Starting next weekend, the Internet Engineering Task Force will be in London for IETF 101, where about 1000 engineers will discuss open internet standards and protocols. The week begins on Saturday, 17 March, with a Hackathon and Code Sprint. The IETF meeting itself begins on Sunday and goes through Friday.
Khushboo Balwani: Here’s the problem: How can consumers become producers? The shift from consumer culture to maker culture is often described in terms of a synthesis between consumers and producers —”prosumers.” What practical steps can be taken for people to become prosumers?
Cathie Anderson in the Sacramento Bee: “Tech entrepreneurs and academic researchers are tracking the spread of flu in real-time, collecting data from social media and internet-connected devices that show startling accuracy when compared against surveillance data that public health officials don’t report until a week or two later….
Chapter by Sheila Foster and Christian Iaione in Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons (Dan Cole, Blake Hudson, Jonathan Rosenbloom eds.): “If cities are the places where most of the world’s population will be living in the next century, as is predicted, it is not surprising that they have become sites of contestation over u
Simon Mont: How can nonprofits and movement workers committed to social transformation embody the change we want to see and become more effective, accountable, and equitable as we do it? In late September 2017, thirty-eight people from eighteen different organizations based in ten different states came together to answer this question and learn how to effectively govern, manage, and coordinate their organizations.
Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) is commonly used by network operators as a way of ekeing out the limited supply of public IPv4 addresses. This is where private IPv4 addresses are allocated to end customers, who in turn also use private IPv4 address ranges on their own Local Area Networks, which means there can be multiple layers of Network Address Translation (NAT) before traffic reaches the publicly addressed Internet.
Sunday marks the beginning of the DNSSEC activities at the ICANN 61 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As per usual there will be a range of activities related to DNSSEC or DANE. Two of the sessions will be streamed live and will be recorded for later viewing. Here is what is happening.
Christophe Koettl in the New York Times: “In mid-February a source in the human rights community told me that villages in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo were being burned amid a renewal of communal fighting. People fleeing the violence told aid workers of arson attacks.
The clashes between the Hema and Lendu communities — on the eastern side of the Ituri province, bordering Uganda — started in December and escalated in early February.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could soon crack down on unregulated cryptocurrency trading platforms after the agency sent a strongly worded warning to them this week.
Nikolas Guggenberger wird als Gründungsmitglied in den Beirat „Medien-Digital-Land NRW“ berufen. Die Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen will das Profil unseres Medienlandes schärfen und gezielt zu dem eines Medien-Digital-Landes weiterentwickeln.
Since the 2013 Snowden revelations of mass surveillance, the level of trust in Internet services has plunged. While discussions around privacy protection have advanced considerably, little progress has been achieved in designing operational tools that can be used on a daily basis by citizens around the world without a need to reconfigure their digital communications or change their behavior online. At the Internet Society, we believe such solutions need to be developed in a collaborative and multistakeholder fashion to be effective.
En momentos en que las comunas de Villa Alemana, Valparaíso, La Cruz y La Calera se encuentran bajo alerta roja por el riesgo de incendios forestales, el académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, hace hincapié en mantener la voluntad política para tomar las medidas que permitan enfrentar estos desastres, dado que "desde el punto de la legislación referida a incendios, está claro que somos los más atrasados en toda América Latina".
El compromiso que ya posee más de tres décadas de historia, y que fue firmado también por la Fuerza Aérea de Chile, incluye el apoyo para la realización de esta actividad artística de la Región de Los Lagos.Como parte de las celebraciones de los 50 años de las Semanas Musicales se realizó la firma de una carta de compromiso para así reafirmar el apoyo que ambas instituciones ya brindan a la institución frutillarina hace más de treinta años.
Con el objetivo de presentar el estado de situación de la acreditación institucional y hacer entrega de los borradores del Informe, que son el fruto de la etapa de evaluación interna, se realizó la séptima reunión de trabajo de la Comisión Asesora en la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile, instancia que contó con la presencia del Comité Directivo de Rectoría.El miércoles 23 de enero se realizó una nueva jornada de trabajo de la Comisión Asesora del Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI), presidido por el prorrector, Rafael Epstein.
Die Multiple Sklerose ist die häufigste entzündliche Erkrankung von Gehirn und Rückenmark. Weltweit sind etwa 2,5 -. 3 Mio. Patienten betroffen. Die Häufigkeit hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten global eindeutig zugenommen. Verschiedenste Areale des zentralen Nervensystems können betroffen werden. Entsprechend vielfältig sind die neurologischen Symptome: Missempfindungen, Sehstörungen, Gangstörungen, Koordinationsstörungen, Blasenstörungen, Sexualfunktionsstörungen, rasche Ermüdbarkeit („Fatigue“), kognitive Beeinträchtigungen.
As I discussed in my notes to the community during the last months, at our last board meeting Kathy Brown, ISOC’s (Internet Society’s) President & CEO, informed the Board of Trustees that she will not seek another extension of her contract. Consequently, the board formed a CEO Search Committee, which is a subset of the board. The CEO Search Committee selected Perrett Laver as the search firm that will support the committee and the board during the whole process.
Właśnie kończy się Tydzień Otwartej Edukacji (5-9 marca), a przed nami historyczne wydarzenie – I Zjazd Spółdzielni Otwartej Edukacji.
SpołEd Matematyka spotyka się po raz pierwszy w weekend 10-11 marca, aby rozpocząć swoją wspólną przygodę z otwartymi zasobami edukacyjnymi.
Weitere Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und der infrastrukturelle Zugang für Wissenschaftler der HHU sind in der Zukunft geplant. Details und nützliche Informationen finden Sie auf unserer Webseite unter www.css.hhu.de.
Dr. Astrid Port: "Mit der Gründung des CSS als zentraler Forschungseinrichtung zur Gewinnung struktureller Informationen von Proteinen und kleineren Molekülen in allen Bereichen der Lebenswissenschaften ist die HHU in einer Vorreiter-Rolle."
A new form of citizen participation arises in Barcelona, combining participatory budgets and crowdfunding. It is a co-responsibility model called Matchfunding and it allowes citizens to start and support initiatives for the improvement of Barcelona by connecting participation and democracy with public budgets.
