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Seminário Impactos e perspectivas da Reforma Trabalhista: Diferentes visões

Seminário Impactos e perspectivas da Reforma Trabalhista: Diferentes visões 09h00 até 17h00O Evento: 
A FGV DIREITO RIO em parceria com o Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 1º Região realizará um Seminário sobre a Reforma Trabalhista para apresentar as diferentes visões, de Ministros do TST, Desembargadores, Advogados de empregados e Advogados de empresas, a respeito das principais mudanças trazidas pela Lei 13.467/2017.
 
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Civic Creativity: Role-Playing Games in Deliberative Process

Eric Gordon, Jason Haas, and Becky Michelson at the International Journal of Communication: “This article analyzes the use of a role-playing game in a civic planning process. We focus on the qualities of interactions generated through gameplay, specifically the affordances of voluntary play within a “magic circle” of the game, that directly impact participants’ ability to generate new ideas about the community.

Studienstart für knapp 4.000 Erstis

Schon wenige Minuten nach Einlass in den größten Hörsaal der Düsseldorfer Universität waren die über 600 Plätze gefüllt. Wer keinen Platz mehr fand, konnte die Erstsemesterbegrüßung per Videoübertragung live in einem von sieben anderen Hörsälen oder per Live-Stream im Internet verfolgen.

Herbstferienprogramm der KinderUni im Botanischen Garten

Während der Herbstferien in NRW können vom 24. bis 3. November 2017 Mädchen und Jungen im Alter von 8 bis 12 Jahren im Botanischen Garten der HHU selbst auf Entdeckungstour gehen und die Natur erforschen.

Patientinnen und Patienten des UKD droht erneuter Streik am 10. und 11. Oktober / Hotline für Betroffene am Streiktag

Presseinformation, 09.10.2017 - updateIn der Vergangenheit wurden, wie in dieser Konstellation allgemein üblich, alle Tarifverhandlungen für das UKD seitens verdi stets mit der TdL geführt. Auch sind andere Unikliniken oder andere Krankenhäuser in NRW offenbar bisher nicht zu Tarifverhandlungen aufgefordert. „Wir können absolut nicht nachvollziehen, warum verdi keine Verhandlungen mit der Tarifgemeinschaft deutscher Länder oder dem Arbeitgeberverband sucht“, betont Prof. Dr.

Kserokopia #63 (26 września – 9 października)

W tym numerze Kserokopii zachęcamy do zadania pytania, co by było gdyby prawo autorskie mogło wyglądać zupełnie inaczej. Z tym pytaniem zmierzyli się zarówno uczestnicy warszawskiej konferencji CopyCamp, jak i autorzy polecanej przez nas poniżej książki. Poza tym prezentujemy kampanię “A future not made in the EU”, która pokazuje skutki jakie może wywołać nieprzemyślana reforma prawa autorskiego.

Jaka będzie przyszłość „made in EU”? O czym powinniśmy mówić, gdy mówimy o reformie prawa autorskiego

Science fiction ma to do siebie, że zwykle trafniej pokazuje wyzwania i lęki teraźniejszości, niż kształt przyszłości. Jednak nie powstrzymuje to twórców przed zastanawianiem się, dokąd zmierzamy – i słusznie. Nawet jeśli, tak jak w dzisiejszych czasach, rozwój technologiczny jest tak szybki, że niektóre koncepcje starzeją się szybciej niż są wdrażane.
 
 

How a Universal Basic Income could Fire the imagination

Martin Kirk is Co-founder and Strategy Director for The Rules.

New to the Commons? Start Here

If you’re coming to the commons for the first time, it can be difficult to grok the idea because there are so many different ways to understand the commons.  That’s because the commons is not so much a fixed, universal thing as a general concept describing durable, dynamic sets of social relationships for managing resources — all sorts of resources:  digital, urban, natural, indigenous, rural, cultural, scientific, to use some crude categories.

Blockchain – Chancen, Recht und Regulierung

 

Am 07. November 2017 (9:00 – 17: 15 Uhr) veranstalten wir gemeinsam mit der RWTÜV Stiftung die Tagung „Blockchain – Chancen, Recht und Regulierung“ im Erbdrostenhof in Münster. Dazu sind Sie herzlich eingeladen.

Blockchain Could Help Us Reclaim Control of Our Personal Data

Michael Mainelli at Harvard Business Review: “…numerous smaller countries, such as Singapore, are exploring national identity systems that span government and the private sector.

Handbook on Political Trust

Book edited by Sonja Zmerli and Tom W.G. van der Meer: “Political trust – of citizens in government, parliament or political parties – has been centre stage in political science for more than half a century, reflecting ongoing concerns about the legitimacy of representative democracy. This Handbook offers the first truly global perspective on political trust and integrates the conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and empirical state of the art.

​Singapore’s first robot masseuse EMMA starts work

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The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement

Book by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on “The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement…In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked computers link analysts and police officers to a wealth of law enforcement intelligence.

Coop-source: building decentralised open source with Protozoa

Mix Irving: Protozoa is a tech coop, and we write open source code. This is a little bit about what that means, and how open source is the foundation on which we’re building an aspirational future.

How New Institutions Can Bolster Ghent’s Commons Initiatives

Dirk Holemans: When Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, started his research for the development of a “Commons Transition Plan” for the Flemish city of Ghent, he was overwhelmed by the sheer number of commons-oriented programs. In three months time, he discovered 500 initiatives. A remarkable figure, related to recent research indicating a tenfold increase in commons.

Deportistas compiten en los Juegos Olímpicos Estudiantiles

La tradicional competencia deportiva interna de la Universidad de Chile contará con la participación de 10 unidades académicas en 13 disciplinas deportivas. Los Juegos se extenderán hasta el sábado 30 de septiembre y tendrán su clausura posterior a la final del torneo de fútbol.

Catherine Rhodes at GoCAS Existential risks workshop

6 October 2017
Academic Project Manager Dr Catherine Rhodes spoke at a public workshop held on September 7-8 as part of the ongoing GoCAS guest researcher program on existential risk.

Other videos can be seen here.

New Public Lecture Video – Dr Heather Roff

6 October 2017
Dr Heather Roff – Nukes of Hazard: Mapping the Relative Risks Emerging Technologies Pose to Nuclear Weapons Systems

Dr Roff, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, discusses the risks the emerging technologies of artificial intelligence and automation pose to nuclear modernisation.

Shahar Avin on NonProphets podcast

6 October 2017

In this episode (recorded 9/27/17), the superforecasters of the NonProphets podcast interview CSER’s Dr. Shahar Avin.