Other News from Participating Centers

Pavel Richter stands down as Chief Executive Officer

It is with a mixture of sadness and gratitude that the Board of Directors announces that Pavel Richter will be leaving his position as Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge International as of today. He will be available to support the Board and Leadership Team until the end of 2017, to ensure a smooth transition.

TfL’s free open data boosts London’s economy

Press Release by Transport for London: “Research by Deloitte shows that the release of open data by TfL is generating annual economic benefits and savings of up to £130m a year…

II° Extra Lunch Seminar - ICT for Social Good

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​NTU rises to Asia's No. 1

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Nasze stanowisko w „legislacyjnym Bug Bounty” Rady ds. Cyfryzacji

Korzystając z prowadzonego przez Radę do Spraw Cyfryzacji procesu oceny barier i luk prawnych w kontekście efektywnej realizacji procesu cyfryzacji państwa zwracamy uwagę na trwającą na poziomie europejskim reformę prawa autorskiego, która może wywrzeć negatywne skutki na prawo krajowe i możliwości rozwoju cyfryzacji i innowacji. Uważamy, że zarówno Rada, jak i samo Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji powinny zabrać zdecydowany głos w tej kwestii.

Book of the Day: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain

Our colleagues at Furtherfield have a new book out on the Blockchain, its social implications and its role as an artistic subject. Check it out here.
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Where’s the evidence? Obstacles to impact-gathering and how researchers might be better supported in future

Clare Wilkinson at the LSE Impact Blog: “…In a recent case study I explore how researchers from a broad range of research areas think about evidencing impact, what obstacles to impact-gathering might stand in their way, and how they might be further supported in future.

The European Commons Assembly in Madrid for a Renewed Political Force in Europe

The crisis of the European Union begs for new, unifying and constructive narratives – alternatives to the right-wing populist and nationalist wave getting fiercer every day. A commons approach holds the potential for a unified vision towards an alternative economy, a Europe from the bottom up and an ecological economy and way of life. The idea of jointly stewarding shared resources, community and a generative economy, can find resonance with a diverse range of citizens.

This year’s economics Nobel winner invented a tool that’s both brilliant and undemocratic

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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 16, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingRichard Thaler, of the University of Chicago, just won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for his contribution to behavioral economics — the subfield known for exploring how psychological biases cause people to act in ways that diverge from pure rational self-interest.

Decoding the Social World: Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

Book by Sandra González-Bailón: “Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them?

#debateUchile generó impacto en redes sociales y digitales

El encuentro organizado por la Universidad de Chile y Radio Cooperativa fue parte de la discusión en las redes sociales, y tuvo amplio alcance en medios de comunicación de Arica a Punta Arenas. El hashtag de la transmisión fue trending topic durante toda la jornada.El “Debate de Estado: ¿Qué país queremos para el futuro de las y los chilenos?” se realizó en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central, evento transmitido para todo el mundo por Radio Cooperativa y la plataforma online de la Casa de Bello.

Cómo fue el encuentro de siete candidatos presidenciales en la U.Chile

Hasta el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central llegaron siete de los ochos aspirantes al sillón presidencial, quienes respondieron las interrogantes que plantearon diez Premios Nacionales de nuestro plantel.

Personal Safety in a P2P Social Network

Mix Irving: I believe in a free and open web. Over the past 3 years, friends and I have been growing and shaping an ecosystem for that purpose — for many, it’s now our primary way of communicating. It’s built with cryptography and is p2p. The result is a system with fundamentally different behaviours than the old web.
This is part of a series exploring the sociological and technological ramifications.
I call it “The Medium is the Message: Cypherspace Edition”.

The ethical use of crowdsourcing

Susan Standing and Craig Standing in the Business Ethics. A European Review: “Crowdsourcing has attracted increasing attention as a means to enlist online participants in organisational activities. In this paper, we examine crowdsourcing from the perspective of its ethical use in the support of open innovation taking a broader system view of its use. Crowdsourcing has the potential to improve access to knowledge, skills, and creativity in a cost-effective manner but raises a number of ethical dilemmas.

It hurts when empires fall

There is a genre of landscape painting from the 17th and 18th centuries that ought to give us cause for reflection. They are paintings of Italian landscapes where goatherds and their flocks wander amongst the ruins of Roman aqueducts, bridges and temples.

Candidatos plantearon propuestas sobre universidades estatales

Los participantes del #DebateUchile, evento organizado por la Casa de Bello y Radio Cooperativa en el que premios nacionales del plantel estuvieron a cargo de las preguntas, pusieron especial énfasis en el rol de las universidades estatales y detallaron sus posiciones respecto a temas como financiamiento y vinculación de estos planteles con la sociedad, entre otros puntos.Una amplia variedad de temas fueron abordados en el debate presidencial realizado este martes 3 de octubre en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile.

​NTU alumni to receive $1,600 worth of course credits to take up courses

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How to Use Social Media to Better Engage People Affected by Crises

Guide by the International Red Cross Federation: “Together with ICRC, and with the support of OCHA, we have published a brief guide on how to use social media to better engage people affected by crisis. The guide is geared towards staff in humanitarian organisations who are responsible for official social media channels.

CMPF is part of the Network of Centres (NoC)

The CMPF has been accepted as affiliated participant in the Network of Centre (NoC). The Network of Centers is “a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.

Award for excellent research on rules of digital communication

HIIG-researcher Christian Katzenbach receives dissertation award „Medien – Kultur – Kommunikation“ for model of communication scientific governance research.
Katzenbach's “Die Regeln digitaler Kommunikation” analyses how algorithms, copyright and privacy are discussed and regulated in a digitised society.