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Entlastungsverhandlungen am UKD gehen weiter: Vorbild Baden-Württemberg

Auf diese Grundlage hatten sich alle Verhandlungsteilnehmer vor dem Start der jetzigen Gespräche in der vergangenen Woche geeinigt. Auch in Baden-Württemberg war es um die Entlastung des Pflegepersonals gegangen. Das Ergebnis dort nach monatelangen Verhandlungen: Ein konkretes Procedere zum kurzfristigen Ausgleich bei Personalausfällen und eine Einigung über zusätzliches Pflegepersonal. An den vier Unikliniken dort sollen insgesamt 120 zusätzliche Pflegekräfte eingestellt werden (zwischen 20 und 40 pro Standort).

Defending Politically Vulnerable Organizations Online

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC): “A new report …details how media outlets, human rights groups, NGOs, and other politically vulnerable organizations face significant cybersecurity threats—often at the hands of powerful governments—but have limited resources to protect themselves.

Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research

Report by the National Academies of Sciences: “Openness and sharing of information are fundamental to the progress of science and to the effective functioning of the research enterprise. The advent of scientific journals in the 17th century helped power the Scientific Revolution by allowing researchers to communicate across time and space, using the technologies of that era to generate reliable knowledge more quickly and efficiently.

O que significa uma lei de proteção de dados para o Brasil?

O primeiro semestre de 2018 foi marcado pela adoção de importantes marcos legais relativos à proteção de dados pessoais e à privacidade online. Mais especificamente, pôde-se observar a aprovação e a entrada em vigor de leis específicas para a proteção desses conteúdos, elaboradas por alguns dos países com maior relevância no cenário internacional atualmente.

Pesquisador do CPDE fala sobre a resolução 433 da ANS

Daniel Arruda acredita que faltou amplo debate com a sociedadeA resolução 433 da Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS), publicada no dia 28 de junho no Diário Oficial da União, entrou em voga novamente na mídia na última semana por conta da decisão da ministra Carmen Lúcia de suspender a norma, que define novas regras para a cobrança de coparticipação e franquia em planos de saúde. A presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal deferiu o pedido de decisão liminar da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB).

Gestão de frotas marítimas como ferramenta de segurança e proteção ao meio ambiente

Gestão de frotas marítimas como ferramenta de segurança e proteção ao meio ambiente09h00 até 11h00O Evento: Palestra de apresentação do curso Direito Marítimo: Atualidades e Tendências
O curso de Direito Marítimo: Atualidades e Tendências da FGV DIREITO RIO convida para mais um Ciclo de Estudos sobre Direito Marítimo e Portuário. Desta feita reunirá a comunidade empresarial e acadêmica para uma manhã de debates sobre o muito atual tema condutor.

How to Achieve and Sustain Government Digital Transformation

Mike Bracken and Andrew Greenway for IADB: “Digital government is rapidly gathering momentum as an effective way for nations and regions to increase their administrative efficiency, develop resilience, and deliver simpler, clearer, and better services for their citizens and businesses. This report summarizes the conditions and context needed for government digital teams to succeed and be sustained across different administrations.

​Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam conferred Honorary Degree at NTU’s convocation ceremony

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​Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam conferred Honorary Degree at NTU’s convocation ceremony

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U. de Chile inicia socialización de su evaluación interna

Inclusión, aseguramiento de la calidad e internacionalización fueron algunos de los temas que concentraron el debate de las reuniones del Senado y Consejo Universitario en las que fueron presentadas las conclusiones de la autoevaluación, iniciada en mayo del año pasado.

The Week in Internet News: Startup Cash for Spy-o-T

Investing in hacking IoT: A startup in Israel has raised $12.5 million in investments to help governments hack the Internet of Things and other technologies, Forbes reports. What could go wrong? Toka says it’ll provide spy tools for whatever device its clients require, with a special focus on the IoT.

FGV Direito Rio realiza primeira reunião do NEAFRE

Encontro reuniu especialistas em educaçãoNa última sexta-feira, dia 20 de julho, foi realizada a primeira reunião do Núcleo de Estudos Avançados em Federalismo e Regulação Educacional (NEAFRE), que contou com a participação de representantes do Ministério da Educação, Conselho Nacional de Educação (CNE), secretarias estaduais e municipais de ensino, além de especialistas na área e instituições com papel de relevo na formulação das políticas públicas do setor.

Gerard Mom 1950-2018

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Reforma prawa autorskiego – kolejne kroki

Reforma prawa autorskiego zniknęła ostatnio z mediów – czy to oznacza, że przestała być ważna i wszystko już wiadomo? Nic bardziej mylnego! Tematem zajmujemy się od prawie dwóch lat i będziemy się zajmować aż do końca procesu legislacyjnego w Unii Europejskiej – o którym teraz trochę cicho, bo trwają wakacje, również dla polityków.

Welcoming our new Open Knowledge International Board

We have a series of important announcements regarding our Open Knowledge International governance. With the organisation having been through significant developments over the past years, we are now at a point of stability, with good systems in place and great staff driving the mission. The current updates to our Board of Directors reflect the new energy and drive that will help us achieve the next steps in our journey.

Re-Imagining the Left Through the Lens of Post-Capitalist Commons‎‎

“Re-imagining the left through an ecology of the commons: towards a post-capitalist commons transition” (Michel Bauwens and Jose Ramos) was recently published by the journal Global Discourse (Routledge, Taylor and Francis) as an exploratory proposal for a comprehensive commons transition movement and strategy that twines an ontology of human evolutionary forms with strategies for commoning. It is intended as a stepping stone discussion in the context of post-capitalist / commons transition.

Mumbai: People’s Campaign for Right to Water

Pani Haq Samti’s ‘People’s Campaign’ had the dual aim of mobilizing public opinion to oppose the privatisation of water supplies in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and securing the distribution and re-establishment of water as a right.
In Mumbai, the right to water in people’s settlements (known as slums) was revoked in 1996 when the Maharashtra Urban Development Department instructed all municipal corporations to stop water infrastructure being installed in them.

cultiMake: Crowdsourcing open source agricultural solutions [Open Event]

The P2P Lab is happy to announce the launch of
“The cultiMake project: Crowdsourcing open source agricultural solutions”,
celebrating the gathering of designers, makers and farmers who are adapting to the digitised world.
Where: Habibi.Works, Ioannina (Greece)
When: From Monday, July 30th to Friday, August 3rd.

Evaluating Civic Open Data Standards

Renee Sieber and Rachel Bloom at SocArXiv Papers: In many ways, a precondition to realizing the promise of open government data is the standardization of that data. Open data standards ensure interoperability, establish benchmarks in assessing whether governments achieve their goals in publishing open data, can better ensure accuracy of the data. Interoperability enables the use of off-the shelf software and can ease third party development of products that serves multiple locales.

Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies

Brian W. Head at Policy and Society: “Rittel and Webber boldly challenged the conventional assumption that ‘scientific’ approaches to social policy and planning provide the most reliable guidance for practitioners and researchers who are addressing complex, and contested, social problems.