Bruno Roelants, a longstanding champion of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), has been appointed Director-General of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA). The ICA is the global umbrella body for the international co-operative movement and represents more than 300 co-operative federations across 105 countries. From 2002 Roelants has been secretary general of CECOP-CICOPA Europe, the European representative body of worker and social co-operatives across the continent.

„Ich fühle mich Düsseldorf verbunden wie dem ganzen Rheinland“, so der Altbundespräsident in Vorbereitung seiner Vorlesung. „Der rheinischen Republik ist es gelungen, die zögerlichen Deutschen mit der Demokratie zu befreunden. Nordrhein-Westfalen und seine Landeshauptstadt stehen für eine Haltung, die mir gefällt: den Mut, die Welt zu nehmen wie sie ist, und sie zu gestalten, so gut es geht. Das klingt sehr pragmatisch – wie schön, wenn sich diese Haltung mit rheinischem Optimismus vereint.“

Here's a rundown of the three new features that the UIDAI will introduce to make Aadhaar seemingly more secure.
The article by Alnoor Peermohamed was published in Business Standard on January 25, 2018.

Popularity doesn't equal truth. And yet Facebook's recent proposal to rank the trustworthiness of news sources based on popularity is loosely equating truth with popularity. In so doing, Facebook may be putting form over function. 
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The Open Governance Research eXchange (OGRX) began with a few ideas and a few key partners seeking to develop answers and solutions to an important question: How to make  governance innovation more evidence based by making key findings on what works and why more accessible?

Last year, I was invited to contribute a paper to a special edition of the Health and Technology Journal published by Springer/Nature. The special issue addressed privacy and security, with a particular focus on healthcare and medical data. I’m happy to announce that now, for four weeks only, the publishers have made the whole issue available free.
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Stefaan G. Verhulst and Andrew Young at Harvard Business Review: “…In particular, the vast streams of data generated through social media platforms, when analyzed responsibly, can offer insights into societal patterns and behaviors. These types of behaviors are hard to generate with existing social science methods.

Report by the Future of Privacy Forum: “The transparency goals of the open data movement serve important social, economic, and democratic functions in cities like Seattle. At the same time, some municipal datasets about the city and its citizens’ activities carry inherent risks to individual privacy when shared publicly.

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A panel featuring Christopher S. Yoo (UPenn) and Matthew Wood (Free Press)

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The January 4 release of the Federal Communications Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order marked the most recent turn of events in the longstanding and ever-changing debate over net neutrality. Come hear a panel of leading experts explore the consequences of this action, including the implications of the Order, the outcome of the judicial challenge, and the possibility of legislative reform.

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Max Fisher and Amanda Taub at The New York Times: “After 200 years of expansion, democracy’s growth in the world has stalled.

Wraz z początkiem roku 2018 do domeny publicznej trafiły prace Lilly Reich – modernistycznej projektantki, współpracowniczki Miesa van der Rohe – jednego z czołowych architektów modernizmu, drugiej kobiety, która znalazła się w gronie nauczycieli Bauhausu – nowatorskiej uczelni artystyczno-rzemieślniczej, która zmieniła oblicze architektury i projektowania.

In advance of Data Privacy & Protection Day, the Online Trust Alliance, an Internet Society initiative, just released the Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report (press release here), a look back at the cyber incident trends in 2017 and what can be done to address them.

The topic of how well the tool of black letter law works in the Internet law setting is of course huge, and associated with obvious definitional challenges. To point to but one; how ought we define “black letter law” in our present legal culture where legal rules necessarily must take account of the technical reality in which they operate?

This blog has been reposted from the Open Education Working Group blog and has been written as a joint effort by Javiera Atenas and  Paul Bacsich, co-coordinators of the Open Education Working Group. 

Hasta la Escuela Superior Campesina llegaron académicos y artistas de la Casa de Bello para ser parte de tres conversatorios y de una muestra, actividades enmarcadas además en la Jornadas Culturales 2018 de dicha institución.

El octavo número de la publicación abre el debate hacia las implicancias de un Estado laico, convocando a destacadas plumas que lo abordan desde diversas perspectivas. En tiempos en que el Papa Francisco visita nuestro país y la llamada “agenda valórica” divide los resultados de las recientes elecciones presidenciales, Palabra Pública presenta un dossier especial dedicado al concepto “Estado Laico”.

Following up on my prior posts about responsible cryptocurrencies and moving towards a more Ethical ICO, I want to dig into some of the nitty-gritty about what kinds of things can make an ICO more ethical than the norm.

Das FocusLab greenRelease ist im Themenfeld „Smartes Management der Pflanzenproduktion“ angesiedelt und wird von Dr. Felix Jakob von der RWTH Aachen geleitet. Die Wissenschaftler entwickeln biologisch abbaubare Minibehälter aus Mikrogelen, die mittels Ankerpeptiden an der Oberfläche von Blättern oder Früchten haften und regenfest sind. Aus diesen kleinen Behältnissen können nach Bedarf Herbizide oder Fungizide freigesetzt werden.

What are we really trying to do at the P2P Foundation, along with many other similar movements ?
One of the best ways to express our underlying philosophy is here very well expressed by John Ringland, who, using complexity theory insights, distinguishes ‘generative cooperative networks’ from ‘generative adversarial networks’.
We recommend reading the following text carefully, for an understanding of these dynamics.
From GAN’s, via GHN’s, to GCN’s?

A few days ago, we pointed to a remarkable presentation by Frank Pasquale, who showed how the new ‘netarchical’ corporations like Google, Facebook, Uber or AirBnB are taking over more and more former ‘state’ and ‘governmental’ functions, replacing democratically accountable public power (however feeble that accountability can sometimes be), by what he calls ‘Functional Governance’.