#transparency

https://www.europesays.com/2004370/ Australia’s cyber sector grows amid increasing attack risks #australia #Australia(Australian) #CriticalInfrastructure #CyberAttacks #DataProtection #DigitalTransformation #GenderDiversity #investment #NationalSecurity #ransomware #Transparency

Time to start tracking a new hashtag #LawlessnessInAmerica

More on #DOGE’s #Fraud & #Destruction
"Musk has reduced the claims abt what DOGE is saving fr $1-2tril to $150bil. NYT reports he’s still getting the numbers wrong thru things like accounting errors & cancelling contracts tt don’t exist. What a fraud fr start to finish.. #Justice Dept is fighting vigorously to shield DOGE fr hv'g to divulge tt info, despite #Trump & #Musk’s repeated assurances abt #transparency"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/more-on-doges-fraud-and-destruction.html

Thanks to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s RESPOND seminar with Dr Denis Ivanov on corruption and inequality in Lithuania, Hungary and Moldova.
With this event, following Monday’s session with Prof. Emanuela Ceva, we conclude two intense and inspiring days for the RESPOND project.
Stay connected for upcoming RESPOND events and research updates!

Visit our website: https://www.eu-respond.eu/

#RESPOND #EUProjects #HorizonEurope #Transparency #Academy #AcademicEvents #RespondSeminarSeries

We've only been at https://apply.coop for 3 months or so. Sure we could have YOLOed some CRUD app into the wild based on some framework, but we wanted to take a different approach to our tech stack. We've made lots of progress and are happy with our choices.

Still priding ourselves of no JS and a single binary with all static assets embedded.

https://codeberg.org/limeleaf/apply.coop/activity/quarterly

#applycoop #Transparency #OpenSource #JobBoard #Coop

Nice CalMatters summary of the open meeting and #transparency battles in Sacramento this year. Too many pro-secrecy bills from Democratic reps. These should be opposed. https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/

Nice CalMatters summary of the open meeting and #transparency battles in Sacramento this year. Too many pro-secrecy bills from Democratic reps. These should be opposed. https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/

Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday’s RESPOND event on rethinking the concept of corruption

See you again today at 3 PM with new experimental insights from Lithuania, Hungary and Moldova
https://www.eu-respond.eu/events/awareness-of-corruption-and-attitudes-toward-socio-economic-inequality-experimental-evidence-from-lithuania-hungary-and-moldova/

Image by Endrik Severin Meitinger

#RESPOND #EUProjects #HorizonEurope #ResearchAndInnovation #PoliticalCorruption #Transparency #SocioEconomicInequality #PublicPolicy #AcademicEvents #RespondSeminarSeries

@CssC @alice_mattoni

Big news for your wallet and the planet! Companies might soon have to tell you when their products will... stop working. Would that change how you shop? #Transparency #Sustainability https://www.wired.com/story/companies-might-soon-have-to-tell-you-when-their-products-will-die/

@harrysintonen as a matter of fact, #Germany outlawing #VotingMachines for #transparency and #ElectionIntegrity reasons alone, citing that every person eligible to vote must be able to verify the entire pricess without any assistance whatsoever!

#Transparency and Accountability

Problems: Lack of oversight, government secrecy, poor ethics enforcement.

Reform Focus: Strengthen watchdog agencies, enforce transparency laws, empower whistleblowers, and limit executive privilege. 10)

Based on some of my posts made in #Taipei last month.

Trees are people to me. https://aarohini.medium.com/tree-data-in-taipei-9012a8cf53b9

#opendata #transparency #treecensus #biodiversity #conservation #urbanplanning #publicparks #trees #taiwan

#RepublicOfGeorgia: First year of #Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how #autocracies are replicating #Russian model − and speeding up the time frame

Published: March 28, 2025 6:25am EDT

"#Autocracy is on the move worldwide and becoming more resilient.

"One of the driving forces behind this phenomenon is something scholars call '#AuthoritarianLearning,' a process by which autocratic leaders study each other and adapt tactics based on what appears to work, and how to proceed when they encounter #resistance.

"Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a '#ForeignAgent' law in May 2024 – legislation that came straight from #VladimirPutin’s playbook.

"Sold to the public as increasing #transparency, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s #opposition and arrest #dissidents with impunity.

"As researchers examining the structure and effects of autocratic regimes, we view Georgia’s first year of its foreign agent law as an example of how politicians are not only learning the tactics of Russian authoritarianism but improving on them in a shorter time frame."

Read more:
https://theconversation.com/first-year-of-georgias-foreign-agent-law-shows-how-autocracies-are-replicating-russian-model-and-speeding-up-the-time-frame-250878

#RightToProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GeorgianLaws #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #HumanRights #RepublicOfGeorgia #GeorgianDream #ProtestSponsors #ExpandedPolicePowers #PoliceState #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Autocracy

"Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick's ruling, expected later this month, could either establish a legal precedent empowering people to probe deeper into public-private partnerships — like that between the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Foundation — or further shield private entities working with local governmental agencies in Georgia from scrutiny." https://atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/04/07/cop-city-investigation-puts-atlanta-police-foundation-secrecy-on-trial/
#politics #GAPol #Atlanta #stopCopCity #transparency

#Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, will visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a #physical Friday, the first of his new admin.

Don’t expect much. In December 2015, Dr. Harold Bornstein, #Trump's personal physician, wrote a letter saying that he would be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." Bornstein told CNN in 2018 that the doctor's note he penned had been dictated to him by Trump.

#USpol #transparency #unfit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/trump-physical.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4A64F9B5-650E-475E-86C3-2527691A6DCD

At @mailbox_org your privacy comes first: Our platform stores your data exclusively in an anonymized manner – completely without cookies.

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#mailboxorg #Privacy #NoCookies #Security #Transparency

[BLOG] Putting the 'Open' in 'Thoth Open Archiving Network'

Our Archiving group announce a new direction for our #OpenAccess archiving solution

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-open-archiving-network/

@Thoth_metadata

#OpenAccess #OA #OAbooks #MetadataMatters #Archiving #Transparency #OpenArchiving

DOAJ and EZB: Working together for more visibility of information on publishing.

A new collaboration will see DOAJ and EZB contribute to greater transparency in scholarly publishing, empowering authors with the information they need to make informed publishing decisions

#DOAJ #metadata #APCs #transparency #ScholComm #OpenAccess

All details at https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/10/doaj-and-ezb-working-together-for-more-visibility-of-information-on-publishing/

Huawei top executive in Europe charged in Belgian corruption probe – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/904367/ #5G #Belgium #BrusselsBubble #CertificationAndStandards #China #Corruption #CriticalInfrastructure #CyberEspionage #cybersecurity #DataProtection #DigitalSingleMarket #Espionage #Europe #Exclusive #hackers #HuaweiCorruptionScandal #Intelligence #InternetOfThings #Lobbying #MoneyLaundering #NetworkSecurity #Portugal #PublicAffairs #Technology #Telecoms #Transparency

#Google #AWU #unions #transparency #antitrust #GiftArticle

"The agreement is another blow to Google’s corporate policies designed to maintain secrecy, which have been scrutinized amid the search case brought by the Justice Department. It also undercut Google’s strategy to keep its business humming during the lawsuit — to have employees ignore the antitrust battle and remain focused on their work."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/technology/google-antitrust-union-settlement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.HYHN.VrptrmQovBJy&smid=url-share

https://www.theverge.com/meta/645012/meta-llama-4-maverick-benchmarks-gaming

Meta gets caught cheating at AI benchmarks.

Short version, they submitted a different/tweaked version of their new Llama 4 models to benchmarking sites, than what they actually make available to the public.

#Meta #Facebook #Llama #AI #Benchmark #Transparency