As a monetary adviser, I spent many years questioning bankers on the authenticity of their balances sheets. What stood out most for me in these discussions was this: the social demand for commodities is often claimed by banks as having a direct link with the ecological supply of resources which are extracted, produced and sold as commodities. But this just isn’t true.
The 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections have begun!
Electronic ballots were emailed today to all voting representatives. They will have until Monday, 9 April at 15:00 UTC to cast their ballots.
In this year’s election cycle, Organization Members are asked to elect one Trustee to the Board. So voting representatives may vote for only one of the candidates on the Organization Members ballot.
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featuring author, Jennifer E. Rothman, Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow, Loyola Law School
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Jennifer E. Rothman will be talking about her book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (Harvard University Press 2018).She challenges the conventional story of the right of publicity's development, and questions the transformation of people into intellectual property.
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This essay addresses arguments regarding the “place” or “non-place” in which ideas originate and whether they are wholly transcendental, wholly contingent, or a combination of transcendental and contingent.
The coalition agreement between CDU, CSU and SPD promises a „new start for Europe“, a „new dynamic for Germany“ and a „new cohesion for our nation“.The scientific panel of experts „Forum Privatheit“, under participation of the "center for ethics", has examined this coalition agreement part on the planned digitalization and compiled its analysis in a policy paper called „Datenschutz stärken, Innovationen ermöglichen – Wie man den Koalitionsvertrag ausgestalten sollte“ ("Improving information privacy, enabling innovation - How to improve the coalition agreement").The policy paper i
A Governança da Internet, segundo definido pelo World Summit on the Information Society, busca o desenvolvimento e a aplicação de princípios, normas, regras procedimentos de decisão e programas que moldam a evolução e o uso da Internet. Assim, como maneira de representar os usuários da Internet, busca-se oferecer uma participação multissetorial nesse processo. Dessa forma, participam da construção da referida governança os governos, o setor privado e a sociedade civil, em seus respectivos papéis.
While the personal is almost always political, sometimes the person affected takes action that changes the course of history. That’s what Kate Ekanem has done. The founder of Kate Tales Foundation has spent her entire adult life promoting education, literacy, and empowerment of girls in her home country of Nigeria. And it started with herself.
Mit dabei auch eine ehemalige Patientin der Palliativmedizin, die mit 25 Jahren für einige Tage auf der Palliativstation der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik lag und von ihren und den Erfahrungen ihrer Angehörigen berichten wird. Das Außergewöhnliche: Dank der auch bei Palliativpatienten weiterhin so wichtigen, interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit der Experten der Düsseldorfer Unimedizin konnte die junge Frau doch noch geheilt werden und ist nun selbst Ärztin.Vortrag: Blick auf die Themen Sterben, Tod und TrauerProfessor Dr.
Durante seis jornadas, entre el 11 y 24 de enero, las facultades de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Medicina y Odontología realizaron "Creando Hacemos Salud", en el que participaron grupos de dicha la comuna que desarrollan prácticas creativas centradas en la salud de las personas.Como una instancia que promueve la visibilidad, la inclusión y el acceso a las prácticas creativas en el ámbito de la salud: así definen sus organizadores la actividad “Creando hacemos salud”, un proyecto que es organizado por la Escuela de Salud Pública de la U.
The intersection between technology and medicine is perhaps one of the most important junctions of our time, and, in a world where access is king, many people—in fact, entire countries—can be left behind in the dust. That’s where Makkiya Jawed comes in as the director of social enterprise for Sehat Kahani in Pakistan.
The tech wiz joined forces with two doctors who launched the health tech enterprise, which circumvents Pakistan’s tradition of women having to choose family or career. It also caters to populations often overlooked by established medical communities.
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Carlos Santiso in Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Will blockchain technology be the next disrupting technology to revolutionize government? Probably not. Can it be a game changer in the global fight against corruption? Possibly so.
Book edited by Mehmet Zahid Sobacı and İbrahim Hatipoğlu: “This book analyzes the impact of social media on democracy and politics at the subnational level in developed and developing countries. Over the last decade or so, social media has transformed politics. Offering political actors opportunities to organize, mobilize, and connect with constituents, voters, and supporters, social media has become an important tool in global politics as well as a force for democracy.
Paper by Gabriel Abu-Tayeh, Oliver Neumann and Matthias Stuermer: “In smart city contexts, voluntary citizen reporting can be a particularly valuable source of information for local authorities. A key question in this regard is what motivates citizens to contribute their data. Drawing on motivation research in social psychology, the paper examines the question of whether self-concern or other-orientation is a stronger driver of citizen reporting engagement.
Book edited by Usha Mujoo Munshi and Neeta Verma: “The edited volume deals with different contours of data science with special reference to data management for the research innovation landscape. The data is becoming pervasive in all spheres of human, economic and development activity.
Today is International Women’s Day, with the goal to empower women in all settings. This year, the Internet Society is celebrating by shining a light on the women who are shaping the Internet, including our own CEO, Kathy Brown. She shared her thoughts how we can ensure that all women have a place at the table in our increasingly-connected world.
The Internet Society: Who are the women who have inspired you throughout your career? How have they inspired you?
The Internet is broken. Investor-owned digital platforms are monopolising key economic sectors, controlling our data, and distributing profits to the few. This needs to fundamentally change according to Co-operatives UK and Stir to Action.
As part of an effort to make the ‘digital economy our own’, these organisations have today joined forces to launch a new pilot accelerator UnFound to support ‘platform co-operatives’, digital platforms that are democratically owned by their members or users.