Month: October 2015

KnowRight conferences have been held since 1995. This 10th anniversary conference will be held as a a pre-conference of CPDP2016 in Brussels on January 26, 2016. The focus will be on the interaction between data protection, intellectual property rights, ethical issues, civil society and information technology. Due to its origins as an IP and privacy conference of a computing society, technological solutions to legal challenges are a main aim.

Source: KnowRight2016 | 10th International Conference on the Interaction of Knowledge Rights, Data Protection and Communication, held in conjunction with CPDP 2016.

In Harvard Law Today there is an article about a nearby change in the legal profession. “The warning bells have been ringing for at least two decades: The legal profession as we’ve known it is doomed, and lawyers must adapt – or face extinction. For the most part, these dire predictions have been ignored, even as globalization and technology have revolutionized markets, affecting everything from airline travel to taxicabs. Yes, law firms have been outsourcing legal research to India, and electronic discovery is taking over some basic tasks. But lawyers have tended to see themselves as immune: a guild of highly educated advisers whose wisdom, savvy and deep understanding of a complex series of laws are irreplaceable.”

Source: The Laws of Adaptation – Harvard Law Today

Three positions as PhD research fellows are available, each for three years, to undertake research as part of the project “Security in Internet Governance and Networks: Analysing the Law” (SIGNAL). The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and UNINETT Norid AS. The appointees will work as part of a team at the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law, University of Oslo, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of experts from other universities.

The period for each fellowship may be extended up to four (4) years, with teaching, supervision duties and research assistance constituting 25 % of the workload. A prerequisite for such an extension is that the appointee meets the current teaching needs of the Faculty of Law.

Source: the Doctoral Research Fellowship within Internet Govenance.

Building upon the success of the IEEE ETHICS 2014, theIEEE Ethics Symposium Steering Committee is now planning the IEEE ETHICS 2016 Symposium, hosted by the IEEE Vancouver Section in Vancouver, BC, Canada from 13-14 May 2016 in cooperation with the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

Source: IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Science, Engineering and Technology

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has opened its annual call for fellowship applications. This opportunity is for those who wish to spend the 2016-2017 academic year in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of Berkman’s community of pioneers, and who seek to deeply engage in the collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet’s most interesting, challenging, and compelling issues.

Applications will be accepted until Monday December 21, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Source: Fellowship Applications at Berkman Center.

The 4th Göttingen International Research Forum on Law and ICT/IP is funded by “Klaus-Imhülsen-Stiftung“  and will take place on November 5-6, 2015. The idea of the colloquium is to give young researchers in the field of intellectual property law as well as ICT law the opportunity to present the results of their scientific work and research to other young researchers as well as senior researchers in the field in order to discuss their topics and obtain valuable feedback for their further research work. View program.

Bridging the Digital Divide: Ensuring High-Speed and Quality Internet in Europe Beyond 2020 will take place on Tuesday 19th January, 2016 at Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre.

In the era of fast and ultra-fast internet, the European Union has set ambitious objectives in order to keep pace with world leaders such as South Korea and Japan. As part of the Europe 2020 strategy, the Digital Agenda drafted by the European Commission aims at providing download rates of at least 30 Mbps for all its citizens across Europe as well as to reach a target of 50% of European households subscribing to internet connections above 100 Mbps by 2020. The Commission’s Communication on a Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe (May 2015) reinforces the role of high-speed, secure and affordable digital networks as the main driver for digital products and services to flourish.

Source: Publicpolicyexchange.co.uk

SCAI 2015 is the 13th Scandinavian AI conference and it will be held at the Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden, on the 5th and 6th of November, 2015.

The first SCAI conference was held in 1988 in Tromsø, Norway. It has since then been held in Nordic countries. Although its primary function is to assemble researchers from the Nordic countries, it has constantly attracted a rather international participation.

Source: CAI 2015 – Högskolan i Halmstad

The Conference on Responsible Use of Open Data: Government and the Private Sector, to be held at New York University on November 19-20, 2015 is co-organized by BCLT and NYU’s Information Law Institute and Department of Media, Culture and Communication. The event continues and expands the issues addressed by the April 2015 BCLT event Open Data: Addressing Privacy, Security, and Civil Rights Challenges Symposium. We are delighted that Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, the City of New York Chief Analytics Officer and in charge of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics has agreed to open the conference in the afternoon of November 19th.

Source: www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/bclt/upcoming-events/november-2015-open-data-toward-responsible-uses

IRI’s Doctoral student Liane Colonna will hold her final seminar “Legal Implications of Data Mining: Assessing the European Union’s Data Protection Principles in Light of the United States Government’s National Intelligence Data Mining Practices”, on December 11, 2015, at 10-12 in the Faculty Room, Stockhom University.

Tankesmedjan Fores tillsätter ett vetenskapligt råd för Digitala Samhället-programmet. Rådet ska bidra till att utveckla den vetenskapliga förankringen och programmets huvudinriktning. Fores kommer att stämma av projektidéer, tilltänkta författare och liknande med rådet, vars första sammanträde är i oktober. En av rådets ledamöter är Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, professor i rättsinformatik vid Stockholms universitet.

– Med ett vetenskapligt och ämnesöverskridande råd som kopplar samman digitaliseringen med samhällsutveckling höjer vi kvaliteten på arbetet ytterligare. Detta råd blir ett värdefullt stöd som bidrar till mer relevant forskning och utvecklar debatten om digitaliseringen i Sverige, säger Rikard Linde som leder Fores program för det Digitala samhället.
Under 2015 handlar Digitala Samhället-programmets verksamhet främst om integritetsfrågor, öppna data samt transparens.

Fores har nu tillsatt råd för alla fyra program: Ekonomiska reformer och Entreprenörskap, Klimat och Miljö, Migration och Integration samt nu Digitala Samhället. Råden fattar inte beslut och tar inte på sig ansvar för Fores verksamhet eller publikationer. Tillsättningen av ledamöter görs på vetenskaplig grund med fokus på ämnesexpertis.

Rådet består av:

• Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, Professor i rättsinformatik, Ämnesföreståndare, Institutet för rättsinformatik vid Stockholms Universitet
• Marcin de Kaminski, Ämnesföreträdare yttrandefrihet och ICT på Sida, doktorand i rättssociologi vid Lunds Universitet
• Pär Lannerö, styrelseledamot i Internet Society – Sweden chapter (ISOC-SE), konsult digital hållbarhet på Metamatrix
• Markus Bylund, doktor i datalogi, forskningsledare SICS Swedish ICT
• Jonas Andersson Schwarz, doktor i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Södertörns högskola