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Clare Wilkinson at the LSE Impact Blog: “…In a recent case study I explore how researchers from a broad range of research areas think about evidencing impact, what obstacles to impact-gathering might stand in their way, and how they might be further supported in future.

The crisis of the European Union begs for new, unifying and constructive narratives – alternatives to the right-wing populist and nationalist wave getting fiercer every day. A commons approach holds the potential for a unified vision towards an alternative economy, a Europe from the bottom up and an ecological economy and way of life. The idea of jointly stewarding shared resources, community and a generative economy, can find resonance with a diverse range of citizens.

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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 16, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingRichard Thaler, of the University of Chicago, just won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for his contribution to behavioral economics — the subfield known for exploring how psychological biases cause people to act in ways that diverge from pure rational self-interest.

Book by Sandra González-Bailón: “Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them?

El encuentro organizado por la Universidad de Chile y Radio Cooperativa fue parte de la discusión en las redes sociales, y tuvo amplio alcance en medios de comunicación de Arica a Punta Arenas. El hashtag de la transmisión fue trending topic durante toda la jornada.El “Debate de Estado: ¿Qué país queremos para el futuro de las y los chilenos?” se realizó en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central, evento transmitido para todo el mundo por Radio Cooperativa y la plataforma online de la Casa de Bello.

Hasta el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central llegaron siete de los ochos aspirantes al sillón presidencial, quienes respondieron las interrogantes que plantearon diez Premios Nacionales de nuestro plantel.

Mix Irving: I believe in a free and open web. Over the past 3 years, friends and I have been growing and shaping an ecosystem for that purpose — for many, it’s now our primary way of communicating. It’s built with cryptography and is p2p. The result is a system with fundamentally different behaviours than the old web.
This is part of a series exploring the sociological and technological ramifications.
I call it “The Medium is the Message: Cypherspace Edition”.

Susan Standing and Craig Standing in the Business Ethics. A European Review: “Crowdsourcing has attracted increasing attention as a means to enlist online participants in organisational activities. In this paper, we examine crowdsourcing from the perspective of its ethical use in the support of open innovation taking a broader system view of its use. Crowdsourcing has the potential to improve access to knowledge, skills, and creativity in a cost-effective manner but raises a number of ethical dilemmas.

There is a genre of landscape painting from the 17th and 18th centuries that ought to give us cause for reflection. They are paintings of Italian landscapes where goatherds and their flocks wander amongst the ruins of Roman aqueducts, bridges and temples.

Los participantes del #DebateUchile, evento organizado por la Casa de Bello y Radio Cooperativa en el que premios nacionales del plantel estuvieron a cargo de las preguntas, pusieron especial énfasis en el rol de las universidades estatales y detallaron sus posiciones respecto a temas como financiamiento y vinculación de estos planteles con la sociedad, entre otros puntos.Una amplia variedad de temas fueron abordados en el debate presidencial realizado este martes 3 de octubre en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile.

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Guide by the International Red Cross Federation: “Together with ICRC, and with the support of OCHA, we have published a brief guide on how to use social media to better engage people affected by crisis. The guide is geared towards staff in humanitarian organisations who are responsible for official social media channels.

The CMPF has been accepted as affiliated participant in the Network of Centre (NoC). The Network of Centers is “a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.

HIIG-researcher Christian Katzenbach receives dissertation award „Medien – Kultur – Kommunikation“ for model of communication scientific governance research.
Katzenbach's “Die Regeln digitaler Kommunikation” analyses how algorithms, copyright and privacy are discussed and regulated in a digitised society.  

“Short of a gun to the head, a greater threat to First Amendment expression can scarcely be imagined” -Nicholas Colabella J. of the New York Supreme Court, in Gordon v Marrone. The above statement vividly describes what has come to be called a SLAPP suit – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. The term was coined […]

Das UKD steht ganz im Zeichen von internationalen Spitzenleistungen in Krankenversorgung, Forschung und Lehre sowie renommierten Expertenpersönlichkeiten. Jährlich werden in den 28 Kliniken und 32 Instituten etwa 50.000 Patienten stationär und 270.000 Patienten ambulant behandelt. Die besondere Stärke des Krankenhauses der Maximalversorgung liegt dabei in der interdisziplinären Verzahnung der einzelnen Fachrichtungen.

Mit Applaus und Herzlichkeit wurde der UNICHOR bereits bei Ankunft in Seoul empfangen. Kulinarische Highlights und gemeinsames Musizieren mit Hochschul- und Gemeindeangehörigen machten den Aufenthalt in der Hauptstadt Südkoreas zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis. Nach einer Woche ging es weiter nach Tokio. Trotz vieler Proben und vier Konzerten in Folge nutzen die Sängerinnen und Sänger um die Akademische Musikdirektorin Silke Löhr sowie das weitere Team jede freie Minute, um sich von der Hauptstadt Japans in den Bann ziehen zu lassen.

In a digitised society, where individual communication is increasingly based on the processing of personal data, explaining the complexity of privacy is hardly feasible. That’s why we at the Alexander... MORE

Commons Transition presents this report in two volumes by Céline Piques and Xavier Rizos, with the support of P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens.
The Commons movement is facing a challenge: to articulate the optimum rate at which a resource can be harvested or used without damaging its ability to replenish itself.