Das Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) sucht ab sofort für den Forschungsbereich Internetbasierte Innovation eine/n engagierte/n Studentische/r Mitarbeiter/in im Team Innovation & Entrepreneurship Der zeitliche Umfang... MORE
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Casey Newton at the Verge: “Last year Facebook announced Community Help, a new part of its Safety Check feature designed to connect disaster victims with Facebook users in the area who are offering their help.
Silvio Carta at the Conversation: “Most of us encounter public spaces in our daily lives: whether it’s physical space (a sidewalk, a bench, or a road), a visual element (a panorama, a cityscape) or a mode of transport (bus, train or bike share).
Sowmya Karun In the Union Budget for 2017-18, Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley announced the setting up of a dedicated Computer Emergency Response Team for the Financial Sector (Cert-Fin). The proposed emergency response team is slated to work in co-ordination with financial sector regulators and other stakeholders. This announcement comes on the heels of the […]
Recognizing that capacity building is central to economic growth, reductions in poverty and equal opportunities, Open Knowledge International with the support of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) Network is expanding its work with civil society organisations (CSOs) through the Embedded Fellowship Programme.
Susan Athey at Science: “Machine-learning prediction methods have been extremely productive in applications ranging from medicine to allocating fire and health inspectors in cities. However, there are a number of gaps between making a prediction and making a decision, and underlying assumptions need to be understood in order to optimize data-driven decision-making…(More)”
Janne Berg at First Monday: “This paper analyzes anonymous political participation in the form of e-petition signing. The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge about patterns behind anonymous e-petition signing. Since online political participation evokes an important discussion about the balance between the need for transparency on the one hand, and the right for anonymity on the other hand, it is crucial to increase our knowledge of the factors affecting citizens’ choices to remain anonymous.
Andrew Schrock and Gwen Shaffer in Big Data & Society: “Government officials claim open data can improve internal and external communication and collaboration. These promises hinge on “data intermediaries”: extra-institutional actors that obtain, use, and translate data for the public.
Book by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock: “Governments play a major role in the development process, constantly introducing reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability.
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with Christoph Graber, Berkman Klein Faculty Associate
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Can we observe the emergence of a new fundamental right that is protecting the Internet? Can such a constitutionalisation process originate from civil society?
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PRS India recently released a report card enlisting the status of all the major policy announcements made by the President on India in his address to the Parliament on 23 February 2016. The policies cover all the major sectors including economy and finance, industry and manufacturing, governance and legal reform, skill development, science and innovation among others.
Late January. The buzz was palpable at the MLR Convention Centre in South Bengaluru. Developers were streaming into 50p, a conference organised by HasGeek, which has curated technology forums since 2011. But this wasn't just one of the six HasGeek communions that the programmers attend annually. 50p put the spotlight on digital payments, which meant the gathering would be more diverse than anything before.
If you do fall victim to fraud, file your complaint at RBI's Sachet web site.
The article by Sanjay Kumar Singh was published in the Business Standard on February 7, 2017. Udbhav Tiwari was quoted.
Summer School European Private Law23h00O Evento: A FGV DIREITO RIO seleciona alunos da graduação para o curso de verão “Summer School European Private Law”, que ocorrerá de 03 a 15 de julho de 2017, em Salzburg na Áustria. A Escola poderá indicar até um aluno, que terá isenção na taxa de inscrição. Os demais alunos interessados farão parte do processo seletivo e, sendo aprovados, não terão isenção da taxa de inscrição. Os interessados devem se inscrever até dia 20 de fevereiro.
Sergey Edunov, Carlos Greg Diuk, Ismail Onur Filiz, Smriti Bhagat, and Moira Burke at Facebook Research: “How connected is the world? Playwrights, poets, and scientists have proposed that everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else by six other people.
