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Event series: Elections in the Digital Age

Event series: Elections in the Digital Age
Has technology changed the way we vote? Why do populists succeed on social networks? What is the impact of hacking and leaks on elections? Should fake news be regulated? Can microtargetting political ads change how people vote? As the German federal elections are approaching, we want to see what lessons can be learned from recent elections in US and Europe.

Reinventing – not Disrupting – the Role of Government Through Blockchain Technology

Thursday, May 25, 2017 @ 2 Metrotech Center, 9th Floor, Room 9009, Brooklyn 11201
RSVP here

FGV Direito Rio lança novo livro sobre Teoria do Estado Regulador

Publicação é organizada pelo professor Sérgio GuerraA FGV Direito Rio está lançando o segundo volume do livro “Teoria do Estado Regulador”. Organizada pelo professor da escola, Sérgio Guerra, a obra traz, sob uma perspectiva crítica, as principais temáticas relacionadas à função estatal de intervenção regulatória, econômica e social e seus impactos, com as experiências regulatórias no Brasil e no exterior.

Professor da Direito Rio vai pesquisar comportamento de tribunais constitucionais na New York University

Diego Werneck será hauser fellow na NYUO professor da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio), Diego Werneck Arguelhes, foi selecionado pela New York University (NYU) para participar do Hauser Global Fellows. O programa é voltado para a pesquisa acadêmica e as fellowships são concedidas em várias categorias, para doutorandos, pós-doutorandos, research fellows e senior research fellows.

Programa de Capacitação em Poder Judiciário

Na próxima semana, os magistrados filiados à AMB, iniciarão ao curso do  Programa de Capacitação em Poder Judiciário, promovido pela a Escola Nacional da Magistratura (ENM), da AMB, em parceria com a Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) O curso é coordenado pelo Prof. Luiz Roberto Ayoub  e pela diretora-adjunta da Justiça Eleitoral da ENM, Patrícia Cerqueira, acontece entre os dias 22 e 26 de maio, no Rio de Janeiro, e terá a participação do diretor-presidente da ENM, Marcelo Piragibe, e do Direitor da FGV DIREITO RIO, Prof. Joaquim Falcão, na abertura.

What next for digital social innovation? Realising the potential of people and technology to tackle social challenges

Matt Stokes et al at nesta: “This report, and accompanying guide, produced as part of the DSI4EU project, maps the projects and organisations using technology to tackle social challenges across Europe, and explores the barriers to the growth of digital social innovation.
Key findings

Hospital Waiting List – Open Knowledge Ireland Workshop #1

This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the Open Knowledge Ireland team.

Most City Employees in US Not Engaged

Steven Bosacker and Justin Bibb at Gallup: “Falling revenues, major demographic shifts and rising citizen demands have become the new normal for city governments across the U.S. If city halls want to deliver on their promises to provide high-quality services, they’ll need to find better ways to make government run more effectively.
One big way to do that is to view every city employee as a key contributor to their success.
Every single one.

Tech Companies Should Speak Up for Refugees, Not Only High-Skilled Immigrants

Mark Latonero at Harvard Business Review: “The Trump administration’s latest travel ban is back in U.S. federal court.

AI – A Metaphor or the seed of personality of machines in a digitised society?

Is artificial intelligence a metaphor, or can machines be intelligent in the same way human beings are? This has been a contested question ever since the concept was developed. While... MORE

Our learning from the Open Data Day mini grants scheme

2017 was the third year of OKI Open Data Day Mini-grants scheme. Although we are working on it for a while, we never had the time or capacity to write our learnings from the last two schemes. This year, we decided to take more time to learn about the project and improve it. So we decided to look at the data and share our learnings, so the open data day community can use it in the future.

Topics in Internet & Society Interdisciplinary Studies 2017

Page Type: EventPolitecnico di Torino, Doctoral School
23, 27, 28, 29 and 30 June 2017
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Fri, 23/06/2017 - 09:00 to Thu, 29/06/2017 - 20:00luogo: Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Go Go Gozo 2017: Looking at Tourism and Social Media through ‘Play’

Author: Dwi Aini Bestari (a.dwiainibestari@students.uu.nl)

(Updates from the SCOI) WhatsApp-Facebook Data Sharing (Day – II): Can Fundamental Rights be Exercised Against WhatsApp?

The hearing in the petition challenging WhatsApp’s privacy policy continued today. Arguments made during the course of yesterday’s proceedings can be accessed here. Before the respondents could resume their arguments on maintainability, the Additional Solicitor General made a brief representation on behalf of the Central Government. He submitted that even if the Court finds that […]

Building a Better Relationship Between Citizens and Governments

Felipe Estefan at Positive Returns: “Right now you don’t have to look very hard to find evidence of the tense, often broken, relationship between between citizens and t

Plug data leak before imposing Aadhaar

As the Central government continues to expand the scope and boundaries of the applicability of Aadhaar, the unique identification number, even before the Supreme Court’s verdict on its constitutional validity, reports suggesting that millions of Aadhaar numbers may have been leaked deliberately or inadvertently are a matter of grave concern.
The article was published in the Deccan Herald on May 11, 2017.

"Son mucho más eficientes las estatales en la política de gratuidad"

Este 3 de mayo, el Rector de nuestro plantel y Presidente del Consorcio de Universidades Estatales de Chile (CUECh), expuso en la Comisión de Educación por la indicación sustitutiva a la Reforma a la Educación Superior.

CSN de la U. de Chile estimó que actividad sísmica disminuirá

Tras la observación de los eventos sísmicos que derivaron en ocho movimientos telúricos con magnitud superior a 5.0 entre el 23 y el 28 de abril pasados en el litoral central, el Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN) de la Universidad de Chile concluyó que el mayor desplazamiento de las placas se concentró al este del epicentro, y que el escenario futuro más probable dentro de los próximos días es la continuación de la sismicidad de menor magnitud, aunque es imposible descartar de plano un evento de alta magnitud en un 100 por ciento.La noche del lunes 24 de abril de 2017 fue m

Alteración del equilibrio estaría vinculada al déficit atencional

Un inédito estudio liderado por investigadores del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH), devela que una disfunción del Sistema Vestibular -ubicado en el oído- podría contribuir al déficit atencional en niños.

Cyber Harassment in the Global South: Nighat Dad at the Berkman Klein Center

What kinds of online harassment do women in Pakistan face, and what can we learn from Pakistan for our efforts to protect people around the world?
(this liveblog was written with Mariel García M)