Maybe the Internet Isn’t a Tool for Democracy After All
"It’s not encouraging, by any means, that we’re reduced to begging powerful CEOs to institute changes to their popular products for the sake of democracy."
View ArticleInside LAX's New Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Unit - The Atlantic
As McGinty describes it, their current operation falls somewhere between a start-up and a think tank
View ArticleInternet Privacy 2017 | What You Need to Know - Shelly Palmer
What has changed is the method we will use to draft and legislate privacy policy.
View ArticleWhat About the Plant Floor? Six Subversive Concerns for ICS Environments
Industrial enterprises such as electric utilities, petroleum companies, and manufacturing organizations invest heavily in industrial control systems (ICS) to efficiently, reliably, and safely operate...
View ArticleMythbusting Uber’s valuation | FT Alphaville
"If Uber is cheap it is not because it has out innovated the incumbent cab market, which at the end of the day has access to exactly the same ride-hailing technology. To the contrary, it’s because...
View ArticleSenators release new election cybersecurity bill | TheHill
Election infrastructure is broader than merely voting machines. That infrastructure also includes electronic poll books and servers housing voter rolls. While there is no evidence that voting machines...
View ArticleNew Paper: “OPERAS: bringing the long tail of Social Sciences and Humanities...
Elena Giglia, Head of the Open Access Office at the University of Turin (UniTo) and Coordinator of the implementation network CO-OPERAS in GoFAIR, has published a paper on the OPERAS infrastructure in...
View ArticleGlobal Open Infrastructure Initiative launched
The AOASG welcomes, and is thrilled to be a part of this exciting new global initiative Invest In Open Infrastructure.We have been vocal in calling for the need for infrastructure for open scholarship...
View ArticleOPERAS receives funding to develop its infrastructure and services
The project OPERAS-P will be funded by the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 framework for 24 month with approximately 2 million Euros. OPERAS-P (Open Scholarly Communication in the European...
View ArticleUnpaywall Journals
"Unpaywall Journals is a data dashboard that combines journal-level citations, downloads, Open Access statistics and more, to help librarians confidently manage their serials collections...."
View ArticleNext Generation Library Publishing | Educopia Institute
"In this project, Educopia, California Digital Library (CDL), and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos), in close partnership with LYRASIS, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and...
View ArticleOpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe)
What is the aim of the project?The European Commission launched OpenAIRE in 2010 as both an online portal (infrastructure) and a network of helpdesks and experts (34 National Open Access Desk (NOADs)....
View ArticleTrump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs
President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs (no relation). The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly...
View ArticleOPERAS is looking forward to welcome its new Chief Technology Officer in April
OPERAS is glad to announce that Sy Holsinger will join the OPERAS Research Infrastructure as Chief Technology Officer on April 1st. The OPERAS Research Infrastructure is building up its scholarly...
View ArticleReport Launch: Towards Public Digital Infrastructure – NGI
"As the European Commission seeks to give shape and meaning to its objective of achieving open strategic autonomy, and articulate a compelling alternative vision in an increasingly (geo)politicised...
View Article£481m for UK’s world-class research and innovation infrastructure – UKRI
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today announced a £481 million investment in major research and innovation infrastructure over the next three years. The 23 major infrastructure projects and 9...
View ArticleEnabling governments to build and sustain digital public infrastructure —...
To sum up, our discussions with stakeholders have revealed that engineering capacity within government in areas such as making design and technology decisions in building open, interoperable digital...
View ArticleNonprofits receive $50,000 awards to promote digital equity - NYN Media
"The Siegel Family Endowment has awarded $50,000 to five organizations at the forefront of efforts to make New York City digitally equitable for all. The community grants awarded to NYC Mesh, Red Hook...
View ArticleMartin Paul Eve is joining our R&D group as a Principal Developer | Crossref
I’m delighted to say that Martin Paul Eve will be joining Crossref as a Principal R&D Developer starting in January 2023. As a Professor of Literature, Technology, and Publishing at Birkbeck,...
View ArticleDII Essential Readings (digital infrastructure) | codeforsociety.org |...
"This program is informed by an interdisciplinary investigation of digital infrastructure; sustainability, maintenance, innovation, and repair; community management; theories of change; and collective...
View ArticleHumanities Commons Launches Mastodon Server Open to Scholars | Platypus, the...
Anyone using or observing Twitter will be well aware of the recent purchase of the company, which throws the future of the platform into, at best, uncertainty, and at worst, turmoil. In response, many...
View ArticleBrembs et. al. (2023) Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly...
Björn Brembs, Adrian Lenardic, Peter Murray-Rust, Leslie Chan, & Dasapta Erwin Irawan. (2023). Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge....
View ArticleNASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce
Enlarge/ NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio, formerly known as Plum Brook Station, is the world's largest space test chamber. (credit: NASA/Michelle Murphy)It's big news when a hurricane...
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