„Im Rahmen des Bauantrages wurde auch eine vorzeitige Fassadenprüfung speziell hinsichtlich des Brandschutzes durchgeführt. Unser Bettenhaus West hat mit acht Etagen und einer Höhe von ca. 30 Metern den Status eines Hochhauses, wie es bei vielen anderen Krankenhäusern ebenfalls der Fall ist. Angesichts der bevorstehenden Teilsanierung des Gebäudes konnten wir  in sehr enger und konstruktiver Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bauaufsichtsamt und der Berufsfeuerwehr der Stadt Düsseldorf nun Planungssicherheit und Transparenz zu den seinerzeit verbauten Materialien schaffen“, so Dr.

Commercial sharing platforms have reshaped the transportation and housing sectors in cities and raised challenges for urban policy makers seeking to balance market disruption with community protections. Transformational sharing seeks to strengthen the urban commons to address social justice, equity and sustainability. This paper uses Transformative Social Innovation theory to develop a comparative analysis of Shareable’s Sharing Cities Network and Airbnb’s Home Sharing Clubs.

In dem Workshop wurde der Tango mit seiner „multimodalen Sprache“ (als Musik, Text, Tanz und gesellschaftliches Ereignis mit seinen spezifischen Codes) aus Sicht verschiedener Fachrichtungen betrachtet. Wie manifestiert sich der Tango Argentino, seit 2009 UNESCO-Welterbe, im Zeitalter der Globalisierung?

Capitalism swims like a shark. And upon the shark’s fin an exciting prospect is dancing: commons-based peer production.
This is the prospect we’ve been trying to understand for the last decade. In the next two years, we aim to ground our ideas for a commons transition on stronger empirical evidence.
The main questions we’ll try to answer, which make for four different projects, follow:

Open source products are essential to build a more sustainable, fair and circular economy

Take a look at this project by some of the people in our network. If you’d like to support it, please click on this page to contribute.
How does open source creates social and sustainable impact? If we make products open source this will bring benefits in different manners:

Bas Leurs at Nesta: “Through our work in the Innovation Skills team, we often find ourselves being asked by governments and civil servants which innovation tools and techniques they should use. So what innovation approaches are there that can be applied in the public sector? And how are they related to each other?

Wayan Vota at ICTworks: “The Rohingya Project claims to be a grassroots initiative that will empower Rohingya refugees with a blockchain-leveraged financial ecosystem tied to digital identity cards….
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Paper by Ben Scott, Stefan Heumann and Philppe Lorenz: “The plot-lines of the development of Artificial Intelligenc

Sheena Iyengar and  Patrick Bergemann at Opening Governance Research Network: “…To understand how open data is being used to spur innovation and create value, the Governance Lab (GovLab) at NYU Tandon School of Engineering conducted the first ever census of companies that use open data.

Austin Sarat at The Conversation: “Public knowledge about what government officials do is essential in a representative democracy. Without such knowledge, citizens cannot make informed choices about who they want to represent them or hold public officials accountable.

Rafael Alvarado and Paul Humphreys in the New Literary History: “In 2008, the phrase “big data” shifted in meaning.

Li Zhou at Politico: “Late last year, a St. Louis tech executive named Emre Şarbak noticed something strange about Google Translate. He was translating phrases from Turkish — a language that uses a single gender-neutral pronoun “o” instead of “he” or “she.” But when he asked Google’s tool to turn the sentences into English, they seemed to read like a children’s book out of the 1950’s.

CMPF director Pier Luigi Parcu was recently interviewed for an article in the newspaper of the European University Institute, EUI Times.
In the article ”Social media: Democracy’s poisoned chalice,” by EUI Times journalist Henry Goodwin, Parcu speaks about the effects of social media on democracy.

Now more then ever, the Internet Society believes in the need to preserve the values of openness, inclusiveness and transparency that have always been at the heart of the Internet. A coherent global governance model for the global Internet that includes everyone is key to achieving this vision. But how can we get more governments to embrace the kind of collaborative governance that has shaped the Internet we know and use today? How can we improve and expand the model so that it becomes more widely adopted around the world? How can YOU help that to happen?

We live in a time of terminal crisis for centralized institutions of all kinds, including the two most notable members of the genus: states and large corporations. Both a major cause and major symptom of this transition is the steady reduction in the amount of labor needed to produce a given level of output, and consequently in total aggregate demand for wage labor.

Still not familiar with Platform Coops? This article, written by MJ Kaplan and originally published in Yes! Magazine, does an excellent job explaining the concept. You can also check out our introduction to Open Coops, for a complementary perspective.

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Henry J. Farrell and Rick Perlstein at the New York Times: “….A program called Face2Face, developed at Stanford, films one person speaking, then manipulates that person’s image to resemble someone else’s. Throw in voice manipulation technology, and you can literally make anyone say anything — or at least seem to….

Hoje é o dia da internet segura e o Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade elaborou algumas dicas de navegação segura e proteção online. Com cada vez mais pessoas conectadas a necessidade de discutir e criar mecanismos para promoção da cidadania online são essenciais. Abaixo algumas dicas para uma navegação mais segura. #SID2018
1. Dicas Gerais para dispositivos móveis.

Experts say the new security features will significantly ensure there is no ‘large-scale theft of people‘s identity‘. Alnoor Peermohamed reports.
The blog post was published in Kaplan Herald on February 5, 2018.