Paper by Brent Mittelstadt: “The Internet of Things is increasingly spreading into the domain of medical and social care. Internet-enabled devices for monitoring and managing the health and well-being of users outside of traditional medical institutions have rapidly become common tools to support healthcare.
Report by the National Academies of Sciences’s Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science: “Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with instruments carefully designed for particular data needs have been one of the primary methods for collecting data for federal statistics.
Bruce Bower in ScienceNews: “Nudges are a growth industry. Inspired by a popular line of psychological research and introduced in a best-selling book a decade ago, these inexpensive behavior changers are currently on a roll.
Dave Gershgorn in Quartz: “Predictive policing, or the idea that software can foresee where crime will take place, is being adopted across the country—despite being riddled with issues.
Das Skript Internetrecht ist in neuer Version Stand: April 2017 zum Abruf hier bereit.
Das Skript wurde grundlegend überarbeitet, auch mithilfe einer externen Studierendengruppe, die den Text noch einmal komplett auf Mängel durchforstet hat. Ergänzt wurden 300 Urteile, 16 neue Gesetze und viele Gesetzesinitiativen. Das Skript erscheint Ende 2017 auch als Buch (für den, der es lieber in Print mag)
PALESTRA: How Leaders and Citizens Can Combat Corruption: Lessons for Brazil11h00 até 13h00O Evento: O Centro de Justiça e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio e o Instituto Igarapé convidam para a palestra ‘How Leaders and Citizens Can Combat Corruption: Lessons for Brazil’.
Em única palestra no Rio de Janeiro, Robert Rotberg apresentará sua mais recente pesquisa sobre o fenômeno da corrupção em suas mais variadas facetas, examinando como medimos e identificamos essa presença e trazendo lições dos países menos corruptos do mundo.
El Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi,
The largest and most sophisticated biometric identity system of any country in the world, India’s Aadhaar, is sparking new fears that the personal data it stores on more than 1.1 billion people could be vulnerable to exploitation.
The article by Kaelyn Lowmaster was published by One World Identity on March 17, 2017, Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Controversial Aadhaar card restricts fundamental rights, argue critics, limiting access to free school meals and exposing 1 billion people to privacy risks.
The article was published in the Guardian on March 21, 2017. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was quoted.
The Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Beijing Normal University Institute for Internet Policy & Law organized a review meeting of the Pervasive Technologies project in Macau on February 20 - 21, 2017.
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.
Subtitle
Challenges & Opportunities Concerning Corporate Formation, Nonprofit Status, & Governance for Open Source Projects
Teaser
A collection of case studies and organizational models for those who manage and participate in open source development initiatives to actively think about the communities they hope to create.
Publication Date
22 Mar 2017
Author(s)
Özgün Emre Can, Neil D’Cruze, Margaret Balaskas, and David W. Macdonald in PLOS Biology: “With around 3,200 tigers (Panthera tigris) left in the wild, the governments of 13 tiger range countries recently declared that there is a need for innovation to aid tiger research and conservation.
SCRIPTed is an open access journal built on the principles of sharing academic works for the benefit of the wider community. As such, authors retain the copyright to their submission and submissions can be published by SCRIPTed in two ways:
Elena Mesropyan at LTP: “Civic technology, or Civic Tech, is defined as a technology that enables greater participation in government or otherwise assists government in delivering citizen services and strengthening ties with the public.
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.
Der Verein zur Förderung der Forschungsstelle für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz Münster e.V. und die Forschungsstelle für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht laden alle Interessenten herzlich zu einem Vortrag zum Patentrecht ein.
Language
English
Date: Wed, 03/22/2017
In this second part of his series: startup and technology trends 2017, Robin Tech discusses augmented and virtual reality technologies. He touches upon applications in the fields of gaming, pornography,... MORE