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Videos: COVID Vaccination Misinformation - 24 Feb 2021
by Matthew Moore 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Alex McIntosh: https://youtu.be/YDfisZ08M6U Adam Dunn: https://youtu.be/B3rQM79Pi18 Heidi Larson: https://youtu.be/NJRsNcZH4ho Q&A: https://youtu.be/gwO65A_bIf8 As a result of a massive medical effort, we now have multiple vaccines for COVID-19. However developing vaccines is not sufficient to solve this planetary challenge, people have to take them. Vaccination is a communications and information challenge as well as a biomedical one. In the session, we will discuss: - Why people are hesitant to take vaccines - The role that different actors (e.g. governments, tech companies, the general public) play in vaccine information provision - What this means for the effective roll out of the COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in Australia Alex McIntosh is strategy lead at Reset Australia, a research and advocacy organisation focused on preventing digital harms to democracy, with a current focus on the rising wave of medical and COVID-19 misinformation and the threat it poses to our vaccine rollout. Over the past year she launched Misinformation Medic - a campaign raising public awareness of social media platforms roles in amplifying harmful content during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also led the development of Reset Australia’s Live List policy - a proposal which would mandate transparency from the social media platforms to equip health experts with the data they need to tackle COVID-19 misinformation. Adam Dunn is Head of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health at the University of Sydney. His research programs are focused applied machine learning in clinical epidemiology and public health. The multidisciplinary teams he leads have examined the epidemiology of health misinformation for more than 5 years. Their work includes the first analyses to examine associations between estimates of information exposure and vaccination coverage, and now looks at when and how to address health misinformation safely and effectively in online communities. Heidi J. Larson, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is also Clinical Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Dr. Larson previously headed Global Immunisation Communication at UNICEF, chaired GAVI’s Advocacy Task Force, and served on the WHO SAGE Working Group on vaccine hesitancy. She is author of STUCK: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away (Oxford U Press, 2020) UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CfP: 4S Open Panel 178: Technology Needs of the Muslim Communities Around the World
by Peer, Firaz A 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hello Everyone, The deadline to submit abstracts to the 4S conference is less than a couple of weeks away (8th March to be precise), so I’d like to draw your attention to an open panel we are organizing about the “Technology Needs of Muslim Communities Around the World”. The complete description of the panel is available on the 4S website<https://www.4sonline.org/178-technology-needs-of-the-muslim-communities-aro…>, which I have also included in this email. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have. Thanks. 178: Technology Needs of the Muslim Communities Around the World This panel will seek to understand what it means to practice good relations between technologies and humans who adhere to the Islamic way of life. Islam is one of the world’s dominant (23% of the world identify as Muslim) and fastest-growing major religion. While there is much scholarship that focuses on Islam’s spiritual and cultural aspects, there is a paucity of research that considers the relationship between Islam and modern computing technologies. We call for research that focuses on understanding the designs, (non)uses, improvisations, and regulations around the “techno-spiritual” practices of Muslim populations globally. We construe technology broadly and welcome scholarship that offers a more nuanced understanding of Islam and technology design from various scholarly traditions, including sociology, law, anthropology, communication, STS, environmental science, political science, social work, gender studies, health and philosophy. We define “Islam” as an umbrella term for representing different practices of Islam around the world. We hope to contribute to discussions of how technologies shape and are, in turn, shaped by the religious practices within Muslim communities. These practices have implications for development, privacy, security, human rights, social justice, health, substance abuse rehabilitation, sustainability, and islamophobia, while also addressing the broader question around the othering of the Islamic faith from modern Science and Technology practices. In bringing this panel together, we hope to draw attention to Muslim communities’ values and needs, in order to initiate a larger conversation about the technology needs of faith-based communities, which have been largely overlooked by the research community. On behalf of the organizers, Firaz Peer.

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CfP: 4S open panel on Menstruation as Technology, Technologies of Menstruation
by Monika Sengul-Jones 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

*apologies for cross-posting* Subject: CfP: 4S open panel on Menstruation as Technology, Technologies of Menstruation Dear all, We invite you to submit an abstract to the 2021 4S conference on Good Relations: Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds open panel 124. Menstruation as Technology, Technologies of Menstruation (full description below). The conference will be held in Toronto and worldwide online 6-9 October 2021. Deadline for abstracts is March 8, 2021. Links below. We look forward to thinking with you. Best, Monika Sengul-Jones and Amanda Menking, co-panel organizers. 124. Menstruation as Technology, Technologies of Menstruation Hormonal bodies have always been technologies of socio-technical relations. >From the practices of spatial segregation due to menstruation (Spain, 1993) to the physical effects of ovulation and bleeding, to the varied practice of tracking of menstruation and ovulation (Delaney, Lupton, Toth, 1988, p. 274), scholars in feminist technoscience have documented menstruation as propelling and troubling gendered social formations.Simultaneously, social, political, and technical designs of (bio)technologies have influenced and co-constructed the meanings and embodied experiences of menstruation. Entrepreneurs have introduced products and services designed to meet the perceived needs of menstruators and appeal to neoliberal notions of ‘health and wellbeing’ (e.g., period panties, organic tampon subscriptions). Pharmaceutical companies, chemical products, and medical practitioners have developed, marketed, and prescribed products which manage, alter and disrupt endocrine cycles, troubling natural conceptions of menstruation. Social technologies like Instagram and TikTok have provided menstrual activists spaces to destigmatize menses, work to end period poverty (being unable to afford products to manage menstrual bleeding), and challenge assumptions and discursive constructions about difference and menstruation (Hasson, 2016). Ruha Benjamin’s work on race after technology suggests interdependency is always happening: “Our lived realit[ies] and infrastructural designs connect us in seen and unseen ways” (2019, p. 194). This panel takes up the premise of interdependency in considering technologies of menstruation and their effects. As precariously situated critical scholars, we invite scholars committed to feminist studies of technoscience and embodiment to inclusively and generatively engage in questions of the co-shaping of knowledge about menstruation with us. Keywords: menstruation, embodiment, interdependency, feminist technoscience, endocrine disruption Links: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/ https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/ https://www.4sonline.org/124-menstruation-as-technology-technologies-of-men… On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:17 PM <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 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More > details are available at > https://www.end-violence.org/tech-coalition-safe-online-research-fund-launc… > . > > ~Michael > > > ** Funding opportunity to tackle online child sexual exploitation & abuse: > Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund > > End Violence and the Technology Coalition have launched the Tech Coalition > Safe Online Research Fund to expand knowledge of online child sexual > exploitation and abuse (CSEA) and to develop actionable insights for > preventing it. > > From now until 11 April 2021, the Request for Proposals is open, seeking > innovative research into this topic with priority given to research that > can inform the technology industry?s approach to combating online CSEA. > Winning proposals will be awarded grants from $20,000 to $250,000. Learn > more and apply here: http://bit.ly/TC_SafeOnline_ResearchFund. > > This collaboration is part of Technology Coalition?s?Project Protect, > which seeks to prevent and eradicate online CSEA through technology > innovation, collective action, research, knowledge sharing, and increased > accountability. This fund is an essential part of that process, supporting > actionable research that will lead to real, lasting change for children?s > digital safety.? > > Please share with your networks! > > > > -- > Michael Zimmer, PhD > Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science > Marquette University > michael.zimmer(a)marquette.edu > www.michaelzimmer.org > @michaelzimmer > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 199, Issue 26 > ************************************** > -- Monika S Jones, PhD (she/her) Writer, researcher & educator for hire Website <https://monikasjones.com/> | Medium <https://medium.com/@msj> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/monikasjones> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/monikajones>

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Second Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation: CASE @ ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
by ali hürriyetoglu 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation: Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE) @ ACL- IJCNLP 2021 URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2021/ April 26, 2021: Submission deadline May 28, 2021: Notification of Acceptance June 7, 2021: Camera-ready papers due Workshop dates: August 5-6, 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Today, the unprecedented quantity of easily accessible data on social, political, and economic processes offers ground-breaking potential in guiding data-driven analysis in social and human sciences and in driving informed policy-making processes. The need for precise and high-quality information about a wide variety of events ranging from political violence, environmental catastrophes, and conflict, to international economic and health crises has rapidly escalated (Porta and Diani, 2015; Coleman et al. 2014). Governments, multilateral organizations, local and global NGOs, and social movements present an increasing demand for this data to prevent or resolve conflicts, provide relief for those that are afflicted, or improve the lives of and protect citizens in a variety of ways. For instance, Black Lives Matter protests and conflict in Syria events are only two examples where we must understand, analyze, and improve the real-life situations using such data. Event extraction has long been a challenge for the natural language processing (NLP) community as it requires sophisticated methods in defining event ontologies, creating language resources, and developing algorithmic approaches (Pustojevsky et al. 2003; Boroş, 2018; Chen et al. 2021). Social and political scientists have been working to create socio-political event databases such as ACLED, EMBERS, GDELT, ICEWS, MMAD, PHOENIX, POLDEM, SPEED, TERRIER, and UCDP following similar steps for decades. These projects and the new ones increasingly rely on machine learning (ML) and NLP methods to deal better with the vast amount and variety of data in this domain (Hürriyetoğlu et al. 2020). Automation offers scholars not only the opportunity to improve existing practices, but also to vastly expand the scope of data that can be collected and studied, thus potentially opening up new research frontiers within the field of socio-political events, such as political violence & social movements. But automated approaches as well suffer from major issues like bias, generalizability, class imbalance, training data limitations, and ethical issues that have the potential to affect the results and their use drastically (Lau and Baldwin 2020; Bhatia et al. 2020; Chang et al. 2019). Moreover, the results of the automated systems for socio-political event information collection may not be comparable to each other or not of sufficient quality (Wang et al. 2016; Schrodt 2020). Socio-political events are varied and nuanced. Both the political context and the local language used may affect whether and how they are reported. Therefore, all steps of information collection (event definition, language resources, and manual or algorithmic steps) may need to be constantly updated, leading to a series of challenging questions: Do events related to minority groups are represented well? Are new types of events covered? Are the event definitions and their operationalization comparable across systems? (Hürriyetoğlu 2019, 2020a, 2020b) This workshop aims to seek answers to this kind of questions, to inspire innovative technological and scientific solutions for tackling the aforementioned issues, and to quantify the quality of the automated event extraction systems. Moreover, the workshop will trigger a deeper understanding of the performance of the computational tools used and the usability of the resulting socio-political event datasets. We invite contributions from researchers in computer science, NLP, ML, AI, socio-political sciences, conflict analysis and forecasting, peace studies, as well as computational social science scholars involved in the collection and utilization of socio-political event data. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics * Extracting events in and beyond a sentence * Training data collection and annotation processes * Event coreference detection * Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, causal relations * Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics * Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies * Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks * Lexical, Syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of event information manifestation * Development and analysis of rule-based, ML, hybrid, and human-in-the-loop approaches for creating event datasets * COVID-19 related socio-political events * Applications of event databases * Online social movements * Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets * Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information * Novel event detection * Release of new event datasets * Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets * Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing * Qualities of the event information on various online and offline platforms *** Keynotes *** We invite leading scholars in computational linguistics and social and political sciences to deliver keynote speeches on collecting and exploiting socio-political event information. *Computational linguistics*: Elizabeth Boschee is the Director of the Boston office of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute and a Senior Supervising Computer Scientist in the Emerging Activities division. Her current efforts focus on cross-lingual information extraction, retrieval, and summarization, specifically targeting low or zero-resource settings, e.g. cross-lingual settings with <1M words of bitext or event extraction from non-English languages with only English training data. Prior to joining ISI, Boschee spent 17 years at BBN Technologies. As a Lead Scientist there, she was the chief architect of the BBN ACCENT event coder, the technology behind the W-ICEWS event data, which more than doubled the precision (while still increasing recall) of the previously deployed solution for CAMEO event coding. The title of the talk is "Events on a Global Scale: Towards Language-Agnostic Event Extraction". Please find the abstract on the online workshop page. *Social and political sciences*: Kristine Eck is an Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, where she serves as the Director of the Uppsala Rotary Peace Center. Her research interests concern coercion and resistance, including human rights, police misconduct, state surveillance, and conflict data production. She served as the Director of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) 2017-2018 and has been a Visiting Researcher at Oxford University, Copenhagen University, the University of Notre Dame, and Kobe University. Dr. Eck’s research has been funded by the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. Please check the online workshop website for any update about this talk. **** Submissions ***** This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research on the topics listed above. The papers should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions should be between 4 and 8 pages in total. Authors are also invited to submit short papers not exceeding 4 pages (plus two additional pages for references). Short papers should describe: - a small, focused contribution; - work in progress; - a negative result; - a position paper. - a report on shared task participation. Papers should be submitted on the START page of the workshop (link: TBD) in PDF format, in compliance with the ACL-IJCNLP 2021 author guidelines provided on https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers. The reviewing process will be double-blind and papers should not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. If you do include any author names on the title page, your submission will be automatically rejected. In the body of your submission, you should eliminate all direct references to your own previous work. Finally, the workshop Proceedings will be published on ACL Anthology. **** Shared tasks **** We are preparing a cross-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, and English), which was only in English in previous events we organized, a socio-political event information classification and extraction task. Moreover, we are preparing two additional data challenges about protests pertaining to BlackLivesMatter and COVID19[3] <https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2021/#_ftn3>. These challenges will be about automatically replicating the spatiotemporal distribution of a manually curated events list. Common Crawl News will be exploited as a data source. Moreover, a Twitter dataset will be shared with the participants as well. A Codalab page will be set up for each task. Participating teams will be required to submit a report, which will be peer-reviewed, describing the methods and results they ran on the data. We encourage submissions of the system papers on our available benchmarks (ProtestNews @ CLEF 2020 <https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/> and AESPEN @ LREC 2020 <https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/>). Please find details of these datasets and shared tasks on Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2019, 2020a, and 2020b). Please send an e-mail to ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr if you would like to participate in any of the shared tasks. **** Important dates **** April 26, 2021: Workshop Paper Due Date May 28, 2021: Notification of Acceptance June 7, 2021: Camera-ready papers due August 5-6, 2021: Workshop Dates Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). **** Organization Committee **** Ali Hürriyetoğlu (Koc University, Turkey) Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Italy) Vanni Zavarella (Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Italy) Reyyan Yeniterzi (Sabancı University, Turkey) Aline Villavicencio (University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom; and Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Erdem Yörük (Koc University, Turkey), Deniz Yuret (Koc University, Turkey), Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Gautam Kishore Shahi (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany). **** Program Committee **** Tommaso Caselli (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Osman Mutlu (Koc University, Turkey), Fırat Duruşan (Koc University, Turkey), Ali Safaya (Koc University, Turkey), Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi (Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics, the United Kingdom), Gautam Kishore Shahi (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Matina Halkia (European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Italy), Benjamin J. Radford (UNC Charlotte, the United States), Mark Lee (University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom), YiJyun Lin (University of Nevada, the United States), Fredrik Olsson (RISE, Sweden), Kristine Eck (Uppsala University, Sweden), Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University, the Netherlands), Francielle Vargas (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Farhana Liza (University of Essex, the UK), Nicoletta Calzolari (Institute for Computational Linguistics, Italy), Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), Harish Tayyar Madabushi (University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom), Ritesh Kumar (Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India), Alexandra DeLucia (Johns Hopkins University, United States), Jasmine Lorenzini (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Kalliopi Zervanou Eindhoven (University of Technology the Netherlands), Andrew Lee Halterman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the United States), Manuela Speranza (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy), Marijn Schraagen (Utrecht University, the Netherlands).

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WEBCAST TODAY VirtualCNAfricaSummit2020 5 – Inside an African Community Network | Au sein d’un réseau communautaire africain
by Joly MacFie 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

So, today we have the "strong finish' of the Africa CN Summit, and spectacular it promises to be, including videos of the inner working of these two outstanding community networks. ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday 24 February 2021 at 12:00-14:00 UTC the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) present the fifth and last session in the 5th (Virtual) Summit on Community Networks in Africa with the theme ‘Inside an " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5>On *Wednesday 24 February 2021* at *12:00-14:00 UTC* the *Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/africa>* (ISOC) and the *Association for Progressive Communications <https://www.apc.org/>* (APC) present the fifth and last session in the *5th (Virtual) Summit on Community Networks in Africa <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa>* with the theme ‘*Inside an African Community Network <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/202…>* ‘. The session focuses on two community networks: *BOSCO Uganda <https://boscouganda.com/>* located in Northern Uganda, and PAMOJANet in Eastern DRC. They will showcase their respective and practical approach to connecting the unconnected, including governance structures, business models, and technical operations. <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5>Le *mercredi 24 février 2021* à *12h00-14h00 UTC*, l'*Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/africa>* (ISOC) et l'*Association for Progressive Communications <https://www.apc.org/> *(APC) présentent la cinquième et dernière session du *5e Sommet (virtuel) sur les réseaux communautaires en Afrique <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/events/summit-community-networks-africa>* sur le thème «*Au sein d’un réseau communautaire africain <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/events/summit-community-networks-africa/…>* ». La session se concentre sur deux réseaux communautaires: BOSCO Ouganda <https://boscouganda.com/> situé dans le nord de l'Ouganda, et *PAMOJANet <https://www.la-difference.com/innovation-article-community-internet>* dans l'est de la RDC. Ils présenteront leur approche respective et pratique pour connecter les personnes non connectées, y compris les structures de gouvernance, les modèles commerciaux et les opérations techniques. *SPEAKERS* *Chako Armant*, La Difference (PamojaNET Community Network) *Alva-Ntyo Mihigo*, Network Manager, PamojaNET Community Network *Daniel Komakec*, BOSCO Uganda *Okot Solomon Nono*, BOSCO Uganda *MODERATOR* *Jean Louis Fendji* - Senior Lecturer, University of Ngaoundere and Research Director, AfroLeadership *LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5>* *LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3b7y7AN <https://bit.ly/3b7y7AN> *(English closed captions, Interprète français) *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC>* (English) *TWITTER #VirtualCNAfricaSummit2020 <https://bit.ly/2DYj5kh> #CommunityNetworks @internetsociety @APC_News @_AfricanUnion @giz_gmbh @ISOC_Africa @BOSCOUganda @LaDifferenceDRC @ISOC_Community @ISOC_Foundation #switchiton #GrowInternet* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5* <https://archive.org/details/VirtualCNAfricaSummit5> *EVENT PATRON - African Union <https://au.int/> * *EVENT SPONSOR - GIZ GmbH <http://www.giz.de/> * *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13781/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Funding opportunity: Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund
by Zimmer, Michael 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Dear AoIR: Colleagues affiliated with the Technology Coalition (https://www.technologycoalition.org) and End Violence Against Children (https://www.end-violence.org) have asked me to share this call for proposals to fund research in this area with the AoIR community. More details are available at https://www.end-violence.org/tech-coalition-safe-online-research-fund-launc…. ~Michael ** Funding opportunity to tackle online child sexual exploitation & abuse: Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund End Violence and the Technology Coalition have launched the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund to expand knowledge of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) and to develop actionable insights for preventing it. From now until 11 April 2021, the Request for Proposals is open, seeking innovative research into this topic with priority given to research that can inform the technology industry’s approach to combating online CSEA. Winning proposals will be awarded grants from $20,000 to $250,000. Learn more and apply here: http://bit.ly/TC_SafeOnline_ResearchFund. This collaboration is part of Technology Coalition’s Project Protect, which seeks to prevent and eradicate online CSEA through technology innovation, collective action, research, knowledge sharing, and increased accountability. This fund is an essential part of that process, supporting actionable research that will lead to real, lasting change for children’s digital safety.  Please share with your networks! -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Marquette University michael.zimmer(a)marquette.edu www.michaelzimmer.org @michaelzimmer

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CFP: 4S Open Panel--118: Making science in public
by Hara, Noriko 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

***Call for Participation for 4S Open Panel on "#118: Making science in public: Studying relations within science communication and public engagement"*** https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/ 4S (Society for Study of Science and Technology) Annual Meeting, Toronto and Worldwide, October 6-9, 2021 Submission Deadline: March 8, 2021 Science communication and public engagement with science are key mechanisms by which scientific knowledge is mediated, negotiated, and transformed. Over the past decades, STS research has outlined the ways in which science and society are co-produced through public communication activities and catalysed a shift towards dialogue and engagement in science communication practice. More recently, the question of the diverse relations that are performed in such communication have risen to the fore, as well as concerns about the nature of responsible public engagement, public (dis)trust in expertise, the dizzying impacts of social media, and debates about science's role in public health. For instance, science communication has been crucial during the Covid-19 pandemic. This open panel invites paper proposals that analyse such ways that science is represented, transformed, contested or negotiated in public venues. Papers may explore, for instance, science and technology-related activism; science in social media; science in museums; deliberative experiments; popular science writing; science podcasting; sciart activities; news media; or science comedy. We invite critical analysis of these sites and mechanisms. For example, papers might analyse the relations of publics and knowledges within particular science communication activities; discuss affective or temporal regimes of public engagement; explore how science is communicated to marginalized populations; or otherwise reflect on how STS might contribute to doing science in public in just, generous, and collaborative ways. Organizers: Sarah Davies, University of Copenhagen Noriko Hara, Indiana University Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. | https://norikohara.org<https://norikohara.org/> Professor Department of Information & Library Science Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering Indiana University

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WEBCAST AUJOURD'HUI «Des certificats pour tous et pour l’IOT : La “PKI 2.0” ouvre une nouvelle ère pour la cybersécurité»
by Joly MacFie 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Il s'agit du 2e de la série de webinaires #EncryptEurope 2021. Le premier peut être trouvé archivé ici <https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope1> - anglais, mais avec des légendes en français. Celui-ci est en français, bien sûr. ISOC Live posted: "Le mardi 23 février 2021 à 10h00-11h00 CET (09h00-10h00 UTC) Encryption Europe présente un webinaire « Des certificats pour tous et pour l'IOT : La "PKI 2.0" ouvre une nouvelle ère pour la cybersécurité et l'identité numérique de confiance ». Les experts " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope2>Le *mardi 23 février 2021* à *10h00-11h00 CET* (09h00-10h00 UTC) *Encryption Europe <https://encryptioneurope.eu/>* présente un webinaire « *Des certificats pour tous et pour l'IOT : La "PKI 2.0" ouvre une nouvelle ère pour la cybersécurité et l'identité numérique de confiance* <https://encryptioneurope.eu/%20https://encryptioneurope.eu/2021/01/19/Encry…> ». Les experts discuteront de l'infrastructure à clé publique et en particulier de la technologie PKI 2.0 développée par *NTX Research <https://ntx-research.com/>*. La PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) constitue la base incontournable de la confiance numérique sur Internet avec la certification des serveurs (https). Aujourd’hui, le déploiement des certificats serveur s’accélère et se démocratise grâce à l’initiative “Let’s Encrypt” (letsencrypt.org) La technologie “PKI 2.0” développée et brevetée par NTX Research ( ntx-research.com/technologies/pki-2-0/) va beaucoup plus loin : elle permet le déploiement à très grande échelledes certificats pour les personnes (citoyens, internautes, consommateurs, professionnels) et pour les objets connectés. *PRÉSENTATION* *Pascal Thoniel*, fondateur, directeur technique et directeur de la R&D de NTX Research *INTERVENANTS* *Jean-Guillaume Dumas*, professeur, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann *Pascal Lafourcade*, maitre de conférence, Laboratoire Verimag Centre Equation *Thomas Kopp*, Chief Scientist, LuxTrust *Pascal Thoniel*, fondateur, directeur technique / directeur de la R&D, NTX Research *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope2>* *PARTICIPER VIA BBB: https://zfrmz.eu/s3kEsxebabAv5v9MASwH <https://zfrmz.eu/s3kEsxebabAv5v9MASwH>* *TWITTER #EncryptEurope <https://bit.ly/EncryptEurope> @EncryptEurope #PKI #GlobalEncryption #CyberSecurity* *@pascalthoniel @NTXResearch Jean-Guillaume Dumas @UGrenobleAlpes Pascal Lafourcade #Verimag @ThomasKopp @luxtrust* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope2 <https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope2>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13763/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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An RFP to study Internet's technical success factors
by Pablo Hinojosa 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Dear friends, Greetings from Brisbane, Below is an RFP about a study to study the Internet-s technical success factors. English: https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/22/what-are-the-internets-technical-success-… Español: https://www.lacnic.net/5155/1/lacnic/ Please consider submitting a proposal. With best regards, Pablo Strategic Engagement Director +61430147274

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19th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless - ACM MobiWac 2021 - Deadline: July 5th, 2021
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The 19th ACM* International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (ACM MobiWac 2021) November 22 - 26, 2021 - Alicante, Spain http://mobiwac-symposium.org/ (*Pending) Sponsored by ACM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Paper submission deadline: July 5th, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The MobiWac series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * 5G/6G * AI-based mobility management * AI-enabled wireless networks * Analysis/simulation of wireless mobile systems * Big data analytics for mobile and wireless networks * Channels and resource allocation algorithms * Context-aware protocols, services, architecture and applications * Cyber-Physical Systems and Cyber-Physical Social Systems * Energy and power management algorithms * Fault tolerance solutions * Localization and tracking * Mobile and wireless entertainment and multimedia applications * Mobile broadband wireless access * Mobile cloud/fog/edge computing * Mobile/vehicular environment access * Mobility models, control and management * Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC/network layer management * Multi-Homing and vertical handoff * Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios * Next generation wireless systems * Pervasive communication and computing * Pervasive, mobile and wearable computing systems and services * QoS management * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Mobility Management * SDN solutions in mobile and wireless networks * Security, trust management and privacy issues * Social mobile networks and applications * Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis * Ubiquitous and mobile access * Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Wireless applications and testbeds * Wireless Internet and All-IP integration * Wireless systems' design * Wireless/mobile access protocols and web access ============================================================================ Submission Guidelines: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. The symposium will have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. Paper length must be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a publication fee. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. Papers are submitted via the EDAS system: https://edas.info/N28242 For any question or problems related to MobiWac 2021 submissions, please contact the PC Chairs. ============================================================================ Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 5th, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: August 15th, 2021 Camera Ready version due: TBA Author Registration deadline: TBA Submission link: https://edas.info/N28242 ============================================================================ Organizing Committee: General Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho, Concordia University, Canada Tutorials Chair Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Posters/Demo Chair Valeria Loscri, Inria, France Publicity Co-Chairs Mirela. A. M. Notare, Technology University on Fly Transportation, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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