A two day workshop was held on January 21 - 22 at Ecumenical Christian Centre in Bangalore. The workshop was organized by Enable India. Nirmita Narasimhan attended the workshop.
Agenda
Day 1: January 21, 2017

Sl. No.Agenda Item DescriptionTimings

1
Context Setting for the Workshop
What outcomes we hope to achieve during the workshop
9.30 - 10.00

2
Reflections and Sharing
Sharing on achievements and impact, through discussions and activities
10.00 - 10.45

Tea Break

10.45 - 11.15

 
The Governance Lab (the GovLab) is excited to announce the search for a talented communications professional to play a central role in helping translate and make relevant the various activities of the GovLab to a diverse and broad audience of practitioners, policy makers, academics, and the general public.
Based at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the Governance Lab is a research, training and experimentation laboratory that focuses on improving people’s lives by addressing real world challenges through institutional redesign.

This report of the III. interdisciplinary workshop «Privacy, Datenschutz & Surveillance» was written by Jörg Pohle. Bereits zum dritten Mal (Bericht I. Workshop, Bericht II. Workshop) luden Jörg Pohle (Humboldt Institut... MORE

Blockchain Technologie und virtuelle Währungen fordern das Rechtssystem auf vielerlei Arten heraus: Neue Potentiale entstehen, alte Konzepte müssen hinterfragt werden. Die Europäische Union arbeitet derzeit an einem regulatorischen Ansatz, der die weitere Entwicklungen signifikant beeinflussen wird.

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Press Release: “The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering has launched the Data Justice Network (datajustice.us).  The website fosters peer-to-peer learning among criminal justice practitioners and policymakers and helps officials get fast and comprehensive answers to their questions about how to make better use of data to reduce incarceration and crime.

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This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland team.

The Indian Supreme Court’s review of Facebook Inc.'s and WhatsApp Inc.'s data security practices may lack teeth but also presages a desire for a stronger privacy regime and oversight of multinationals, internet and privacy specialists told Bloomberg BNA.
The article by Nayanima Basu was published by Bloomberg BNA on February 1, 2017. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

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Participantes: Flávia Lefèvre, Alexandre Pacheco, Danilo Doneda e Lucas Anjos

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IDS Practice Paper by Francesca Feruglio and Ahmad Rifai: “In 2015, Yayasan Kota Kita (Our City Foundation), an Indonesian civil society organisation, applied to Making All Voices Count for a practitioner research and learning grant.

Hayley Tsukayama in the Washington Post: “President Trump may have used the power of social media to make his way into the White House, but now social media networks are showing that muscle can work for his opposition, too.

  Sowmya Karun In a previous post, we critically examined the legislative and institutional framework for the protection of critical information infrastructures (“CIIs”) in India. The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (“NCIIPC”) has since revamped its website. This is a heartening move towards transparency and increased public engagement. According to “data shared by a […]

The INC has a new publication format: the Zero Infinite podcast!

By Prianka Srinivasan, Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst
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Lindsay Read and Tamar Manuelyan Atinc at Brookings: “There is a wide consensus among policymakers and practitioners that while access to education has improved significantly for many children in low- and middle-income countries, learning has not kept pace.