnioskodawcy oraz jak stosują ją podmioty publiczne. Wysłaliśmy 40 wniosków o dostęp do informacji publicznej adresowanych do wybranych instytucji zobowiązanych do stosowania Ustawy w Polsce. Każda z wybranych przez nas jednostek została poproszona o odpowiedź na kilka pytań związanych ze stosowaniem Ustawy o reuse w okresie od 16 czerwca 2016 roku do 24 kwietnia 2017 roku.

Feria Científica llenó de niños y niñas la Plaza Ñuñoa

En una nueva versión de este evento, fueron más de 300 los niños y jóvenes que pudieron informarse y participar en proyectos científicos, a cargo de investigadores y estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile que se encuentran con la comunidad en el espacio público.

Luis Aguirre y Alfredo Lahsen reciben distinción de Profesor Emérito

Familiares, amigos, estudiantes, académicos y autoridades universitarias participaron este miércoles 14 de junio de la ceremonia de entrega del reconocimiento a estos destacados académicos de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM).