Month: December 2016

The University of Skovde is looking for a motivated PhD student to work on Big Data Privacy. The recruited student will work in the project “Disclosure risk and transparency in big data privacy” directed by Vicenç Torra.

The PhD thesis will be on assessing disclosure risk for big data, and on developing new data protection mechanisms for this type of data (e.g., for graphs and social networks).

Deadline for the application is January 8th. This is a 4 years project.

Source: PhD Student in Informatics with a specialization in Big Data Privacy, HS 2016/1077, application deadline January 8th 2017 – University of Skövde

The 11th IGF was held from 6 to 9 of December 2016 in Zapopan, Jalisco, México. The meeting marked the first gathering of the global multistakeholder IGF community since the renewal of the IGF’s mandate for 10 years by the United Nations General Assembly at the WSIS+10 High Level Event2 last year. With the overall meeting theme of ‘Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth’, the IGF provided a substantive platform for engaged and informed discussions about, among many other things, how the Internet can support and help to enable sustainable growth as envisaged by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Download (pdf) 11th IGF Chair’s Summary

Source: Internet Governance Forum | The IGF is a multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age.

Venue: Danube University Krems

Date: 17.05.2017 – 19.05.2017

Source: CeDEM17 – Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2017 – Danube University Krems

Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) has a vacancy for an Assistant/Associate professorship Regulation of Technology.

Job description
The successful candidate is expected to research, teach, and supervise graduate and PhD students in the field of ‘technology regulation’. (S)he is expected to develop new ideas in research and education, and acquire funding (independently or jointly with other colleagues) for future research. These activities should help TILT with the further expansion of its research and education in the field of technology regulation. Research will be conceptual, fundamental and applied, for example, in studies commissioned by third parties (government, EU, and private parties).

Deadline
Submission date: no later than 16 January 2017.

Source: Job opening: Assistant/Associate professorship regulation of technology (1,0 fte) (7901)

Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs Foundation (MMW) has granted IRI’s Director Peter Wahlgren 2 340 000 SEK for the research project “Legislation for the future”. MMW funds research projects of high scientific potential and provides individual support to outstanding scientists.

Stockholm Internet Forum 2017. Münchenbryggeriet venue in Stockholm. May 16-18 2017!

The Internet is undoubtedly a powerful technology that has had a tremendous impact on billions of people’s lives by giving access to an “uncompromised” source of information, a possibility to communicate directly to individuals all over the globe as well as to millions of people at the same time.

Stockholm Internet Forum 2017 will focus on the connection(s) between access and power. Enjoying the benefits of cross-sectorial collaboration this can be understood from many perspectives. One major key issue is however the empowering benefits of Internet accessibility – targeting both political, economic and social aspects of Power.

Previous SIF’s have brought 300-500 people to Stockholm and Munchenbryggeriet. SIDA arranges, in collaboration with Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This time there will be a special side-event because, if what I heard is correct, the next meeting with the Freedom Online Coalition, the coalition of some 30 States, is planned to meet around the same dates in Stockholm. Sweden has a leading role in the Freedom Online Coalition. https://www.freedomonlinecoalition.com/

Source: First announcement for #SIF17: “Access and Power” | Stockholm Internet Forum

Regeringen har fattat beslut om att tillsätta en utredning med uppdrag att utreda de rättsliga förutsättningarna för en digitalt samverkande förvaltning. Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg utses som särskild utredare.

Source: Utredning ser över lagstiftning som försvårar digitalisering i offentlig förvaltning – Regeringen.se