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Book edited by Adegboyega  Ojo and Jeremy Millard: “Historically, technological change has had significant effect on the locus of administrative activity, cost of carrying out administrative tasks, the skill sets needed by officials to effectively function, rules and regulations, and the types of interactions citizens have with their public authorities.

Intro by Jimmy Wales: “Welcome to WikiTribune, a pilot project for a new approach to journalism where the community is at the center. This is not a news service – yet. It’ll only be the news service I envisage when you play a full role.
When I wrote the very first words in Wikipedia back in January 2001, I chose “Hello, world!”

Bret Fraussen and Darren Halpin in Public Administration: “The ongoing embrace of interest groups as agents capable of addressing democratic deficits in governing institutions is in large part because they are assumed to contribute democratic legitimacy to policy processes. Nonetheless, they face the challenge of legitimating their policy advocacy in democratic terms, clarifying what makes them legitimate partners in governance.

In September, 2017, Scroll, in collaboration with the Centre for Communication Governance, published our data on biometric-based identification systems across the world, and their correlation with a country’s democratic record. Our data demonstrates a reciprocity between these factors: “While examining whether countries were instituting these Aadhaar-like systems, researchers from the Centre noticed a trend wherein […]

Open Knowledge International (OKI) has been awarded funds by the Open Data Institute (ODI) as part of a project to enhance and increase adoption of tools and services for open data publishers in the private and public sectors, reducing barriers to publication. OKI’s focus in this programme will be to create better open data publication workflows by building on our earlier work on the Frictionless Data initiative.

Blog by Ava Ex Machina: “…Within the tech industry in particular, we work every day to build systems that ingest more and more of our personal information that while it might be used to sell us products, can also increasingly be used to index and endanger our most vulnerable communities.

James Stodder and Bernard Lietaer: The Swiss WIR (“We” in German) is the longest surviving social or community currency, sometimes called a complementary currency. (This last name reflects an ambition to supplement rather than replace a national currency.) WIR is not a physical currency per se, but a system of credits and debits. Once a buyer and seller negotiate a price in WIR, the seller is credited and the buyer debited that amount. Nowadays, the process can be completed in seconds, on a smartphone.

Funding the Cooperative City explores how citizen initiatives, cooperatives, non-profit companies, community land trusts, crowdfunding platforms, ethical banks and anti-speculation foundations step out of the regular dynamisms of real estate development and arrange new mechanisms to access, purchase, renovate or construct buildings for communities.

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United States

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United States

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United States

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La máxima autoridad de la Casa de Bello hizo una presentación ante la Comisión de Hacienda de la Cámara de Diputados, en el marco del trámite del proyecto de Ley sobre Universidades del Estado. En la instancia, el Rector Vivaldi valoró los cambios que ha tenido el documento original propuesto por el Ejecutivo, y planteó la posibilidad de corregir algunos de sus puntos, como otorgar tratamiento de organismo estatal en compras públicas a los planteles del CUECh, y derogar la Ley Nº 20.044 que limita el traspaso de dinero desde el fisco a estas instituciones.

Bajo el lema "Artes, políticas y contingencias", la tercera versión de este encuentro comenzó con un concierto en el Teatro Nacional Chileno, en el que músicos de la Universidad homenajearon a la artista nacional. En tanto, la parrilla de actividades del Foro de las Artes -que se extenderá hasta el sábado 21 de octubre- se inició con la charla de Nancy Hirst, directora artística de la compañía británica Icon Theatre en Casa Central.

La actividad, impulsada con el apoyo del Programa de Biotecnología para América Latina de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, congregó durante una semana a más de 40 investigadores y estudiantes de postgrado de México, Brasil, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba y Chile.

Nirmita Narasimhan been selected for the 18th NCPEDP - Mindtree Helen Keller Awards 2017. The Award will be given away on Saturday, 2 December 2017 at the India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi.
NCPEDP-Mindtree Helen Keller Award

A Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI), promulgada em 2011 (N°12.527), e o Decreto que institui a Política de Participação Social e o Sistema Nacional de Participação Social de 2014 (N°8.243) colocaram a ouvidoria pública em maior evidência dentro do campo político brasileiro.

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Mohammad Seidisarouei arbeitet seit September 2017 am Institut für Vergleichende Psychologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) und will dort promovieren. Gleichzeitig arbeitet der aus dem Iran stammende und dort ausgebildete Psychologe therapeutisch mit traumatisierten Geflüchteten vor allem aus Afghanistan.

Amy Maxmen in Nature: “…Whenever war, hurricanes or other disasters ravage part of the globe, one of the biggest problems for aid organizations is a lack of reliable data. People die because front-line responders don’t have the information they need to act efficiently.