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Doing good, wrong? The role of philanthropy in keeping people safe

Candid

Inconsistent legal and regulatory framework: While federal laws such as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act provide guidelines for child protection, safeguarding practices for other vulnerable groups and in broader contexts are less defined.

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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

As announced in Brazilian press in October of 2013, a new version of a law in Brazil just took effect, mandating that smartphones give visibility to Brazilian-made apps , by either pre-loading phones with these homegrown apps or providing a dedicated marketplace on smartphones to display them. What’s good about the “Good Law”.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Marine Life Center forcus on rehabilitating stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises & whales while advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health & conservation. Demos is a national policy organization fighting for a fair economy and inclusive democracy. Demos :: @ Demos_Org.

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

California recently passed a law requiring AI literacy to be incorporated into K-12 curricula starting this fall. The EU goes further, requiring companies that produce AI products to train applicable staff to have the “skills, knowledge and understanding that allow providers, deployers and affected persons.

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Will the Law Commission’s digital assets final report make the UK a DeFi jurisdiction of choice?

TechCrunch

Adam Sanitt Contributor Dr. Adam Sanitt is a knowledge director specializing in financial disputes, technology and innovation at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. The English Law Commission, in its final report on digital assets, proposes to solve this riddle with a new approach that might make the U.K.

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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have previously written about the top issues addressed by the Treaty , but to recap, the Treaty is a wonderful instrument because it requires exceptions for people who are blind or have other print disabilities in national copyright laws. HathiTrust.

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Inside the booming edibles economy

Fast Company Tech

The explosion of hemp-derived cannabis products has helped quicken the normalization of cannabis, says John Kagia , the director of cannabis policy in New York and an industry analyst. Von Pfetten compares the public level of knowledge about the cannabis industry and all the products available to skincare in the 1960s.

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