The Supreme Court has cautioned against linking users’ social media accounts with Aadhaar, saying it will impinge on citizens’ privacy.
The article by Taran Deol and Revathi Krishanan appeared in the Print on August 21, 2019. Gurshabad Grover was quoted.
Anubha Sinha and Amber Sinha will be panelists in this event being organized by IT for Change at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on August 30, 2019.
The agenda for the event is here.
For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/policies-for-the-platform-economy
On August 21, 2019, Aayush Rathi, attended a report launch event and focus group discussion on the "Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 - IT and Automotive Sector in India". Research conducted by the Dialogue in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) were being presented.
K. Bhuvana Meenakshi gave a talk at BangPypers organized by Python Software Society in Bangalore on August 25, 2019. She spoke on Let the world experience WebXR!
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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/pycon-india-2019
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Empreendedorismo, Informalidade e a Medida Provisória 881/201914h00 até 18h30O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio, em Parceria com o Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 9ª Região, realiza o Seminário “Empreendedorismo, Informalidade e a Medida Provisória 881/2019”. O evento, que tem como objetivo discutir as implicações trabalhistas da Medida Provisória nº 881/2019 , contará com a participação de desembargadores, outras autoridades governamentais e acadêmicos.
14:00 às 14:15
Público Alvo: Advogados, Procuradores, Magistrados, Profissionais do mercado financeiro e de capitais e demais interessados no tema.
Idil Keysan is a Turkish artist and illustrator known for her playful and relatable animated work on Giphy, the GIF-hosting platform. Idil’s keen understanding of what’s trending and how audiences interact with gifs have helped her work get over two billion views on the website. Her fun, charming, brightly colored illustrations are inspired by “famous art, daily events, and the subjects that [she] cares about, like animal rights [and the] representation of the female body.”
The 6th Middle East School on Internet Governance (MEAC-SIG) took place this year in Rabat, Morocco, from 8-12 July. First held in 2014 in Kuwait, the school is an annual five days of intensive workshops that aims to inform and strengthen the regional Internet community and ensure active participation in national, local, and global Internet Governance fora.
Root-level spying: Google and Mozilla are blocking surveillance efforts by Kazakhstan’s government, Engadget reports.
Laut einer Studie des University College London entwickelten die ersten Menschen bereits vor etwa 7.500 Jahren eine Laktoseverträglichkeit und die damit verbundene Möglichkeit des Milchkonsums, die sich rapide weltweit ausbreitete. Auch heute spielen Milchprodukte eine sehr wichtige Rolle: Laut statistischem Bundesamt verzehrte jeder Deutsche im letzten Jahr knapp 50 Kilogramm Milch.
In his new book, Armin Nassehi makes the attempt to substatiate digital technology in the structure of modern society itself. He develops the thesis that certain social regularities, structures and patterns form the matter from which digitalisation draws its economical, political and scientific potential. As an effect of digitalisation society itself is being rediscovered, Nassehi…
Laut Weltgesundheitsbehörde (WHO) stellen nichtübertragbare Krankheiten wie Typ II Diabetes oder Herz-Kreislauf- Erkrankungen die Haupttodesursache weltweit dar. Vier Risikofaktoren spielen bei Entstehung und Verlauf eine wesentliche Rolle: Rauchen, ungesunde Ernährung, riskanter Alkoholkonsum und Bewegungsmangel. Bis 2025 sollen diese veränderbaren Risikofaktoren im Rahmen des Global Action Plans der WHO in sechs Schritten reduziert werden. Hierbei ist die Entwicklung von gesundheitsfördernden Lebensumwelten besonders wichtig.
Nuestra Casa de Estudios es la primera institución pública de educación superior en contar con este instrumento, que promueve un cambio cultural y educacional en torno a sus principios de equidad e inclusión y que articula un organismo para atender las necesidades de toda la comunidad universitaria. Esta política -realizada en la perspectiva de la Diversidad Funcional- fue presentada a la comunidad y al país este lunes 12 de agosto en Casa Central.
Chile está al debe en materia de políticas públicas sobre violencia de género, ya que hasta ahora se ha legislado fundamentalmente en torno a la violencia intrafamiliar, cuando lo que se necesita es una política integral que aborde el fenómeno en todas sus dimensiones.
Contribuir a mejorar el conocimiento en archivística de agrupaciones, relevando la importancia que tienen los archivos no solo para resguardar el patrimonio histórico, sino que también para reconocer el valor de la producción documental administrativa que cada organización está generando en el quehacer de sus funciones diarias, es el objetivo central de este programa formativo que se está desarrollando hasta septiembre en la Casa FECH. El programa, además, busca subsanar la falta de estos espacios en la realidad archivística nacional.
Este 8 de agosto el Hospital Clínico de Magallanes (HCM) realizó por primera vez la cirugía de implante valvular aórtico, procedimiento que no sólo marca un hito en la cardiología de la región, sino que levanta al Servicio de Salud de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena, como el único del país en realizar esta intervención en un lugar más al sur de Concepción. Este procedimiento, en el que participó el cardiocirujano del Hospital Clínico de la U.
The ECI sought a legal mandate to link Aadhaar with Voter IDs; Facebook approached the Supreme Court over PILs demanding Aadhaar linkage with social media accounts; MEITY invited ‘select stakeholders’ for private consultations over the data protection bill; and a new panel to review defence procurement practices in India was constituted by the Defense Minister […]
Closing down libraries to save money is ‘one of the most short-sighted decisions that public officials can make’, the World Library and Information Congress has heard.
Her widely received essay “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy” at the turn of the millennium made Tiziana Terranova one of the most influential voices on the digital economy. In the age of platform economy her deliberations on free labour remain ever so relevant. In this interview with Vivien Hard and Christopher Olk…
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