…the project site at Kyangjin Gompa in November 2016 (Nima Lama). Construction on the project, relocated to a new site further up the valley near Kyangjin Gompa, began in early…

…counts.[1] The UK Law Commission’s recent consultation document on the Protection of Official Data suggests that maximum sentences for unauthorized disclosure under the Official Secrets Act ought to be increased…

…reported that several civilian volunteers had died after returning to the US on commercial flights, on which they encountered “thousands of people who they might have exposed to the disease.”…

…the marketing strategies of food companies, but they also upend efforts to regulate the food system through the official certification of product qualities. The result is a proliferation of writing…

…2010, 3), and to provide “insights into the origin of the universes”(Beech 2010, vii). Respect. Admiration. Adoration, even. The question remains how such a peculiar site (the Pays de Gex…

…established a risk-filled playing field through which the OPM hack would unfold over the course of 2014 and 2015 (Castelluccio 2015:79). The public dimension of the OPM hack officially began…

…declare an official emergency until August, and even then had difficulty galvanizing an intensive international response. The WHO “should be the global leader” in directing and coordinating international health efforts,…

…an effort to comprehensively enumerate the population, yet photographs often have no place in the official archives of government. Instead, photographic collections–found as they are in the private scrapbooks of…

…request to de-list, they notify the website that has been de-listed. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, compiles such notices in the index. Clearly, publishing a list of…

…accurate that the system could not cope with such unprecedented demand, but still Sylvia considered the PRT a successful experiment because newcomers to the site enjoyed it as a spectacular…

…political right worried that its basis only in residency (as opposed to citizenship) would enable undocumented Bangladeshi migrants to gain official status and receive undeserved state services by getting Aadhaar…

…ever experienced Ebola in the past, and still more than official numbers for the current outbreak. Indeed, the regular appearance of cholera helped inspire the group’s logistics system, built around…

…foods labeled low in saturated fats or sodium, but also an explosion of explicit and implied health claims not officially permitted under the new system. A high-ranking government official, speaking…

…rate of mobile phone subscriptions is 49%, representing some 4 million subscriptions (compared with 1.6% in 2006, which is also the current penetration rate of fixed-line telephony). A Digicel official…

…camera network was hacked and infected with ransomware that, city officials admitted two weeks later, prevented the city from digitally recording images from 80% of the cameras for three days…

…possible light. (Pick some choice invective out of thousands of messages, set it in Courier typewriter font so it looks more “official,” highlight a couple random passages, and you too…

…impossible to stop at just one. After all, governments already understood how special cases could be policy instruments. Special cases were how pirate sites and child porn were excluded from…

…still posted on the website (Figure 1). Figure 1: Black Hat 2014 website Schedule Update (link.) As the next screenshot of the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine reflects (Figure 2),…

…that makes the public take notice of municipal action. Compstat is not a system of dissimulation for the police, but just the opposite: it’s an echo chamber. The neighborhood in…

…Participatory Development Toolkit itself reflects exquisite awareness of this problem. The authors take pains to mount warnings at every turn: the kit does not stand alone; the images and games…

…events reflect the ways in which the problem of sanitation is being mobilized in Nairobi. The development sector presents sanitation as a site of entrepreneurship, and sees market opportunities including…

…total archives – beyond their own internal logic of completeness? Etymologically speaking, archives are related to government—the site of public records, the town hall, the records of the rulers (archons)….

…sporting events and political speeches; Barack Obama recently addressed “the Kenyan people” there (White House 2015). But on this day, it was the site of a more unorthodox event. The…

…area 30 kilometers in diameter circumscribing the disaster site, to explore how the world’s worst accidental nuclear release affected flora and fauna. Abandoned and stripped of human activities, the Zone…