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Workshop: Leapfrogging Sustainable Development: Exploring the strategic futures of production and policy through cosmo-local and commons-based design. By Jose Ramos, 20-21 Sept 2019 ; Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

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by Victoria Palacin, Laura Perovich, Rosalie Norris, Rahul Bhargava  More and more decisions each day are made using data. Data scientists and policy makers are usually the only ones with the expertise to engage with data. If we want to empower others to find and tell stories with data, we need to create new ways to engage with information. Over the past decade, we have been exploring community engagement in a variety of creative ways, […]

Please join us as the Bishop Center hosts Aberdeen Alum, Author and Victim's Right's Attorney Carrie Goldberg for a discussion of her new book Nobody's Victim, Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls.
Ms. Goldberg will be joined with University of Washington Law Professor, Ryan Calo.
Following the discussion at the Bishop Center Ms. Goldberg will have a meet and greet at the GH Wine Sellars at 5:00.
Admission is free.September 22, 2019Bishop Center for the Performing Arts

For more information visit: http://www.iam-events.com/events/software-ip-2019/agenda-2a8655155b7543c0a065aa0e6ce90edf.aspx
9:45 am  -  11:00 am
How the game is changing

Few industries have been through as much disruption as software and computing. The rapid pace of innovation is a perpetual challenge for IP managers and their advisers.October 2, 2019San Jose, CA

Meet Thomas
Thomas Lohninger is Executive Director of the digital rights NGO epicenter.works in Vienna, Austria. He is Senior Fellow of the Mozilla Foundation working on Net Neutrality in the European Union. The Center of Internet and Society of the Stanford Law School holds him as a non-residential Fellow. He worked in Brussels on the European Net Neutrality regulation as Policy Advisor for European Digital Rights and is on the board of EDRi since 2019. His background is in IT and Cultural- and Social Anthropology.September 15, 2019Technical University Berlin

This year marks the fifth anniversary of this event. Presentations will explore the emerging and central role of data in fields as diverse as medicine, education, law and politics. We hope you will join us to help model the future of Data Science at UVA and beyond.
Panels and roundtables will focus on data science research on topic areas such as education, ethics, public health, environment, and public policy. 
Interested in presenting your research?November 1, 2019Data Science Institute

RSVP is required and is free and open to the public. 
 
October 15, 2019New America Foundation

Since its establishment nine years ago, the Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter has been a key stakeholder in ensuring a free, open, and safe Internet in Sri Lanka.

In Berlin haben der Parlamentarische Staatssekretär im BMBF Dr. Michael Meister und DAAD-Generalsekretärin Dr. Dorothea Rüland drei besonders herausragende Initiativen für ihr beeindruckendes Engagement geehrt:

Investimento: Gratuito 

Em agosto de 2019, a Clínica LAJUNT (Laboratório de Assessoria Jurídica a Novas Tecnologias) do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da FGV Direito Rio atendeu a lawtech Mediar360 (http://www.mediar360.com.br/), uma plataforma inteligente de negociação, conciliação e mediação voltada para resolução eficiente de conflitos empresariais.

Media pluralism is essential to democracy and the Commission Vice President of Values and Transparency should “make use of the Media Pluralism Monitor to identify risks to plurality in the media sector.” This was the message delivered by Ursula von der Leyen, President-elect of the 2019-2023 European Commission instructing Věra Jourová, Vice-President-designate for Values and Transparency, of the mission of the next Commission.

Prof. Dr. Axel Görlitz, Studiendekan der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, und Prof. Ingeborg Henzler, Vorstandsmitglied der Dr. Hans Riegel-Stiftung, zeichneten die Verfasser und Verfasserinnen der jeweils drei am besten bewerteten Arbeiten in jedem Fach mit insgesamt rund 7.000 Euro Preisgeldern aus. Anlässlich des Jubiläums begrüßte NRW Schul- und Bildungsministerin Yvonne Gebauer die Anwesenden per Video.

The acquisition of third party research funding serves as a sign of exceptional academic quality and is considered to be an important driving force in any scientific career. Besides the number of publications, relative citation values, number of awards and honors, the amount of external funds raised is the most influential criterion when a researcher is considered for a professorship.

Many articles in peer-reviewed journals that investigate the application of artificial intelligence to knowledge work refer to data and insights from blogs, newspapers, or data collected by consulting firms. This practice carries the risk that information obtained with less reliable methods will be included in research. This could give the impression that empirical research is…