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Measuring results from open contracting in Ukraine

Kathrin Frauscher, Karolis Granickas and Leigh Manasco at the Open Contracting Partnership: “…Ukraine is one of our Showcase and Learning (S&L) projects, and we’ve already shared several stories about the success of Prozorro. Each S&L project tests specific theories of change and use cases.

Crime, live on video: The beast Facebook can’t control

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United States

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11th Meeting of Information Systems Security Sectional Committee (LITD 17)

Udbhav Tiwari represented CIS at this meeting organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) at Manak Bhavan, New Delhi on April 13, 2017.
The meeting was the national mirror meeting for the 28th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Plenary and Working Group Meetings being held at Hamilton, New Zealand between the April 18 and 25, 2017. The meeting provided a fascinating insight into the government and industry viewpoints on key cyber security and privacy issues, especially on the Aadhaar.

Crowdsourced Lit Review: First Amendment Theory & Technology

Nailing down the definitive literature on First Amendment expressive freedoms is a tricky task. What’s the consensus among scholars about the classics? Even more complex is figuring out what emerging scholarship on the intersection of speech and press freedoms with new media technologies will have a lasting impact.
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United States

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Resultados y desafíos del nuevo sistema de admisión escolar

La inédita ejecución de un sistema de admisión en la región de Magallanes, que apunta a poner fin a la selección escolar, es analizada en la siguiente columna de opinión publicada en La Tercera por el prorrector, Rafael Epstein, y los académicos José Correa y Juan Escobar, junto a Angélica Bosch, coordinadora Nacional del Sistema de Admisión Escolar del Ministerio de Educación.Con motivo de la Reforma Educacional, y con el objetivo de implementar el fin a la selección en colegios municipales y subvencionados, entre agosto y diciembre de 2016 se implementó en la región de Ma

Embajadora de Marruecos y Rector Vivaldi exploran firma de convenio

Las autoridades consideraron la posibilidad de generar un convenio marco entre el conjunto de las universidades estatales chilenas y sus símiles marroquíes. Exploraron también la opción de facilitar la homologación de títulos.Nuestra Casa de Estudios trabajará junto a la Embajada de Marruecos en Chile en la elaboración de un convenio de intercambio estudiantil y académico.

U. de Chile constituye grupo para abordar salud de población migrante

Dar cuenta de las distintas realidades asociadas al fenómeno y hacer propuestas de políticas públicas que sean implementables en el corto y mediano plazo, es el propósito principal de esta iniciativa impulsada por la Facultad de Medicina.

Internet Access as a Basic Service: Inspiration from our Canadian Neighbors

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featuring Mr. Jean-Pierre Blais, Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

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Join the Berkman Klein Center and the HLS Canadian Law Student Association as Mr. Blais speaks about broadband, internet, and the future of connectivity in Canada and around the world

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Apr
18
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Mobile Security Primer for Activists

At MIT's Day of Action, Nathan Freitas of Guardian Project led a workshop on mobile security for activists, focusing on various secure messaging apps available today, touching on their benefits and risks for different kinds of activities and communities.
Common messaging apps (and their secure setting)

USAFacts

“USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society. We are a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative and have no political agenda or commercial motive. We provide this information as a free public service and are committed to maintaining and expanding it in the future.

The Online Humor Conversation Series at MIT

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A spring event series with the MIT Media Lab's Center for Civic Media, and co-sponsored by the Berkman Klein Center

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From using humor as a tool for resisting an authoritarian government, to rating dogs online, this spring's humor event series has got it all!

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Arguing with chilling effects

Here at irregular intervals we will publish short summaries of doctoral theses that were written at HIIG. We begin with an abstract of the doctoral thesis «Der Abschreckungseffekt auf die... MORE

Supreme Court hears the WhatsApp-Facebook Data Sharing Case

The special leave petition against the Delhi High Court’s ruling upholding WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy came up for hearing before a bench of five judges today. This policy is contentious because it allows WhatsApp to share valuable personal information of its users, including phone numbers, contact lists and profile pictures, with its parent company Facebook. […]

Big Data for Achievement of the 2030 Agenda: Data Privacy, Ethics and Protection

UNDG Guidance Note: “This document sets out general guidance on data privacy, data protection and data ethics for the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) concerning the use of big data, collected in real time by private sector entities as part of their business offerings1 , and shared with UNDG members for the purposes of strengthening operational implementation of their programmes to support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.
The Guidance Note is designed to:

Comments by Wolfgang Schulz on the Draft for an Act improving Law Enforcement on Social Networks (NetzDG)

With the Draft for an Act improving Law Enforcement on Social Networks (NetzDG), the German government reacts on Hate Speech and Fake News in Social Media. The draft has provoked criticism concerning freedom of speech because it creates incentives for providers to delete contents although they have not been proven illegal. The comments in English language by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz analyse the draft.

Open Research event in Yaoundé, Cameroon

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Killer Apps: Vanishing Messages, Encrypted Communications, and Challenges to Freedom of Information Laws When Public Officials ‘Go Dark’

Paper by Daxton Stewart: “In the early weeks of the new presidential administration, White House staffers were communicating among themselves and leaking to journalists using apps such as Signal and Confide, which allow users to encrypt messages or to make them vanish after being received. By using these apps, government officials are “going dark” by avoiding detection of their communications in a way that undercuts freedom of information laws.

The SAGE Handbook of Resistance

Handbook edited by David Courpasson and Steven Vallas: “Occupy. Indignados. The Tea Party. The Arab Spring. Anonymous.

Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence

Amitai Etzioni and Oren Etzioni in the Journal of Ethics: “This article reviews the reasons scholars hold that driverless cars and many other AI equipped machines must be able to make ethical decisions, and the difficulties this approach faces. It then shows that cars have no moral agency, and that the term ‘autonomous’, commonly applied to these machines, is misleading, and leads to invalid conclusions about the ways these machines can be kept ethical.

How Can Digital Technologies Improve Public Services and Governance?

Book by Nagy K. Hanna: “This book considers the opportunities and challenges of harnessing digital technologies for improved public services and governance. It focuses on the challenges of applying digital technologies in developing countries, where dramatic results can be realized.