Other News from Participating Centers

Innovation Spaces: New Places for Collective Intelligence?

Chapter by Laure Morel, Laurent Dupont and Marie‐Reine Boudarel in Collective Innovation Processes: Principles and Practices: “Innovation is a complex and multifaceted notion, sometimes difficult to explain. The category of innovation spaces includes co‐working spaces, third places, Living Labs, open labs, incubators, accelerators, hothouses, canteens, FabLabs, MakerSpaces, Tech Shops, hackerspaces, design factories, and so on.

How data helped visualize the family separation crisis

Chava Gourarie at StoryBench: “Early this summer, at the height of the family separation crisis – where children were being forcibly separated from their parents at our nation’s border – a team of scholars pooled their skills to address the issue. The group of researchers – from a variety of humanities departments at multiple universities – spent a week of non-stop work mapping the immigration detention network that spans the United States.

Will New Technologies Help or Harm Developing Countries?

Dani Rodrik at Project Syndicate: “New technologies reduce the prices of goods and services to which they are applied. They also lead to the creation of new products. Consumers benefit from these improvements, regardless of whether they live in rich or poor countries.

How pro-trust initiatives are taking over the Internet

Sara Fisher at Axios: “Dozens of new initiatives have launched over the past few years to address fake news and the erosion of faith in the media, creating a measurement problem of its own.

Düsseldorfer Biologen und Schüler untersuchen Plastikverschmutzung des Mittelmeers

Am 14. Oktober startete die Gruppe via Pisa zur italienischen Insel Elba. Bis zum 24. Oktober werden dort die Studierenden und Schüler, unterstützt von Biologen des Instituts für Molekulare Evolution der HHU, den Grad der Plastikkontamination sowohl an Land als auch im Meer untersuchen. Ihr Ausgangspunkt ist das Forschungsinstitut „Hydra“, welches ihnen Arbeitsräume, Expertise und notwendiges Equipment wie Mikroskope und Tauchgerät zur Verfügung stellt.

When the Rule of Law Is Not Working

A conversation with Karl Sigmund at Edge: “…Now, I’m getting back to evolutionary game theory, the theory of evolution of cooperation and the social contract, and how the social contract can be subverted by corruption. That’s what interests me most currently. Of course, that is not a new story. I believe it explains a lot of what I see happening in my field and in related fields.

Open 2018: Global Mutual Credit: Is it time for a Co-op coin?

In this panel session from OPEN 2018 Arthur Brock, Co-founder, HOLO; Matthew Slater, Co-Founder of Community Forge and Emma McGuirk, Co-founder of Dunedin Timebank in New Zealand discuss the potential of a Co-op Coin and global mutual credit systems and consider whether any of the existing trading networks and models could be used to bring the co-operative economy to scale.
See the shared notes from this session too.

Inaugural lecture Daniel Gervais: The Law of Human Progress, 18 October 2018

Commons: the model of “post” liberal capitalism?

This post by Myriam Bouré was originally published on Medium.com. 

Disinformation on Steroids

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Author(s): Danielle CitronPublication Date: October 16, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingIntroduction

As some departments loosen grip on body camera footage, Memphis police holds firm

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United States

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Prof. Xue Gave Keynote Speech at APEC WORKSHOP ON ENHANCING REGULATORY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR E-COMMERCE

APEC Workshop on Enhancing Regulatory Infrastructure for E-Commerce was successfully held on October 11-12 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Académicos de la U. de Chile ganaron Premio Nacional de Geografía 2018

La Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Geográficas (SOCHIGEO) otorgó este martes 2 de octubre esta distinción a los académicos de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) Enrique Aliste Almuna, director del Departamento de Geografía, y al profesor Belisario Andrade Johnson, quien además es egresado de nuestro plantel.

Estudio identifica soluciones para situación en Quintero y Puchuncaví

Elevar los estándares en el control de emisiones contaminantes -para cumplir al menos con el mínimo exigido por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS)- y avanzar en un diseño institucional para la materialización del desarrollo sostenible en las empresas son algunas de las principales propuestas del estudio elaborado por el Observatorio de Sostenibilidad de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile.Las más de mil personas intoxicadas que a la fecha registra la crisis ambiental y sanitaria de Quintero y Puchuncaví es el último episodio

Privacy by design and the Uber settlement

On September 26, attorneys general from multiple U.S. states settled with the ride sharing company Uber over a data breach that revealed personal information about both Uber’s riders and drivers. The drivers suffered the brunt of the exposure: the release of their names and driver’s license numbers. Uber did not disclose the breach when it occurred in 2016 (in violation of California’s security breach notification law), and it became public after the company’s then new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, announced it shortly after his arrival at the company in 2017.

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Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal, and technical opportunities and challenges

Introduction to the Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi and Corinne Cath: “Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates every aspect of our society, from the critical, like urban infrastructure, law enforcement, banking, healthcare and humanitarian aid, to the mundane like dating.

Here’s What the USMCA Does for Data Innovation

Joshua New at the Center for Data Innovation: “…the Trump administration announced the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade deal it intends to replace NAFTA with.

30 anos da Constituição Cidadã: Avanços e Retrocessos

30 anos da Constituição Cidadã: Avanços e Retrocessos08h00O Evento: No marco dos 30 anos da Constituição Federal de 1988, faz-se necessário um debate sincero e aprofundado a respeito de quais avanços e retrocessos a Carta Magna proporcionou à sociedade brasileira.

Website update: Experiencing problems with translations into French and Spanish

I must apologize to readers of our French and Spanish versions of our website. We are currently experiencing a problem with our usage of the WordPress Multilingual (WPML) plugin that is preventing us from sending our new content out for translation.  It is proving to be quite difficult to identify and fix the issue. We are working with our development team, our hosting provider, and the WPML support team to find the solution. I hope that in the next couple of days we can solve this and return to our regular publishing in three languages.

George Soros, founder of Open Society Foundations, invests in the future of free and open knowledge

We are pleased to announce a $2 million gift to the Wikimedia Endowment from George Soros, one of the world’s leading philanthropists.