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Hyperloop Law: Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Transportation Startups

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featuring General Counsel of Hyperloop One, Marvin Ammori

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The future of transportation may include Google's autonomous vehicles, Uber's flying cars, and Amazon's delivery drones--all bound together by a high-speed hyperloop backbone. You may not be able to take a hyperloop flight until at least 2020, but lawyers and governments are already working out the new legal framework necessary for a high-speed, safe, sustainable new network. Join the general counsel of Hyperloop One to learn more...

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​NTU and FireEye join forces to grow the ranks of Singapore’s cyber security experts

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Recovering from disasters: Social networks matter more than bottled water and batteries

India's Aadhaar with biometric details of its billion citizens is making experts uncomfortable

"Indians in general have yet to understand the meaning and essence of privacy," says Member of Parliament, Tathagata Satpathy.
The blog post was published by Mashable India on February 14, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Why big data may be having a big effect on how our politics plays out

 in The Conversation: “…big data… is an inconceivably vast mass of information, which at first glance would seem a giant mess; just white noise.
Unless you know how to decipher it.

RideComfort: A Development of Crowdsourcing Smartphones in Measuring Train Ride Quality

Adam Azzoug and Sakdirat Kaewunruen in Frontiers in Built Environment: “Among the many million train journeys taking place every day, not all of them are being measured or monitored for ride comfort. Improving ride comfort is important for railway companies to attract more passengers to their train services.

Celebrating Hackentine's Day

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United States

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Unconscious gender bias in the Google algorithm

Interview in Metode with Londa Schiebinger, director of Gendered Innovations: “We were interested, because the methods of sex and gender analysis are not in the university curriculum, yet it is very important. The first thing our group did was to develop those methods and we present twelve methods on the website.

Rules for a Flat World – Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy

Book by Gillian Hadfield: “… picks up where New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman left off in his influential 2005 book, The World is Flat. Friedman was focused on the infrastructure of communications and technology-the new web-based platform that allows business to follow the hunt for lower costs, higher value and greater efficiency around the planet seemingly oblivious to the boundaries of nation states.

What Communication Can Contribute to Data Studies: Three Lenses on Communication and Data

Andrew Schrock at the International Journal of Communication: “We are awash in predictions about our data-driven future. Enthusiasts believe big data imposes new ways of knowing, while critics worry it will enable powerful regimes of institutional control. This debate has been of keen interest to communication scholars. To encourage conceptual clarity, this article draws on communication scholarship to suggest three lenses for data epistemologies.

Understanding Platform Governance

More and more people and institutions communicate via Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and co. The rules of platforms for sorting and blocking, for liking and sharing determine whose voices get heard,... MORE

Troopers Use ‘Big Data’ to Predict Crash Sites

Jenni Bergal at Pew Charitable Trusts: “As Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Anthony Griffin patrolled an area near Murfreesboro one morning in January 2014, he gave a young woman a ticket for driving her Geo Prizm without wearing a seat belt.

Call for Participation: Fear and Loathing of the Online Self, Rome, May 22-23, 2017

Fear and Loathing of the Online Self–A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures
Call for Participation
Conference, Rome, May 22-23, 2017
http://networkcultures.org/online-self/
We would like to invite artists and researchers to submit proposals to join this event hosted by  John Cabot University and Universita degli Studi RomaTre in Rome, and organized in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.

Crowdsourced Science: Sociotechnical Epistemology in the e-Research Paradigm

Paper by David Watson and Luciano Floridi: “Recent years have seen a surge in online collaboration between experts and amateurs on scientific research. In this article, we analyse the epistemological implications of these crowdsourced projects, with a focus on Zooniverse, the world’s largest citizen science web portal.

O Poder Judiciário e as Violações de Direitos no Sistema Prisional Brasileiro

O Poder Judiciário e as Violações de Direitos no Sistema Prisional Brasileiro13h30 até 18h00O Evento: 

Resisting the Resistance: Resisting Copyright and Promoting Alternatives

Location

United States

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Kserokopia# 52 (27 stycznia – 9 lutego)

W tym numerze Kserokopii przedstawiamy pierwsze komentarze dotyczące poprawek zaproponowanych przez Komisję Kultury i Edukacji Parlamentu Europejskiego do dyrektywy o prawie autorskim. Zachęcamy również do zapoznania się z nowymi orzeczeniami zarówno krajowymi, jak i europejskimi (w tym TSUE na temat zgodności z prawem dwukrotności stosownego wynagrodzenia przewidzianego w prawie autorskim). Z ciekawostek prezentujemy artykuły o domenie publicznej, wykorzystaniu CC0 przez Metropolitan Art Museum z Nowego Jorku i o otwartej nauce jako jedynej możliwości rozwoju. Dobrej lektury!

Kserokopia# 52 (27 stycznia – 9 lutego)

W tym numerze Kserokopii przedstawiamy pierwsze komentarze dotyczące poprawek zaproponowanych przez Komisję Kultury i Edukacji Parlamentu Europejskiego do dyrektywy o prawie autorskim. Zachęcamy również do zapoznania się z nowymi orzeczeniami zarówno krajowymi, jak i europejskimi (w tym TSUE na temat zgodności z prawem dwukrotności stosownego wynagrodzenia przewidzianego w prawie autorskim). Z ciekawostek prezentujemy artykuły o domenie publicznej, wykorzystaniu CC0 przez Metropolitan Art Museum z Nowego Jorku i o otwartej nauce jako jedynej możliwości rozwoju. Dobrej lektury!

Best Government Emerging Technologies

Report released at the World Government Summit (Dubai): “… the “Best Government Emerging Technologies” recognises governments that are experimenting with emerging technologies to provide government services more e ciently, e ectively and have proven results showing how they have created greater public value and transformed people›s lives.

The chaos of South Africa’s taxi system is being tackled with open data

Lynsey Chutel at Quartz: “On any given day in South Africa’s cities the daily commute can be chaotic and unpredictable. A new open source data platform hopes to bring some order to that—or at least help others get it right.