I’ll be attending this event Saturday 20 July, see you there!

Joyful Militancy by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery foregrounds forms of life in the cracks of Empire, revealing the ways that fierceness, tenderness, curiosity, and commitment can be intertwined. This is part of a series of about the project. See all interviews here.

Der neue ZIM-Leiter hat einschlägige Erfahrung mit den Herausforderungen, die sich durch die Verantwortung für die IT an einer Universität ergeben: Bereits Ende der 90er Jahre hatte er, nach Stationen in Bochum und Paderborn, die stellvertretende Leitung des Hochschulrechenzentrums der TU Dortmund inne. Seit 2008 leitete er das Rechenzentrum der Universität Jena. „Ich freue mich auf Düsseldorf und über die Rückkehr aus Thüringen nach NRW – und meine Familie, die hier lebt, freut sich auch!“

This week is IETF 102 in Montreal, Canada, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. And today’s topics include DNS Security & Privacy, along with more IPv6 and IoT.

Press Release: “Today, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) released its second paper in a series focused on the promise of data for development (D4D). The paper, Leveraging Data for Development to Achieve Your Triple Bottom Line: Mobile Network Operators with Advanced Data for Good Capabilities See Stronger Impact to Profits, People and the Planet, will be presented at GSMA’s Mobile 360 Africa in Kigali.

Article by Mariana Mazzucato: “The internet giants depend on our data. A new relationship between us and them could deliver real value to society….We should ask how the value of these companies has been created, how that value has been measured, and who benefits from it. If we go by national accounts, the contribution of internet platforms to national income (as measured, for example, by GDP) is represented by the advertisement-related services they sell. But does that make sense?

A Conversation with J. Doyne Farmer at the Edge: “Economic failures cause us serious problems. We need to build simulations of the economy at a much more fine-grained level that take advantage of all the data that computer technologies and the Internet provide us with.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field devoted to building artificial animals (or at least artificial creatures that – in suitable contexts – appear to be animals) and, for many, artificial persons (or at least artificial creatures that – in suitable contexts – appear to be persons).[1] Such goals immediately ensure that AI is a discipline of considerable inte

Samo Burja at LessWrong:” …The purpose of a bureaucracy is to save the time of a competent person. Put another way: to save time, some competent people will create a system that is meant to do exactly what they want — nothing more and nothing less. In particular, it’s necessary to create a bureaucracy when you are both (a) trying to do something that you do not have the capacity to do on your own, and (b) unable to find a competent, aligned person to handle the project for you.

Marshall Allen at ProPublica: “With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans, including, odds are, many readers of this story. The companies are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth. They’re collecting what you post on social media, whether you’re behind on your bills, what you order online.

Earlier this month in Manila, the Philippines Government Department of ICT (DICT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Internet Society (ISOC) to facilitate the development of its National ICT Ecosystem Framework (NIEF) 2022.

Publicação analisa o atual momento da OMCO professor e coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio, Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, teve artigo publicado no China Today. Na publicação, o docente fala sobre o difícil momento que a Organização Mundial do Comércio enfrenta e sobre as possibilidades de futuro. 

Empresa Arauco comprometió la entrega de $250 millones a esta unidad académica para la construcción de la nueva infraestructura. La edificación permitirá ampliar los espacios de la FEN orientados a la vida estudiantil."Edificio X Center" será el nombre de las nuevas instalaciones con las que contará la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile (FEN), proyecto que será impulsado a partir de la donación de $250 millones de pesos que la empresa Arauco comprometió para la construcción de esta infraestructura. 

La actividad celebrada este mediodía fue organizada por la Casa de Bello y Google, con el fin de conmemorar el legado de la primera médica cirujana del país y de Latinoamérica, egresada de nuestro plantel. La ex mandataria, junto a un grupo de mujeres líderes que estudiaron en la universidad, conversaron sobre las barreras que han sorteado para llegar a sus lugares de liderazgo y los desafíos de género que enfrenta la sociedad.Pasadas las 12:00 hrs.

Zusätzlich gibt es zahlreiche thematische Führungen, die einzelne Aspekte aus der „grünen Apotheke“ aufgreifen. Die Heilpflanzenkunde kann als eine der ältesten Wissenschaften angesehen werden. Botanische Gärten haben sich vielfach aus Klostergärten entwickelt.

Diese und viele andere Fragen beantworten die Biologen Barbara Wollborn und Dr. Joachim Busch sowie der Designerin und Pflanzenillustratorin Katrin Saran in den Sommerferien im Rahmen der Kinderuni-Workshops des Botanischen Gartens der Heinrich- Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Alle Workshops sind anschaulich, laden zum Mitmachen ein und finden in kleinen Gruppen statt. Anmeldung ist erforderlich, unter: kinderuni@uni-duesseldorf.de. Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei.

Essay by Marlieke Kieboom:”…The question ‘what is a (social innovation) lab?’ is as old as the lab community itself and seems to return at every (social innovation) lab gathering.

Contemporary cities seem to be in a race to be increasingly ‘smart’ and data-driven. At smart city Expos around the world, visitors are presented with new visual modes of modes of knowing and governing. Dashboards providing birds-eye views of the real-time movement of objects in the city, are perhaps the most iconic of these visualizations. Often presented in a sort of control room environment, they illustrate the promise of instantaneous overviews things like cars, people and trans bins. These are all relevant objects for organizing dynamic cityscapes and creating an efficient city.

In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted its first Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event brought together over 200 Indigenous community members to talk about Internet access solutions, and the importance of connectivity for socioeconomic, health, community empowerment, education, and cultural and language preservation.

Paper by Devid Kumar Basyal et al: “The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between E-government and corruption using global panel data from 176 countries covering the period from 2003 to 2014, considering other potential determinants, such as economic prosperity (gross domestic product per capita [GDPPC]), price stability (inflation), good governance (political stability and government effectiveness) and press freedom (civil liberties and political rights) indicators.