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Economics back into Cryptoeconomics

Republished from Medium.com
Dick Bryan, Benjamin Lee, Robert Wosnitzer, Akseli Virtanen*
The mounting literature on cryptoeconomics shows an interesting but also alarming characteristic: its underlying economics is remarkably conventional and conservative.

Bulgarian TV Journalist, Viktoria Marinova, Murdered

We, the CMPF are appalled to learn of yet another shocking and brutal murder of 30 year old European journalist Viktoria Marinova in Bulgaria on Saturday 6 October. Viktoria was working for the Bulgarian TV station TVN.

Can the UN Include Indigenous Peoples in its Development Goals?: There’s An App For That

Article by Jacquelyn Kovarik at NACA: “…Last year, during a high-level event of the General Assembly, a coalition of states along with the European Union and the International Labour Organization announced a new technology for monitoring the rights of Indigenous people.

When the brain is starved of energy

The brain is the organ with the highest energy consumption per kilogram of body weight. Its function is strictly dependent on a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients. If blood flow to the brain is interrupted for even just a few minutes, this leads to irreversible neuronal damage. The best-known example is a stroke, where a blockage in a brain artery triggers a massive energy shortage of parts of the brain, causing nerve cells to die off and leading to neurological impairments that can sometimes be severe and may lead to disability and even death.

Routing Security boosted by major network operators

There have been some important developments towards improving routing security over the past few weeks, with announcements at NLNOG and AusNOG, as well as from Cloudflare about commitments to validate IP prefixes and reduce route leaks and hijacks. This supports the work we’ve being doing with the MANRS initiative to raise awareness of this issue, and to persuade network operators to take collaborative responsibility for this critical aspect of the Internet.

Human Rights in the Big Data World

Paper by Francis Kuriakose and Deepa Iyer: “Ethical approach to human rights conceives and evaluates law through the underlying value concerns. This paper examines human rights after the introduction of big data using an ethical approach to rights. First, the central value concerns such as equity, equality, sustainability and security are derived from the history of digital technological revolution.

The free flow of non-personal data

Joint statement by Vice-President Ansip and Commissioner Gabriel on the European Parliament’s vote on the new EU rules facilitating the free flow of non-personal data: “The European Parliament adopted today a Regulation on the free flow of non-personal data proposed by the European Commission in September 2017. …

CMM acoge workshop de Bienes Nacionales sobre datos geoespaciales

La actividad, realizada este jueves 27 de septiembre, antecede a la firma de un acuerdo entre el Ministerio y la Universidad de Chile para que la cartera utilice la capacidad de supercómputo del Laboratorio Nacional de Computación de Alto Rendimiento en la generación de información estandarizada para la creación de políticas públicas.El Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, CMM, de la Universidad de Chile acogió el "Workshop Información y Normas 2018: Grupos de trabajo IDE Chile: Estableciendo información geográfica estandarizada para la toma de decisiones y e

"Chile siempre ha mostrado distintas opciones a Bolivia"

El próximo lunes 1 de octubre la Corte Internacional de Justicia de La Haya dará a conocer el fallo respecto a la demanda que Bolivia interpuso contra Chile el 24 de abril de 2013, buscando que el mencionado tribunal establezca la obligatoriedad de negociar una salida soberana del país altiplánico al Océano Pacífico.

Diamela Eltit se quedó con el Premio Nacional de Literatura 2018

Tras dirimir durante poco más de una hora, el jurado encabezado por la ministra de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Consuelo Valdés, anunció pasadas las 13:00 hrs.

Encuentro que acerca el cine a la escuela se realizará en la U

"Cine, educación y política" es el nombre del II Encuentro El cine es escuela, organizado por la red Cero en conducta.

Indigenous Connectivity Summit – My Perspective

As the Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association I’ve been working with Native communities in San Diego County and Southern Riverside County of California in the United States for the past seventeen years. With a long background in Dot Com graphic design exposed to networking and web servers, the transition into technology was an obvious one.

CyFy 2018

Swaraj Paul Barooah and Arindrajit Basu participated in CyFy 2018 organized by Observer Research Foundation at Hotel Taj Mahal, New Delhi from October 3 - 5, 2018.
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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cyfy-2018

Gmail users beware while giving access

Recently, Google admitted to giving hundreds of firms access to users’ Gmail inboxes. It also revealed that many apps are able to scan and share data from email inboxes. However, Google explained that it vets third parties that are given access, and permission should be given by the user.
The article by Surupasree Sarmmah was published in Deccan Herald on October 4, 2018.

Conferenza Nexa su Internet & Società 2018

Page Type: conferenzaEvent18 dicembre 2018
Partecipazione gratuita fino a esaurimento posti previa registrazione (obbligatoria) all'indirizzo: http://nexa2018.eventbrite.com
Twitter hashtag della conferenza: #nexa2018
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Über 4.000 Studienanfänger an der HHU

Die Heinrich-Heine-Universität versteht sich als Bürgeruniversität, die besonderen Wert darauf legt, sich gegenüber der Gesellschaft zu öffnen. Als dialogorientierte und transparente Forschungsstätte und Bildungseinrichtung sucht sie aktiv den Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, um einen möglichst breiten Zugang der Öffentlichkeit zu Forschung und Bildung zu ermöglichen.

The Week in Internet News: AI Can Help, But Humans Are the Problem with Fake News

AI battles the fake news: Can Artificial Intelligence combat all the fake news that’s out there? An article in Forbes looks at several ways fake news fighters are using AI, but the author casts some doubt on these approaches. Ultimately, humans are the problem, the article says: “The willingness to believe sensational information is a real phenomenon and debunking false information does not always change people’s minds.”

Text Analysis Systems Mine Workplace Emails to Measure Staff Sentiments

Alan Rothman at LLRX: “…For all of these good, bad or indifferent workplaces, a key question is whether any of the actions of management to engage the staff and listen to their concerns ever resulted in improved working conditions and higher levels of job satisfaction?

Open Government Data Report: Enhancing Policy Maturity for Sustainable Impact

Report by the OECD: This report provides an overview of the state of open data policies across OECD member and partner countries, based on data collected through the OECD Open Government Data survey (2013, 2014, 2016/17), country reviews and comparative analysis. The report analyses open data policies using an analytical framework that is in line with the OECD OUR data Index and the International Open Data Charter.