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Digitaler Salon: Akademie der Autodidakten

Akademie der Autodidakten. Will online platforms and YouTube channels become tomorrow’s further training centres? To what extent can independently acquired knowledge gain recognition inside a digital working environment? Discuss with... MORE

Rule by the lowest common denominator? It’s baked into democracy’s design

 in The Conversation: “The Trump victory, and the general disaster for Democrats this year, was the victory of ignorance, critics moan.

Public Sector Entrepreneurship and the Integration of Innovative Business Models

Book edited by Mateusz Lewandowski and Barbara Kożuch: “While private, for-profit businesses have typically been the most experienced with entrepreneurship, the study of public sector business models is coming to the forefront of entrepreneurial discussions. This shift has allowed researchers and practitioners to expand on their knowledge of positive business choices and paved the way for more profitable business empires.

Myanmar Digital Rights Forum proposes a path away from 66(d)

More than 55 representatives from technology companies, government, media and civil society organizations gathered at the innovation lab Phandeeyar to participate in the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum this morning. The two-day event was organized to address critical digital rights challenges in Myanmar.
This was published by Coconuts Yangon on December 14, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Towards a sociology of institutional transparency: openness, deception, and the problem of public trust

S. Moore in Sociology: “Transparency has become the watchword of twenty-first century liberal democracies. It refers to a project of ‘opening up’ the state by providing online access to public sector data. This article puts forward a sociological critique of the transparency agenda and the purported relationship between institutional openness and public trust. Drawing upon Simmel’s (1906) work, the article argues that open government initiatives routinely prize visibility over intelligibility and ignore the communicative basis of trust.

Data capitalism is cashing in on our privacy . . . for now

John Thornhill in the Financial Times: “The buzz at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was all about connectivity and machine learning. …The primary effect of these consumer tech products seems limited — but we will need to pay increasing attention to the secondary consequences of these connected devices. They are just the most visible manifestation of a fundamental transformation that is likely to shape our societies far more than Brexit, Donald Trump or squabbles over the South China Sea.

Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World

A science fiction and tech-vision anthology “about the coming era of transparency in the information age” edited by David Brin & Stephen W. Potts: “Young people log their lives with hourly True Confessions. Cops wear lapel-cams and spy agencies peer at us — and face defections and whistle blowers. Bank records leak and “uncrackable” firewalls topple. As we debate internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous.

Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab to Collaborate on the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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Supported by the Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Hewlett Foundation, and more

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Intermediaries v. Copyright Holders: The Delhi High Court Wants to Protect Both

In July 2011, a single judge bench of the Delhi High Court issued an interim order in the case of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. v. Myspace Inc. & Anr. The bench effectively held Myspace (a social media website) liable for infringement of copyright by third party content posted on its platform. This decision was considered […]

From Servants to Stewards: Design-led Innovation in the Public Sector

Adam Hasler: “For years, and very acutely the last few months, citizens of the United States and in many other parts of the world have been pitched into an often uncomfortable morass of debate and discussion about the direction of their country. Problems exist, and persist, which government at all levels has tried to address or currently addresses, and government’s efficacy at addressing problems affects all of us in some way.

The disgusting stuff female athletes hear on social media and how they’re fighting back

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Equipo de la U. de Chile ganó en la competencia Hackathon Solar

Del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación (DCC) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) son los estudiantes y académicos que presentaron una solución de visualización de datos que ayuda en la tarea de promover la industria de energía solar, lo que los posicionó en el primer lugar en la categoría Start-Up de la competencia.El primer lugar en la Hackathon Solar obtuvo un equipo del DCC integrado por el académico Jorge Pérez y los alumnos de postgrado Mauricio Quezada y Nicolás Lehmann,

Museo de la Vivienda Tradicional releva construcciones como cultura

Cuatro son las facultades implicadas en esta iniciativa que pone en valor a la vivienda, una de las expresiones de cómo los habitantes de nuestro país se han relacionado con el territorio a partir de sus condiciones climáticas y materialidades.

Government Hacking: Assessing and Mitigating the Security Risk

RSVP is required for this free event.February 2, 2017Stanford Law School

Notable Privacy and Security Books from 2016

Daniel J. Solove at Technology, Academics, Policy: “Here are some notable books on privacy and security from 2016….
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy

Cancer Research Orgs Release Big Data for Precision Medicine

 at HealthITAnalytics: “The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is releasing more than 19,000 de-identified genomic records to further the international research community’s explorations into precision medicine.

Vaga – Comunicação do ITS Rio

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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio atua como um dos principais centros globais de pesquisa nas áreas de tecnologia, direito e sociedade. A Comunicação do ITS Rio tem por objetivo criar pontes para materializar o impacto do instituto com diferentes stakeholders, além de engajar em campanhas de defesa a direitos digitais.

Blockchain technology: From privacy advocacy to supply chains

Originally developed to make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin possible, Blockchain technology has become a huge phenomenon that attracts both hacktivists and venture capitalists. How do these different groups come together and... MORE

Lunch talk with Meropi Tzanetakis

Meropi Tzanetakis takes you on a trip to the «dark» side of the web. How were global markets for drugs able to emerge on the darkweb – irrespective of current... MORE

Technoscience and Citizenship: Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society

Book edited by Ann Delgado that “… provides insights on how emerging technosciences come together with new forms of governance and ethical questioning.