Report by Ines Mergel: “The British government successfully pioneered the use of a national, semi-independent “surge team” to tackle large-scale technology-driven challenges facing it. The U.S. federal government adapted this approach to improve the success of its own operations in 2014, titling its top-level team as the “U.S.
New venture Musicoin uses smart contracts to govern a Pay-Per-Play model for rewarding creators. Co-founder Isaac Mao, who is a Chinese entrepreneur, software architect and social media researcher, will give a lightning talk about Musicoin’s journey so far.
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Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung ist ab dem 1. September 2017 eine Stelle als
Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w)
mit einer Arbeitszeit von 5 Stunden / Woche zu besetzen.
Die Einstellung ist befristet. Eine längere Zusammenarbeit ist erwünscht.
Die Tätigkeit betrifft die Mitarbeit im Big Data Forschungsprojekt
It seems a long time since the open knowledge community were last together at OKFest 2014 in Berlin but we are now excited to announce that, after a short spell of hibernation, OKFest 2018 will take place on 3-6 May 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
What is OKFest?
Book edited by Yu-Che Chen and Michael J. Ahn: “The explosive growth in information technology has ushered in unparalleled new opportunities for advancing public service.
Book by Claudia Chwalisz: “In a post-Brexit world with populists on the rise, trust in government and politicians is in short supply. People claim to be tired of ‘experts’ and the divide between facts and opinion has been blurred. The art of offering simple solutions to complex problems is tipping the scale away from nuanced, multifaceted answers founded on compromise.
Book by Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson and Anna Lennox Esselment: “Election campaigning never stops.
En una visita que buscó compartir ideas sobre inclusión social y reducción de la pobreza, la autoridad dio cuenta de las reformas sociales que ha implementado su Gobierno para fortalecer a la clase media y disminuir la desigualdad. "En Canadá las familias de millonarios ya no reciben cheques del gobierno", dijo en la conferencia.
Este é um dos vários produtos de pesquisa desenvolvidos por nossa equipe no âmbito do Projeto Internet & Jurisdição. O Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade – IRIS, em parceria com o Grupo de Estudos Internacionais em Internet, Inovação e Propriedade Intelectual – GNet – da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), sob a coordenação do Prof. Dr.
On May 30, 2017, Kathy J. Cramer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of The Politics of Resentment, spoke at the MIT Media Lab. This is a summary of that talk; any errors are mine.
Research Question
Lenny Ruvaga at VOA News: “Computer algorithms power much of modern life from our Facebook feeds to international stock exchanges. Could they help end malnutrition and hunger in Africa? The International Center for Tropical Agriculture thinks so.
The Blockchain and Copyright Symposium brings together stakeholders in the copyright management and licensing domain to critically review the pros and cons of blockchain technologies for copyright-related applications. We invited representatives of rights holders (collective rights management organizations investing in blockchain technology), start-up disruptors (who use the Ethereum platform to develop a decentralized content distribution […]
Since 2015 Open Knowledge International has been part of the consortium of ROUTETOPA (Raising Open, User-friendly, Transparency-Enabling Technologies for Public Administrations, routetopa.eu), an EU-funded project that is working round the clock to provide platforms for open data enthusiasts to interact on the subject of open data with data publishers and with other open data users.
This blog post is part of our Global Open Data Index blog series. It is a call to recalibrate our attention to the many different elements contributing to the ‘good quality’ of open data, the trade-offs between them and how they support data usability (see here some vital work by the World Wide Web Consortium). Focusing on these elements could help support governments to publish data that can be easily used.
Antonio López: “Hemos sustituido la preocupación por la imagen por la reputación como valor intangible permanente”
El presidente de honor de DIRCOM, que recibió el Premio Luka Brajnovic de la Universidad, señaló que su sueño es que los dircom "se conviertan en la conciencia de sus organizaciones"
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Marta Doblas
Springwise: “An innovative banking solution from Taqanu uses customers’ digital history to allow them to prove their identity rather than traditional paperwork. The application, which will be globally available once it launches, means those that find it difficult to gain access to the necessary paperwork to do things like set up a bank account or rent accommodation, may now be able to using their mobile phones.
Transcript of lecture delivered by Stephen Fry on the 28th May 2017 • Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye: “Peter Florence, the supremo of this great literary festival, asked me some months ago if I might, as part of Hay’s celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s kickstarting of the reformation, suggest a reform of the internet…
Julia S. Stewart Lowndes et al in Nature: “Reproducibility has long been a tenet of science but has been challenging to achieve—we learned this the hard way when our old approaches proved inadequate to efficiently reproduce our own work.