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EU Briefing Day am 14. Mai

Mit einem Budget von 77 Milliarden Euro bietet das Programm Forschenden aller Fachbereiche und Karrierestufen eine Vielzahl von Fördermöglichkeiten.
Vorgesehen sind folgende Themen: ERC- und Marie S.-Curie Förderung sowie internationale Forschungsverbünde. Zu den Vortragenden gehören AnsprechpartnerInnen der Nationalen Kontaktstellen für H2020 sowie erfolgreiche AntragstellerInnen der HHU.
Eröffnet wird der EU Briefing Day an der HHU von Prof. Dr. Peter Westhoff, Prorektor für Forschung und Transfer. Durchführende Stelle ist die Abteilung Forschung und Transfer.

Election Advertising on Social Media Platforms: Is the Election Commission Outsourcing Regulation to the Private Sector?

Nidhi Singh and Gunjan Chawla (The piece was first published in the Leaflet) As polling day approaches, political advertisements have become omnipresent–offline and online. Their influence cannot be denied. Broadly, it can be exerted in two ways – through the purchase of political ads on social media and through the expression of individual users on […]

Marc Marginedas reivindica el valor de la verdad frente a la situación actual de propaganda y desinformación

Marc Marginedas reivindica el valor de la verdad frente a la situación actual de propaganda y desinformación
El periodista, secuestrado por el ISIS en 2013, ha recibido el Premio Luka Brajnovic de la Comunicación de la Universidad

La decana de la Facultad de Comunicación entrega el premio a Marc Marginedas.
FOTO: Manuel Castells

02/05/19 16:58
María Salanova

Register for AfPIF 2019

Join us in Balaclava, Mauritius for the 10th Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) from 20-22 August 2019.

AfPIF attracts ISPs, content providers, governments, and IXPs for three days of learning, sharing, and building business in Africa.

Why should you attend AfPIF-2019? Have a look through the AfPIF 2018 Summary Report, which contains briefs of presentations, emerging discussions, speakers, and sponsors.

Cyber criminals hide in the ‘dark web’ to remain anonymous

An increasing number of cyber criminals are using the dark web — the encrypted part of the internet that cannot be tracked — to shop for software that helps them remain anonymous while carrying out their crimes.
The article by Tushar Kaushik was published in Economic Times on May 2, 2019. Karan Saini was quoted.

Opernmanagement zwischen Kultur, Recht und Wirtschaftsrecht

Termin: Mittwoch, 8.5.2019 12:30 Uhr, HS 5A (Gebäude 25.11)

AI & SOCIETY LAB: Call for concepts

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) researches the development of the Internet from a social perspective. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the associated digitalisation of all areas of life. As the first institute in Germany to focus on Internet and society, the HIIG has developed an understanding…
The post AI & SOCIETY LAB: Call for concepts appeared first on HIIG.

Securing Electoral Infrastructure: How Alert is India’s Election Chowkidaar?

Varsha Rao With the publication of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-awaited report on Russian interference in the United States Presidential Elections of 2016, the threat of hacking and misinformation campaigns to influence elections is taking centre-stage yet again. Closer to home, the discussion has become more pertinent than ever before. In a democratic process of […]

Mission Shakti: One month after the completion of India’s first ASAT

Tomorrow marks one month of the successful completion of Mission Shakti- India’s first Anti-Satellite (ASAT) testing. The test has received mixed reactions from the international community. In this post, we address the three main concerns arising from the ASAT test. First, we examine the technological aspects of ASAT weapons and their significance. Second, we examine […]

A Short History of the Commons in Italy (2005-present)

In a variation on my last post, on the commons in South East Europe, it seems apt to mention another regional history of the commons, in Italy. This history was written by Ugo Mattei in 2014 as a chapter in a book, Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Weibel (and published by ZKM/Center for Art Media Karlsruhe, in Germany, and MIT Press in the US).

How (un-)intelligent is our collaboration with AI?

Discussing whether a machine is intelligent is relevant, but more urgent is the question whether our collaborations with machines are intelligent. An intelligent collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires complementary traits, since there is no point in teamwork when all actors possess similar qualities. Consciousness, common sense, intuition, intentionality, imagination, morality, emotional intelligence and phenomenological…

Carole Cadwalladr on Facebook’s role in Brexit and its threat to democracy

In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election — Cadwalladr calls out the “gods of Silicon Valley” for being on the wrong side of history and asks: Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?

CIAE cumplió 10 años al servicio del país

La generación de evidencia para las políticas públicas y para el sistema educacional es uno de los lineamientos fundamentales de este centro universitario que en estos primeros 10 años de vida ha formado a investigadores en la materia, realizado alianzas y trabajos colaborativos con instituciones nacionales y extranjeras, así como generar modelos, proyectos e insumos que actualmente se aplican en las aulas del país. El CIAE es además el único centro de excelencia basal del país en ciencias sociales.

Identifican enfermedad que intensifica extinción del huemul

Un análisis que reunió a investigadores de distintas latitudes, en el que participó el profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias (FAVET), Cristóbal Briceño, indicó que un parapoxvirus sería la causa probable de esta enfermedad podal que causa dolor intenso, inflamación, pérdida parcial o completa de las pezuñas y, en muchos casos, la muerte. Cerca del 40 por ciento de los animales afectados murieron, lo que sugiere que el virus podría representar una amenaza considerable para la conservación de esta especie vulnerable.

Docente de la U. de Chile encabeza proyecto para embellecer Paris

Con el nombre "Active Bercy", el equipo de la plataforma "Otra Ciudad" liderado por el docente de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo y egresado de la U. de Chile, Sebastián Cuevas, busca revitalizar el sector de Bercy, en la capital francesa.

José Maza lanzará su nuevo libro en el Teatro Caupolicán

Tras batir un récord de público de 5 mil personas en su charla sobre Marte en la Medialuna de Rancagua el 2018, y replicar con éxito la conferencia en el Teatro Universidad de Chile, este miércoles 24 de abril a las 19:30 horas el astrónomo de la U. de Chile y Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, José Maza, presentará su último libro "Eclipses" -editado por Grupo Planeta- en el Teatro Caupolicán.

(re) conference

From 10 to 12 April 2019, Aayush Rathi participated in a "reconference" a global conference designed to provoke conversations around the new possibilities and opportunities for feminist movements. It was held in Kathmandu, and was organised by CREA, a feminist human rights organisation based in New Delhi.

Les professions juridiques face à la justice plurielle (amiable, arbitrale, collective, numérique)

L’objectif de ce colloque est d’étudier ensemble deux phénomènes bien connus des différents systèmes juridiques français et québécois : un essor de la justice numérique et un déploiement des modes de règlement amiable des différends. Pour comprendre les enjeux de la justice de demain, il convient d’étudier en parallèle les caractéristiques des justices alternatives et de la justice numérique.

Le nombre d’heures de formation continue (Barreau du Québec – Chambre des notaires) est de 5h30.

Pre. Audrey Ferron-Parayre reçoit le prix Capitant pour sa thèse de doctorat

Pre. Audrey Ferron-Parayre

Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer que Audrey Ferron-Parayre, anciennement candidate au doctorat sous la supervision de la Professeure Catherine Régis du Centre de Recherche en Droit Public de la Faculté de droit et actuellement Professeure à la Faculté de droit, section droit civil, de l’Université d’Ottawa vient de recevoir le prix Capitant pour sa thèse de doctorat défendue le 05 décembre 2018.

How the Internet Society’s Privacy Statement Stacks Up

For ten years, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has published an annual comprehensive survey of 1,200 sites’ security and privacy practices. The 10th edition of this Audit has been released and can be found here. As part of the Audit, we score each site’s privacy statement against 29 criteria, ranging from whether it is linked to on the site’s homepage, to whether it states how the site handles children’s data.