A questão do jovem na Governança da Internet não é uma preocupação recente. Embora programas como o ICANN Next Gen e, principalmente, o Youth@IGF tenham atingido grande destaque e sucesso nos últimos anos, a necessidade de uma visão renovadora e refrescante para os principais problemas da Governança da Internet, somente proporcionada por jovens, sempre foi reconhecida.
Gabi Fitz and Lisa Brooks in Philantopic: “One of the key roles the nonprofit sector plays in civil society is providing evidence about social problems and their solutions. Given recent changes to policies regarding the sharing of knowledge and evidence by federal agencies, that function is more critical than ever.
Bea Schofield at Wazoku: “…RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce),…start off a journey towards a more innovative, inclusive and democratic policy-making model. The first in their series of three public Challenges has launched today, with a focus on how the economy can work for everyone.
David Martin Shaw, J. Valérie Grossand Thomas C. Erren in The Conversation: “Most people are aware they can donate their organs when they die.
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Date: Sat, 02/18/2017[Geneva, Switzerland] – Reflecting the increasing importance of cross-border collaboration in addressing cybersecurity issues, the Internet Society today announced that it has joined the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC). The goal of this global body is to develop proposals for norms and policy initiatives to improve stability and security in cyberspace.
The Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research invites applications for international postdoctoral research fellows from fields including, but not restricted to, computer and information science, communication and media studies, law, sociology and philosophy, who will conduct innovative research on the social and cultural impact of algorithms during stays of 3-12 months in Hamburg in the academic year 2017/2018.Call for ApplicationsThe Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany, is a publicly funded research institute that focuses on the study of mediated public communi
Kristen French at BackChannel: “…Today, Second Life is mostly forgotten by the broader public.
Jeremy Morgan at Lippincott: “One of the most consequential insights from the study of organizational culture happens to have an almost irresistible grounding in basic common sense. When attempting to solve the challenges of today’s businesses, inviting a broad slice of an employee population yields more creative, actionable solutions than restricting the conversation to a small strategy or leadership team.
“DataRefuge is a public, collaborative project designed to address the following concerns about federal climate and environmental data:
Report by Luigi Reggi at Monithon (Monitoring Marathon): “…All in all, this small journey in Monithon’s civic monitoring proves at least two things.
Article by the National Academy of Sciences, part of a series, From Research to Reward, seeking to demonstrate how advances in our understanding of natural processes often lead to surprising and remarkable benefits for society: “…From the time of quills and cannons to our era of cyber-attacks and drone warfare, mathematics has been crucial to national security.
A new research report published today looks at the current state and future prospects of a global public database of corporate accounts.
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Date published: February 17, 2017The Parallax"“Spying is thriving” because little is understood about how pervasive it is.
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Date published: February 17, 2017Bloomberg BNA"On Feb. 16, eight privacy and security law professors—Kenneth A. Bamberger, Woodrow Hartzog, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, William McGeveran, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Paul Ohm, Daniel J. Solove and Peter Swire—filed a brief in support of the FTC.
Aadhaar biometrics will now enable cashless shopping sans card and smartphone. A look at the hopes and fears.
The article by Arindam Mukherjee was published in the Outlook on February 20, 2017. Pranesh Prakash and Sunil Abraham were quoted.
Ana Brandusescu, Danny Lämmerhirt and Stefaan Verhulst call for a systematic and comparative investigation of the different governance models for open data policy and publication….
The Watal Committee’s report presents the government with an impossible road map to a cashless nirvana.
The article by V. Sridhar was published in Frontline, Print edition: March 3, 2017
The Supreme Court heard arguments in Sabu Mathew George v. Union of India today. This writ petition was filed in 2008, with the intention of banning ‘advertisement’ offering sex selective abortions and related services, from search engine results. According to the petitioner, these advertisements violate Section 22 of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation […]
Eduardo Magrani critica falta de engajamento político nessa discussãoO Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI) manteve, por dois meses, em consulta pública o Plano Nacional de Internet das Coisas (IoT) no Brasil. O plano irá definir as medidas a serem tomadas para que o país promova a chamada “Internet das Coisas” como modelo de desenvolvimento de setores como o automobilístico, agropecuário e urbanístico do país, e recebeu mais de 2 mil comentários.
