“ALTwitter” – as in the alternate Twitter is the profiles of the Members of European Parliaments built on their Twitter metadata. In spite of the risks and challenges associated with the privacy of ineffectively regulated metadata, the beauty of the metadata which everyone should appreciate lies in its brevity and flexibility.
Carlos Santiso at The Rockefeller Foundation Blog: “Driven by fast-paced technological innovations, an exponential growth of smartphones, and a daily stream of big data, the “digital revolution” is changing the way we live our lives. Nowhere are the changes more sweeping than in cities.
Inside the buzzing enrollment agency, young professionals wearing slim-fitting jeans and lanyards around their necks tapped away at keyboards and fiddled with fingerprint scanning devices as they helped build the biggest and most ambitious biometric database ever conceived.
The article by Shashank Bengali was published in the Los Angeles Times on May 12, 2017.
"My fingerprints and iris are mine and my own. The state cannot take away my body," a lawyer told India's Supreme Court last week.
The article by Soutik Biswas was published by BBC News on May 4, 2017.
The Modi government has been trying to make Aadhaar mandatory for everything from Income Tax return, buying a SIM card, bank transaction, train ticket, air travel, mid-day meal government subsidies etc.
The blog post by Bobins Abraham was published by India Times on May 3, 2017.
What’s worrying is that the UIDAI seems to always be in denial mode over security concerns.
The blog post was published by the News Minute on May 4, 2017. Amber Sinha was quoted.
Aadhaar numbers and personal information of as many as 135 million Indians could have been leaked from four government portals due to lack of IT security practices, the Centre for Internet and Society has claimed.
The article was published in the Times of India on May 2, 2017.
It the largest biometric database in the world and it is fraught with security issues.
Open data is not familiar with weekends! However, on Saturday, March 4th, 2017, public officials, civil society organisations, civic hackers and many interested citizens came together in Vicente López to share projects and ideas around open data. In this event, the community also began to discuss the present and future of open data in Argentina.
This year we focused the event on the topic of open data in local governments. We did so in different ways: Panels, roundtables, lightning talk and the development of the “Open Data Agenda 2017” of Argentina.
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 Austria team.
CSER’s Catherine Rhodes provides an analysis of the importance of effective implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention in this week’s Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
La profesora Teresa Flórez del Departamento de Estudios Pedagógicos de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, tras la presentación de los últimos resultados del SIMCE, cuestiona las medidas que habrían llevado a una mejora de esta medición.
"Nosotros estamos de acuerdo con los estudiantes en que es el Estado quien tiene la obligación moral de analizar lo que ha ocurrido con los estudiantes que fueron perjudicados por un mecanismo que el Estado amparó", señaló el presidente del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile y Rector de la Casa de Bello, Ennio Vivaldi.Uno de los principales acuerdos de la reunión que los rectores de las Universidades Estatales y la Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (Confech) sostuvieron hoy en la Universidad Técnológica Metropolitana (Utem) con el objetivo de llegar a puntos
Barry Libert, Megan Beck, Brian Komar and Josue Estrada at Knowledge@Wharton: “…nonprofit groups, academic institutions and philanthropic organizations engaged in social change are struggling to adapt to the new global, technologic
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Innovation and Governance in Open Development Initiatives
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The goals of the symposium include furthering cooperation among various players in the world of podcast creation and distribution and consideration of recommendations on standards, enhancements, extensions, and other methods to support the growth of podcasting as an open and inclusive medium.
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2017
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Book by Howard G. Birnbaum and Paul E. Greenberg: “In the past decade there has been a worldwide evolution in evidence-based medicine that focuses on real-world Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to compare the effects of one medical treatment versus another in real world settings.
Book by Cass R. Sunstein: “This Palgrave Pivot offers comprehensive evidence about what people actually think of “nudge” policies designed to steer decision makers’ choices in positive directions. The data reveal that people in diverse nations generally favor nudges by strong majorities, with a preference for educative efforts – such as calorie labels – that equip individuals to make the best decisions for their own lives.