The Aadhaar number has been made compulsory for filing tax return. With both the government and private parties insisting on it for various activities despite the Supreme Court's assertion that is not mandatory, you need to get one at the earliest.
The article by Priya Nair and Sanjay Kumar Singh was published in the Business Standard on March 27, 2017. Udbhav Tiwari was quoted.
Helen Margetts in Nature: “Social networks are not a new phenomenon — people have always associated with like-minded others — but the advent of social media has led to a vast increase in the amount of social information that we see.
Ana Brandusescu and Renée Sieber in Data Driven Journalism: “Crowdsourced data, especially for mapping, is a boon for data driven journalism. In 2015, Nepal’s earthquake was mapped in an astounding 48 hours.
Innar Liiv in The Conversation: “Big Brother does “just want to help” – in Estonia, at least. In this small nation of 1.3 million people, citizens have overcome fears of an Orwellian dystopia with ubiquitous surveillance to become a highly digital society.
Matthew Longshore Smith and Ruhiya Seward in First Monday: “Since the early 2000s, there has been an explosion in the usage of the term open, arguably stemming from the advent of networked technologies — including the Internet and mobile technologies. ‘Openness’ seems to be everywhere, and takes many forms: from open knowledge, open education, open data and open science, to open Internet, open medical records systems and open innovation.
Matthew Zook et al in PLOS Computational Biology: “The use of big data research methods has grown tremendously over the past five years in both academia and industry. As the size and complexity of available datasets has grown, so too have the ethical questions raised by big data research.
Open Knowledge International is a member of OD4D, a global network of leaders in the open data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world. Here, the Women Environmental Programme (WEP) of Nigeria talks about their work on assessing the state of infrastructural development in three Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria.
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What is so special about webseries? And how relevant is this short format? In this article I will provide insights into financing and distribution of german webseries, recent developments of... MORE
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.
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Author(s): Arvind NarayananPublication Date: April 4, 2017Publication Type: Other Writing
Is our contemporary reality one of the free global citizen or the ‘smart’ engineered cyborg?
Evgeny Morozov on the revolution of our hassle-free lifestyle.
Do you remember that Google search for a hummus bar five months ago? Or the Facebook credentials you exchanged in return for city WiFi last week? Or those photos of last year’s trip to Le Louvre in the depths of your iPhone?
Los académicos realizaron el estudio del impacto de dicha iniciativa, constituyéndose en una aproximación pionera a los resultados de este tipo programas en un país de ingreso medio-alto. Dentro de las conclusiones del estudio está que este programa genera ingresos superiores a su costo, además de un aumento del empleo y del ingreso asalariado en el largo plazo.
Las autoridades de ambos planteles se reunieron en Casa Central con el objetivo de potenciar el acuerdo de cooperación vigente entre las dos casas de estudio. Mayor movilidad y estadías de corta duración fueron parte de los temas abordados en la cita.Diversas opciones para aumentar el intercambio estudiantil y académico entre la Universidad de Bologna y la Universidad de Chile fueron analizadas en la reunión que sostuvieron las máximas autoridades de ambas instituciones, los rectores Francesco Ubertini y Ennio Vivaldi.
Cerca de un 10 por ciento de los niños presenta el Síndrome de Déficit Atencional, trastorno que les impide lograr los niveles adecuados de concentración. Aunque no se tiene total certeza de las causas de este desorden, sí se reconoce en parte un origen genético en alrededor de un 30 por ciento de los pacientes diagnosticados. El tratamiendo multimodal -que incluye fármacos y cambio de hábitos- ha demostrado tener éxito entre los pacientes, asegura el Dr. Yuri Dragnic, neuropediatra del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile.
From a severely critical stand against Aadhaar in 2014, the Modi-led BJP in power has made a sharp U-turn to bulldoze its way into having every Indian scanned, tagged and labelled. A timeline of the country’s chequered date with the unique identification project.
The article by Shriya Mohan was published in the Hindu Businessline on March 31, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
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.
In summer 2015 I attended a meeting of the Freedom Expression Network (FEN) in Washington, DC. The FEN is an alliance of a few dozen civil liberties organizations convened by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), a nonprofit whose mission is to promote freedom of thought, inquiry and expression and oppose censorship in all its forms.