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Yuval Noah Harari at the Guardian: “….A cursory look at history reveals that propaganda and disinformation are nothing new, and even the habit of denying entire nations and creating fake countries has a long pedigree.

O encontro teve como tema “Regulação, concorrência e Open Banking” Na última semana foi realizada a 4ª reunião do Núcleo de Estudos Avançados em Regulação do Sistema Financeiro (Neasf), organizado pela FGV Direito Rio. O encontro teve como tema “Regulação, concorrência e Open Banking” contou com a participação de diversos representantes do Sistema Financeiro Nacional, tais como Banco Votorantim, Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) e Fundo Garantidor de Créditos, além de professores das Escolas de Direito e Economia da FGV e da USP.

Larry Kramer at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Does civil society address questions of values in ways that government and business cannot? This question makes sense if we presuppose limits on the values government and business can express. However, there are no such limits, as evidenced by the way both sectors have, throughout US history, taken positions and played roles on all sides of our nation’s great moral and political debates.

Paper by Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Alex Rutherford, Oren Lederman, Yves A. de Montjoye, and Alex Pentland: “Today’s age of data holds high potential to enhance the way we pursue and monitor progress in the fields of development and humanitarian action. We study the relation between data utility and privacy risk in large-scale behavioral data, focusing on mobile phone metadata as paradigmatic domain. To measure utility, we survey experts about the value of mobile phone metadata at various spatial and temporal granularity levels.

Nuevos aularios, laboratorios, instalaciones deportivas y bibliotecas son parte de los 112.442 metros cuadrados construidos por la Casa de Bello desde la última acreditación.

Tres funciones dirigidas por el maestro argentino Jorge Rotter cerrarán las vacaciones de invierno.

De distintas edades y disciplinas son las autoras y autores que participan en el libro "Mayo feminista. La rebelión contra el patriarcado" (LOM), editado por la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones y Premio Nacional de Periodismo, Faride Zeran, a partir del cual desde diferentes perspectivas y disciplinas es revisado el levantamiento contra el sistema de privilegios de género que se encuentra en curso actualmente en el país. Catorce voces. Catorce puntos de vista. Eso es lo que condensa el libro “Mayo feminista.

O debate é fomentado devido à crise na VenezuelaA chegada de centenas de milhares de venezuelanos no Brasil nos últimos anos reacendeu o debate sobre a questão da imigração no país e o professor de Direitos Humanos da FGV Direito Rio, Michael Mohallem, explica como o Estado lida com a questão.
Os 3 tipos de imigrantes

In honor of International Cat Day, the Internet Society is sharing the journal of Internet Hall of Mane recipient LOL Cat. LOL Cat first achieved fame with her humorous memes written in “kitty pawtois.” A graduate of Stanfur Universekitty, her work has earned her the Purritzer Prize and many other hon-roars.
Cattain’s Log, Day 1
Sunday night patrol. The dusty creature on the wall has not moved for days. This is my vow: I will bide my time and someday I shall pounce.
Day 8
My human taunts me with the shiny red dot.

Am 7. August wurde PD Dr. Claudia Pischke mit Wirkung zum 1. September 2018 von Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck zur Universitätsprofessorin (W 2) für das Fach Public Health an der HHU ernannt. Claudia Pischke studierte Psychologie an der Philipps-Universität  Marburg (Grundstudium) und machte ihr Diplom in Psychologie an der FU Berlin. Dort promovierte sie auch in 2008. 2016 habilitierte sie sich für die Fachgebiete Public Health und Gesundheitspsychologie an der Universität Bremen.

This press release was originally posted by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering on August 8, 2018.
Global Policy Platform Apolitical Honors The Governance Lab Founders Beth Simone Noveck and Stefaan Verhulst

Exhibition
Furtherfield Gallery
Saturday 14 Jul until Sunday 19 Aug 2018
Open Sat – Sun, 11:00 – 17:00 or by appointment – Admission Free
Would you like to monetise your social relations? Learn from hostile designs? Take part in (unwitting) data extractions in exchange for public services?

Marxist authors often misunderstand us, because the P2P Foundation uses a socially reconstructive approach, rather than a critical approach, and subsumes conflict to reconstruction. It absolutely does NOT mean we ignore or deny conflict, but rather that we play a specialized role accompanying the reconstructive moment, which will always co-exist with the conflictual forces that resist or demand things from capital and state.

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The Guardian: “Fifteen leading economists, including three Nobel winners, argue that the many billions of dollars spent on aid can do little to alleviate poverty while we fail to tackle its root causes….Donors increasingly want to see more impact for their money, practitioners are searching for ways to make their projects more effective, and politicians want more financial accountability behind aid budgets. One popular option has been to audit projects for results.

If you use Google, have you ever read their privacy policy? If you haven’t, please keep reading. The policy delineates under what circumstances Google can peruse your information, including your e-mails, for disclosure to third parties.
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Mark Lawler et al in the Lancet: “The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica–Facebook scandal marks a significant inflection point in the public’s trust concerning Big Data. The health-science community must use this crisis-in-confidence to redouble its commitment to talk openly and transparently about benefits and risks and to act decisively to deliver robust effective governance frameworks, under which personal health data can be responsibly used.