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United Nations proposes social media guidelines after survey finds 85% of people worry about online disinformation

TechSpot

The UN's culture body, Unesco, commissioned a survey by Ipsos that involved 8,000 people in 16 countries due to hold elections next year, including Austria, Croatia, the US, Algeria, Mexico, Ghana, and India. Read Entire Article

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

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Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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Teslas made in Texas will likely have to leave the state before Texans can buy them

The Verge

There was a bill proposed in the Texas legislature seemingly tailored to help Tesla: it would have let companies sell their cars directly to consumers if they were completely driven by electricity or battery-power, and only if those companies never had franchised dealerships in the state.

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Great reads from around the web on May 19th

Amy Sample Ward

Over the past few weeks, we received over 250 applications from bloggers around the world – from California to Kenya, and from Mexico to Iraq. " What We Lose if We Lose Data.gov | Freedom to Tinker – "In its latest 2011 budget proposal, Congress makes deep cuts to the Electronic Government Fund.

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SpaceX’s Starbase site inches closer to being its own city in Texas

Fast Company Tech

Mexico border. Only 10 of the roughly 250 lots of land within the proposed new city limits do not belong to the company. The election was set for May 3 and votes can only be cast by residents living near the launch site that is currently part of an unincorporated area of Cameron County, located along the U.S.-Mexico

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

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In a recent blog post , Ed explains why growth markets are key to this proposed merger of two of the publishing world’s biggest players. Random House Mondadori is one of Spain’s top three publishers and also has significant market share in Mexico and across South and Central America.

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