Month: November 2021

Originallay published on https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/sustainability-and-corporate-responsibility/environment/climate-action/decarbonizing-industries?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_paid&utm_campaign=gfmc-bteb_aebg-mit-report_20211116&utm_aud=automotive&utm_tar=p-5_&utm_content=mit-report_still-1_1x1_c1&fbclid=IwAR1Ng7nUGX4hhyDw5hiaPKVqUJbWvLew3lH-iRPwtroKFNMvzAkXU73XFMY “Decarbonizing industries with connectivity & 5G” MIT Technology Review Insights whitepaper evaluates how senior technology, business and renewable energy executives are leveraging cellular technology to achieve environmental sustainability as well as operational efficiency objectives. Introduction Energy, manufacturing, and transportation sectors are among the biggest carbon emitters globally. Overall, energy use is […]

by Valerio De Stefano and Antonio Aloisi on 8th November 2021 A draft EU regulation on artificial intelligence risks exclusion of the social partners and lack of compliance with data-protection requirements. Discussions about a European regulation on artificial intelligence have burgeoned since the European Commission published its proposal in April. In the aftermath, we wrote about potential threats to labour and employment rights. The text, of […]

by Margarida Silva on 8th November 2021 As MEPs host the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen this afternoon, they need to step up their challenge to the surveillance capitalists. Documents which have emerged in a legal action by several US states against Google have revealed that the company boasted about delaying a European Union regulation on ‘ePrivacy’, advanced in 2017 as […]

Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) by John Perry (November 3, 2021 A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega. This blatant censorship move was said to be because […]

As the digitization of life intensifies in the era of lockdowns, it is urgent to think about how the “Digital Revolution” is shaping a new economic order that extends the destructive hold of industrial capitalism over nature and society. Two recent works discussed here by economist Hélène Tordjman help us move forward on this path. […]

Alagalla Community Infromation Centre organised a one day awareness seminar on Information & Communication Technology at Vavuniya /Alagalla Vidyalaya on 26th February 2005. This seminar conducted by Lankanet. The participants for this seminar were community leaders, school leavers and some school children from Alagalla village.They were actively participated for this seminar and raised various questions about […]

Lankanet conducted a five days Training Program on Computer Hardware and Software Installation for nine (9) young women and men from three community base organisations from 15th February 2005 to 19th February 2005. Six of them were young women. They were from Gampola, Nuwaraeliya, and Wellassa . They represented three community base organisations called National […]