Wired: “New York is facing a crisis. The city that never sleeps has become the city with the most people who have no home to sleep in.

The terms hate speech and fake news serve as focal points for public controversies in Germany lately. The issue at stake, how should social media companies and society at large... MORE

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Date: Mon, 05/08/2017
Report presented at conference bringing together Internet and Development organizations from throughout Africa
[Kigali, Rwanda– 8 May 2017] – Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Internet in particular, can have a transformative effect on education in Africa, says a report launched today by the Internet Society.

Mayor intercambio estudiantil, académico y trabajo conjunto entre universidades para afrontar los problemas comunes de la región, y el irrenunciable rol de los Estados en el financiamiento y aseguramiento de la calidad de sus planteles, son los ejes principales del documento, emitido tras dos días de trabajo.

Founded ten years ago, re:publica has grown into one of the most exciting conferences on digital culture. HIIG researchers already attended the conference in the last few years, and we... MORE

Paper by Abigail Devereaux: “Nudge theory, the preferences-neutral subset of modern behavioral economic policy, is premised on irrational decision-making at the level of the individual agent.

Book by Gianluca Sgueo: “….explores the activism promoted by organised networks of civil society actors in opening up possibilities for more democratic supranational governance. It examines the positive and negative impact that such networks of civil society actors – named “interlocutory coalitions” – may have on the convergence of principles of administrative governance across the European legal system and other supranational legal systems.

Xinzhi Zhang et al in Ethnicity and Disease: “Addressing minority health and health disparities has been a missing piece of the puzzle in Big Data science. This article focuses on three priority opportunities that Big Data science may offer to the reduction of health and health care disparities.

Book by Zeynep Tufekci: “A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges….

Phani Kumar Chintakayala  and C. William Young in the Journal of Consumer Ethics: “The Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) was established by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and launched its data services in 2015. Te project is led by the University of Leeds and UCL, with partners at the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford. It is working with consumer-related organisations and businesses to open up their data resources to trusted researchers, enabling them to carry out important social and economic research….

O Café & Chat: Privacidade e Proteção de Dados Médicos aconteceu dia 24 de abril de 2017. Ocorreu um debate focando em proteção de dados pessoais sensíveis, a disponibilidade de informações pessoais pelos próprios pacientes e sujeitos, iniciativas de inovação tecnológica no campo de exploração de dados pessoais em benefício da Medicina e os riscos que essa tendência pode representar para a sociedade.

I Semana de Ética FGV Direito Rio12h00 até 15h00O Evento: I Semana de Ética FGV DIREITO RIO "Diálogos sobre a ética na academia e nas profissões jurídicas"
O evento pretende debater com os alunos as principais questões desse tema e tratar dos mais relevantes desafios éticos que se colocam no bom exercício das profissões jurídicas.

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United States

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CIS's Director of Civil Liberties and Cryptography Fellow are petitioning the federal court for the Northern District of California to unseal years' worth of sealed surveillance matters filed in that court.

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United States

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Atresmedia y la Facultad de Comunicación lanzan una especialización en producción de programas de entretenimiento
El certificado, que se impartirá en Madrid en formato ejecutivo, contará en su claustro con profesores de la Facultad de Comunicación y profesionales del grupo

Patricia Pérez, directora general de Atresmedia, y Mónica Herrero, decana de la Facultad de Comunicación
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Álvaro Pérez

Read our Quarterly Report from April 2017 here: CSER Quarterly Report April 2017.
Overview: We’ve had a busy Winter break and Lent term, in which we’ve:

Luciano Floridi at the Financial Times: “The science and technology committee of the House of Commons published the responses to its inquiry on “algorithms in decision-making” on Apri

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 Greece team

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