Career Information and Resources on Information Privacy in Smart Systems

Career Information and Resources on
Information Privacy in Smart Systems (Smart Cities),
Washington University Law School and UC Berkeley Law School

Theme: Public and Critical Infrastructure

Format: Careers

Leading global experts in privacy and security law – Daniel Solove and Paul Schwartz – have compiled a resources hub that houses everything from career information to statues to international privacy law materials. 

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Related Resources: 

Privacy + Security Academy 

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Local Surveillance Oversight Ordinances White Paper

Surveillance

Local Surveillance Oversight Ordinances White Paper

Theme: Public and Critical Infrastructure

Format: White Paper 

Student white paper compares and contrasts local surveillance technology ordinances from across the country

In the past few years, jurisdictions across the country have passed local surveillance technology ordinances. These ordinances are meant to bring more transparency and democratic control to local government use of surveillance technology. They passed in response to a push by civil rights and civil liberties groups concerned with the increasingly powerful surveillance capabilities of local law enforcement agencies. 

This student white paper is an effort to catalog and compare the local surveillance technology oversight ordinances that have passed so far based on the text of the ordinances themselves. 

It is authored by Berkeley Law students Ari Chivukula ’21 and Tyler Takemoto ’22, under the supervision of Catherine Crump and Juliana DeVries.

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Miami Dade College students & Code for South Florida develop a participatory budgeting prototype

PeopleBudget.org: Miami Dade College students and Code for South Florida develop a participatory budgeting prototype

Theme: Public and Critical Infrastructure

Format: Dashboard

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Miami Dade College (MDC), in partnership with Code for South Florida and the City of Miami, developed the Miami Budget project – an open source platform for citizen inclusion in the budget of the City of Miami. Students worked with faculty and industry professionals from Code for South Florida, Microsoft, and the City of Miami to create the participatory web application, which allows Miami residents to be informed contributors to their local budget.

The code repository, developed by students for this project, has nearly 100 branches. The fact that all branches are merged and closed shows evidence of student progress and completion of the project. Hundreds of separate commits were made by students, representing thousands of hours of work.

 

Related Resources:

Code for South Florida, Open Hack Night and People Budget Prototype Dem

 

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Networks and Mobile Systems Capstone, University of Washington (Fall 2021)

Networks and Mobile Systems Capstone,
University of Washington (Fall 2021)

Theme: Public and Critical Infrastructure

Format: Capstone Course

Networks and Mobile Systems Capstone, University of Washington (Fall 2021) 

This capstone course provides students with the opportunity to apply their computer science knowledge and skills in the context of building, and operating community-based Internet networks, based both on WiFi and 3GPP cellular technologies. The course includes a mix of classroom sessions, practical assignments, and a capstone group project addressing the need of a real-world network.

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Seattle Community Network, Community Networking Toolkit

A resource guide for anyone interested in starting up their own community network.
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The Community Network Manual: How to Build the Internet Yourself

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Seattle Community Network Docs

Resources from the Seattle Community Network, a community-run cellular (4G LTE) Internet access network dedicated to providing fair access to underserved communities all across the Puget Sound
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Seattle Community Network Coverage Map

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SALUS – The Crisis Hub, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

SALUS – The Crisis Hub,
Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

Theme: Public and Critical Infrastructure

Format: Web-based crisis and event management platform

The Crisis Hub, a crisis and event management platform that puts the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) directly into the hands of crisis managers, public safety professionals, and policymakers. Through maps and hundreds of real-time data sets, SALUS empowers end users to make data-informed decisions, effectively manage resources, share information, and generate accurate situational awareness.

Use SALUS to enhance readiness and resilience for your organization and the community you serve.

SALUS - The Crisis Hub Website

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