Other News from Participating Centers

Making Wage Data Work: Creating a Federal Resource for Evidence and Transparency

Christina Pena at the National Skills Coalition: “Administrative data on employment and earnings, commonly referred to as wage data or wage records, can be used to assess the labor market outcomes of workforce, education, and other programs, providing policymakers, administrators, researchers, and the public with valuable information. However, there is no single readily accessible federal source of wage data which covers all workers.

Essay of the day: Algorithmic Sovereignty

Republished from University of Plymouth

Holochain vs. Hashgraph …and when is consensus needed in distributed computing

There are many new platforms trying to make blockchains more scalable, or creating alternatives to the architecture of blockchain to fulfill on the aspirations of blockchain advocates, but that current blockchains fail to deliver on.
Hashgraph has been getting some press and many are excited about the speeds they promise and some of the videos and demonstrations they’ve shared. It is one of the closest innovations to Holochain that I’ve seen come out by people starting from a blockchain mindset. However, from my completely biased perspective, there are still a few gaps.

Prof. Dr. Birgit Strodel zur W2-Professorin in der Chemie ernannt

Birgit Strodel studierte Chemie in Düsseldorf und Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was durch ein Stipendium des DAAD ermöglicht wurde. Nach dem Diplom an der HHU (2000) wurde sie 2005 über eine Arbeit zur Quantendynamik in der kondensierten Phase am Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main promoviert. Daran schloss sich eine Zeit als Post-Doc am Chemie-Department der Universität Cambridge in Großbritannien an. Seitdem forscht sie auf dem Gebiet der Proteinaggregation, die sie mittels Computersimulationen untersucht.

Uninformed Consent

Leslie K. John at Harvard Business Review: “…People are bad at making decisions about their private data. They misunderstand both costs and benefits. Moreover, natural human biases interfere with their judgment. And whether by design or accident, major platform companies and data aggregators have structured their products and services to exploit those biases, often in subtle ways.

United Nations accidentally exposed passwords and sensitive information to the whole internet

Micah Lee at The Intercept: “The United Nations accidentally published passwords, internal documents, and technical details about websites when it misconfigured popular project management service Trello, issue tracking app Jira, and office suite Google Docs.

Estudiantes y académicos son nominados a chilenos del año

Excelencia en el campo de trabajo, contribución a la comunidad, liderazgo y creatividad.

Sala Domi Matre: un espacio para madres y padres universitarios

Impulsado por iniciativa estudiantil y financiado por el Premio Azul, recientemente comenzó a funcionar este espacio que es más que una sala de lactancia: es un lugar destinado a acoger y prestar servicios básicos a estudiantes, funcionarias y académicas, quienes podrán alimentar, mudar, cuidar y jugar con sus hijas e hijos.

Reabren caso Patricio Manzano

Luego de que fuese sobreseído, este nuevo requerimiento a la investigación encabezada por el ministro en visita Mario Carroza apunta a establecer la participación de organismos de inteligencia en eventuales apremios ilegítimos, sucedidos aquella recordada jornada del 8 de febrero de 1985, cuando 173 estudiantes de la U.

FEN inauguró Oficina de Género y Diversidad Sexual

La nueva oficina se enmarca en la Política Institucional de Prevención del Acoso Sexual, como parte del compromiso de la U.

Ballet Nacional Chileno invita a descubrir el mundo de los bailarines

Maquillaje, luces, trabajo en equipo y mucho más son parte de "Cuéntame la danza II. La obra", espectáculo que se presenta este fin de semana y que lleva a sumergirse en el día a día de una compañía profesional y a conocer sus secretos tras bambalinas.

Stephen Graham: The Politics of Urban Digital Infrastructures

24.09.2018 - 19:00 - 22:00 Säälchen - Holzmarkt Holzmarktstraße 25 Berlin

​NTU Singapore receives S$9m boost to attract top young scientists from Swedish universities

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IGF 2018: Improvements and a Call for Contributions

The annual meetings of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) have been consolidated as the main space for discussion and exchange of ideas among the stakeholders of the Internet community on an equal footing. However, there are diverse activities which take place throughout the year that require the participation of all the actors of the community.
The Intersessional Activities

The Week in Internet News: China’s New Cyberspace Head Talks Up New Controls

“Cleansing” cyberspace: Zhuang Rongwen, recently appointed as director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, has vowed to promote “positive energy” on the Internet while suppressing “negative elements,” including “wrong ideological trends” that attack the Communist Party there, reports the South China Morning Post. Zhuang called on all Internet users to join party members to fight a people’s war to rehabilitate the “cyber ecology.”

IODC 2018: The hard questions for the future of open data

The latest edition of  the International Open Data Conference (IODC) is just around the bend. We’ll be discussing open data during the entire week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through a series of pre-events, including symposiums, discussion panels and workshops as well as the main conference, we will discuss with open data practitioners, advocates, and researchers about the future of open data.

Call for Papers: Digitalisation and Development in the Global South. Progress by Technology?

A “digital divide” separates the countries of the Global North and South: they are unequal in terms of access to and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) such as computers, mobile phones, and the internet. It is widely believed that bridging this divide will positively affect people in under-connected world regions: ICT are assumed to increase economic productivity and prosperity and to have a democratizing effect.The TATuP thematic issue 2/2019 offers a platform to advance a critical assessment from an interdisciplinary perspective.

ESAG-Woche an der HHU startet am 1.Oktober - Zentralevent auf Parkplatz P2

Im Rahmen der von Studierenden veranstalteten Erstsemester-Arbeitsgemeinschaft für den Start in den Uni-Alltag wird es zunächst diverse Veranstaltungen in den Übertragungshörsälen der 25er- und 26er-Gebäude geben. Die Fachschaften werden sich vorstellen - anschließend wird es für die Studierenden des Erstsemesters den traditionellen ESAG Event geben auf dem Parkplatz P2 (bis in den Abend).
Im Verlauf der Woche werden die "Erstsemester" dann weiter durch ihre Fachschaftsräte betreut und auf den Studienstart vorbereitet.

Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet

Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott at New America: “The crisis for democracy posed by digital disinformation demands a new social contract for the internet rooted in transparency, privacy and competition. This is the conclusion we have reached through careful study of the problem of digital disinformation and reflection on potential solutions. …Digital media platforms did not cause the fractured and irrational politics that plague modern societies.

How AI Addresses Unconscious Bias in the Talent Economy

Announcement by Bob Schultz at IBM: “The talent economy is one of the great outcomes of the digital era — and the ability to attract and develop the right talent has become a competitive advantage in most industries. According to a recent IBM study, which surveyed over 2,100 Chief Human Resource Officers, 33 percent of CHROs believe AI will revolutionize the way they do business over the next few years.