Other News from Participating Centers

U. de Chile se sumó a la Fiesta de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

Cerca de 4.000 personas asistieron el sábado 13 de octubre a la primera de las dos jornadas de la XII Fiesta de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, organizada por el PAR Explora de CONICYT Región Metropolitana Sur Oriente.

Senegal First African Country to Implement Recommendations of ‘Personal Data Protection Guidelines for Africa’

Last week, we have had a busy two days (11-12 October 2018) in Dakar participating in a mutlistakeholder workshop on Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Senegal co-organized by the Personal Data Protection Commission (CDP), the Ministry in charge of Digital Economy (MCTPEN), the Internet Society Senegal Chapter, and supported by the African Regional Bureau of

Look at all we’ve accomplished: The fifth year of Art+Feminism

Maybe you’ve already heard the story of how the global edit-a-thon known as Art+Feminism got started. It goes something like this:
Five years ago, four friends—Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, and Laurel Ptak—gathered together to discuss an idea for promoting Wikipedia as a place to challenge one of the ways women are silenced: through the preservation of information. That discussion became the Art+Feminism campaign.

Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy

16.10.2018 - 19:00 - 22:00 Kino International Karl-Marx-Allee 33 Berlin

Are online shows obscene?

Should content on online platforms such as Netflix be monitored and censored? How can they show nudity when films made for the cinema halls can’t, a petition wants to know.

The article by Anila Kurian was published in Deccan Herald on October 10, 2018. Akriti Bopanna was quoted.

25. Oktober: Schöne Neue Welt - Von Superbodies und Mensch-Maschinen

Am Donnerstag, den 25. Oktober widmet sich der Soziologe Ulrich Rosar in seinem Vortrag „Brave New Beauty – Physische Attraktivität als gesellschaftliches Kapital“ der Bedeutung von körperlicher Attraktivität für die gesellschaftliche Stellung in Huxleys Universum und im Hier und Heute.

My Name is Janez Janša (film screening) 17 November 2018, 8 pm

Documentary screening + AFTER-TALK/Q&A with the artist
17 November 2018, 8 pm
Veem House for Performance
Van Diemenstraat 408-410, Amsterdam
Buy your tickets here
A name.
Everybody has one.

Smarter Crowdsourcing: A Global Online Conference on Learning and Teaching Public Innovation and Entrepreneurship

By Vishala Pariag and Kajol Char. This article originally appeared on Politics for Tomorrow.

Internet services not to be affected as DNS servers undergo update

Internet services across the country are unlikely to be impacted over the next 48 hours even as the Domain Name System (DNS) servers undergo a security update coordinated by global regulator, Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The article by an HT correspondent was published in the Hindustan Times on October 12, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Sales of surveillance cameras are soaring, raising questions about privacy

The Telangana government wants more eyes on the streets to upgrade Hyderabad’s safety. It has asked enterprises, public sectors, residential associations and individuals to install closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) in and around their premises.
The article by Rahul Sachitanand was published in Economic Times on October 14, 2018. Elonnai Hickok was quoted.

G20 Women’s Summit: Digital Inclusion for Women

What if future generations in 2030 learned about gender inequality in their history class and not in their lived realities? What can rural women achieve when included in digital society? What can we do now to ensure a future without a gender digital gap?

Community Standards Roundtable Conversations

Ambika Tandon was a participant in a roundtable organized by Facebook, School of Media & Cultural Studies, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Bengaluru on October 7, 2018.
The agenda for the roundtable was to discuss their community standards, particularly hate speech and harassment, and receive feedback from a feminist and gendered lens. Click to read more.

Broadcasters Eager For Global Signal Protection; Others Warn Of Major Players Sneaking In

Anubha Sinha was recently part of a panel discussion on broadcast treaty.
The article by Catherine Saez was published in Intellectual Property Watch on October 9, 2018.

Indian Feminist Judgment Project Workshop

Swaraj Paul Barooah was a discussant at the Indian Feminist Judgment Project 'righting together' workshop organised in Delhi by Jindal from October 6 - 7, 2018.
Swaraj provided commentary on the re-writing of a patent application from a feminist perspective. Click here to view the agenda.

Invitation to the vernissage

Foyer of the University library, Wilhelmstr. 32 10/23/2018With the help of the forum für internationale entwicklung + planenung (finep) in Esslingen, the School for Sustainability would like to make Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 9 tangible. For this reason, the innovative learning tool for SDG 9 - Industrialisation, Innovation and Infrastructure developed by finep will be exhibited for the first time at a German university from 23.10.2018.

HHU mit neuer zentraler Rufnummer

Der Dienstbetrieb der alten Telefonzentrale der HHU wurde bereits Ende des vergangenen Jahres eingestellt. Bei der Wahl der neuen Telefonnummer landet der Anrufer in einem automatischen, telefonischen Annahmesystem, wird durch dieses geleitet und bei Fragen, die das System nicht beantworten kann, mit einem Mitarbeiter des SSC verbunden.
Bei Fragen können Sie gerne per  E-Mail Kontakt aufnehmen. 

The Case for Moving Away from Platforms’ Algorithm-Created Incentives

By Karis Hustad,
student in the Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation
at Aarhus University and City, University of London
 
 
 

Crowdsourcing the vote: New horizons in citizen forecasting

Article by Mickael Temporão,  Yannick Dufresne,  Justin Savoie and Clifton van der Linden in International Journal of Forecasting: “People do not know much about politics. This is one of the most robust findings in political science and is backed by decades of research. Most of this research has focused on people’s ability to know about political issues and party positions on these issues. But can people predict elections?

Pharmaziesymposium in Peking mit GRK 2158

Im Fokus stehen chemoresistente Tumoren und Infektionen mit chemoresistenten mikrobiellen Krankheitserregern. Beide Krankheitsformen zeichnen sich durch vielfältige Resistenzen gegenüber etablierten Arzneistoffen aus, die die Therapie stark eingrenzen oder völlig außer Kraft setzen. Als Pool für neue Leitstrukturen und als Ideengeber für potentielle neue Wirkstoffe zur Aufklärung von molekularen Wirk- und Resistenzmechanismen spielen Naturstoffe sowie davon abgeleitete Verbindungen eine zentrale Rolle.

Governance and economics of smart cities: opportunities and challenges

P.B.Anand and JulioNavío-Marco in Special Issues of  Telecommunications Policy: “This editorial introduction to this special issue provides an overview and a conceptual framework of governance and economics of smart cities. We begin with a discussion of the background to smart cities and then it focuses on the key challenges for consideration in smart city economics.