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ICANN Is Moving Toward Copyright Enforcement, Academic Says

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Fake News, Rumors & Online Content Regulation

Medianama and Mint organized #NAMApolicy open house on 'Fake News, Rumors & Online Content Regulation' on February 22, 2017 at the India Habitat Centre. Japreet Grewal and Amber Sinha attended the event.

Social Justice and Design panel at CSCW 2017

This is a liveblog of the Social Justice and Design panel at the CSCW 2017 conference.
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Open Data Privacy Playbook

A data privacy playbook by Ben Green, Gabe Cunningham, Ariel Ekblaw, Paul Kominers, Andrew Linzer, and Susan Crawford: “Cities today collect and store a wide range of d

Lessons from Fighting Swiss Right-Wing Populism: Flavia Kleiner and Operation Libero

In early 2016, Operation Libero, an anti-populist movement cofounded by history student Flavia Kleiner, 26, successfully defeated an anti-immigrant Swiss ballot initiative. The "enforcement" initiative, sponsored by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), would have ordered the deportation of immigrants in Switzerland for any criminal offense, no matter how minor.

Free and Open Source Software and Standards for Public Health Information Systems in India: “Making them Work” by Bridging the Policy Practice Gap

Anubha Sinha spoke at the ORF Health Policy Workshop on the panel: The policy landscape in India with respect FOSS software and standards in the public sector more generally. The event was organized by Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi on February 27 and 28, 2017 in New Delhi.

India To Let Private Companies Access Citizens’ Biometric Data

India, home to the world’s largest national biometric registry, plans to begin sharing citizens’ data with the country’s private companies and startups.
The blog post by Joshua Kopstein was published by Vocativ on February 21, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

T20 Mumbai 2017: Dialogue on the Emerging World Economy

Gateway House, Indian Council on Global Relations organized a dialogue on emerging world economy in Mumbai on 13 and 14 February 2017. Elonnai Hickok participated in the event.

Denmark is appointing an ambassador to big tech

Matthew Hughes in The Next Web: “Question: Is Facebook a country? It sounds silly, but when you think about it, it does have many attributes in common with nation states. For starters, it’s got a population that’s bigger than that of India, and its 2016 revenue wasn’t too far from Estonia’s GDP. It also has a ‘national ethos’. If America’s philosophy is capitalism, Cuba’s is communism, and Sweden’s is social democracy, Facebook’s is ‘togetherness’, as corny as that may sound.

Kserokopia # 53 (10 – 26 lutego)

W tym numerze Kserokopii prezentujemy przede wszystkim zagadnienia związane z europejską reformą prawa autorskiego takie jak wstępna opinia Komisji Rynku Wewnętrznego i Ochrony Konsumentów, prawo pokrewne wydawców czy transparentność przeprowadzania samej reformy. Ponadto zachęcamy do lektury materiałów z tygodnia dozwolonego użytku oraz korzystania z zasobów Europejskiej Agencji Kosmicznej, które zostały nareszcie udostępnione na licencji CC-BY-SA.  
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Kserokopia # 53 (10 – 26 lutego)

W tym numerze Kserokopii prezentujemy przede wszystkim zagadnienia związane z europejską reformą prawa autorskiego takie jak wstępna opinia Komisji Rynku Wewnętrznego i Ochrony Konsumentów, prawo pokrewne wydawców czy transparentność przeprowadzania samej reformy. Ponadto zachęcamy do lektury materiałów z tygodnia dozwolonego użytku oraz korzystania z zasobów Europejskiej Agencji Kosmicznej, które zostały nareszcie udostępnione na licencji CC-BY-SA.  
CO NOWEGO W SIECI
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Curating Research Data: Practical Strategies for Your Digital Repository

Two books edited by Lisa R. Johnston: “Data are becoming the proverbial coin of the digital realm: a research commodity that might purchase reputation credit in a disciplinary culture of data sharing, or buy transparency when faced with funding agency mandates or publisher scrutiny. Unlike most monetary systems, however, digital data can flow in all too great an abundance. Not only does this currency actually “grow” on trees, but it comes from animals, books, thoughts, and each of us!

Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?

Za miesiąc rusza Tydzień Otwartej Edukacji 2017 – ale obchody zaczynamy już teraz

Tydzień Otwartej Edukacji zbliża się wielkimi krokami – rusza dokładnie za miesiąc, bo 27 marca.  My jednak – w  ramach Koalicji Otwartej Edukacji – zaczynamy świętowanie już teraz, bo 1 marca. Właśnie 1 marca w 12 miastach Polski będziemy rozmawiać o otwartej edukacji podczas spotkań TechKlubów organizowanych przez projekt  Nowe Technologie Lokalnie.

Za miesiąc rusza Tydzień Otwartej Edukacji 2017 – ale obchody zaczynamy już teraz

Tydzień Otwartej Edukacji zbliża się wielkimi krokami – rusza dokładnie za miesiąc, bo 27 marca.  My jednak – w  ramach Koalicji Otwartej Edukacji – zaczynamy świętowanie już teraz, bo 1 marca. Właśnie 1 marca w 12 miastach Polski będziemy rozmawiać o otwartej edukacji podczas spotkań TechKlubów organizowanych przez projekt  Nowe Technologie Lokalnie.

Digitaler Salon: Million Bitcoin Baby!

Blockchain instead of financial institutions and bitcoins instead of loose coins? Is the internet going to be tomorrow’s money bin, and FinTech our new savings bank? And who is going... MORE

7 ways the ROUTE-TO-PA project has improved data sharing through CKAN

Data sharing has come a long way over the years. With open source tools, improvements and new features are always quickly on the horizon. Serah Rono looks at the improvements that have been made to open source data management system CKAN through the course of the ROUTE-TO-PA project. 

How Many Times Has the Government Spied on You Today?

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The Snowden revelations, while dramatic, have done little to amp up public concern about personal surveillance.
After all, thanks to technology, electronic spying is cheap —  so cheap the government can’t afford not to do it.

Opinion: The tech behind Bitcoin could reinvent cybersecurity

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Is Your Aadhar Biometrics Safe? Firms Accused Of Storing Biometrics And Using Them Illegally

Fears of Aadhar biometric security have been compounded as the government is sprinting towards the next phase of ‘cashless India’ and digitization
Pranesh Prakash and Sunil Abraham have been quoted in this article published by Outlook on February 24, 2017.