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The new IATI Validator is open for public testing

Posted on November 13, 2019

Het bericht The new IATI Validator is open for public testing verscheen eerst op Data4Development.

Rolf Kleef

Internet trailblazer. Weaving the web to help humanity. Implementing IATI, open data and online collaboration in civil society.

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I keep a public Google calendar of events related to "open development" and "digital civic space": ICT4D, open data, digital rights, open source.

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  • Priviliged access to encrypted communication: why not. January 18, 2019
    Bruce Schneier on why it’s not a good idea to have “priviliged access” to eavesdropping on encrypted communication: The basic problem is that a backdoor is a technical capability — a vulnerability — that is available to anyone who knows about it and has access to it. Surrounding that vulnerability is a procedural system that […]
    Rolf Kleef
  • “Why today’s Aadhaar judgement matters for data justice” September 28, 2018
    Separating “citizen – government” and “consumer – supplier” relations: when the government’s system is based on monetizing the data with the private sector. Today India’s supreme court issued a judgement on the constitutionality of Aadhaar, the world’s largest biometric database. Aadhaar is complicated, but here’s the gist: for nearly ten years, public welfare and administrative […]
    Rolf Kleef
  • Untitled September 24, 2018
    It’s “Google Chrome” so Google decides on your privacy. The new Firefox, especially with multi-account containers, offers a great alternative. Trust is not a renewable resource If you didn’t respect my lack of consent on the biggest user-facing privacy option in Chrome (and didn’t even notify me that you had stopped respecting it!) why should […]
    Rolf Kleef
  • Opsporingsdatabase CIOT nog altijd niet op orde August 3, 2018
    Elke dag moeten providers een deel van hun klantenadministratie uploaden naar een centrale database. We moeten erop vertrouwen dat de overheid daar dan netjes mee omgaat. Maar de jaarlijkse audits laten zien dat de minister nog altijd weinig op heeft met jouw privacy. Zou een crimineel ermee wegkomen als hij zegt zich steeds beter aan […]
    Rolf Kleef
  • Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain December 24, 2017
    Another critical look on the blockchain and Bitcoin: Each purported use case — from payments to legal documents, from escrow to voting systems—amounts to a set of contortions to add a distributed, encrypted, anonymous ledger where none was needed. What if there isn’t actually any use for a distributed ledger at all? What if, ten years after […]
    Rolf Kleef

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