Jukka Peltokoski, Niklas Toivakainen, Tero Toivanen and Ruby van der Wekken: In October 2009, while expecting another futile climate summit in nearby Copenhagen, a small group of friends in the Kumpula neighborhood of Helsinki got together to discuss practical alternatives. Surely there was something that could be done by people themselves! The result of that first meeting of neighbors was a “credit exchange” called the “Kumpula exchange rink,” in which the first seventeen participants agreed to exchange goods and services with each other.

Location

United States

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Will Oremus at Slate:”…Five years later, data plays a vastly expanded role in our lives, yet the term big data has gone out of fashion—and acquired something of an unsavory reputation. It’s worth looking back at what, exactly, happened to the revolution we were promised, and where data, analytics, and algorithms are headed now….

Paper by Seppo Leminen, Veli-Pekka Niitamo, and Mika Westerlund presented at the Open Living Labs Day Conference: “This paper analyses the emergence of living labs based on a literature review and interviews with early living labs experts.

Book by Mariel Borowitz: “Key to understanding and addressing climate change is continuous and precise monitoring of environmental conditions. Satellites play an important role in collecting climate data, offering comprehensive global coverage that can’t be matched by in situ observation.

Francisco Brugnoli Bailoni, quien ha estado a la cabeza del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Facultad de Artes desde 1998, fue incorporado a este organismo en una ceremonia realizada el jueves 5 de octubre en la sede del Instituto de Chile. En la ocasión, el artista y académico ofreció el discurso "Siendo entre el vacío y el vaciamiento".

14 instituciones de Educación Superior de todo el país participaron del torneo de la Federación Nacional Universitaria de Deportes (Fenaude). Universidad de Playa Ancha en mujeres y Universidad Católica de Temuco, en hombres, fueron los grandes ganadores de la jornada.Con circuitos de 8k en hombres y 6k en mujeres, el viernes 6 de octubre se realizó el Campeonato Nacional Universitario de Cross Country organizado por la Universidad de Chile. Laguna Carén fue el escenario que reunió a los 125 deportistas de 14 instituciones participantes.

Los carros alegóricos, la música y el baile se tomaron la Alameda Bernardo O'Higgins, en lo que fue la reedición de la histórica festividad que la Federación de Estudiantes de la U. de Chile realizara entre 1913 y 1972. Organizaciones sociales, comunidad universitaria y ciudadanía, se sumaron a una festividad que promete renacer en el Chile actual.

Subtitle

with Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Berkman Klein Faculty Associate and Andreas Hepp, Zemki, University of Bremen, Germany

Teaser

Social order - what counts as order in the social world - is changing in the digital era, the era of deep mediatization. How can social theory help us understand this shift, and what are the consequence for fundamental democratic values such as freedom and autonomy?

Event Date

Oct
18
2017
4:00pm

Alberto Ibargüen at HuffPost: “When clashes wracked Charlottesville, many Americans saw neo-nazi demonstrators as the obvious instigators.

Ruben Mancha & Haslina Ali at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “In 1983, at the height of the Cold War, just one man stood between an algorithm and the outbreak of nuclear war. Stanislav Petrov, a colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was on duty in a secret command center w

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United States

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New Report by the OECD: “The 2017 volume of the  Development Co-operation Report focuses on Data for Development. “Big Data” and “the Internet of Things” are more than buzzwords: the data revolution is transforming the way that economies and societies are functioning across the planet.

Barnabas Imre Szaszi et al in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making: “In this paper, we provide a domain-general scoping review of the nudge movement by reviewing 422 choice architecture interventions in 156 empirical studies.

Mark Thompson at Computer Weekly: “Discussion around reforming public services is as important as better information sharing rules if government is to make the most of public data…

Paper by David G. Robinson: “Government authorities at all levels increasingly rely on automated predictions, grounded in statistical patterns, to shape people’s lives. Software that wields government power deserves special attention, particularly when it uses historical data to decide automatically what ought to happen next.

„Durch das Engagement der Konrad-Henkel-Stiftung, die 1985 zum 70. Geburtstag meines Vaters Konrad Henkel gegründet wurde, besteht eine lange Verbundenheit mit der Heinrich-Heine-Universität. Diese Tradition möchten wir fortführen und stiften daher zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum einen Lehrstuhl, um die exzellente Forschung und Lehre der Fakultät auf einem Gebiet zu stärken, das meinem Vater außerordentlich wichtig war“, sagte Dr.

New paper by Praneetha Vissapragada and Naomi Joswiak: “The Open Government Costing initiative, seeded with funding from the World Bank, was undertaken to develop a practical and actionable approach to pinpointing the full economic costs of various open government programs.

Isabelle Le Gallez[1] Introduction The image of the little boy with the monkey dominated all media platforms from mid-April 2017 until his death in late July at 11 months of age. The little boy is, of course, Charles Gard, known

Pune scientists hold a workshop with Marathi Vishwakosh to thrash out how to provide more vocabulary for scientific discourse in the language, to cater to a vast majority that is not comfortable looking up info in English.
The article by Aparajita Vidyarthi was published in Pune Mirror on October 18, 2017.