Other News from Participating Centers

It’s Time for a Collaborative G20 Digital Agenda

The G20 member states account for 85 percent of the global economy and are home to half of the world’s Internet users. From artificial intelligence to personal data protections, our physical world is being shaped by our digital world. As current president of the G20, Argentina has put a range of digital challenges on the table. But to tackle these, we need credible commitments and a long-term roadmap.

91 neue Doktortitel in der Medizin

Der Dekan der Fakultät, Prof. Dr. Nikolaj Klöcker, übergibt 84 Human- und sieben Zahnmedizinern und – medizinerinnen ihre Promotionsurkunden. Traditionell werden auch die Goldpromovenden geehrt, in diesem Fall aus dem Promotionsjahrgang 1967, die das 50. Jubiläum ihrer Promotion feiern. Sie erhalten spezielle Goldpromotionsurkunden, dazu den eigenen handschriftlichen(!) Lebenslauf und das Gutachten zu ihrer Doktorarbeit.

ArtFarm Mola Blaca: a call for donations

Our friends at Artfarm in Hvar pinged us to highlight their donations campaign. Read the text below to get a feel for their project, or visit them at the fantastically named starwingartists.com
ArtFarm: Since 2013, when we bought 1300 m2 of land and small stone house, Artfarm has been our international project combining art and organic agriculture on the Croatian island of Hvar.

Introducing the FairShares Model V3.0

The FairShares Model enables you to (re)design companies, cooperatives, associations and partnerships to fully recognise and reward enterprise founders, workforce members and users/customer who invest natural, human, social

1. März 2018: Hausarbeiten anpacken statt aufschieben!

Ob der richtige Zugang zum Thema fehlt, die Fülle der Informationen erdrückend oder alles andere gerade wichtiger erscheint – die Probleme bei Anfertigen von Hausarbeiten sind mannigfaltig. Bei der Schreibnacht wird diesen begegnet. Angeboten werden neun Workshops und individuelle Beratung. Dabei geht es um "Aufschieberitis", Zeitmanagement, Literaturrecherche und -verwaltung, Academic English und vieles mehr.

The Face Value of Bitcoin: Proof of Work and the Labour Theory of Value

Bitcoin was created to be a new kind of money rooted in a vision of a market not bound by geography, banks and governments. Despite the intentions of its creators, Bitcoin is not money. It was designed with a faulty understanding of money, and as a result has a bug, a kind of a short circuit that kick-started an asset bubble and that will eventually turn Bitcoin into a toxic asset. In order to to fix this bug we need to employ the labour theory of value.

Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e cooperação jurídica internacional nos conflitos da internet – Parte 2

Segundo painel “Perfis dos litígios transnacionais de internet e atuação das autoridades brasileiras” do Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e cooperação jurídica internacional nos conflitos da internet.

#FellowFriday! Get to know the 2017-2018 Fellows

This series of short video interviews highlights the new 2017-2018 Berkman Klein fellows. Check back every week for new additions!

​Free2Move and NTU to trial Singapore’s first electric bike-sharing service

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SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day VI – Part I)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Bundespräsident Gauck an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität

„Nachdenken über das Eigene und das Fremde“ wollte Gauck in seinem Vortrag und Rektorin Steinbeck führte ins Thema ein: „In unserer heutigen globalen Welt gilt mehr denn je, dass Kulturen keine homogenen und konsistenten Einheiten sind. Kulturen sind keine Behälter, in denen sich einheitliche kollektive Lebensweisen finden. Kulturen sind lebendige Gebilde, die sich gegenseitig befruchten, austauschen und immer in Veränderung begriffen sind.“

Democracy Index 2017

The Economist: “The latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index records the worst decline in global democracy in years. Not a single region recorded an improvement in its average score since 2016, as countries grapple with increasingly divided electorates. Freedom of expression in particular is facing new challenges from both state and non-state actors, and is a special focus of this year’s report.

The Follower Factory

 Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris And Mark Hansen in The New York Times: “…Fake accounts, deployed by governments, criminals and entrepreneurs, now infest social media networks.

A Roadmap to a Nationwide Data Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Policymaking

Introduction by Julia Lane and Andrew Reamer of a Special Issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: “Throughout the United States, there is broad interest in expanding the nation’s capacity to design and implement public policy based on solid evidence. That interest has been stimulated by the new types of data that are available that can transform the way in which policy is designed and implemented.

The Tyranny of Metrics

Book by Jerry Z. Muller on “How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government…

Tennis statt Tabletten: Regelmäßiger Sport verbessert kognitive Fähigkeiten stärker als Medikamente

Hintergrund: Regelmäßiger Sport hat einen positiven Einfluss auf die kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit bei Patienten mit leichten kognitiven Störungen im Alter. Dies ergab eine Auswertung von Studiendaten aus den USA, die in die neuen Leitlinien der American Academy of Neurology aufgenommen wurden.

Zellprozesse magnetisch kontrollieren

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cornelia Monzel ist Expertin für „Magnetogenetics“, einer neuen Methode, bei der Zellprozesse mittels magnetischer Nanopartikel und unter Verwendung äußerer Magnetfelder berührungslos kontrolliert werden können. Die Nanopartikel sind nur wenige Milliardstel Meter groß und damit deutlich kleiner als jede Zelle. Sie können spezifisch an Proteine innerhalb oder auf der Zelloberfläche binden und anschließend über äußere Magnetfelder manipuliert werden.

Breaking the web and killing innovation: Now even lobbyists admit that’s the plan behind the extra EU copyright for news

Julia Reda, writing in her own blog, warns of the dangers of the new EU copyright law. Please share this video and text widely.
Julia Reda: For months now I’ve been raising the alarm about the plan to limit the freedom to link that has been slowly but surely making its way through the EU legislative process.

Alfred Whitehead w domenie publicznej

W 2018 roku do grona autorów, których dzieła znajdują się w domenie publicznej dołączył wybitny matematyk, filozof i zwolennik nowoczesnych teorii edukacyjnych Alfred North Whitehead. Pochodził z rodziny, w której od pokoleń zajmowano się edukacją (zarówno jego ojciec, jak i dziadek byli dyrektorami szkół dla chłopców).

Universities, Enterprises and Maker Communities in Open Design & Manufacturing across Europe: an exploratory study

Which knowledge, skills and learning environments can boost Open Design & Manufacturing at meaningful scale? How can OD&M  become the ground of collective experimentation and co-creation between Universities, Makerspaces and Enterprises?