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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Cyberculture agenda: “Internet trust at all time low” acc. to Internet Society report…

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Wed, 11/23/2016

Five step approach identified to address data breaches and increase online trust 

[London, UK – 23 November 2016] – The Internet Society has today released the findings from its 2016 Global Internet Report in which 59 percent of users admit they would likely not do business with a company which had suffered a data breach. Highlighting the extent of the data breach problem, the report makes key recommendations for building user trust in the online environment, stating that more needs to be done to protect online personal information.

The OECD’s 2011-2015, 33 country, 215,942-person study of computer skills paints a deceptively grim picture of the average level of computer proficiency around the world — deceptive because it excludes over-65s, who research shows to be, on average, less proficient than the 16-65 cohort sampled.

Amazon is one of the world’s largest retail destinations, but it doesn’t have much traction in the Middle East. That’s why rumors that it’s looking to buy Souq.com, the Amazon of the Middle East, make so much sense. Bloomberg is reporting that Jeff B.

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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

6. İnsan Hakları Kısa Film Yarışması’na Çağrı

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10 Aralık İnsan Hakları Günü, tüm dünyada olduğu gibi ülkemizde de çeşitli etkinliklerle kutlanmaktadır. Her yıl, farklı mekanlar sivil toplum kuruluşları, üniversiteler ve diğer ilgili kurumların düzenlediği faaliyetlere ev sahipliği yapmaktadır.

Avrupa Birliği Türkiye Delegasyonu ise İnsan Hakları Günü çerçevesinde her yıl kısa film yarışması düzenlemektedir. Avrupa Birliği’ nin temel insan hakları değerlerini sinema aracılığıyla teşvik etmeyi amaçladığı ve bu yıl 6.’sı düzenlenecek yarışma için son başvuru tarihi 16 Kasım 2016’ dır.

Finale kalan ve kazanan filmlere büyük ödüllerin yanı sıra 6. Avrupa Birliği İnsan Hakları Film Günleri’ nde gösterim hakkı verilecek yarışmaya ilişkin duyuruyu ekte bilgilerinize sunuyoruz.

 

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Eurosphere agenda: A Media Analysis site for the EU Referendum 2016

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EU Referendum 2016

Media analysis from Loughborough University Centre for Research in Communication and Culture

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LONDON — Twitter has a brand new emoji, but it’s not what you think.

The EU referendum matters for Global Justice Now. Here’s why.

We spend our time fighting against EU policies. But now, we’re campaigning to stay in.

Global Justice Now (GJN) on the Eurostar to campaign against TTIP – image, GJN

Having played cat and mouse with Greece over its debt crisis, the good cop and bad cop over Ukraine’s crisis, and having ignited and then steered the refugee crisis, Berlin realises it has no control on the other big geopolitical risk on its doorstep: the Brexit referendum.
According to preliminary results the Social Democrats have won local elections in several cities in Romania. The party was shaken by a corruption scandal last year, with many of its politicians having to testify in court. Has the fight against corruption failed?

Social Democrats win Romanian local elections

Romania’s leftist Social Democrats (PSD) won most votes in countrywide local elections yesterday (5 June), according to an exit poll, putting them in a strong position before a parliamentary election later this year.

When Matt Hanley, Josh Posaner and I started to wonder about what the Brits in Berlin thought about Brexit we could not have quite imagined how much interest there would be in this issue. We’ve managed to build a super network of people, organised half a dozen events, built a website about voter registration, and ended up with a quantity and quality of press coverage about the issue that I could never have imagined. Here is a quick summary of the coverage so far!

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